The February Report:
You never know when you're forced to learn...so embrace being able to be educatedBack on December 4th I fell down some stairs while out with clients, I inadvertently missed a step and went right back on my leg...it killed...the kind of injury where you see stars and feel ill for a moment or two...What I didn't do was go to hospital to have it diagnosed, I knew it wasn't broken so why bother going right?
Well on Christmas Day, I slipped on some ice going back on the same leg again...doubling it back and falling back on it. This time it hurt more and it swelled up too...this time I knew I had to go to the hospital for X-rays and I am glad I did because it was determined it was not broken...but during the course of the Christmas holidays I could barely move, the leg hurt like heck, I could barely get in and out of my bed or my car without it hurting like heck and then it began to swell up...my calf, thigh and feet...so I got back to the hospital on New Years day and had an ultrasound, sure enough it wasn't broken, I didn't have blood clotting but I had a nasty partially torn quadriceps muscle, with bruising and bleeding inside the leg that caused the swelling.
So that was my Christmas holidays. I did not go out Sam I am. Not to dinner, not to a movie, not to the World Healing Meditation and not to New Years Eve celebrations...I did not enjoy the holidays much Sam I am...
Actually the thought of re-injuring my leg or slipping again was just too painful a thought. So I stayed in and iced the leg, and stayed put...but here is what I am really getting at with this newsletter. I do not want this to be a pity party for me...I just do not like those kind of parties. I love fun parties...the pity party you can put on hold for now. I am just reporting the facts...and the key fact was I spent a lot of time alone over the holidays.
Some of my friends said..."Good" that's what you need, you need some downtime, time to relax...and I agreed. But I discovered a new world I had never really discovered before. It's a world of wonder and learning and discovery!
I know what you're thinking, you're thinking how can you discover a world of wonder, discovery and learning being laid up with a bad leg?
Well let me share with you, because truthfully it's very exciting. On Facebook they now have access to wonderful "Tele" classes you can take with a myriad of topics. Anything from networking with business women (which I can't join apparently), to creating your year with Life Coach Hunter Phoenix or learning with the Goal Guy from Florida and Alan Hunkin in Vancouver.
I took 3 powerful telephone classes in December. One on selling with Kevin Boyle...author of the Secrets to Sales Mastery, then I took a class with the Goal Guy and then I took create your 2009 with Hunter Phoenix...I made two new connections with both Hunter and Kevin and as a result have had Kevin on the radio show back on December 28th and Hunter will be on February 22nd.
To access great telephone classes using facebook and keep in mind you can use facebook as a tool to market your classes too by notifying your contacts and perhaps even posting an "Event" On facebook. Now, next time you're on facebook check out an application called "Calliflower" it's a complete service allowing you to host and promote your own tele-classes. If you have an idea or a business that will be enhanced through educating your client base or prospects I say go for it! To log onto Calliflower free tele-conferencing...check out my page and then access it on your own...
http://apps.facebook.com/calliflower/
Educate away. It's a powerful way to market and position yourself as an expert, leader and teacher. Gone is the hard sell, bring on the thoughtful, compelling consultative sell.
Blog Talk Radio
It didn't stop there...this world of online learning is deep, powerful, exciting. I discovered Blog Talk Radio. This is online radio that has a myriad of topics and shows, you can access them all for free and sign up for your favourites. What blog talk will do is notify you when your favourite shows are on. How cool is that huh?
I tapped into online meditations, topics about spirituality, human potential and positive thought...wow...I got to learn from people like Zen DeBrucke, and master coach Michelle Meiche...two incredible women and thinkers.
Log onto Blog talk radio and let you're world unfold. Also you can host you're on show. So if that craving has been to host a radio show, now you can... www.blogtalkradio.com
Once again hosting a radio show online positions your business as an expert, and with that there is a built in Trust Factor...
World Puja Network...
The third cool online site I discovered was a site called the World Puja Network. It provides thought provoking programming that talks about the deeper meaning behind what's really happening in the world today. This sense we're all feeling, the uncertainty, the economic upheaval, the changes is all happening for a reason. The World Puja network makes sense of it all in a spiritual, practical way. With hosts like Kerrie O'Connor and Barry Goldstein and Dr. Steven Greer and founder and creator Maureen Moss, the information and shows on this website, will engage ideas, inspire you and help you to have a deeper understanding to what's going on in your life and in the world we live in.
I recommend logging on and joining by tapping into www.worldpuja.org
Lastly, for those that know me personally and those that don't know me too well, I am of the Jewish religion. I like what I am and love some of the guiding principals contained within Judaism. I am not overly religious though, but I do like attending services at Synagogue. I like the singing and the music and I find it comforting to pray. I pray for peace, money, to meet a nice woman...but I also pray for people so that they'll be healthy, I pray for my friends and business colleagues so that they will be well too. If they're well then I am well!
But back in early December, I discovered that a Synagogue in Winnipeg broadcast their "Audio" only of the Saturday Sabbath service online. Based in Winnipeg, this congregation offers access to their members who perhaps don't like going out in the cold of winter and going to Sabbath services...and who can blame them? Winter in Winnipeg is wild and woolly...it can be minus 50 degrees no problem in Winnipeg.
So back on December 27th I listened to the service online and participated online...between you and me it was the first time I have gone to a religious service in my pajama's, but it felt right.
Commit to learning in 2009
If you are looking to power up. Learn, be inspired, grow and meditate, there is a world that awaits online. It's incredible and I encourage you to tap into it and be the best you you can be this year.
Online learning offers you the convenience of staying put. Learning from home and there are numerous choices too. From cool online radio stations, to tele-seminars, webinars, and tapping into e-books and blogs like this!
So be kid-like in the year ahead and embrace learning as a way to enrich yourself and embrace teaching others as a way to market your business more effectively.
Enthusiastic Learners in action!
Until March, have a healthy, happy winter and just know that in 2 more weeks baseball spring training begins and even though it's been a wicked winter...spring is coming. Have faith my friends.
Cheers/David Cohen
