Like Steve Jobs’ early struggles, many entrepreneurs know these first hand

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Story structure is pretty simple, and true

 

Like Steve Jobs’ early struggles, many entrepreneurs know these same struggles first hand.

How do we take a crazy notion and convince a busy world to slow down for a moment of honest consideration?

It’s a bit like being an adventurer or explorer.

If it was easy, or reasonable, it would already be mainstream.

This challenge taunts our spirit. The same spirit that has the power to ignite and inspire a world to change.

This makes the entrepreneur’s existence come alive.

There is so much BS claiming balance is a myth that no one even questions it anymore.

Well, there’s still at least one.

Crazy fool to believe?

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Social media has removed any remaining notion of privacy

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Privacy and secrets are the big victims (and the big victories) for the idea virus

 

The spread of ideas can go viral in an instant.

It can enhance political campaigns or ruin them.

Social media doesn’t care what anybody thinks. Social media is a potential force of nature.

And the Internet is on a collision course to redistribute power.

Take the broken customer elevator door at an Orlando parking garage.

Innocent and not uncommon. Things break down.

It’s when something happens beyond the ordinary that any camera can capture. And everyone has a camera.

Everyone.

Social media has removed any remaining notion of privacy.

It can become a beacon or a weapon.

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A grateful acknowledgment to WordPress for providing a free, open source platform

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WordPress is to the writer as Disney is to the creative – Glorious!

 

A grateful acknowledgment to WordPress for providing a free, open source platform for anyone with something to say.

And a special plug to Syed Balkhi for his WP Beginner website with all it’s free resources, including this WordPress glossary of terms.

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What’s the single biggest reason people get better at something?

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Google your name and be amazed at what’s publicly available to the world

 

We know this. And it applies to each of us, no matter our job or passion.

What’s the single biggest reason people get better at something? They try to get better. And try, and try, and try. Seriously, played around with different versions of a LinkedIn profile. Decided to save the drafts here before deleting them and starting over.

Don’t expect anyone to read them, just sharing the work in real time.

Revised LinkedIn profile Thanksgiving Day morning (11.28.13)… (third revision in 12 hours)…

Author of the brand new book that will put a dent in the Baby Boomer Universe, debuting Thanksgiving Day 2013. (To be crystal clear, the book is not about Disney, nor endorsed by Disney)

International professional speaker to a million people.

Bottom line, my goal is to see you reach yours.

I give speeches to change the world.

Never giving the same speech twice.

Transforming things using paradox, questions, and common sense.

Servant, husband, dad, son, brother, uncle, neighbor, leader, author, speaker, runner.

Aggressively unfancy.

I believe work is only work if you’d rather be doing something else, and that the work day begins the night before. Can’t wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.

Allergic to most pollens, whiners, and mediocrity.

To be crystal clear (again) and not blur any lines, I speak full time for DisneyInstitute.com and entirely separately and entrepreneurially for MidLifeCelebration.com (the content is entirely different, completely separate, and never, ever interchangeable).

…..

It’s prudent to note that social media is embraced by great organizations. Why? Because customers have embraced social media, and great companies (large or small) embrace what the customer embraces.

Google destroys any notion of privacy. Authenticity is the new currency. Live your life so that if someone ever said anything bad about you, no one would believe it.

Live like you mean it.

Sooner or later it becomes crystal clear, life is not a dress rehearsal.

A thinker must think. A writer must write.

We know this. And it applies to each of us, no matter our job or passion.

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Playing around with your LinkedIn profile is good for you

Lethbridge Bridge
This bridge is the largest railway structure in Canada and the largest of its type in the world.

 

Over the years, do we experiment with our bio, our resume?

Should we?

Why wouldn’t we?

But do we?

. . . . .

The original post written 100 days ago included a LinkedIn profile rough draft, and was too long, too self-centered.

This post was re-written last night, March 12, and the photo was from the day before that.

Why is this important?

Simply this, life is a process.

A process of continuous improvement.

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