Month: November 2008

Why Creative Business?

I just got back from a short hike with Tobin and Merrick (5 and 3).  I took along Deepak Chopra’s little book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (you can find that in my Amazon widget at the right) and within a few minutes was inspired to write a few lines…

I’m calling this a “Creative Manifesto”

1. The purpose of life is to create – or at least co-create with God and our fellow humans.

2. In order to fulfill this purpose we need:

  • Some freedom from worry about the hand-to-mouth burdons of living – some material weath. We can’t be expected to be creative and fulfill our full potential when we’re starving or homeless.
  • Time to be creative (which is maybe part of the above discussion).
  • Confidence and the Self-esteem/image to share our creations in the face of potential criticism.
  • Knowledge (personal or through a team) to enable us to have the freedom and prosperity that provides that time and confidence to create and share our creations.

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This is what many lawyers do – provide the space, time, and confidence for people to find and fulfill their creative potential.

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A Salesman’s Prayer – Og Mandino


A Salesman’s Prayer
From “The Greatest Salesman in the World.”
Og Mandino

I will pray for guidance, and I will pray as a salesman, in this manner—-

Oh creator of all things, help me. For this day I go out into the world naked and alone, and without your hand to guide me I will wander far from the path which leads me to success and happiness.

I ask not for gold or garments or even opportunities equal to my ability; instead, guide me so that I may acquire ability equal to my opportunities.

You have taught the lion and the eagle how to hunt and prosper with teeth and claw. Teach me how to hunt with words and prosper with love so that I may be a lion among men and an eagle in the market place.

Help me to remain humble through obstacles and failures; yet hide not from mine eyes the prize that will come with victory.

Assign me task to which others have failed; yet guide me to pluck the seeds of success from their failures. Confront me with fears that will temper my spirit; yet endow me with courage to laugh at my misgivings.

Spare me sufficient days to reach my goals; yet help me live this day as if it were my last.

Bathe me in good habits that the bad ones may drown; yet grant me compassion for the weaknesses in others. Suffer me to know that all things shall pass; yet help me to count my blessings of today.

Expose me to hate so it be not a stranger; yet fill my cup with love to turn strangers into friends.

But all these things be only if thy will. I am a small and lonely grape clutching the vine yet thou hast made me different from all others.

Verily, there must be a special place for me. Guide me. Help me. Show me the way Lord.

Let me become all you planned for me when my seed was planted and selected by you to sprout in the vineyard of the world.

Help this humble salesman…..Guide me, God.

WordPress Workshop at Executive Center.

From Viveka @ The Executive Center in Old Town:

Kevin Houchin teaches TEC friends and members how to utilize WordPress.

You gotta love Synchronicity!!!

So I was emailing my LinkedIn buddy, uberpreneur Braun Minchner, and we were both talking about how we like these blogsites that look and act like websites.  And as incredibly talented and adept as we both are, neither of us really knows how to create them.

Later that day I hooked up, via twitter, with the Facebook Doyen, Mari Smith –  who has a fantabulous blogsite (www.marismith.com)  And I once again got blogsite envy.

And then I found an email in my spam filter from another uberpreneur, Kevin Houchin (Esq.)  Just so happens he is a WordPress expert.  What is WordPress you might ask?  (Well, I did)  It’s a blogging application that allows you to create – you guessed it – website like blogsites.

Ah, but it doesn’t end there.  Several hours later I receive an email from another friend asking me if I knew about this new trend, and more importantly, did I think I could create a site for her.

It usually only takes three messages from the universe to spur me into action – with four – it’s a MUST DO!

Soooooooooooooo…………………………………… 

INTRODUCING:

Kevin Houchin

Kevin E. Houchin is an attorney, artist, teacher, author, and principal of Houchin & Associates, P.C. , a copyright, trademark, arts & entertainment, business development, and branding firm located in Fort Collins, Colorado

WordPress Workshop

The Executive Center

DATE: Wed. Nov. 19th

TIME: 12:00 – 2:00

LOCATION: The Executive Center

MORE: 123 N. College ave, Suite 200

(Located in the Historic Opera Galleria)

COST:  $50

RSVP:  Call me at (970) 212-4701 or email me here.  (Space is limited to 10 and we already have 3 signed up before this even went out!!!!!)

 

Bring your laptop if you have one.  This will be a hands-on adventure!

Have a WordPress account ready by the time you get here.  (Go to www.wordpress.com and sign up.  It’s free! )

What is WordPress?

WordPress is the most-used blog tool in its category. Originally, a traditional blogging application, WordPress wanted to experience to a larger audience. So they created WordPress.com, a hosted version of the open source package where you can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge.  The cool thing about WordPress – customizable templates!!!!

 

Almost everything on WordPress.com is free, and things that are currently free will remain free in the future, but they do offer paid a la carte upgrades for things like CSS editing and custom domains. 

Go to www.wordpress.com today and open your account – then let the games begin!

Hope to see you there!  If not, we will also be having a class on December 4th and possible the 18th too!

Cheers,

Viveka

The Executive Center

123 North College Ave

Fort Collins, Colorado 80524

9702124700