Scared to Death to Be An Idiot

Scared to Death to Be An Idiot

Sucker

Here’s what I’m dealing with. You might be too.

I’m terrified that I’m wrong.

Not wrong in a little way, like the typos that litter this site, but wrong in a BIG way. I’m worried what I fundamentally believe about my Self and my world is just downright crazy. And I’m nervous everybody else is in on the joke, except me.

What if? It’s an interesting question to ask yourself.

The Silly Things I Do

Arise Your Innerpreneur by listening to my voice, and looking at my words and images for 12 minutes approx.

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Back in April I created this presentation for the 2010 SHiFT conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is a yearly discussion in Lisbon on social and human ideas in technology.

Don’t ask me why it took ’till now to publish it. Some silly business about feeling shame over my creations. Oh, the silly things I do.

Make Me Work For It

Make Me Work For It

backstage

\’\’I’ve always liked the idea of burlesque. The slow tease. The gradual peeling away of layers. The art of making ’em wait for it.

Your marketing, especially your web presence, could be seen as a soul strip-tease. Each time you create for it’s purpose you reveal a bit more about your Self.

Cultural Creatives are attracted to layers. We enjoy having our minds challenged. We don’t want it all at once. We want it to take time for the truth underneath to be revealed.

Why not use this concept in your advertising messages? Layer them. Don’t make it easy. Get us curious about you. Make us work for it. We’ll like you all the more because of it.

photo credit: hedonaut

Guilty As Hell That We Can’t Do More

Guilty As Hell That We Can’t Do More

Guilty
\’\’Why do we insist upon trying to do it all, and then beating ourselves up when we fall short of perfection?

The Guilt

It’s an icky feeling when we feel The Guilt. The Guilt arises when we can’t do all the things we would like to do, or the people around us would like us to do. We feel like we don’t care enough.

The List

But the thing undone is just one more thing on The List. The List that keeps getting added to. The List that never ends.

The Truth

When we feel The Guilt of doing too little, The Truth is we’re really trying to do too much. And The Truth is we’re trying to do too much because we want to, we love to, and, in some ways, we have to, for our Self.

It’d be kinda sweet if it weren’t so twisted.

A Mantra for The Guilt

I am enough
I do enough
I have enough

Fun with Maps

Fun with Maps

Tara's Map

I love staring at maps. I get such pleasure from studying the landscape, the cities and the shapes, and imagining what it would feel like to experience that place.

My office is home to a huge map of the world where I place pins for every city, state/province, and country I have visited.  And every year I get at least one country closer to my goal of covering it entirely with pins.

For whatever reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about maps this past week, and I thought it might be a fun experiment to create an interactive Innerpreneur map, where any Innerpreneur that feels motivated can add themselves, and their business, to it. I got the idea from an interactive WordPress user map I found while geeking about on the web.

Check out the Innerpreneur map and add yourself here.

I’ve also created a digital version of the map on my office wall that tracks my world travel progress and you can find it here.