Two people are talking,
the first one says, "did you hear that?"
The second one says, "what?"
"That boom - it was loud, didn't you hear it?"
"Of course I did..."
"Then why'd you say what?"
"What is it, that's what I was asking..."
"How should I know - but we both heard it..."
"If we didn't we're both hearing things..."
From one meaning to the next in one sentence,
one says, didn't get it, the other says, got it
but what was it. How fast can confusion
get into the mix? Pretty fast...
In an age when we talk across the globe
this means that it is possible to have
enormous misunderstandings happen
so quickly, and so intensely, that by
the time they've calmed down to
getting the point, lines have been
crossed that shouldn't have been.
So are there any references that you
know about, which address such?
I've been personally blessed by Mari Smith's work, "The New Relationship
Marketing," which it seems to me gives
us a really decent reference about how
to handle online communications. If
you haven't seen it you might want
to pick up a copy. In fact Mari has
scheduled a special presentation webinar
with Guy Kawasaki- below-
which if you can make it will bless
your life- guaranty it.
OK- it sounds like one of the those
"HEY- be positive" pitches, don't it?
But it's not- although it could be, that
title could mean, YOU - matter.
See it's all in how you see it, isn't it?
On the other hand, that title could also
be played with a bit to mean,
you - MATTER- as in, there is some
special stuff in the universe and it is
made out of you? Clever though
that may be, close to the truth,
it may also be.
The bigger truths in this
world are coming down to the smallest elements of fact,
what matters, you matter.
Because as the world becomes much
more of a globe than a flat
fighting plane, and the
battles become much more
global in nature, such
as "will we have enough air,
water, earth? That we will survive?"
You become much more of
a factor in how that all comes out.
So pay close attention to this next paragraph, it's important.
Since we know that the U.S.
is one of the most information
based countries, it's important to
understand how developing economies
within that information based system works.
So we have a federal level economic
development program, it branches down
to a state level economic development
program which then branches down
to a regional within the state system,
which then branches down to
a municipality or city level economic
development system. It is a gigantic funnel
that produces more and more creatively
energized business concepts and ideas
to flourish within the information based
business of the U.S.
Why is this so important? You matter, and
in the U.S. we must make the switch from
being a production based, manufacturing
based economy, to a consultive, thought
and information based economy, within
which we will discover enormous amounts
of business opportunities that at present
we don't even see. So now, do you get
why - you matter?
with the marks on it?
Where last year you were "this tall!"
Then this year you grew "this
many more inches," until
you could get on those rides
at Disney World
or Six Flags? Those were
small measuresfor a big life,
your life, a big life.
Is that how you see it; a big life?
Maybe you don't
realize how big
your life actually is,
because your
measure is really not doing you
any favors? See that door frame measure
was really cool, for several reasons,
silly as itmight sound, it actually made
me want to get taller? Ever hear that
you have to have a "want to," in
order to grow?
SO FIRST NOTE: Measure to grow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxACYVSJ9jw
The difference between measuring to grow and
measuring that won't let you grow is all in
how the measure is done. Let's read that
sentence one more time- go ahead, run your
eyes back over it. Did you do that? Now
if you did, see how important that is, if
you didn't, ask yourself, what is it in you
that makes you not want to follow requests?
Because, that's an important question if
you think about measuring what you do? We
want to measure to grow, not measure so that
we can't grow, and the difference is what?
SO SECOND NOTE: measure positively to succeed.
Maybe this lead came in from Chris Voss,
which seems likely, as Chris is always
pointing out the latest and greatest of
stuff, including leaders, but anyway-
this lead was Louis Green. Now Louis
is something to take in, he is all sort
of powerful, in all sort of different
ways, but one thing about his blog; Louis
Green don't play. It might have been Mari Smith, because she is precious to
bring in tons of great info off of the Michael Seltzner blog on social media, so
she might've mentioned Louis, but my
suspicion is that it was most likely
Chris "bayyyybeeee" who managed it.
Louis is exceptional, if you want
info and great info and tons of it,
his blog is impossible to beat, and
he tackles the tough issues of how to
do business head on. For example,
this week he headlined a time
management guru Peggy Duncan, and it
was just outstanding so don't pass up
this one.
Folks we're gonna continue this for sure
because we have about five more ways
that you can grow FASTER, like this, but
for now, let's just follow up with each
other and try to start using that YouTube
where visual becomes ever more real,
wouldn't you say?
Want 200 million dollars, well heck yes, who wouldn't? Only, you have
to jump through 200 million dollars worth of hoops to get it, but, if you
are the one who has the idea, you know it in your soul, get after it.
In trying to put together a presentation for Monday afternoon
doing some research on social media ports and methods, saw this
article about a "New Twitter," platform. That was interesting, Twitter
is one of my favorite places to catch hold of new ideas, so went to Wired to check it out. While there saw the pop up about GE and
the 200 million dollar contest/grant they are offering. Nice stuff to
know, but only people who go to that website, or read this, or find
it out by some other means will even know about it. So the question
then becomes, why'd GE choose to advertise it this way, in Wired
magazine?
The baby crawled across
the floor, he struggled, he
"Walking was a challenge...now look what I've found!"
wanted to gather himself
up on the stool, with
shaky legs,he got there,
he struggled up!
But getting up there, he clung
to the edge of the stool, he
tottered, and then he did
what we all know about,
he fell back down.
He looked a little sad,
no more big smile because he'd
made it, no, now he had a little
scowl in his face; he'd let
go and fallen and he wasn't happy.
But people around him said, "oh look,
isn't he cute, look he's trying
to get up." Have you heard or
seen things like this?
At eight months old, this is
normal, and we accept it,
at 30 years old, we'd consider
the behavior horrific, especially
if there were no physical abnormalities
to account for the falling down
and crying? We'd think an adult
who fell on the floor and cried
all the time, was horrible, wouldn't
we? Of course we would, because
we know in our hearts how to grow!
Often what we forget as we get cautious with age,
that we fell hundreds, if not, thousands of times,
before we actually turned loose and started walking.
When people talk about immersion as a learning way,
we hear it, you can't really understand wet until
you get in the pool, so true, just looking at the
water doesn't change your skin condition, but
when you get into that pool, what you knew
was wet, is now, your condition. But as you
gain experience, you sometimes gain caution,
as well, and with that, a certain drawing back
from making, mistakes. When the child let's
go of the stool, it's a mistake, his legs aren't
ready yet, his balance isn't ready yet, his
ability to reason about all the difficulties
of standing up, haven't set in place yet,
and he hasn't planned out what he'll do
if he does stand up; he just lets go, and
then he is in it, welcome to learning, and
welcome to making mistakes.
Imagine if a hero of the proportions of Jon
Huntsman (Recipient of the Medal for Charity
at the "Restoring America Rally" 2010, Wash-
ington D.C.)failed to get up, failed to walk,
failed to learn, failed to grow, imagine if
he'd simply laid down and cried at the hard
nature of making mistakes?
Are you capable of becoming more from anywhere
you are at, to anywhere you desire to be? Yes
is the answer, well, how can you tell that, because
the infant gets up! You've been there, you've done
it before- go back to the basic power lesson of
all life, and walk forward! Because you can!
But as we go bigger and as we go to the real
marrow of this issue- we have to grow, we have to!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g
We are not without hope, and we will never be without hope,
and no matter what, we will keep on making mistakes, hey,
join with us who make mistakes! The mistake makers!
Celebrate growth because it only comes how(?), out of the
mistakes, out of the failures, out of the falling downs,
you see, you don't know what get up means, until you
have fallen down, and every person walking around today
has shared that experience- get up, be a mistake maker
with us!
Our friend Kyle wasn't, he came home a
your ten dollars gets you into the dance,
