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September 2011
Faster than ever and not always what we want.
Wed, 28th Sep 2011
Do you have a McDonalds style life?
We can have want we want when we want it, can't we? "Google knows the answer to everything," I was told this morning whilst walking my puppy dogs and it got me to thinking.
How many apps have you bought that you never use? How many bookmarks are you saving to read one day? What has come into your line of vision that you would not have chosen to see today?
It reminds me of the fast food giants, selling things to those under pressure parents, just for the free gift in the happy meal. How do we control that? How do we just get what we need and want right now rather than being side tracked, sold too, with the next best........?
There is a great deal of abundance out there and yet this new social networking stuff tells you, "Oh give things away to get the trust of your potential market and they will then buy from you." Smacks of happy meals to me.
So what do you think? Are you getting what you want from the social networking? The free downloads, the next new thing, the audio that will change the way you do things forever?
I think that if we could cash in the unused apps and donate the money to charity then that is a step in the right direction, at least we can put the bombardment and hasty purchases to good use.
Writing a book is like being a boat
Fri, 9th Sep 2011
"Write a book," said Steve Gurney. "Hmmmmm I have heard that somewhere before,' says I (in my head, not out loud) in fact a year before, from my brother Glynn. So I thought well there must be something in this and I do have a subject I am passionate about, so get on with;
You see my passion is change, mindful change in human beings, not the kinda change that just happens too us as we live life, the knocks, the rolls, the ups, the downs, the broken hearts, the experiences that shape us. These are all good, don't get me wrong. It's just that in my experience of working with 100s of clients face to face, this experience tells me that the kinda change they want is to undo the 'experience stuff' and the meaning they have given it.
It may have served a purpose as a child or whilst being in their early twenties but now as a 30/40/50 yr. olds they are asking for help to change the way they think and feel about the downs, the knocks, the broken hearts, the abuse and so the list goes on.
So mindful change floats my boat, the book could be the ocean on which to set this boat sailing and so the writing began, what a journey. This is when you realise that writing is not about you, it is about the reader, always the reader. Just like working with a client, it is all about them and what they want, think, feel, how they see the world and what they believe. To be a good coach you have to be like a vessel, you have to be empty to understand how the problem is a problem for you client, how they do their problem and what is the best way to help them change their stuff. Sure we have the tool box right there beside you but being filled up is the way to wear their problem in such a way that when you reach for the tool box you know just what is needed.