Here He Grows Again
July 9, 2010
Early in my quest for a new career I joined a group that is now called The Changing Course Club. It helped me get clear about what kind of work I enjoy most, which I now understand to mean the kind of work that suits my natural gifts and talents and my natural way of interacting with the world. I was helped enormously by all the articles, e-books, recorded workshops, and teleclasses and webinars that were available through the program. But most of all I was blessed by meeting a supportive tribe of people, widely varied in their backgrounds and interests and talents, but surprisingly singular in their humanity and dedication to seeing other people grow.
Top of the list is Ken Robert. Ken was in the first class of people trained in the Profiting From Your Passions career coach program offered by Valerie Young, who also created The Changing Course Club.
Ken settled into a groove for over a year posting fantastic stuff at MildlyCreative.com. He’s tried out different formats and written a lot about struggling to decide what fits and does not fit the theme of that blog. It’s not surprising, because Ken has a lot to say. That’s because Ken has a lot he sees. He’s an explorer. He explores human nature by reading, through conversation, and through observation, but mostly these days through participation. He sketches, he plays music, he’s taken to writing poems, and he finds powerful photographs and music videos and tells the world about them.
Yesterday Ken announced he’s growing again. Instead of deciding if something fits the theme of Mildly Creative, he’s starting a new blog where the theme is “Ken” – or more accurately, “things that interest Ken”. Now, whenever he’s intrigued by something and wants to pass on his observations, or curious and wants to encourage a discussion, he knows the topic will fit the theme.
Thank goodness he didn’t spend a lot of time making things “just right” before launching the new blog! Click over and welcome him to his new home.
Polishing That Turd
June 4, 2010
Seth Godin says it so eloquently. “Instead of polishing that turd, why not work harder to think of something remarkable or important to say in the first place?”
More Turtle Bashing?
June 2, 2010
“Create an opportunity filter if you have to.”
~ Scott Ginsberg
This is officially a theme. I wrote my last post after seeing the Seth Godin post that pointed to the Rich Goidel post. They both wrote about avoiding distractions and getting things finished and shipped.
Today when I checked the Twitter stream to see if anyone is using it for anything other than PR I saw a chirp from Barbara Winter. She linked to this blog post by Scott Ginsberg that is also all about avoiding distractions and getting things finished and shipped.
Maybe it’s time for me to avoid distractions and get things finished and shipped.
I wonder if my followers and friends on Twitter and Facebook will agree?
Maybe I should go ask them. ;-)
P.S. (Post-Stupidity) I hit “publish” instead of “preview” before I realized that I credited the wrong person with the chirp on Twitter. But it’s okay with me if you go learn about Ken and his blog anyway. He writes great stuff and finds a lot of cool things he shares on Twitter.
It Was a Fast-Straight-Road Weekend
May 31, 2010
It’s been a hectic Memorial Day weekend totally consumed by… let’s just call it extended-family-madness. I planned to have a little time over the last couple of days to put together a post but life interrupted my plans. But I’m home now and the chaos is left behind.
Fortunately I found a powerful and brief analogy for my recurring warning about focusing on chasing the latest new marketing tactic before figuring out your marketing plan. It was a link in a recent blog post by Seth Godin.
Seth referenced a post by Rich Goidel, blogging at “The Back of the Napkin,” titled Playing with turtles. The core message here is to focus on the important thing — marketing message — and not get distracted by secondary things — playing with marketing channels.
I’m writing a corollary. When someone else has written a beautifully concise post that conveys a valuable message to your audience, call it good, link to it, and shut up.
(Bonus to me: I don’t really have time to write a post, much less edit one to make it good.
Bonus to you: You don’t have to read that meandering post I don’t have time to write!)
May You Know the Joy of Sharing Your Gifts,
Steve Coxsey
Writing sdrawckaB
May 14, 2010
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been spending a lot of time writing articles and pulling together ideas I’ve collected for an information product for people considering self-employment. I enjoy writing because it’s a slightly new experience each time.
Sometimes things just flow, but the next day I reread what I wrote and it looks like… it flowed, alright, but for a very different reason. Sometimes I wrestle and fight with a piece and don’t like it very much, but other people give me great feedback. Considering that, I might just be writing some of my best stuff ever right now, because I’m having to unscramble things I originally wrote backwards.
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