People

What’s On Your Calendar This Week?

What’s On Your Calendar This Week?

Garth Beyer

What's On Your Agenda

Are you meeting anyone new? Are you connecting with a mentor? Are you seeing old friends? Are you attending a MeetUp? Are you gathering with your tribe?

Can any week be considered “fulfilled” without being with people. Not just around people, but with people?

How about the most important tasks. Do you have those on your agenda?

What about time to relax, recoup, regenerate? Actual time resting, not playing Angry Birds, not sending emails, not surfing the web.

I’m not one who believes you can have balance each and every day of your life. I am one, however, who believes you can have balance each week. But only if you have it scheduled.

 

Stay Positive & What Do You Have Planned?

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This Is Fictional

Garth Beyer

159 people died from a rockslide yesterday.

159 stories ended after a rockslide demolished a small town yesterday.

Which gets to you more? People aren’t just people. People are living, growing, working stories. They’re emotional with their highs and lows. Are you careful how you communicate with them? Are you adding to their story? There stories could end at anytime.

 

Stay Positive & Every Day We Have A Chance To Be A High In Someone’s Story

There Are More Of You Out There

Garth Beyer

Finding people like you is tough. Ignorance made me think I was the only one who had difficulty finding people who thought the same as me. I’m not. You’re not either.

No matter how many people we can share similarities with (there are a lot!), very few seem to just click. Taking away from the romance of the two pieces of a puzzle that fit together, I have to break it to you that there are no two, three, or four piece puzzles that work. At least none that are any appealing.

The puzzle concept is a fair analogy. You, one piece of the puzzle, fit perfectly together with only a couple other pieces. That doesn’t mean you’re complete. Nor will you ever feel complete with only a few perfect pieces. Should you reject all the other pieces that connect with each other and with those who you connect with, simply because they can’t connect directly with you? Of course not.

This is the Connection Economy. No one said it was the Perfect Connection Economy.

Connect with as many as you can, no matter how weak or strong the tie will be. Pretty soon, you’ll have pieces fighting over each other to be closest to you. But, you’ll never get there if you reject all those who don’t think exactly like you.

One is lonely, two is company, a hundred is one hell of a party.

 

Stay Positive & Who Doesn’t Want That?

 

At The End Of The Day

Garth Beyer

Do you consider the end of the day throughout it? Or are you stuck in the moment, caught up in a whirlwind of emotions, captured in the small picture?

It’s overwhelming in the moment, but at the end of the day, whoever is causing you stress, is just a person, likely heading back home to be with their equally demanding family. The aggressive client wanting a discount for no reason is just a person, likely heading back home to make his or her special someone feel special. The fevered parent you had to console is just a person, likely heading back home to deal with all the trials and tribulations of being a parent.

It’s not that every person is fighting their own battle, it’s that many of them are losing it.

You get the opportunity each day to help them fight. That is a privilege in my opinion.

 

Stay Positive & People Aren’t That Bad When You See Them As People

Garth E. Beyer

The People We Run Into

Garth Beyer

I do my best to socialize with anyone around. From the results, I encourage the same to anyone wishing to get ahead in their field of interest.  2250191764_7f4cc4a6d5

You will be continuously amazed at how many great ideas people have. You will see how relatable a random person is to you. And, worth remembering, everyone wants (needs?) a bit of encouragement – you’ll be surprised how the people who know you least, encourage you the most.

Most importantly, though:

You never know when you can be there to help them.

You never know when they can be there to help you.

 

Stay Positive & Thankfully, People Are Everywhere

Garth E. Beyer

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War On Criticism

Garth Beyer

We all have our battles, our wars.

In some, people die. In others, ideas do. Hope, inspiration, and most unfortunately, art dies too.

But war has changed – universally and metaphorically.

No one can retreat anymore. An email that will destroy your career can be sent from one end of the world to the other. There’s no disconnecting yourself from the web or what gets shared on it.

Same goes for an actual missile that can literally destroy you. The only option on the battlefield is to fight, you can be pushed backward, you can even run backward, but it’s not retreating.

  • Reality check on the quote “you can run but not hide.”

Does the inability to retreat stop us from fighting wars in the East? Does it stop civil wars? Does the fact people can’t retreat stop them from killing each other? Obviously not.

So why are so many people not creating more art? Not writing more articles? Not showing people their knick knacks, their obsessions, their creations?

Are you saying that risking your comfort is worse than risking your life?

 

Stay Positive & More Of A Reality Check On Ourselves And Our Art, Isn’t It

Garth E. Beyer

 

The Possibilities

Garth Beyer

People live, not in their concept of what is true, but of what is possible. Repeating: of what they think, see, and feel is possible.

This is what makes it damn difficult to encourage people and communicate to them their potential. Not only that, but it interferes with all forms of learning and communication. For example, one reason for the change in what is reported in the newspaper industry is the inability for people to associate so closely with facts.

We now base our knowledge sources by their relatability, their story, and their entertainment. Is this wrong? No, but we need to acknowledge the altercations it presents. We are growing up with a worldview of what is possible, not what is true or proven.  We may now believe what is false, is still possible. A sure sign of this complexity is your current inability to follow it. For that reason, let me simplify it the best I can.

There is a saying that once you have eliminated all possibilities, all you have left is the truth. The thing is, we now have an infinite number of possibilities

It’s a lot to live up to and understand. But in order to build a connection with someone, you have to understand what they believe to be possible, not true.

In longsight, as Mark Twain famously stated, “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”

 

Stay Positive & Fiction? Possibilities? Truth? What’s The Difference, Really?

Garth E. Beyer