Ryan Lilly

I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert.

When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.

Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.

Carve-out a niche, craft a personal pitch, push-out content and your brand is enriched.

If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy.

For a case study in personal branding. Google __arod Kintz._ He__ kind of a big deal.

Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.

Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.

Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.

Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.