Getting Internet Face Time
October 31, 2006
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When I was in the Navy I learned about an interesting success concept. When it came to the subject of furthering their careers, a lot of time seemed to be spent by officers discussing the subject of “Face Time“.
Face Time was time spent face to face with the commanding officer or other senior military leaders. The idea being the more time you were right in front of the skipper, the more easily your name would come to mind when he had to sit down for fitness report competitive rankings. And the more he was thinking about you when he was trying to decide which of his fine officers to rank first, you had a greater chance of getting a higher ranking.
As an aside, I had a roommate who held to a corollary of the Face Time principle which said, “Negative face time was still face time.” Personally I wouldn’t subscribe to his idea. I don’t want to be known as a screw-up. But he has a point. When some celebrity does something stupid or gets arrested (or gets arrested because they did something stupid) it makes the papers and gets their name out. Even so, I wouldn’t recommend that approach.
Anyway why to I bring this subject up?
Recent Visitors Don’t Make It
October 31, 2006
Had to take the Recent Visitors out of the side bar. MyBlogLog was not responding and it was causing the blog not to load.
Sorry. But a cool feature that shuts the place down isn’t as cool as I thought it would be.
Contemplating a Bit of a Course Change
October 30, 2006
Y’all know that a big part of the whole exercise here at SuccessCREEations involves a certain amount of introspection. The idea has been to explore ideas tips and strategies so we can all become more successful.
As I noted yesterday, some of that introspection involves finding where our passions lie. I am exploring and doing some heavy thinking along that vein keeping my eyes out for whatever treasures I can find along the way.
Obviously one of my passions is blogging. I like sharing ideas and the community of people from all over the world that can connections all over the world that blogs do better than most other avenues.
Another of my passions is business. Business is what makes the world go round. I know you may have thought it was money that kept things moving. But it takes businesses to create the goods and services which generate the money to make the world go round.
Minor Changes to Success Creeations
October 30, 2006
Wanted to shout out to y’all and let you know about a few minor changes to SuccessCREEations that I’ve been working on this morning.
- Recent Readers
- If you take a gander at the right side bar you will notice that I added a new feature that shows Recent Readers. This little dealie is powered by MyBlogLog and if you have an account over there then when you stop by you’ll see your lovely mug show up on my side bar. I thought you might like to see some of the other folks who hang out in our little corner of the web.
- New Library Section
- Since we’ve talked about motivation as an ingredient for success I went ahead and added a link in the left side bar to the Motivational books I’ve added to our library. I talked about doing that a while back but finally got around to it this morning.
- And, while we are on the subject of the Library, I added some explanation on the Library Main Page to point out that folks can click on the books to order them directly from Amazon.com. I also wanted to let those folks who may not know that Amazon.com will send me a few cents if they go that route, and how they can get the books if they feel funny about clicking on someone’s affiliate link. I had explained all that in the post that introduced the library. But I didn’t think to add it to the Library proper. That particular over site has now been remedied.
- Read more
Work Where Your Passion Is
October 29, 2006
I’ve been doing quite a bit of introspection these days. It’s not that I’m narcissistic or anything. I just keep hearing folks say over and over again that you will be most successful career wise if you work where your passion is.
The part that I’m struggling with is the whole part about where my passion really lies. That may sound pretty dumb to most of you. But the truth is I am good at a bunch of different things. I enjoy a variety of stuff. And I tend to get passionate about things for relatively short bursts of time before I move onto the next thing.
I think my whole struggle drives my wife a bit nuts.
I can imagine her thinking, “Here we go again,” whenever I get on the topic. I mean just last night we had another one of those “I don’t know what I want be when I grow up” conversations. Oh, and I’m nearly 40. Sheesh!
The good news is there are some folks who are offering up some practical ideas and techniques to get through a barrier like mine. I thought I’d share a couple links that I’ve found that help me out since I’m struggling here. Who knows? Maybe some of you are struggling with this too.
So here are the links: Read more
Google Picks a Bad Fight
October 28, 2006
Can you have too much success?
Google seems to think so. Check on this entry from the Official Google Blog this past week.
Basically Google is worried that their trademark may get diluted because too many people are using the word Google “inappropriately”.
Sure trademark protection is an important issue. However their blog post that they used to start some conversation about the issue is incredibly condescending. Giving examples with “Our lawyers say:” is a move guaranteed to raise the ire of the very user who are so enthusiastic about using their products.
Kem Meyer hits the nail on the head with her post Don’t Tell Me How To Google.
All this time, Google, you made us think it was all about us… and we loved you for it. We changed the way we talk, surf and build sites because of you. But, this sounds like it’s all about you….and now my radar is up.
I guess Google must be disappointed with how much success they’ve achieved. Now they want to be sure their lawyers keep a lid on their branding.
Do you suppose they will actually be dumb enough to let their lawyers eventually sue someone who doesn’t follow their guidelines?
I don’t get it.
Time - Your Wallet’s Best Friend or Worst Enemy
October 28, 2006
Time. It is one of the few ways all of us are truly equal. We all have the same 24 hours in each day. There aren’t folks our there who are given 30 hours each day. Nor does anyone have to make do with 20 hours.
How we choose to make use of those hours is one of the many things that differentiates us.
For example are we going to use that gift of time to pay interest by borrowing on our revolving credit cards? Or are we going to earn interest on some sort of investment program?
The choice is ours. Read more
Success Principle #10 - Harnessing The Wind
October 27, 2006
I was talking with a rather successful friend of my the other day about different business opportunities and he said something that caught my attention.
Be sure you have enough sail out to catch the wind.
He was telling me that there are opportunities in front of us all the time. Successful people learn how to make the most of those opportunities as they encounter them. With my maritime background I soon realized that there was a wealth of wisdom to be gleaned from that one little conversation. Read more
Other People are Critical to Your Success
October 25, 2006
You’ve probably heard a motivational speaker say something along the lines of
If it is to be it’s up to me.
They’ll tell you that you and you alone are responsible for your success. And that is true as far as it goes.
But it isn’t enough. If you start looking at biographies of successful people you will find that remarkably few (if any) of them achieved their greatness in a vacuum. There were invariably other people around them who filled critical roles in their paths to success.
Success Principle #9 - Successful People Leave Things Undone
October 24, 2006
I’ve been going through my RSS feeds this morning. I’ve not spent much time looking at my Bloglines lately, and after over an hour of perusing through the 150+ feed that I subscribe to I still have over 500 unread items. Then I stopped to remind myself of a question.
What is my priority here?
A guy by the name of Charles Hummel wrote Tyranny of the Urgent
where he said
We live in constant tension between the urgent and the important. The problem is that many important tasks need not be done today, or even this week… The urgent task calls for instant action. The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible, and they devour our energy. With a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize that we have become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.
Overcoming that tyranny of the urgent and focusing instead on those things that are truly important is one sure way to propel us on our way toward success.
