We are in the final week of 2010 with the new year approaching at what seems like warp speed. It is a time many of us reflect and set goals for 2011. The video's below aren't new, but they are worth watching as you plan out the year ahead. You
MY FRIDAY STORY
You know something that I most enjoy and appreciate about knowing and living true to my life purpose? It's the ability to be inspired into action.
This morning I awoke around 6:30 and lay in bed for a while listening to the singing of the birds outside my window. As I lay there, I noticed I felt odd - a filling leftover from a strange dream I'd had while sleeping. As I became more conscious of the sensation, I decided I didn't want to start my day in such a strange mood, so I continue to lie there but shifted my thoughts from the remnants of the dream to my life purpose.
As I recited my life purpose statement to myself, I began to notice my mood shifting as well. How could I be purposefully, passionately and playfully of service today?, I asked myself, then recalled what I had on my calendar -- the wonderful clients I'm honored to coach, the Purpose Projects that I'm working on with the Coaches Community, the new Coaches Development Program that is targeted to start next week. Within a few minutes, I found I just couldn't stay in bed any longer. The opportunity to live on purpose was simply too compelling.
Once more I was inspired into action by my life and life purpose. Now, this isn't meant to sound like bragging, so please don't hear it that way. I just wanted to share it with you in case you don't find yourself pulled into your life by your dreams, goals and desires. I know it wasn't so many years ago that the main thing that had me get out of bed most mornings was the need to go pee. There just wasn't anything else going on with my life that was all that inspiring or compelling. But not anymore.
Living a life on purpose is amazing, and it all starts with readiness, willingness, and yes, a commitment to clarify your life purpose so that you can begin to live true to it. So, I ask you: What action could you take this week to become clearer about your life purpose? How will you inspire yourself into action?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Brad Swift is one of the foremost experts on the subject of personal life purpose, having founded the Life On Purpose Institute in 1996. An avid student of the human development movement and New Thought, he specializes in life purpose coaching with individuals and groups. He is the author of: · Coaching to Win: Building Your Business by Building Your Team · Life On Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life -- an award winning finalist in the Self-Help: Motivational division of the Best Books 2007 Awards sponsored by USA News. Check out his website www.lifeonpurpose.com or contact him coachbrad@lifeonpurpose.com
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The Ingram Micro Cloud Summit is wrapping up in Dallas today. Roughly 250 VARs and managed services providers attended the conference. So what were the key takeaways? And better yet… what rumors surfaced behind the scenes? Here are some observations from MSPmentor.
The top nine highlights include:
1. Cloud Hosting Is Like A Hotel: Pay by the night and everything is taken care of for you, asserted Lew Moorman, president and chief cloud strategy officer at Rackspace Hosted.
2. Emerging Partnerships: As expected, Ingram announced cloud relationships with Amazon.com, Rackspace and Salesforce.com. And I hear more moves involving Ingram and Salesforce.com could be coming…
3. No Monopoly: Saleforce.com’s Peter Coffee predicted that there will be no Microsoft of the cloud. In other words, no single company in the cloud will generate the type of market dominance that Microsoft enjoyed on the desktop, Coffee asserted.
4. Market Shift: Roughly 10 percent of servers are in the cloud right now. That figure will shift to 50 percent by 2015, Rackspace’s Moorman predicted (sorry, I didn’t catch Moorman’s source for the data point).
5. Reliability: There will be hiccups. But cloud vs. on-premise is like airplanes vs. cars. Airplanes are more reliable but make headlines when there’s an accident. The case is similar with cloud computing, asserted Moorman.
6. Changing Teams: Sun Java veteran Matt Thompson is now an evangelist for Microsoft’s cloud effort. He says roughly 140 new applications debut on the Windows Azure cloud per hour. “We’re betting the company on the cloud,” said Thompson. “If I didn’t believe it I would have gone to one of 25 cloud start-ups.”
7. Public vs. Private Cloud: Several speakers dismissed private cloud opportunities. But Microsoft made the case that private clouds will be a bigger opportunity than public clouds.
A case in point: More than 10,000 customers now leverage Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud platform. But Microsoft evangelist Matt Thompson says the broader strategy is to take Azure’s core technology and make it available via on-premises Windows servers, SQL Server deployments and
8. Groundhog Day: Build your brand. Build your sales team. Hire some vertical market expertise. On one hand, I’m tired of hearing those messages. On the other hand, the messages remain true for VARs and MSPs heading toward the cloud.
9. The Dumb Money Has Entered the Cloud: Microsoft’s Thompson said VCs are now making pumping “dumb money” into cloud start-ups. In other words, VCs are hooked on the cloud hype but many VCs were late to the table and are now making wild bets that may not pay off.
10. What I Still Need to Check Out: I missed several breakout sessions today from a range of vendors. Although I couldn’t be two (three, or four…) places at once, I plant to catch up with some of those presenters tonight.
More thoughts soon. Thanks for reading.
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Interesting spectrum of comments and ideas about cloud computing and where it is going. Makes me more and more confident that the course of EDL is the main stream of the future.
Wow - today is another long one. Actually borrowed this from another blog, thought you might find this useful.
Have a Great Thursday!
Steve
The concept of choosing your feelings may sound odd. Feelings are feelings, right? They just happen to us. We can in fact choose how we experience our emotions. We are not victims to the energy that moves through us, the energy in motion, our e-motions. Sure, they happen instantly and unconsciously at first, like a wave that rushes through the body…until we decide to increase our awareness and be the creators of our lives, instead of the victims. Choosing does not mean suppressing or denying how you really feel. Grief, anger, sadness, fear… they all play profoundly important roles as message-bearers. Feeling it, acknowledging it, and then choosing something new is key. Ignoring emotions or slapping a happy band-aid on them may keep them submerged where they could fester, keep you stuck, alter your perceptions, and make you sick.
Rose is in constant overwhelm. She loves what she does and does it well, however there is more and more and more to DO. She is working 12-15 hours a day, every day and she is wearing down emotionally. Her biggest nemesis is her equipment. Her PC is crashing, her printer chews up paper and her CD duplicator rejects discs she knows are fine. Rose has deadlines to meet and her equipment is out to get her. She is loosing her amusement and feels anxiety most of the time. Last Wednesday she had a full-blown crying meltdown when the fax machine jammed. Rose was ready to quit it all and die. Friday something changed. Rose took the morning off and played. She recognized a strange and unfamiliar emotion and consciously chose to call it Happy-Ease. When she finally entered her office at 1pm, she felt better than ever. It was time to call the equipment companies. Well – she was shocked at the results. The computer guy had an easy fix and the duplicator just began to work perfectly, all by itself! The printer began to print. And the fax-faxed! The connection between her mood and the mood of her equipment was undeniable. Now Rose sets her tone before entering her office and steps away if she notices feelings that don’t feel good. Her overwhelm and anxiety are disappearing and she’s experiencing more Happy-Ease.
Self-Coaching Tool:
Wear the Word. The habit of being victim to our emotions is strongly engrained in our belief systems. And we must choose differently if we are to become the leaders, healers and mentors we came here to be. Try this:
1 – Begin to consciously notice times when you are feeling lousy and the results around you. There IS a direct relationship. Then notice times when you feel great and how that affects your world.
2 – Write a list of words that you would like to experience (no analyzing, judging or censoring – just be wild and write down anything).
3 – Each day, close your eyes and randomly place a finger on one word. Wear that word all day, like a coat or hat. It may be uncomfortable or strange at first. Just play and be easy as you do this. You are re-wiring your internal system to become more fully who you truly are.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JIM SELF is an international speaker and author (Spirit Matters: Down-to-Earth Tools for a Spirited Life) who is often introduced as a teacher’s teacher and a healer’s healer. Since childhood, Jim has had the ability to recall his experiences within the sleep state. Over the last ten years, this awareness has expanded into relationships with the archangels, ascended masters and teachers of light. The tools and information presented in the program, Mastering Alchemy, is a co-creation of these relationships.
Jim walks with a foot in both worlds. At the age of twenty-six, he was elected to his first of two terms to the San Jose, CA City Council and later became the Vice Mayor. Before completing his second term, he was asked by President Jimmy Carter to be an advisor and the Director of Governmental Operations for the Dept. of Energy. As an entrepreneur, he has successfully built and sold two corporations, and is the founder and current Board Chairman of a third.
Jim is a leader in the field of spiritual development and has been leading seminars on personal energy management and the Tools of Mastering Alchemy for over 27 years. He offers free live tele-seminars, videos and local classes around North America, plus a wealth of FREE material on his website, including downloadable articles, videos, booklets, essential tools and other useful information, including details of his free online Teleclasses, Webinars, and in-person talks, Level 1 weekend workshops, and Level 2 year-long seminars. http://www.masteringalchemy.com.
So you have been living for 40 or 50 or 60 years. What do you have to show for it? What comes to your mind first? Your children? Your house? your car? Were your children an accomplishment or an accident? Should a spouse who loves you be listed in your inventory?
I did this inventory 10 years after I have been teaching school. I personally felt my inventory was not what it should be. I had a car and an apartment. I wanted a family and a house. I changed my behavior in an attempt to get those things.
Ten years later I felt that this was not enough. A wife and kids for me was not enough for my inventory. A new direction had to be derived. I spent much time in determining what truly makes me happy. I discovered that what really made me happy was helping other people.
My inventory includes letters from three people whose life I saved using my CPR skills. A distinguished teacher award. College Degrees, Letters from students that say without my influence they would never have attended college.
Action Step. Do your life's Inventory. Try to add things that cannot be taken away from you. Certificates, Degrees, and Marketable Skills that you enjoy. Do not focus on material things.
Action Step. Discover the joy of helping others. Share your skills, your knowledge, your understandings with others. Do this without seeking credit or anything in return.
Action Step. Look at your resume. Rewrite it as if you have accomplished more. Then work on making it happen. Never think the thought that "I am too old." There exist a list of people that were over 60 before they achieved their major accomplishments. The greatest joy in my life is when I received an E Mail stating that I helped someone change their behavior.
Action Step. Please note that you don't necessarily help someone if you give them material things. You really help when you teach them how to get their own and/or when you cause them to change behavior.
This week I met a man in his late 70's. He was amazing. He'd recently lost his 2nd wife, who he'd found happiness with at 68. He was focused on his future, on leading a vibrant, active, meaningful life. He had so much more to contribute and he want to do that. I was inspired
Wow! It's make it happen Monday at Starting Gate Park!That's right, its the day all procrastinators look for. It's the day when the thing we've been putting off is on the top of our to do list. If you are a super-procrastinator with a really big list, just pick on thing and put it in the top spot.
So take a look, pick something that you just haven't made the time for but you know you should be doing, get it done or started today. It's sort of like an amnesty day, no guilt, no making yourself wrong for not having done this thing before.
Take the next action and let us know what happens.
--------------------------------------------------
Don't make excuses - make good.
Elbert Hubbard
Lots of good stuff in here.... how we educate, what we measure, a different paradigm for moving forward.
The top nine highlights include:
1. Cloud Hosting Is Like A Hotel: Pay by the night and everything is taken care of for you, asserted Lew Moorman, president and chief cloud strategy officer at Rackspace Hosted.
2. Emerging Partnerships: As expected, Ingram announced cloud relationships with Amazon.com, Rackspace and Salesforce.com. And I hear more moves involving Ingram and Salesforce.com could be coming…
3. No Monopoly: Saleforce.com’s Peter Coffee predicted that there will be no Microsoft of the cloud. In other words, no single company in the cloud will generate the type of market dominance that Microsoft enjoyed on the desktop, Coffee asserted.
4. Market Shift: Roughly 10 percent of servers are in the cloud right now. That figure will shift to 50 percent by 2015, Rackspace’s Moorman predicted (sorry, I didn’t catch Moorman’s source for the data point).
5. Reliability: There will be hiccups. But cloud vs. on-premise is like airplanes vs. cars. Airplanes are more reliable but make headlines when there’s an accident. The case is similar with cloud computing, asserted Moorman.
6. Changing Teams: Sun Java veteran Matt Thompson is now an evangelist for Microsoft’s cloud effort. He says roughly 140 new applications debut on the Windows Azure cloud per hour. “We’re betting the company on the cloud,” said Thompson. “If I didn’t believe it I would have gone to one of 25 cloud start-ups.”
7. Public vs. Private Cloud: Several speakers dismissed private cloud opportunities. But Microsoft made the case that private clouds will be a bigger opportunity than public clouds.
A case in point: More than 10,000 customers now leverage Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud platform. But Microsoft evangelist Matt Thompson says the broader strategy is to take Azure’s core technology and make it available via on-premises Windows servers, SQL Server deployments and
8. Groundhog Day: Build your brand. Build your sales team. Hire some vertical market expertise. On one hand, I’m tired of hearing those messages. On the other hand, the messages remain true for VARs and MSPs heading toward the cloud.
9. The Dumb Money Has Entered the Cloud: Microsoft’s Thompson said VCs are now making pumping “dumb money” into cloud start-ups. In other words, VCs are hooked on the cloud hype but many VCs were late to the table and are now making wild bets that may not pay off.
10. What I Still Need to Check Out: I missed several breakout sessions today from a range of vendors. Although I couldn’t be two (three, or four…) places at once, I plant to catch up with some of those presenters tonight.
More thoughts soon. Thanks for reading.
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- Ingram Micro Talks Cloud With Amazon, Rackspace, Salesforce.com
- Cloud: Where Ingram Micro Will and Won’t Play
- How to Sell Customers on the Cloud’s Business Advantages
- Ingram Micro Seismic: 1,600 MSPs Now Engaged
- Autotask Community Live: Five Questions Worth Asking
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Interesting spectrum of comments and ideas about cloud computing and where it is going. Makes me more and more confident that the course of EDL is the main stream of the future.
Todays game is a little different. Most of us have heard of this guy - Albert Einstein. He's credited with having a pretty big impact on our understanding of our physical world with his theory relativity and the like. Below is a quote from our friend Albert. I noticed it recently as a post on a friend's post on Facebook. Take a moment to read the words, question their meaning and look to see how they apply in your life. Are you present to the mysterious? "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
Good morning everyone. It's been a few days since the last Game of the Day - a week in fact. Hope you missed it, I actually missed writing it. There was nothing wrong, just busy.
Welcome back to the game. It's "Tell Your Story" Tuesday. Time is within your control.
Luanne Oakes, Ph.D.
Be Grateful? What kind of game is that? 
It's Take Action Tuesday.... following on from Who's on Base Monday this is perfect. Who's sitting out there, stranded, waiting for you? Where would taking the next step move your game forward?------------------
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilites - always see them, for they're always there.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
There is power in the questions we ask, most of us would agree. There may be even more power in the order we ask them..... the lvideo link below may hold a secret.
What do the Wright Brothers, Martin Luther King and Apple Have In Common?
Who's on base or who's in play? A great question for Monday. Have mentioned before we use Dave Kurlan's Baseline Selling approach and today is "running the bases" day.
A great time to take a look and ask:
who's on which base?
Found this quite by accident. A commencement address by Steve Jobs, someone who participated in changing the world, making "a computer for the rest of us". That certainly gave us a life today that may never have happened in quite the way it did. There is a "little world changer" in all of us. Do yourself a favor today. Take 15 minutes and listen and let this speak to you. Leave your comments below on what you heard.
Well worth the time to watch.
Business plans with too much detail, books with too much proof, politicians with too much granularity... it seems as though more data is a good thing, because data proves the case.
In my experience, data crowds out faith. And without faith, it's hard to believe in the data enough to make a leap. Big mergers, big VC investments, big political movements, large congregations... they don't usually turn out for a spreadsheet.
The problem is this: no spreadsheet, no bibliography and no list of resources is sufficient proof to someone who chooses not to believe. The skeptic will always find a reason, even if it's one the rest of us don't think is a good one. Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission--which is emotional connection.
