Saturday, October 24, 2009
Elusive Personal Brand
As mentioned before I am really hitting a wall. I am riding on an amazing tidal wave of potential energy that may propel me into an amazing space and with equal probability of outcome I may become a mangled mass of smashed bones and blood. I find google reader to be unwieldy and I feel like my hands are all greasy and I can't quite grasp it every time I do it just smashes to the floor against a hard edge of my tolerance and patience. This feeds into clouding my general feelings of enjoyment of the class. In the beginning I was super excited to leverage social media tool to create a carrotmob of conscious consumers who vote with their dollars. Now I am barely keeping my head above water forget about anything fun and inspiring just racing to keep up with an unobtainable finish line continually tripping over the ragged edges of my peasant clothing. In the next several postings I will be working backwards to try to get grounded and back on track with the class and re-align with my personal power. I think in my last post Bonnie made an interesting comment about me "owning my power". How do you own it if you don't even know what it is? The eternal paradox. I suppose I am extremely adept at projecting an image of power, but at the end of the day I feel depleted instead of inspired when I delve into my inner realms. In some ways I am stuck in a rut seeking success but unwilling to believe in myself to make it come true.
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Mauri, you are not alone with the feeling of being overwhelmed. The way I am dealing with it is realizing that right now I am learning. I don't know if I'll truly own the power that we're being given until later. Right now I'm absorbing everything I can, rarely reading the suggested and barely finding the time to read the required. But, I do know that these resources will be available to me for after this class and plan to revisit the class site many times over. I may not change the world with my BGI beat in the few months we have with this class but I feel we're being given an amazing tool set with which we can do great things with.
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Hey Mauri. I joined this class because it is an an opportunity for me to learn some new things but also to give back and help others. If you want to do a 1-on-1 over Skype or the phone and work through areas you are struggling I would be a happy to do so.
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