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Why I Do What I Do
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Focused Leadership
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The Forms of -preneurship and Your Personal Brand
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You Won’t Know How
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Forget How to Do It — Commit to What You Do
You’ll never know how to do it until you commit to what you are doing. Your success in whatever you choose is a matter of commitment.
Your choices are your daily commitment
In my experience, when I completely commit to the what — that something that I feel passionate about — I trigger the how — the means and answers I seek.
Anger
[tweetmeme] I’ve got a bit of a temper. You could call me fiery, if you will. Certain things just boil my blood.
I take pleasure from expressing my displeasure.
Anger. The root of all protest movements and all processes of change.
I love my anger, when it’s properly channeled. It drives me to make things different. My anger tells me that THIS is something that I am not okay with. It is a boundary-setter. It tells me that “I can see/feel/know that someone or something has wronged me.” It tells me something needs to change.
It is one of the best drivers I know. If I didn’t think it was wrong, I would never be driven to refine anything.
If I hadn’t been pissed off at the corporate world, and the way business ‘should be’, and being told I ‘should’ accept it, this whole thing never would never be.
It’s a Tactic, Not a Guarantee
[tweetmeme] Tactic = an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end
Your business name, your tagline, your website, your brochure, your FaceBook fan page, or any other business tool – they are tactics – that you employ to reach a goal.
Tactics don’t make a business successful
No tactic, no matter how clever or cool, will keep a client coming back. The value your business creates will.
You, the person behind the business – you, the person creating and providing the product and/or service – are ultimately what will make your business grow or shrink, and make your clients true fans.
No enduring business I know of can thank their tagline, or their business name, or any of their ever-changing and evolving tactics for their sustained success. They may thank tactics for having helped garner them attention, but they see their sustained success is due to the value their business creates in the world.
Permission to Be What I Am
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Can you provide it for me?
Unfortunately, I’ve agreed that in order for me to be something, I need external validation to be so.
Things aren’t real and true because I feel them. They’re true when something bigger than me validates them.
They’re true when some else agrees.
Like you.
Will ‘credentials’ make me confident being what I am?
It’s easier to feel confident about what you’re doing when you have them.
Where You Wish to Go
[tweetmeme] It’s hard not to indulge in the BIG Questions. It’s tough not to focus on The End we have in mind.
Stop freaking yourself out by thinking you need to know how to get There today.
You don’t have the answers.
Stop indulging and paralyzing your mind with BIG Questions you don’t have the answers for.
Take one daily action. And in that action, keep your goal in mind.
Walking the Tightrope
[tweetmeme] Ever feel like you’re walking a tightrope? That’s because you are. We all are.
All complex adaptive systems (that’s you!) walk a tightrope between too much structure and too little.
Too much structure…
and chaos! Organic systems become rigid and unresponsive to their environment and they eventually die.
To little structure…
and chaos! Organic systems become overly sensitive to environmental disturbances. They can’t maintain their organization and eventually disintegrate.
Asking Questions
[tweetmeme] That’s what lead you down my “rabbit hole”. You wondered about something that lead your curiosity to here. It’s so like you. Always asking questions and expanding your mind. Why can’t you just accept the norm, the conventional, the accepted? Why must you ask WHY?
Doing it your way.
It’s your thirst for learning, your curiosity at the world, that makes you just that little bit of weird. You want to grow, you work to grow and you do it by consistently exploring your Self and your world. You’re a Cultural Creative (or an Integral, as Ken Wilber coined) because of it.
Ask me a question. Ask us a question. Get answers.
To honour our need to explore, I’ve added a new page to the blog called ASK in replacement of the forum.
An Idea for Giving Thanks to Your Clients
Thank them by donating in honour of them.
[tweetmeme]This holiday season, to thank my clients for their impact on my life, and to make an impact, I sent them a e-card wishing them a happy holidays and informing them that I donated CDN $5 to World Wildlife Federation in honour of them.
In the message, I also offered to donate an additional $5 to their charity of choice if they choose to write a recommendation for me. I thought it was a nice win-win-win way to incentivise a task that people find painful to do.