Well, hello there and thanks for surfing my wave!
We all know I can’t find a job to save my life – are you having the same problem? Probably. So then, what have I been saying? Create One, right? Correct-o-mundo! Now look what I’ve done…
My daughter went to camp last week (yes, I miss her, and no she doesn’t, so shut up about it already!) and I was to travel with my family to pick her up on Monday. It just so happens I have workshops every Monday, however I would have allowed myself to miss this one (they are voluntary and free, but you want to attend to gain the knowledge) to cater to my child. Well, I have been invited to be present at a series of webinars to be held on four consecutive Mondays commencing with – yup, this Monday. So, not only will I miss meeting my daughter, I’ll now miss all those Monday workshops (which encompass a lot of valuable information) because another business colleague would like me to concentrate on these webinars. I’m also juggling phone calls and in-person meetings around everything else I have going on right now.
I must let you in on a not-so-secret piece of salient detail: If all I was doing with my life was sitting on my ass regurgitating resumes, cover letters and angst-ridden pleas of employment help into the inboxes of Corporate America, I’d be in a catastrophic state of disillusion. Now, I can tell you that, in fact, I am doing a lot of that, BUT I’m also creating additional avenues that can lead me to gainful employment. Having said that, if not for this website, I wouldn’t be swamped. I’d have relatively nothing to do. I’d be dangling around my family like an infected hangnail with no place to go just waiting for someone or something to pull it out and put me out of my pain and suffering and misery.
Conflict is Good.
So you see there truly are great benefits to looking elsewhere in your job-search other than just the traditional, the normal, and the blasé. Granted there are no assurances in life, no sure-fire keys to success, but if you keep using the same key, it will only fit one car. By the same token, don’t buy the dealership (not a good idea right now, anyway) until you know one of your keys will fit into one of the vehicles; it is a slippery slope at best, but try out a few pair of skis and boots to see what’s fitting and comfortable for you. I hate trying on clothes, awful chore for me, but if you buy what you see, untested, then the chase has been for naught.
Again, another piece to this ever-complex puzzle I’ve built is the network I’ve developed to help me produce this project from the ground up. This is not the Entertainment Business network I had 6 months ago, this is a brand spankin’ new puppy I’ve nurtured as a result of going from workshop to webinar, from seminar to support group, and from classes to the masses in search of more and more dedicated individuals convinced if they continue to look through their own glasses, they will eventually contract tunnel vision. I was looking to expand my current network, not run into a new one – what do you think I am, crazy? Bite Your Tongue! Honestly, it’s hard enough maintaining one than attempting to support two as I’m doing. As I observed and listened to all these symposiums, I saw a different mental picture, one that drove me to introspection. What you are reading now, and the home in which it lives, was the outcome.
So, next time you meet up with a friend, take off their spectacles (ask first!) and see what’s spectacular in their world and try them on for size. It’ll probably be quite blurry for sometime, but my point is this…
If you stare at what they’re staring at and you listen intently to what they’re saying, and you see eye to eye, things might start coming into focus. Like it? Don’t forget to return the glasses. Maybe you want something comparable?
You don’t know what you’re missing till you try…
“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”
~ John Dewey
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