Sleeping Above Your Dreams

Garth Beyer

I’m getting personal, being human.

A lot of what we read, we see the author as a god, as someone who is abnormal in a positive sense, someone who has been safe, who has been involved with one thing all their life and nothing else matters or bothers them. We can think of Suzanne Collins and think she writes great books and that’s it. I can’t tell you a thing more about Suzanne Collins.  I don’t want that, can’t have that, wouldn’t wish that. I’m too human, too personal. You can read all my content and see one hardened positive guru (feels weird calling myself that) See what I did there? I’m more than that. I’m human.

I talk to friends about life, about love, about goals and challenges and they think im unstoppable, that it all comes easy to me, that living life for me is like Suzanne Collins writing; it’s just what we do. Simple as that. That’s what readers want, that’s why I write to the best of my effort FOR people, not for myself. But that’s not what poetry is for. So this is me, writing one post to show a different side of my life. It’s this post that I’m releasing my book of poetry called Sleeping Above Your Dreams 2007-2011.

Here is the pdf version of Sleeping Above Your Dreams

 

Stay Positive & This Is Me Letting Go Of All Of My Poems

To Start New Again.

Garth E. Beyer

Thanks Zig

Thanks Zig

Garth Beyer

 

Funny how that only two days ago I mentioned Zig. He’s been a part of my life for only one year.

I had just moved to Madison and was hired to do data entry. It’s a very monotonous task that didn’t take any thinking power. Podcasts were getting big at the time, so I decided to listen to a podcast while I was working. I’ve heard the name Zig Ziglar before because I reminded someone of him. Through my search, I found this.

I listened to every single pod cast at least three times, and some of my favorites even more. I still think to myself at times, “kick the cat.” When I began listening to Zig, my eyes were opened – No. My MIND was opened. From that day, when I listened to the first podcast of ol’ Zig talking, my life changed.

I listened, I applied what I listened to and I repeated.

I downloaded his Born to Win seminar and listened to that. I then caught wind that he and his son would be publishing his final book called Born to Win (different than the seminar I downloaded). It was between downloading the seminar and finding out about his new book that I also came across Seth Godin – who happens to look up to Zig as much as me.

Thanks for teaching me how to love a woman – redhead or not.

Thanks for teaching me how to move up in work, in life.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Thanks for all the laughs.

Thanks for making public speaking look easy.

Thanks for teaching me what school, my family, my friends could never.

Thanks for all the conversations you never knew we had.

 

Stay Positive & Rest In Peace Zig

Garth E. Beyer

When Reaching Out

Garth Beyer

Perhaps you are emailing a recruiter at the PR agency you want to work for.

(these suggestions are coming directly from Adi, the head hunter at Edelman)

Make it easy for them to help you.

You will be more successful if you are following your passion.

Tell what you want. Never say that you don’t know.

Don’t just ask to have your résumé reviewed. What do you want? What do you have to offer besides a résumé?

Two Ways To Live Life

Garth Beyer

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

A Few Words About PR By Rick Murray, President Of Edelman (Chicago)

Garth Beyer

Murray

“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.

Keynote by Rick Murray

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