(Also) Long ago, i stopped revealing my actual birthday on social media forms. Why? It’s an important piece of personal information. And it’s easily harvested.
Everyone knows where you live thanks to the Internet. And Google Earth lets everyone look in your back yard. And you can look in theirs.
The best we can do in today’s world is throw a few curves.
Happy present moment.
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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click here.
In yesterday’s email, i shared that i am committed to taking the high road.
Fifty days into the 100-day self-imposed writer’s bootcamp that began on April Fools’s Day 2009, i went to the pair of three-ringed binders in my closet for inspiration.
Inside each binder contains six months (at one page per day, 183 pages each) of wisdom i collected between my high school years (1974-1977), college years (1977-1983) and my earlier years at Disney World (1984-1999).
The original book idea was to publish one of those “page-a-day” motivational wisdom books as a legacy to my children.
On May 20, 2009, i found a photocopied item in one of the binders that seemed appropriate, so i typed it into WordPress and posted it. By the way, the photocopy was old and inaccurate, attributing the item to anonymous. There was no cut and paste from a website and there was no checking for authenticity on Google. i was new to the Internet and the Internet was like the wild west – most companies in 2009 did not have a social media policy for their employees.
Why?
Because the newly-found ease and unprecedented proliferation of social sharing – of anything and everything – combined for a perfect storm of ambiguity.
Meanwhile, that 100-day challenge, which i did not expect to successfully complete (because of previously failed attempts to write consistently) turned into something i could have never dreamt up.
It continued on the 101st day and hasn’t stopped. Not even for a single day.
That was nearly eight years ago and over 2,700 blog posts at Mid Life Celebration. When you add the other four daily blogs i write, i have over 12,000 posts on the Internet.
One post out of 2,700 (or 12,000+) does not make for a premeditated effort to infringe on anything.
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Publications are an important ingredient and another thing to worry about
How often do we think about our social media presence?
How often should we?
If we aren’t in business, then the answer is obvious. If we are in business, the answer is not as obvious.
Senior leaders generally see social media as an annoying and frustrating addition to their busy schedules.
Our customers embrace social media and we want to embrace what they embrace.
So this past week has been spent experimenting:
Uncommonly affordable and remarkably valuable Orlando based keynote speaker. Prefers delivering opening or closing keynotes. Also available for breakout sessions.
Or…
Orlando motivational speaker to one-million+. Founder Mid Life Celebration. Challenging Boomers to do something great before they die. Disney since ’82.
Or…
Orlando based motivational speaker to over one-million people worldwide – a massive list of esteemed A-Listers and Fortune 500’s.
Or…
Orlando speaker, author is changing the way Boomers think about regret, second chances, and opportunity.
Standing out doesn’t fall from the sky. Nor is it a one-time effort.
Work is only work if you’d rather be doing something else, and truly, the work day begins the night before. Can’t wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning.
Allergic to most pollens, whiners, and mediocrity.
different
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To be crystal clear and not blur any lines, speaking full time for DisneyInstitute.com and separately and entrepreneurially for MidLifeCelebration.com (content is entirely different, completely distinct).
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Prudent to note social media is embraced by great organizations. Why? Because customers have embraced social media, and great companies (small or large) embrace what customers embrace.
Any Internet savvy professional knows Google destroys any notion of privacy. Authenticity is the new currency. Live your life so that if someone ever said anything bad about you, no one would believe it.
Sooner or later it becomes crystal clear, life is not a dress rehearsal.
