Doozy
Last week was increasingly hectic as the weekend approached. My younger son had a Tae Kwon Do belt test to prepare for and then a soccer game. My older son’s team had the first game of their soccer tournament, as well as a team meeting and a picnic prior to the tournament to welcome international players the soccer club is hosting. I am grateful my schedule allows me the flexibility to focus on their activities, but it means I wind up doing only urgent things in my business for a few days and setting aside the rest. This blog fell into “the rest.” It took a while for me to calm my mind and think about what I gathered on the self-employment journey this week. I came up with one idea, but I think it might be a doozy.
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How Can I Help You?
I have had lots of opportunities in recent days to be helpful – or at least to try. Through the “Outside the Job Box Career Experts ©” group I was able to make recommendations to colleagues on ways to approach studying, ways to find practice clients, and ways to do simple first marketing steps. In a coaching group I was able to help colleagues come up with ideas for workshops they want to plan. I even got to talk with two friends about their long-term career dreams and how to make them happen. It has been a powerful reminder of the value gained by helping people.
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Social Network Overload
I think I must be a techno wimp. Maybe I’m just a social phobic. I enjoy learning new things about my WordPress blogging software. And when I have to play around with HTML I feel kind of proud of myself if I can figure something out. But social networking is wearing me out, and I hardly even use it. I just try to check the social networking sites on a regular basis and I’m frustrated.
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Twitter Heresy?
I have a confession to make. Actually, it’s closer to professing than confessing. It’s not nearly as meaningful as Martin Luther nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. But it will be seen by many as heresy.
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