Landmarks confirm if you are on the right track while the route determines the travel time. Thus, in planning out your life, you also need to have landmarks and a route. These landmarks are your measures of success.I embrace social media, or any type of effective marketing for that matter. What is starting to concern me are two things: (1) Many SMBs believe that social media is a panacea. (2) Many SMB websites are not built with content management systems so instead of getting that fixed, a FB page is seen as a cheap and equivalent substitute to their own effective website.

Malcolm Gladwell, in his recent book The Outliers, writes about the importance of working at something for ten thousand hours in order to achieve mastery or, in Amabile's framework, expertise. He describes the circumstances that enable famous innovators or outliers, as he calls them to achieve their breakthroughs. But he doesn't talk about motivation.Alabama's Dee Milliner and Florida State's Xavier