Showing Up

It’s Not Just About Showing Up

Garth Beyer

You’ve got to check if you’re showing up in the right place. Are you where all the bright-minded people are hanging out? Are you really where the people you want to be like are hanging out? It matters.

I hang out on the 4th floor of the journalism and communications building in Madison. It’s the floor where all the professors and TAs are constantly walking. It’s where you find the students who care most about journalism because they are meeting with the professors and TAs. It’s where all the visiting celebrity journalists check-in. It’s where I’ve made some of the most special connections.

Think of it like dating in college again. The someone you’re interested in is in the same class as you, but it always seems inappropriate to make a move during class. However, you know he/she grabs coffee every Saturday morning at that one coffee shop. Don’t lie. You’re there every Saturday morning. Why? Because it’s not just about showing up (to class), it’s about showing up at the right place (to the coffee shop).

Same goes for getting venture capitalists to invest, for selling your book, for getting a mentor…

 

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Here To Help

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I’ve argued for some time that showing up isn’t even half the battle. Showing up to learn something, attending seminars, job shadowing and the alike are overrated and misunderstood. And quite frankly, a waste of a professional’s or an employer’s time.

Professionals don’t want you near them to just watch and learn anymore, people want you there to help. The learning happens along the way.

If you’re asking what you can watch, what you can observe, what you can listen to or read up on, then you’re asking the wrong questions.

Better to ask how you can help, what you can create, who needs assistance?

Seeing adds to memory. Doing adds to experience.

Guess which is more valuable when it comes to employment?

 

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Showing Up

Garth Beyer

They say showing up is half the battle and half the success.

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Most of your audience are all still kids in some ways. One way being is that they only care about those who show up. It doesn’t matter how great of an idea you have or how much you love them. If you don’t show up, they won’t care about you.

Then again, showing up might mean you need a gift in hand.

 

Stay Positive & What Do You Have To Give

Garth E. Beyer

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Showing Up

Garth Beyer

People are naturally inclined to show up, to listen or to read when doing so will teach them how to react in similar situations.

Why listen to music? To relate and be given answers on how to act or think when certain things occur. Why read blogs? The same. Why watch soap opera’s or How I Met Your Mother? The same.

But, also notice that more people watch HIMYM than the Soaps. Why? Because it provides more relatable answers and responses that one can use in real life.

The trick to connecting, to building a tribe or to getting followers isn’t really a trick at all. It’s about creating a program where if something turns up in their life, they would know what to do about it.

 

Stay Positive & Start Getting People To Show Up

Garth E. Beyer