The video has many elements i do not condone: drinking excessively, not working toward compromise and no harmony in a relationship, and gambling.
The video does, however, contain the singer’s artistry, which i think is brilliant.
It also contains a catchy chorus…
“When it rains it pours.”
Yesterday, i confirmed a contract with a client who emailed me 48-hours prior with a speaker request at Universal Studios.
So lucky.
Also yesterday, a client i’ve been speaking with for 120 days – and who’s association has never paid for a speaker – let me know they finally raised the funds and have approved my offer. “Please send the contract right away” was the gist of the text message.
Man, when it rains it pours.
i realize today’s posts contain an edgy, almost boastful karma.
While it’s not the intention, i realize that a strength, overused, may become a liability.
As karma and serendipity would have it, the first client, above, shared this website containing the post about strengths overused, here.
Perhaps the only defense one could muster (because strengths absolutely can become liabilities) is this note from Steve Jobs.
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By chance, we traveled the same path for a few moments.
Dinner.
It was actually cold and the snow machine created a realistic light snowfall.
Time to head home to do homework.
Cheryl comes home from work. She unloads her work stuff from the van and then we head out for a 5:45pm Brown Derby reservation. The Magic began as soon as we arrived. Can’t share the Disney secrets except to say that we feel exceptionally lucky to get to do what we get to do. Magic also happens “backstage”.
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The little red dot says there are still 364 days of business left this year.
My cousin asked how business was going yesterday, January 1. In hind sight, i wish i hadn’t gone on such a riff giving him so many specifics; maybe a simple, “It’s going really well.”, would have sufficed:
One signed Keynote speech contract
One Keynote speech contract awaiting signature
Two Keynote contracts looking very good
A verbal agreement for a 1.5 day engagement, with additional contract layers probable
Another client getting closer to a multi-layered cultural transformation engagement
And finally, several big, former Disney Institute fans who are seriously interested in working together this year
Riff over.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
This website is about our career health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my home health website, click here.
