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.
A way to use Twitter authentically
[tweetmeme]John Miles of Too Much White Space has inspired me to be a more conscious Tweeter with his manifesto on using Twitter in a thoughtful way.
He wrote:
- I will thoughtfully compose all posts in a state of awareness and genuine goodwill for all beings.
- I will not feel compelled to post, just to post. Periods of silence on Twitter are beautiful – enjoy them until the next idea organically surfaces.
- I will only post thoughts to Twitter that have the potential to deeply enhance the well-being of others either by laughter, thoughtfulness or sparking of new and valuable ideas.
[tweetmeme] I wrote this post for my friend and fellow Innerpreneur, Tim Bursh. He blogs on Social Impact, Social Media and Community. I encourage you to read the article in it’s entirety.
5 Tips for Finding Your Signal
- Accept that there is no demand for your message.
- Express your point-of-view.
- The more valuable your signal, the stronger it will be.
- It’s a table for two.
- Share.
Looking for more guidance than this? Read the whole article. The context around these 5 tips is what really matters.
photo credit: Andres Rueda
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It’s true
No matter what you’re doing, whether you’re a therapist, coach, or artist, if you’re selling products or services, you’re an entrepreneur. It’s a mindset, not a title.
An entrepreneurial-minded person comes up with creative avenues to generate income. It doesn’t matter how they do it or what they know when they undertake it. All that matters is that they are building a system to make money.
I used to have a serious problem with Wal-Mart. It rudely assaulted my value-based beliefs with it’s focused and crude quest for “cheap”. They seemed to knew the cost of things, but not their value.
Marvel at the Meaningful Capitalism spectacle
In July, Wal-Mart changed the “cheap” game forever, rolling out an environmental labeling program that makes it mandatory for every product to be labelled with the environmental costs of making it.
Think of your web presence as a radio signal. It is constantly sending out a frequency.
The frequency is determined by your online content — the words, images and feelings you express online.
And like a radio signal, people gravitate towards and listen to frequencies that they connect with. Frequencies that share their worldviews, interests, needs and desires. People tend to listen to frequencies that are similar to their own.
It wasn’t so long ago that I thought…
I came from a Modern upbringing where art was appreciated but certainly never encouraged as a profession. I attended business school, worked in corporate marketing (albeit in tech, music and the performing arts) and was driven to write only when my world seemed to be falling apart.
Until a little over a year ago, I would have never identified my Self as Creative for I felt I lacked the talent, the ideas, the whimsy. I saw my Self as level-headed and practical girl and because I was basically good at everything, I felt I had a gift for nothing.
