WHAT’S WRITTEN ON YOUR HEART?
It’s been a lot of Mondays (454 divided by 52 = a
bit short of a decade) since these weekly messages began their routine
appearance as part of a multi-platform program created with my buddy Eric
Taylor and The EmpowermentGroup.
Our first connection
had been at a public event perhaps a year or two prior.
After that we spent some time assessing each other, trying
to figure out just what the connection was between an older, words-on-paper, pass-along
business soft-skills, jacket & tie guy (that was me at the time) and, dare
I say, a brash, young, great-on-the-platform, hyper-energized, fit and trim people-motivator
like Eric (often decked out in preferred-at-the-time Tony Robbins look).
To cut to the chase:
In those ancient days of business “courting” we discovered much in common and
that our complementary talents played nicely and well together. A mutual
acquaintance noted once we were like Lennon and McCartney, which I always took
as a compliment (although I’ve never been sure who’s who in that equation).
The grandest production of those days became, as I have
suggested above, a multi-media program conceived as and modestly tagged, How to Have Your Best Year Ever.
The BYE elements consisted of
ballroom-filling half-day presentations, CDs and DVDs, ring binders filled with
stuff from all the productions and more, e-delivery of content (before the idea
of an “e-book” had seriously entered the equation), and weekly outreach, free
of charge and low on promo, to anyone who would have us in their e-mail box.
Fast forward to 2014:
The world has spun on its axis and made its circuit around the sun many, many
times since TGIM #1. The road has been winding and sometimes challenging.
Other paths have crossed ours and we’ve investigated them in our own way. And
through it all –
The journey has been
interesting, enlightening, rewarding. We’ve met good and stimulating people
who challenged us. And, I like to believe, on all sides of those “meetings” we’ve
all come away better for the experience.
So that gets us to today’s TGIM headline.
It’s a reference to a source, mentor, guru – you pick the
description -- and a touch point that Eric and I, as Best Year Ever kind of guys, found we had in common in the early going.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s been my custom in over two score-and-then-some years of writing for a
business audience to pepper my editorial input with what I deem worthwhile and
actionable quotations from noteworthy individuals. When I did this in an early
exchange with Eric, his response (as I recall it) was the equivalent of –
“I
love Ralph Waldo Emerson!”
OK, maybe not
literally that. But close enough to win me over inasmuch as I, too, “love”
the eminently sensible and quotable RWE.
I have little doubt this moment was influential in cementing
our “You know, I think I can work with this guy” decision and has informed our
relationship in the years since.
So … In its way this TGIM
#454 post brings things full circle.
Visually it’s from the Volume of Contentment we’ve been
sharing much of this month.
TGIM Takeaway: Thoughtfully, philosophical and realistically
it’s precisely the kind of “How to have your Best Year Ever” guidance
guys who “love Ralph Waldo Emerson” can heartily endorse:
TGIM IDEA IN ACTION: Write it on your heart this Monday.
And Tuesday …
And Wednesday …
And …
Every Day of this, Your
Best Year Ever.
Geoff Steck
Chief Catalyst
Alexander Publishing & Marketing
Chief Catalyst
Alexander Publishing & Marketing
Englewood, NJ 07631
201-569-5373
tgimguy@gmail.com
201-569-5373
tgimguy@gmail.com
P.S. "I am going into an unknown future, but
I'm still all here, and still while there's life, there's hope." John
Lennon (October 9, 1940- December 8, 1980) said that, prophetically in December
of 1980.
