September 14th
Today we slept in late enough for the sun to wake us up. I laid in bed for a moment and thanked God for the absence of the soreness that came as a result of laying on frozen ground thus creating dead spots on your spine, hips, and shoulders.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
I used to think I was good at blogging... good at writing... but that was shortly after college. It's amazing, truly amazing- just how much writing is a practiced skill. I had to write every day from the age of 6 through 21 then... then I just started talking and I talked a lot. I was a convert: collegiate graphic artistic gone salesperson. No more written manifestos, theses, or colloquiums... just talking... or so I thought.
Long story short, a story I'll probably tell you later, after 3 years of selling I learned that two ears can get you a lot further than one mouth. So I started shutting up, I started listening. It's actually rather fascinating: the realization that the best conversationalists and most successful people spend more time listening than they do talking single-highhandedly brought me through my second conversion: over a period of three years I morphed from the enthusiastic, outspoken, Entertainer to the inquisitive, even skeptical, Detective. One thing sales taught me is how much I didn't know. It proved to me that while I was naturally a connector there was still 75% of any given population I wasn't connecting with and I wanted to know why. I wanted to understand people's reactions. I wanted to understand people's reasoning. I had learned the how to and now I needed the "WHY" behind it.
I'm digressing. Most of the latter is a foreshadow of what's the come as you read ahead (more importantly as I continue to scribble words for you to read) but the point is, it's been a very long time since I've composed thoughts, a train of concise flowing thoughts, down on anything other than a few paragraphs in an email. I need to develop this habit. I'm developing myself as a keynote speaker and one thing I think we can all agree on is the need for a keynote presenter to be able to deliver concise, deliberate and obvious thoughts to their audience with key takeaways. Got to start somewhere, right?
Have you ever done this before? Started writing something that your brain didn't let you finish? There are entirely too many moments that I've begun to put great ideas to paper but because I couldn't find the perfect way to articulate my message I either A) threw them all away or B) hid them from your eyes because they weren't perfect. Well no more! You get the dirty, gritty, crunchy crust of all of it. I'm going to give you my thoughts, my ideas, my insight, my perspective, my observations, my "ah-ha's" and the best of my takeaways. It won't be pretty but it will be pretty hilarious :) And educational, definitely educational. Enjoy.
Long story short, a story I'll probably tell you later, after 3 years of selling I learned that two ears can get you a lot further than one mouth. So I started shutting up, I started listening. It's actually rather fascinating: the realization that the best conversationalists and most successful people spend more time listening than they do talking single-highhandedly brought me through my second conversion: over a period of three years I morphed from the enthusiastic, outspoken, Entertainer to the inquisitive, even skeptical, Detective. One thing sales taught me is how much I didn't know. It proved to me that while I was naturally a connector there was still 75% of any given population I wasn't connecting with and I wanted to know why. I wanted to understand people's reactions. I wanted to understand people's reasoning. I had learned the how to and now I needed the "WHY" behind it.
I'm digressing. Most of the latter is a foreshadow of what's the come as you read ahead (more importantly as I continue to scribble words for you to read) but the point is, it's been a very long time since I've composed thoughts, a train of concise flowing thoughts, down on anything other than a few paragraphs in an email. I need to develop this habit. I'm developing myself as a keynote speaker and one thing I think we can all agree on is the need for a keynote presenter to be able to deliver concise, deliberate and obvious thoughts to their audience with key takeaways. Got to start somewhere, right?
Have you ever done this before? Started writing something that your brain didn't let you finish? There are entirely too many moments that I've begun to put great ideas to paper but because I couldn't find the perfect way to articulate my message I either A) threw them all away or B) hid them from your eyes because they weren't perfect. Well no more! You get the dirty, gritty, crunchy crust of all of it. I'm going to give you my thoughts, my ideas, my insight, my perspective, my observations, my "ah-ha's" and the best of my takeaways. It won't be pretty but it will be pretty hilarious :) And educational, definitely educational. Enjoy.
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