#allthethings I learned at the Start Conference

Wow. This weekend has inspired me to the point that I seriously expect my wife to send Jon an email asking "What did you do to my husband!? And why won't he shut up about #allthethings and unicorns and glitter?"
Which is actually a fair cause of concern. I have resurrected a blog that has been dormant for almost two years to share my take-aways and really hope others do the same. So, here we go, everything I wrote down during the conference:

What would I regret NOT doing?
Your dream should not make sense to everybody.
Break down big dreams into small actions.
Perfection is a poison disguised as a vitamin.
Arrogance is believing you will be amazing at something you never tried.
If you were already who you wanted to be, what would you be doing today?
How many of those things could you be doing right now?
Thus far, and NO FARTHER.
Believe in aggressive rest.
What story do you want to tell?
Make lore decisions.
Be wildly unrealistic about future circumstances.
Embrace the gift of invisibility.
Risk Something.
Dream job= DREAM + JOB.
Track your dream.
The world needs people to come alive with what they are doing.
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Adults forget how to play.
Harvest someone else's fields.
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Would I like to end up like my mentor?
Stand on the shoulders of giants.
Play to the size of your heart, not the size of your audience.
Joy is a great fuel.
What are your diamonds?
Stop doing what you like so you can do what you love.
Hang up and arrive- Daddy pay atenshon!
Fear only gets loud when you do something that matters.
Write your voices down.
Write, don't type.
Identify the usual suspects, you don't have 1,000 fears, you have 4-5 fears with good disguises.
Refute your fears with truth.
Share your voices.
Fear does not get a vote.
Find the book What Got You Here Won't Keep You Here- Marshall Goldsmith
Right now, the bar for mastery is incredibly low.
Mastery=Delighting the people who love what you do.
Find the book  Instant Influence- Michael Pantalon
Why would you instead of why wouldn't you?
Why didn't you pick a lower number?
Dream= Imagine, Capture, Execute.
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
Create an Idea Budget.
Write down a "gingerbread trail" to your idea.
Your brand is the story of what others think you are.
A brand breaks through the clutter.
Write the witter version of dream.
What words do you want to own?
Who is in your space?
Who are you NOT?
Create your brand guidelines.
Thumb test your business cards-materials.
Know what you are.
Social media mastery-Pick your spot and go where the conversation already is, don't be everywhere.
You must surprise brocha.
Don't shock, surprise.
Unwritten social contract.
Find the book The Dip - Seth Godin
Find creative ways to grow your platform.
Spend more time practicing than promoting- Practice makes a master, promotion imitates mastery.
Make a stop doing list.
Clean out Facebook and Twitter.
Create a Dream Team- every dream needs a gang.
Include spouse, family, other Starters.
The worst place to put your spouse is on the other side of your dream.
Recognize the Wow person and the How person.
Always give a wow disclaimer.
Give Wow two weeks.
Be the support you wish you had-support others.
Time=Love. The most non-renewable, valuable resource we all have is time.
Community- We need the NO, and the YES, and the brag table.
You will not understand community until you are in one.
We need the people who "get it" and don't leave.
Beware of the comparison trap.
Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle.
Ignore the haters.
Give the freedom of your absence.
Never try to turn people that hate your dream into people who like your dream.
Turn the people who like your dream into people who love your dream.
Guide before you are ready.
Guide- Ideas worth sharing, Ability to share, An audience to share with.
Honesty is more important than talent.