My wife is a genius!
By Sean | January 11, 2010
If I really concentrate but don’t think too much…
This day almost went buy without a blog entry or tweet. My wife and I are hanging out watching a show and I ask her how her drumming (African style Dejembe drum) practice was going. She said that she was spending a lot of her time on the advanced lessons and mentioned that she has about 65 percent of them down pretty good and that some were out of reach still.
She then blew me away when she said “I’m making pretty good progress if I really concentrate but don’t think too much”. I asked her to repeat what she said because the idea of concentration tends to imply focused thought. However it dawned on me that concentration may also be a completely focused state without much or even any rational or logical thought at all. I was reminded of my own musical experiences and even surfing or hang gliding when I was absolutely absorbed in what I was doing but not thinking at all.
I honestly feel like I’m stating the obvious in this post — but often taking the time to observe the obvious but experience it in a fresh way is what produces some of the finest realizations. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
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Great Tools
By Sean | January 7, 2010
Just watched the video (link below) and seriously thinking of using this account builder due to niche specific focus. Please advise me if you’ve had any experience with this product. The video is kind of long but at the end the price seems quite low for what it does. Thanks for any comments you may have.
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Modern Psychology
By Sean | November 24, 2009
This is a actually a true story of events that happened to George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi.
He was about to go to bed when his wife mentioned to him that he left the light on in the shed. Surprised George opened the door to turn off the light but noticed there were some guys in the shed — who were clearly stealing stuff.
He immediately called the police, who asked if any of the intruders were in his house. George said “no” but reiterated that there was a robbery in progress. The officer he spoke to said that all patrols were busy, and that he should lock his door and the police would get there when the personnel became available.
George reluctantly agreed, but said “Okay,” hung up, counted to 30, and called them back again.
George told them “I phoned you some moments ago because there was a robbery in progress in my shed. Now you don’t have to concern yourselves about the situation because I just shot them all.”
George quickly hung up the phone. Within minutes three squad cars, an armed response unit, as well as an ambulance converged on the scene. As you might have expected, they caught the burglars in the act.
One of the policemen questioned George: “I thought you told us that you shot them??”
George said, “I thought you told me there wasn’t anybody available to come!”
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Twitter Tips
By Sean | September 23, 2009
I’m just about to cross the 10k mark for followers and thought I’d share how I got 10k of followers in just two months. Yes there are faster ways but I did it manually and I did it selectively.
I just began following indiscriminately for a few days but, always being a stickler for quality, I found that I didn’t just want any old list of followers.
Of course I’d read what the social media gurus were all saying — “it doesn’t matter what quality of followers you have — you’ll get the same response rates”.
While that may be true I just don’t like trashy looking things and when I looked at some of the gurus follower lists I simply could not allow myself to build something that didn’t look good even if short term profits are not as high.
So far I have not tried to market anything with Twitter and I may never Read the rest of this entry »
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Things to Avoid
By Sean | September 2, 2009
My latest experience with Twitter was a program called Retweet Bomb or something like that. It had been set up as Twitter Bomb but Twitter didn’t like its name being used that way. Reincarnation of it was recently resurrected as Retweet Bomb.
Regardless I recently came across a rare release of a 1989 audio by Tony Robbins. It was a great audio with some excellent content of Tony’s and in an attempt to put it out to the wider audience and gain some credibility for diverting people to great content. Instead Danny the owner of Retweet Bomb sent me a note accusing me of posting Read the rest of this entry »
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Does Anyone Make Money With Twitter?
By Sean | August 28, 2009
The obvious answer to that question should not invite the least bit of hesitation when it comes to an answer. Of course there are people who make money with Twitter. We know for sure that the owners and employees of twitter make money with twitter.
However one of the things that I wonder about is whether anyone else makes money with Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »
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Dumbest thing I’ve done on Twitter
By Sean | August 18, 2009
This may help some people who are new to Twitter like me:
It’s been a little over a week now since I got active on Twitter. I opened my account about a year ago but never could understand what Twitter was about. It seemed kind of pointless, and truth be told a huge majority of tweets are pointless, but finally someone explained to me that it is really just another way to connect with people online.
Today I used some software that allows you to send a bunch of messages to people and release them over time so there is a more uniform and respectful flow of Tweets.
However I had the software set wrong and it dumped them in rapid succession. I had no idea that was happening until someone (better known on Twitter as “Tekchic”) was kind enough to let me know without lambasting me by shouting SPAM to the entire community.
People like Tekchic are prime examples of the excellent sort of people you’ll meet on Twitter. So if you join Twitter be sure to follow her.
Also an interesting side note is that the only people shouting SPAM at me were the ones without photo’s. Small data set but it does make a case for following real people with real names and real photos.
This experience has helped me to realize that not everyone who screws up online means to be obnoxious. For me in the future — I think I’ll be more thoughtful when I see someone doing something that is unpleasant.
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Twitter Again – Twitter Beggars
By Sean | August 18, 2009
After a week of twittering I’ve come up with the following conclusions:
1. Always use a photo of yourself or if you’re insecure about that — at least a photo of a real person. This is social media right?
2. Use a first and last name. Your username does not have to be your name but you should have a first and last name if you want real followers.
3. Build manually at first until you understand how twitter works. Be selective about the tools you use to automate aspects of your twittering so that you can maintain a personal experience with people.
4. Don’t, don’t, don’t, put links to sales pages in your tweets more frequently than you do real content. So far the closest I’ve come to posting a commercial link was a free sign up to a new social media site. I do plan on monetizing Twitter eventually but not before I earn the privilege of peoples interest and at least a modicum of trust (proof) — that I’m not just another Twitter-Beggar.
More to come…
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Who do I listen to?
By Sean | August 5, 2009
Here is what I find fascinating about twitter. I learn about myself. Like the following observations:
1. I notice as my Twitter experience has evolved that I tend to be more interested in what women have to say about the subjects that interest me than men.
2. I am more selective when I follow men than women. Why? Concerning business — I have listened primarily to men about business more than women because it was male dominated. I know a lot more about how men think and I have learned a great deal from men. However my exposure to a wide variety of women has been limited because so many of them were relatively inaccessible. Because they are typically tucked away in homes raising children or busy handling the main domestic load of work my access to them has been more limited. The social networking arena is jam packed with women I’d never have heard a word from before. Awesome.
3. I am inclined to think that maybe women are less inclined to think in business stereotypes. I want to explore that idea.
4. Women have typically followed men through history but SOCIAL MEDIA is the first socially driven communications medium. If you haven’t noticed — women tend to be more naturally socially developed than men.
5. I have noticed that women seem to get social media, more naturally gravitate to it, and are using it Read the rest of this entry »
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Twitter?
By Sean | August 1, 2009
I can’t believe this twitter phenomena. I mean I’m so new at this I don’t even know how to post my twitter link on this site yet. However I gotta say as soon as I began to follow a few people they just began to follow me back.
I had no idea that twitter was so stinkin’ simple. I mean yes there’s a few things to find out and unless you pay someone for a course people don’t seem to be saying much about how to use it. But really the secret seems to be just to figure out how to follow people.
I mean that sounds pretty silly on the surface Read the rest of this entry »
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