Focus On The Adventure
Posted on August 16, 2007
Being a teen in the 80s, I was a VanHalen fan and I even liked VanHalen after David Lee Roth left, although it was never the same. Well, 22 years later, VanHalen is back on tour with David Lee Roth, and while most of them are 50+, the exception is Wolfgang, their new bass player, who happens to be Eddie’s son. According to the band themselves, they are better than they ever have been and at their press conference DLR states:
“We think we got it right this time,” Roth added. “You come and judge the performance harshly, please. I beg you, come on down and see.”
Brian Clark, of CopyBlogger wrote a post titled The David Lee Roth Guide To Legendary Marketing:
The lesson for bloggers and online marketers is that Roth is a legend of his own making, and he knew exactly what he was doing. Let’s see what we can steal from ol’ DLR when it comes to getting people to take notice and never forget.
Here are the highlights from Brian’s post and they are apply to blogging and to life in general:
- Be fearless
- Give people what they want
- Sell something big
- Be true to yourself
- Let the legend roll
- Relax
He concludes his post:
But take another look at the underlying characteristics that fueled Roth’s success. All he really did was create a passionate audience by catering to their needs on several levels, and by having the courage to be remarkable. Despite appearances to the contrary, he accomplished that by not taking himself too seriously, and by focusing on the adventure instead of fretting about everyone liking him.
A great lesson for bloggers and a great lesson for life, focus on the adventure and don’t worry if everyone likes you. Just do your thing, whatever that is and make it real.
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you were a cool kid,,,,, now you are a cool dad.
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