Posts Tagged "self-worth"

Other Gifts

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No birthday hangovers here.

In fact, the birthday wasn’t much different from every other day this year. I had promised myself to take the day off, but it just wasn’t very convenient to do so.

So I walked the kid to school, and worked on website issues with my tech team, and dealt with a few “fires” that had to be put out.

It was pretty much an uneventful birthday.

At first, this did not set well with me. See, I’m an action taker – a DO-er – and sitting around NOT doing what I wanted to do kind of pissed me off.

The Hero In All Of Us

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Last year about this time, I put together this video mashup of two scenes from Spider Man 2. In it, you hear Aunt May talking about how there’s a hero in all of us as an underscore to the big train rescue scene I spliced together to fit. YouTube suspended the video not long after I posted it (copyright issues, I’m sure), but then somewhere along the lines in the last year, they restored it.

The irony? I didn’t know about it until a few weeks ago.

Webadventure Day 4: When Hell Breaks Loose

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So today, I had planned to have my 90-day roadmap all planned out.

*SQUIRREL!*

But um, well… just watch the video (with a special guest appearance by some crazy dive-bombing fly).

Why yes, I know this is a longer-than-usual video. There’s kind of a point to that, but if you *must* skip ahead, you can catch the entire gist in the last few minutes. But you’ll miss all my jokes. Just sayin.

Total project time to date: 2.5 hrs (and counting).

Accomplishments:

The bulk of the action plan steps are complete. I just need to finalize some order of operations type stuff and input it into the final layout calendar I’m using. So I’m actually clear on what the next few days are looking like, I just don’t have the whole roadmap parsed out yet. Look for another update this weekend when everyone is away and the house is quiet. #IHope

#BYOG Day Thirty-One: Tear It Down & Build It Again

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We’re here!

Thirty-one glorious(?) days later, and what have you learned? What have you uncovered inside yourself?

I won’t speak for you, but my own journey has left me with a truck-load of feelings, ideas, and other goodness:

• That you are enough just as you are.
• That you will face hurdles and overcome them – if you so choose.
• That people will rally around you when they believe in you – no matter who you are, and even if they never met you before.
• That there are a lot of smartypants people in the world, willing to lend a hand, offer advice, and point you in the right direction.

But all of that stuff means nothing if you’re not willing to take action. To do something. To be fearless – even for just a moment…

…just long enough to become the hero of your journey.

It means that the excuses must stop. You can’t make excuses and deliver results. You must choose.

You have to step into the flow, and trust that the actions you take will build the bridge to success.

And you’ll make mistakes along the way. You’ll create things no one wants but you. You’ll miss out on opportunities that you thought were perfect for you. You’re an Action Hero – getting banged around and bloodied up a bit is part of the journey.

But you’ll meet up with your Shadow Self, have a nice chat, maybe a cuppa tea, and iron out your differences.

And you’ll re-double your efforts, re-commit, and tear down the old stuff to make room for the new.

And Divine Intervention will take over: connecting you to books, authors and thought leaders, clients and colleagues that will cheer you on, lift you up, and show you exactly what you’ve been missing – and how to correct your course.

Nowhere is this better illustrated than in Eric Ries’ new book, The Lean Startup. He tells the story of how his team spent months building a barely functional prototype for what would later become IMVU – and people wouldn’t use it. It wasn’t “cool enough” for people to share it with their friends. But Eric didn’t give up. He and his team tore it apart, and re-built it to meet the needs of the market he was trying to serve. He persevered. He listened. And he grew his company into a multi-million dollar organization that’s dominating their market and put Eric on the map (and in the boardrooms of America) today.

Would you invest 6 months of your life in a project that didn’t work, only to put more time, energy and money into improving it until it DID work?

You’ve just invested 31 days of your life in this program. What are YOU going to do now?

Me? I’ve got an idea I’ve been toying with for a couple of days now. I want to launch a project on 1/1/12, and I want to take you behind the scenes and show it to you as I build it. Right here on the blog. I’m scared as hell, because it’s one part reality show and one part business venture. If it succeeds, it will succeed mightily. If it fails, it’s a horrible public failure.

It’ll either be Kitty Hawk or The Hindenburg, and if you’re interested, I’d love for you to tag along. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Congratulations on making it to the end of this 31 day journey. If you haven’t already signed up for the downloads that go along with this program, you can do that in the box atop this page. As soon as we have everything put together, you’ll be notified.

Thanks again for joining me on this adventure. Until we meet again!

Are You Afraid of Success?

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There’s a quote that floats around – some say it’s from Marianne Williamson, others from Nelson Mandela, but the crux of it is that we are afraid of being successful.

Either consciously or unconsciously, we avoid embracing the pinnacle of success we hope to achieve because we are afraid of what life will be like “on the other side”.

Will we become arrogant, snotty and unforgiving of our friends? Will our friends start to act differently towards us? How will our family, our spouse receive us?