Positive Post Tuesday … On Monday
I’ve wanted to ‘step up’ Positive Post Tuesday for a while now and haven’t really had the time or the energy to figure out how. Then last week I talked to Luke Mundy and came up with a pretty simple solution. Here’s the thing. I know it’s Monday, but I wanted to give you all a fair enough warning as to what was going on so we could keep this thing going and take it to the next level.
The idea is basically this. I want to give you all the opportunity to host Positive Post Tuesday on your own site for a week. What’s that mean? That means that every week Positive Post Tuesday will be held at a different location on the world wide web-sphere. Sounds simple enough right? All you need to do to participate is shoot me an email to brody@skorinc.us/brodyharper.com sometime between Saturday morning and Monday night requesting to host Positive Post Tuesday. The first email I get will be the host for that week and along with my Positive Post I will link to the Host’s blog. The host’s blog will then need to have the Mr. Linky thing ready to go at the bottom of their post where we can all add to.
I’m excited about keeping this going and getting more and more readers/writers involved in the process of being positive online. It’s one day a week we can all hop down off our soapboxes and spread some love.
Who’s with me?
What Pollutes Your Life?
This morning I watched a keynote talk by Gary Vaynerchuck at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. One thing he said right at the beginning really jumped out at me.
“There is no reason in 2008 to do s**t you hate. None. Because you can lose just as much money being happy as hell.”
Make sense for business right? I can totally see where he’s coming from. In this day and age not doing something you are passionate about you should be. There are too many resources out there to do other things and it’s just a matter of finding them and working hard.
A little later I saw the question, ‘What Pollutes Your Life?’. I didn’t even catch the context of the question, but I started thinking of the things that pollute my life, and what that does to my productivity, my family, my time with my kids, and my time making SkörInc a better company. I’ve been thinking about that ever since.
I realized pretty quick I know what pollutes my life. I know what clouds my vision and I know what slows me down and it’s pretty simple. Criticism. And not only criticism, but the attacks of those critics. I hate not pleasing people and being friends with everyone and that has the potential to occupy more of my mind than anything else. I hate that. I hate that it affects me and I hate that it pollutes my life.
Now I think these things can be similar to a degree. If I hate dealing with criticism and hate dealing with the crap of those critics, why do I do it? Why can’t I just put my head down and work harder at being the best of what I am doing?
So there it is folks. What pollutes your life? What can you do to push through it?
Dreams Are Weird
I had a dream I was dying.
The doctors offered me a drink that would allow me to just fall asleep and never wake up.
I said goodbye to my family, drank the drink and started to get sleepy.
In real life I woke up, and continued to feel sleepy.
This is a weird spot for your brain to be. I’m half awake, half asleep, half in a dream, half in real life and possibly not going to wake up if I fall back to sleep.
Weirdest dream you’ve ever had?
Ready? Go.
