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Is it really possible to create a viral marketing effect?
This post from (surprise!) WebWorkerDaily is probably the best collection of telework-related advice I've ever read. Aimed at large corporations, Mike Gunderloy & Aliza Sherman do a bang-up job summarizing myths associated with corporate telework as well as the benefits- a few of which you may not have thought of before!
It's true that large corporations seen to have a hard time "getting it" when it comes to initiatives like telework. Telework requires a certain amount of trust that your employees will behave responsibility while out of your direct control (aka the office). Not all corporate cultures allow for this to occur. And even in cultures that do, many employees aren't ready to work outside the corporate yolk.
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If it sounds somewhat tongue-in-cheek for Mr.Pavlina to say that we can discover our reason for being in the space of 20 minutes, then I suggest that you're fixating on the wrong part of that sentence. You're focused on the "20 minutes" part instead of the "discover your life purpose" part. What he's really saying here is that we all innately why we are here.
While that wisdom is certainly nothing new, finding the answer to the question is something few people really seriously and actively set out to answer. Why? Because it's daunting, it's scary, we've got too many other responsibilities, etc. (Although, for some odd reason, I have met more people in the social media world that know for certain what their purpose is than in any other sphere I've been in.)
But what if Mr.Pavlina is right, and you can find the answer to life's ultimate question before you head back to work on Monday? Personally, I'm convinced that we do all know what we're here for, but we won't shut up long enough to hear what it is. Which is why I like his approach. If we simply keep asking ourselves the question over and over again, eventually we'll have exhausted all of the reasons that don't matter, all of the reasons that aren't really ours, all of the reasons created by the various roles we play, and all we'll be left with is the real reason that we're here.
In the end, the test is not finding the real answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, but persisting in our questioning long enough to hear it.
Happy Friday All!
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I keep taking picture but haven't had time to post them. I was watching the wind blow the grasses out by the pond today. We've now definitely moved from spring flowers onto summer flowers.
Father's Day brunch at the folk's place.
Went to a very good Thai place last night for dinner. It's in this strip mall and the sign on the outside just says "Thai Curry House", but inside it's about as authentic as it gets in the Upper Midwest. The food was grand and the decor really beautiful. They even had floor seating on cushoins. The pic above is a poor shot of a butterfly carved from a single slice of carrot that topped my pineapple rice. The presentation of all our dishes was surpisingly professional and the prices were reasonable.
We had some crazy weather on Saturday. Thankfully no tornados, but hail that came out of nowhere. We had local radar up looking at a few patches of clouds and suddenly we hear a light clack-clack. My wife just got the car in before we were seeing marble and quarter sized chunks of ice. The hail obliterated the plants we had just purchased. It was so sad! there were petals strewn across the sidewalk. It looked like a foliage warzone. We went and got new plants now and are nursing the ones that survived the ice. And I'm happy to see that our favorite tree out front is already sporting a few new flowers. It's pretty amazing to see nature carry on.
The petals have started to fall from the tree out front. It's amazing that just yesterday there was a petal here and there and today the petals have blown into our patio in large drifts. That seems to be a common pattern in nature, a tentative start and then, whoosh, everything happens at once. From penguins learning to swim to flowers in the spring. Maybe we should apply this pattern in our own lives more?
