Posts Tagged ‘Action’
Websites are gooder enuff…
There's a project I'm ready to start (FunnySaysWhat?). This may be the most enthusiastic I've been about a project (that I'm actually ready to start on). I figured that once I got started, I want to be able to stay focused. Thus, I wanted to ensure I got some things in place for some current projects. Mainly, I needed to have some web-presence for AnthemVirtual and Up In Your Biz! - as well as for my parent company, Applied Prosperity, LC. Well, it's done. Yes, it could be done better. But it's not. Yay! --DC
Simple Keys to Energy & Confidence
I realize what I'm about to say flies in the face of recent societal trends. We can witness daily, men and women across America and around the world who seem to advocate dodging truth, hiding from responsibility. In spite of this (and perhaps even to spite this), I've found the best way to progress AND gain confidence is to MAKE & KEEP PROMISES. It's a simple start, yet I've promised to keep going on both exercising (almost) daily and cleaning one room/day around the home. This keeps me healthy, keeps my wife smiling, AND (because I'm in the act of making and keeping promises) gives me a feeling of confidence that carries over into everything else. As far as confidence in business goes, the first step is to ensure value is being created; that's essential. With that value, the same principle applies: Make and keep promises. However, even when we're creating great value for others, we can have days when we doubt ourselves or our business. This is quite common. I mean, we're out there giving it all we've got and we can find ourselves exhausted; not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. Sometimes, a rest is all I need. Some family play time, reading. I might practice the piano (just starting) or play a mindless game or watch a TV show. Rest is important. What I'm saying here is this: It takes energy to make and keep promises. It can take energy to bolster our own confidence in times of doubt. And, hey: Sometimes the confidence and energy simply do not show back up on Monday morning. When this happens, I find that simply TALKING about a current project - describing it to someone else or asking for the ideas of others - this engages me and renews my own excitement. This might be done with a friend or my wife, Renee (tho not typically on a Monday morning). If the timing isn't right to share with people I know, there are plenty of people on Twitter or Facebook to get into positive conversations with about prosperity. (Thanks, Tweeps. You know who you are). Now, with our energy boosted we can put it into making and keeping promises. With this combination of principles and habits being practiced, self-respect, the respect from others, and prosperity; it all increases. "Have A Nice Dave." :) --Dave C. Image Credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fullmoon/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
…the end of the rainbow.
Keep going. If you're one of many who are searching for that inner-passion so you can share it with the world, keep going. I gotta say, it's worth finding. And, if it's taking some time to find, it may be that the time it takes makes the realization that much sweeter. I'll add this: Remember to enjoy the journey of discovery, too! Open your eyes and mind like that 5-year old looking for an adventure (the looking is an adventure in itself). My passion is ideas. I love seeing ideas move from mind to market; to go from valuable to one person to valuable to many. I love the creative process ("We can do THIS, oh... and we can add this to it and that! AWESOME!"). In my own journey as I moved from idea to idea (and not really prospering, being in a state of perpetual starting), the TIME and the frustration of my apparent lack of progress finally led me to create SelfEnterpriser.com and the corresponding talk show, Up In Your Biz! So now, I'm spending my time getting to know others around my local town of Bellingham, Washington; learning about their ideas and how they've turned their passions into business. As I'm doing such, I'm absorbed into that unique essence that every city or town emits. As I get to know the people running the businesses in town, I get to know the town. Coffee shops and intersections are already (after just my first week of video shoots) transforming into landmarks that remind me of the new friendships and interactions I'm creating. So, thanks to those who encouraged me to search for my own unique abilities and passions. Thank you to the business owners of Bellingham for allowing me to get to know you. This is a real joy. More than ever before I can say about being a Self Enterpriser: It's a spectacular life. --Dave C. Image Credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theslowlane/ | CC BY 2.0
Defiantly, we should talk (or, ‘Definitely,’ even)
I came across an article title that had just the kind of defiant attitude required to pique my curiosity. After reading the article, the pique-ee-ness had been confirmed. For that very reason (and because the author reminded me a bit of Nick Nolte) I asked, begged, and pleaded Nick, er... Derek to let me feature him as a Guest Blogger here at SelfEnterpriser.com. Derek was most gracious, and said he was 'in' (but also added that he might someday call on me to bake him a cake with a file hidden inside of it and have it delivered wherever he may be at the time. Strange request, but seemed harmless enough). And now... Derek Haines. +++++ I Am Glad I Do Not Have A Publisher By Derek Haines This may seem like a silly ‘sour grapes’ attitude, but I have my reasons for being happy and content, plodding along on my own. Many reasons in fact, but most of them revolve around the fact that I react very badly to doing what someone tells me to do. Or in other words, I am hopeless at deadlines, appointments, regimentation, work hours, discipline and generally behaving responsibly. This said, the single most important reason for me is that I can write what I want to write, and not what I am told to write, or what is saleable and marketable to write. My current work in progress novel has me scratching my head at the moment trying to decide what genre it will fit into. It is sort of a cross between adventure, sci/fi, medical, romance, political, drama, comedy, satire, historical and allegorical. The only thing I think I have left out are car chases and cowboys. Now this follows on from my previous four books which were absolutely nothing like this at all. Poetry, essay, historical fiction and life drama. My long winded at arriving to point here is that if I had achieved any success with my previous books, and I was guided by a publisher, I would probably have to recreate something similar to my previous success. That’s what marketing is about. Recreating the recipe that worked. Thinking Angels & Demons and Da Vinci Code here. But I am not that capable, talented or disciplined. You may call it ‘sour grapes’ but I am very happy writing what I want to write and trying my hand at a number of genres before I curl up my toes. At least it will hopefully give my grandchildren some variety to read. Original Article Derek's Vandal Blog www.derekhaines.ch Derek on Twitter Derek's Author Page ++++++++++ Thanks again to Derek for Guest-Blogging today!
AnthemVirtual.com Update #6
Serendipity? Providence? Good? Bad? If you've been following my project, AnthemVirtual.com, you know my partner in the project is my wife, Renee. Well... make that "was my wife, Renee." Renee fired herself from the project. This was tuff for me; as I was very excited to be working with my best friend and explorer of life. I took the news kind of hard, even tho I felt that something better would come of it. The good news is that she didn't quit because of the project (sounds kinda like, "it's not you, it's me" doesn't it?). She didn't quite because we were in any sort of argument or disagreement, even. Like the former Governor of Alaska, Renee's services and efforts were, she felt, better focused elsewhere. That said, I took a few days to re-assess where I was at and what I wanted to do. On one hand, AnthemVirtual.com is ready to roll, with little else required other than individual persons (finding virtual agents, clients). Should I go forward with it alone? One morning the answer was 'Yes'. Then next it was 'No.' After a few excruciating days of this ping-pong match on the ol' brain-table, I decided that together AnthemVirtual.com, in the format it was in, was my best path forward if Renee and I were working on a project together. It just fit the talents of both of us. However, on my own, focusing on SelfEnterpriser.com was the way to go, while shifting the AnthemVirtual.com model I'd built toward serving the forthcoming concepts found within SelfEnterpriser.com (namely, a concept I affectionately call, PFAT for Life). The new, upcoming AnthemVirtual.com construct may be on bed-rest for a week or two while I implement a new format for the talk show, Up In Your Business! and a new, weekly online chat group where we focus on The Business of Being Yourself,™ the PFAT concept, as well as live chats with featured guests. I realize this is vague as far as the details of the new project; the details weren't the point of this update. Just wanted to let you know what was going on with the project. If you just can't wait for the details to unfold, tweet me at @DaveCharbonneau . "Have A Nice Dave." :) --Dave Charbonneau Image Credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhaggz/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
Stack It!
I'm a big fan of STACKING. Stacking is whenever you're accomplishing multiple objectives thru one task. It's not multi-tasking; that would be trying to accomplish multiple objectives by taking on multiple tasks at one time. Some examples of Stacking: Objectives: Exercise and Time with Family Playing tag or touch-football. Objectives: Reading, Relaxing, Hygene Taking a bath with book in hand. Objectives: Learning, Pooping. Hopefully, this one is obvious. (Yes, take your math tutor to the crapper with you). Some other examples of Stacking that I'm currently practicing: I want to find programs for communicating with my current and future project teams as well as with our company's clients. So, I'm using Google Wave to keep track of my weekly and daily objectives (while branching off with others who use Wave now and then). I'm using ManyMoon.com to schedule the items from my Wave with my calendar. I'm using Tumblr.com to create a group-site for the members of the improv course I attend. Just some simple tips for being more efficient. Okay, gotta wrap this up. My math tutor just arrived. "Have A Nice Dave." :) --Dave Charbonneau Photo Credits: http://www.flickr.com/photos/potaufeu/ / CC BY 2.0
