Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
You can be interested and intrigued by others
or
You can be the interesting and intriguing one
One simply can’t be both at the same time. However, much like myself, you can get on and off the dance floor at your will. Personally, I spend more time on the dance floor. That doesn’t mean it’s not beneficial to step off every once and awhile.
Stay Positive & Just Dance
Garth E. Beyer
“The majority of problems arise when there is a gap between expectation [from the client] and what’s being delivered.”
Murray surprised me when he went on to state that it is always the PR agencies fault. He took responsibility. He understands that a clients expectation isn’t wrong because the client is wrong, it’s wrong because the PR professional didn’t communicate properly to shift the clients expectations. OR, which Murray was more-so pointing out, the client’s expectation is accurate and the PR professionals are working on their own agenda’s with their own expectations.
Murray pointed out that it is bad relationships that can turn into strong strategies. When a PR agency isn’t pleasing their client, isn’t fulfilling their expectations, they have a challenge now, to grow, to adapt, to understand.
Murray ended with saying that accepting your failures and working past them, to close the gap between expectation and what’s being delivered, is the most difficult act that PR professionals get in. However, he knows that it can always result in something positive. “Don’t take it for granted,” he says.
Cool. Me too. Friends?
First of all, what right does anyone have to call you inadequate? I suppose that doesn’t matter though, once we feel it, we feel it.
Secondly, if you’re into all the motivational pish-posh (Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy, and about a billion bloggers), than you’re guilty of feeling inadequate. How can you not when you hear of stories about people doing more than you can ever dream of? How can you not when you catch yourself wasting time away on the couch or falling victim to the worst time-killer at large, waiting.
A lot of people can’t handle feeling inadequate, so they don’t listen to any inspirational tapes, read any encouraging novels, or watch any motivational speeches. The bad isn’t on their end, it’s on the motivators end because the goal of motivation is to making someone feel inadequate enough to improve.
It’s that nudge your coach gives you when he says, “Good job, but you can hit harder next time. I want to see that,” or when you finally read something in a magazine that you actually do, whether it’s making a holiday cupcake or creating a gratitude journal. The success of motivation is action, but you can’t just tell someone to hit harder, make a cupcake, or write in a journal.
Next time you listen/read/watch a motivational person, try not to focus so much on how they make you feel inadequate. Focus more on the how of it all, the actions you can make, the steps to take.
Stay Positive & Then Take Them
Garth E. Beyer
Don’t be afraid to stalk. (Find out who you can connect with in the agency you wish to join. Be where they are.)
Stay on trends. (This costs time and money, yea, but it’s always worth it.)
Schedule frequent events to be on. (Get used to always be focused, paying attention to detail, connecting, working, there is no off button.)
Learn fiction writing
Learn client speak
Organize everything and get it all done early. (Projects get reviewed constantly, you must always be prepared to divulge your plan and progress.)
be your own.
Stay Positive & A Better Product Of Your Project Is Due Each Second
Garth E. Beyer
Laren Fuhrmann, public engagement director and reporter for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism had a few golden nuggets of advice for people looking into becoming investigative journalists.
“You have to have the desire to know the story behind the story. To be guided by your curiosity.”
“You have to show the impact the issue has on people. ”
If you have the time to background people. Do it. You better make the time to background people.
“Get to love awkward silences because they will be the ones to fill it.”
“You can teach yourself a lot of the stuff if you have the drive and the time to mess around with it.”
The rarest question to ask that will conclude whether you are heading in the right direction or not is Does it make you uncomfortable?
On Michelle Welsch’s manual for daily adventure, number 49 of the 80 actions is to make yourself feel uncomfortable.
The funniest moments with friends is when someone is uncomfortable.
Stretching is uncomfortable but it allows you to reach further.
All great tasks feel uncomfortable at first.
Stay Positive & Uncomfortable. Duh.
Garth E. Beyer
