by Tara Joyce | Mar 17, 2011 | Self/Business Growth
Sometimes I really suck at communicating… yet I’m also a great communicator. It’s what I do naturally. But sometimes, I’m down right terrible with it.
My coach Teya Sparks reminds me that I need to be willing to be both extremes. That as a human being, it is only natural.
As a perfectionist, it seems insane. How can I make a career around communication and also be a bad communicator? I must be the best communicator ever. always. period.
But I am not. Sometimes I suck.
Not a Great Communication Moment
Like last week, when I wrote about discovering my designer,
by Tara Joyce | Mar 8, 2011 | My Journey | What's On My Mind
I’ve been hiding from you.
Okay, I’ve been hiding from myself.
I’ve been calling myself a coach for a while now – and it does fit, sort of. I mean, it is a part of what I do…
But at the heart of me, I am not a coach.
At the core of me, what I am, what I have always been, is a designer. A designer and a writer. Doing those two things brings me the greatest pleasure in this world.
The wonderful people I meet and co-create with, and the way in which we design together (through coaching) is important, but is secondary to my deepest pleasures and god-given talent.
I was hiding my designer behind a coach because…
I thought I’d like me better as a coach.
I thought I sometimes think that my value lies in what I do for others, not in who I am. Being a designer, in my old mind, wasn’t “good enough”, it was too much aesthetics and not enough about strategy and helping others. Even though design, to me, is all of those things and more.
Coaching felt safer. It kind of fit and I felt more confident with the description. It helped me to not deal directly with my denial of my designer.
by Tara Joyce | Feb 23, 2011 | Personal Branding
Do You Know the Difference between Marketing? vs. Advertising? vs. Branding? vs. Public Relations?
I often find it very hard to clearly differentiate the various forms of strategic communications that a person, a business and/or a brand can use.
A while back I shared an analogy explaining the differences between marketing, advertising and public relations. Today, I’ve expanded on the analogy with visual comics.
Getting a Date Using Strategic Communication
by Tara Joyce | Feb 16, 2011 | Pay What It's Worth Pricing
Why is it a good thing to pay less than something is worth?
Why do we buy the story that happiness results from underpaying for something?
Often we can be so far removed from a product’s creation that it’s hard for us to understand the value of the thing we are buying. But, when we have first-hand evidence of the love, time and energy put into creating something, why would it feel good for us to undervalue it?
How do you feel when your time, energy or love is undervalued?
by Tara Joyce | Jan 26, 2011 | Self/Business Growth
Donald Trump in Trump:101 asked, “why compete with others when you can beat yourself?”
Perfection.
What we wish we were. What we think we should be.
It used to be about what They think, but it’s not anymore. It’s about Us.
It’s about not being good enough for our Self. We don’t fit with our own image of perfection.
We can not forgive ourselves for not being what we believe we should be.
