Connection • Community • Digital Leadership
Here in Boston our roof is producing icicles at an amazing rate. I’ve been removing them from the roof of our front porch when they get over three feet long. What to do with all those icicles? Make icicle castles!
This photo was taken after several days of melting, but you get the idea. The larger chunk on the right is what was left after knocking a five foot icicle off the edge of the roof.
I’ve been helping a number of people get up to speed with blogging, Facebook and Twitter this month.
Mostly people who are launching projects of their own and need to set up an online presence. I think a lot of people are catching on to the fact that they need to keep up with these tools or they’re going to miss out.
We’ve entered a time when we all need to be thinking about personal branding and think of ourselves as our own bosses — even if you work for someone else…
A recent client of mine was told, “I love what you said, but I Googled you and you don’t exist. Let me know when you exist…” With a little help he does.
Do you exist?
If you’re going to succeed, I think you need to. At least online.
A family member just sent me this video of a young deer having a blast playing in a mud puddle. At least it certainly looks like the deer is having fun!
In my children’s TV work we’ve probably a dozen segments showing kids playing with mud and muddy water in different ways. I call these “automatic” segments because it doesn’t take any effort to get kids to engage with the topic. Just tell ’em what we’re doing and off they go. I love this interstitial showing three girls building a dam in a back yard. Always a good sign when I want to do the activity!
When I was teaching preschool years ago we had a special “mud week” and had kids come in prepared to get seriously dirty. I can’t wait for this Spring when my young daughter will be ready for some serious mud fun.
Educators, I highly recommend the book Worms, Shadows, and Whirlpools by Karen Worth and Sharon Grollman.
How many of these cartoons do you remember? I gotta learn the guitar…
Can you learn from your mistakes? Do you see the failures as stepping stones to success? If you can’t, if you are frozen by the fear of doing something “wrong” and being called out for it, you aren’t going to get anywhere.
Gary describes this beautifully in his video, Failure: The Secret to Success
Great advice from Kevin Spacey.
Peter Bowden