Phew. What a week. How about you?
We spent most of the last week in Illinois visiting mom and dad and celebrating perfect weather for planting corn.
We’re very big on seed time and harvest around these parts.
Want to learn how patience is the greater expression of commitment? Spend a little time with a farmer. Those crops which yield the most bountiful harvests take the longest.
Since the week whirred by, I wanted to give you a quick glimpse into some things you may have missed that are worth a couple minutes of your valuable weekend time.
My buddy Tom Wanek’s 7-year-old daughter, Olivia, wrote a poem I think you’ll like.
My buddy Michele Miller wrote a fantastic little piece about the importance of opening gestures in work and life.
Seth Godin wrote a great bit this morning about being addicted to stuff that’s incoming versus focusing your time on doing fun, interesting, and important work.
I gave a new talk on Practical Applications of Social Media for Small Business that went over very well.
I’m no expert - be wary of 99.9% of people who tell you they are experts in social media (and run for the hills if anyone proclaims himself a guru) - but I’ve been fortunate to have some success with clients in a few different categories. We’re illustrating those case studies and the audience this week ate it up.
While there, I met a tremendous young staff writer from the local paper who really understands the future of newspapers if they’re to survive.
She’ll be an important voice in Champaign County for years to come … if she doesn’t get frustrated and move onto a different industry. She wrote a small recap of the talk here, but you might get distracted by the lede of the story about some cats that’ll teach you to play bagpipes.
We’re going to be expanding the Practically Social talk in a couple fun and interesting and important ways. Stay tuned.
After the presentation, I got to lead a meeting at United Way of Champaign County with a group of impressively committed volunteers and staff. They’re trying to re-write and improve their mission statement. We had a great session that started with Dan Heath’s video from Fast Company to understand why most mission statements suck. It’s worth a look.
I’ll try to expand on our session and the methods we used. We were striving for clarity. It worked, and it was a lot of fun.
And my wife had a birthday, and my son and I played catch for the first time, and he said “I love you” for the second time, and my daughter’s about to crawl and start doing trigonometry (I think).
That’s been our weekly blur. And while I’m sure some of them social media experts would tell you I shouldn’t blog or send out emails on Saturdays, this is going to be a regular thing.
On Saturdays, I’ll start emailing out The Weekly Blur.
It’ll be different content than the blog, though it may have some links to something from the week, but it’ll also give you something to hopefully enjoy over coffee. You can sign up for the one email per week here if you’re interested.
Today, the boy’s going to help grandpa plant corn. Hope grandpa can teach him a little patience. And Baby Sarah might just crack cold fusion.
Here’s to a weekend full of fun and interesting and important new beginnings.
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Ahhhh. Nice. Always something to look for on Saturday. Thanks Tim.
Hey Tim, Thanks for the shout-out. It was so nice to meet you. Hope the rest of your visit was fantastic!