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Day 40 – Preparations
I have been busy with wedding preparations and life. I still actually journal and write and I see this little blog as an extension of that. Life is looking complex but I’m surprising feeling rather calm and at peace.
Still stuff to do, people to talk to and things to learn.
Wishing you much success
Samith
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Day 33 – No crap & Personal Leadership
At the place I work which is the Swan Youth Program in Cyril Jackson where I work as a classroom teacher for disengaged, disadvantaged youth we have a ‘No Crap’ Policy. Rather than a punitive policy it actually a program that rewards positive behaviour under the idea that students won’t start crap as long as no one starts crap with them. It’s a tentative truce of sorts that doesn’t always work but still reinforces good behaviour.
I only bring up the subject because I wish I had the same policy in some areas of my life, and how ironic it seems that the virtues we try to instill in our youth we still battle with in our adult life. It certainly is easy to blame others but the central premise of the ‘No Crap’ philosophy is simply one of personal leadership. I truely believe that the hardest thing to lead is yourself but t’s also the most important and rewarding.
Personal leadership is not only giving yourself goals and following through it’s giving yourself permission to be visionary and to envision something that many people will find hard to see. Personal leadership is about building a sense of character and certainty in a sometimes uncertain world. I forget who said the quote but it was marvelous person who said
‘Character is doing something long after the motivation is gone’
I’ve noticed in myself that I go through spurts of being motivated and not, and then character rears its head and proves to me the mettle I am made off. Sometimes I am found wanting and sometime I inspire myself.
It seems that you can only ever control somebody superficially for a short period of time, but you can inspire people for much longer. And you can do that by first being a leader to yourself.
*Update*
The Challenge is leading to some strange places in terms of backlinking strategies but I must have faith and keep soldiering on!
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Day 31 – Vision Board
I spent last night and tonight creating a vision board by going through Google and saving the exact images I wanted to focus on and putting them into a file. I got pictures of places I wanted to travel to, the pictures of the exact cars I wanted to drive and the gadgets I wanted to own and I got pictures of our happy family and the love me and Iris share. I then imported them into iPhoto and created a vision screen saver that would come up instantly whenever I needed to be inspired.
I think the vision process works because it keeps in your mind the things that will inspire you to be and do the things you need to do to get what you want. All the things I want seem so close yet so far. I know I just have to continue to take it one step at a time.
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Day 30 – 4 Stages of Competency
Reading GuruBob’s blog I re-discovered the 4 Stages of Competency. It seems that as we go through life and learn new skills we go through these four stages/ phases of competencies. Everyone goes through them and we can actually be really competent in some areas and totally incompetent in others (me and ten pin bowling). Instead of having a big moan it’s useful to pin point at what stage one is in and then be clear about what one can expect to be feeling and doing. The Four stages of Competency are:
- Not aware you lack a skill (Not knowing what you don’t know)
- Aware you lack a skill (Knowing you don’t know)
- Actively working at a skill although it requires a lot of effort (Trying to know)
- So skilled that you no longer have to even know about it.
We can take this competency matrix and put it in the analogy of learning to first drive a car or any skill. Before you start laerning, most teenagers would have no idea how much they don’t know. When I was starting to master a clutch, and as the car shuddered and lurched forward I became acutely aware of how bad of a driver I was and how bad I was at driving my dad’s car. As time went on, I started to put the peices together and I worked hard on learning to drive. But it took countless hours of practice and many mistakes. Do you remember the first time you need to turn a corner, over take or change gears through a round about? Now I can happily class myself in the ‘so skilled I now no longer have to consciously think about it.’ I can listen to music, look at scenery, occassionally eat something and (naughtily) make a phone call. In fact, sometimes it’s so much on auto pilot I’ve been many a time known to drive straight home when I was actually needing o go past it – it just happened by condition!
At the moment I am hovering between Stages 2 -3 in regards to Internet Marketing and Stages 3 -4 in terms of Art. GuruBob continues in a later blog post about how we can more easy move through the stages. Two factors seem to be really important in moving through the stages and they seem to be:
- Motivation – are you internally or externally motivated? Are you motivated by pain or pleasure, or motivated to move towards a goal or away from something?
- Ability to follow through and the length of time it takes to be successful.
Being motivated from the inside without having to be told to be really helps you attain your goals. But the second part of that is the following through and continuing to learn until you no longer have to ‘consciously’ think through the steps. In regards to the time to being successful it all depends on the individual. We all know people (depending on the circumstance) that give up on something after a few tries but in other situations cling stubbornly to their guns, impervious to mortal cares such as sleep and conversation until they have attained their goal (Me and God of War).
Along the way to reaching your big goals it helps if you give yourself small rewards after you’ve reached small milestones along the way, but only AFTER you’ve done them and not before!
I know I can reach my goals if I follow through and take action. And so can you. Is that motivating enough?
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Day 28 – Addressing the problem
I’ve realised where my brick wall is in regards to Internet Marketing. I am stopping myself from article marketing or writing articles of any nature!
If Internet Marketing is all about providing information and I am chocking when it comes to the bit about providing information then I am screwed.
It muest be a perfectionism issue, it must be an education issue (do i belive I am below this stuff) or do I believe I am not good enough? Whatever the belief, it is only just that, a belief. The TRUTH of teh matter is is that I am routinely find, process and deliever knew information everyday. I am good with words, and I already like learning. I can choose to take one action at a time.
My affirmation: Writing articles is so easy, I am great at writing articles.
I find writing articles a breeze and I do it with style and confidence.
*Update*
Okay, I took action and redid my niche, keyword and SEO research and bought a domain name as a part of the Challenge!
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Day 27 – Action Time
It’s official. I need to stop learning and just take action. I have and know more than enough to do so.
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Day 26 – Finding Content
Still not feeling fantastic with a dodgy cough keeping me (and most likely Iris up late). My head was inundated with business ideas last night so much so I got up and took some time writing up notes.
My greatest obstacle in my way at the moment is time management and goal setting. I actually have plenty of both but thinking of a way to use them effectively is getting to me.
I am working on the CHALLENGE (though I am a module behind), would like to complete my Profit Instrument, working on invitations and wedding stuff, and need to learn German as well.
Update:
I’ve been working on finding content via Market Samurai’s Find Content Module. It’s good because it forces you to stay in one place and not just randomly searching.
I then just cut and copy sections I want to into a great little Mac app (suggested By Ed Dale) called Notational Velocity.
Finding Content Video (aprox 3 mins)
Day 24 – New Technology
Went to an over crowded Truffle Festival today in Mandaring. Good food though.
Spent some good time with new technologies today: Skype, using Google Docs and Google groups, Jing and using Photbucket to host images. It makes you wonder where teh whole world is going? Is this supposed to be simplifying stuff?
O well, the world changes, and I am for one, embracing it.
Day 23 – Team Mates
I have two new team mates in the 2010 Challenge – finally! I am taking a proactive leadership role. One is an englishman living in Germany, and the other is a native German living in Japan. And I’m married (soon to be) to a wonderful German master florist! It was destined to be I think.
Organising this will not be simple. I need to catch up on the challenge module 2. Damn cold – be gone already! 
This is me for the past few days.
