The Hive Mind
October 31, 2010
Just a couple of days ago my older son was talking with me about his plans for the next few months. He had already told us he wants to take off next semester from college and work full time so he can save up money to be able to afford to share an apartment with his friend.
What he added this time is that he feels like he’s stuck going to school, like he has to but doesn’t want to. He said it feels like a cloud lifts when the semester ends, but all he really has to look forward to is a few weeks of reprieve while another cloud forms on the horizon. He said he needs to find the reason why he is going to college, a positive reason based on moving him closer to where he wants to be in his life, not a negative reason like keeping other people off his back.
Then he told me he needs to take some time to figure out who he really is. He looked at me and asked, “Dad, can you understand that?”
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Refresh
October 26, 2010
While recording our podcast “en vivo” at a park today, my colleague and cool friend Francie Cooper and I were distracted by the playground, especially the swings. At the end of the podcast we had appointments and calls to get to. We had planning we needed to do.
But the swings were calling!
You can listen to the podcast that started all this by clicking here.
Was I Speaking Up For You?
October 11, 2010
I raised a question on behalf of internet marketing newbies (including myself) when I posted a comment to a blog post a few days back. The post was about building an e-mail list. My comment looked like this:
Brilliant! But, uhh…. we have to figure out what we’re going to sell first, right? I run into a lot of people trying to grow a list and then figuring out what they might do with it. I don’t bother with a list because I don’t have my first training product ready yet. Hoping my enthusiasm to share it with people will drive my list-building efforts when it’s on the launchpad.
That comment was on a post about how to have the best chance of making money through internet sales if you have just a month to do it. It’s an entertaining read, as much for style as for content, because it was written by Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz. Yes, that IttyBiz – the one with 35,000 subscribers.
How do I know she has that many? Because she mentions it in the blog post she wrote as an answer to my question. [gulp] So… I tried to cram a complicated dilemma into a blog comment and didn’t make my main point clear. Naomi responded to what I actually wrote and chastised the dumbass I appeared to be.
In front of 35,000 people.
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What, Am I Nuts?
October 6, 2010
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A fellow coach and I are working on a project together. We plan to start posting a weekly podcast in January. It’s forcing us to think through a lot of things — content ideas, topics, format, marketing, logistics, technology — and we’re having a blast.
Since I’m heading to the Joyfully Jobless Jamboree in Austin next week I decided to take on a project to help me get experience with the technology. I’ll be recording audio updates and hopefully talking with attendees and recording those conversations. I plan to take time to upload audio files while I’m there so the attendees can enjoy this added component and those of you who aren’t there can enjoy the celebration.
I will even take my video camera and see if I can record and upload some video to the “Twisting Road Traveler” YouTube channel.
Like I won’t already be busy with the Jamboree! What, am I nuts?
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