Labor Days

Seth Godin is one of my favorite authors. He is not a logical choice for a running blog but I have to be honest with you, I am not sure this is really a running blog.

Over the last 3 years I have worked very hard at my career in Audio Visual Sales and have enjoyed it immensely.

When I left my audio visual career in 2001 to start a personal coaching business I was running from myself. I wasn't happy with me. I wasn't living courageously and needed to make some drastic changes. I jumped ship and luckily I learned a thing or two along the way and I made it back to my audio visual ship (asked for my job back).

But back to walking the plank part: for three years I put myself out there testing new ideas and learning about business. What I found out is being a good guy is not enough. However, I did find out being a good guy was still a part of the equation.

After some prompting (pretty much an empty bank account) I started the best journey of my life (fast forward back to the asking for my job part of the story). I decided that whatever I do I was going to give it my all. My number one goal for myself when I returned to my career in audio visual was to give more value than they were paying me. Sounds easy but you might want to check yourself sometime, it took me a few years but the The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference(Malcom Gladwell another great author)came. My audio visual career has taken off.

Now its time for me again. I am very passionate about inspiring people to take chances and live their dreams. I am not sure what has popped in me, I suspect its a few things. Signing up innocently and very scared for the Marine Corps Marathon on Mothers day (after 6 year marathon hiatus) was another tipping point. You see my best ideas come while I am running and it also opens my mind to new concepts.

This led me to the Thirty Day Challenge (which I found through one of Seth's websites Squidoo) one of the exercises in the challenge was to create a blog with great content. I started by researching topics I am currently interested in (marathon training schedules) and led me to create this blog. This blog feels very good to me. A real nice fit for me share some of my inspirations. I hope you followed check out Seth's Post on Labor Day maybe it will make sense.