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Welcome to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments, where suddenly your daily events begin to overflow with great joy.
This is Linda Gullo and I’m happy you are joining me this week for a short update on some recent activities. If you’d like to join me in the future or have stories to share, feel free to connect at lindagullo.com. In the meantime I hope you enjoy this weeks story! I hope it inspires you to forge ahead.
Today I’d like to talk about the Appetite for Success. Some people are programmed from early on to be achievers and become perpetual learners. I don’t know how old you are? But, I think this is a very good topic for all ages. Especially in a culture that keeps changing. We do need to keep the values of concern and kindness for each other. It is amazing how little things effect who we are and how we react.
Short cuts work for temporary fixes, but the more determination we have and the work we do, the more it seems to pay off. Small achievements go big. That has been the essence of this blog since its inception. Little steps move us ahead.
Short cuts lack substance. Pushing ourselves to show up is one of the greatest accomplishments there is. Yesterday I showed up for an event that I had said I would participate in. I was part of the Okner Symposium at The University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, Wisconsin. It was my first time visiting the Campus. I must admit that the shift in temperature was a big disappointment or I would have surveyed the Campus more if it wasn’t rainy and cold.
Never-the-less, I was invited to do 3 small breakout sessions with students interested in Podcasting. The day included a keynote speaker, a career panel of successful past students, breakout sessions, and opportunities for networking. The topics covered at the event will included blogging, podcasting, and social media sites. I would have enjoyed attending some of the other breakout sessions.
The Okner Symposium is an Annual Event that rotates between Universities. Each hosting it with a Special Theme. This years Theme was obviously Tools in Digital Marketing. I find this area a very interesting one given that I have never considered myself a good marketing person. My business has done well thanks to other ways of being known. Most of my interacting, prior clients, and community contacts kept me in business. Recently with my interest in keeping up with technology and learning new things (obviously I am a life long learner!), I have realized that marketing is going into a new direction. The students kept telling me it is evolving daily. I can really agree to that and the need to know more and more is relevant.
So first a big shout out to all the students who came to my “break out” sessions. Thank you. I hope I planted seeds that will grow into helpful arenas for you as you enter into jobs in Marketing. The one thing that hit me yesterday was that education done formally gives us a formula for success. It teaches us a system of how to make things work for each person. We come to know ourselves better and are lead along course by course. But as we know, the formal process is only one way to learn and we must recognize that.
We need to create our own systems and continue to create them for ourselves. Set up small repeatable actions that will get things done. Jobs can teach us those tools too. Setting up systems to complete tasks can be as easy as making worthwhile lists of prioritizing what we need to do.
The season of Lent begins next week on Ash Wednesday. Live it up on Mardi Gras Tuesday when one celebrates with Carnival-like enthusiasm, and then put into action a new system for the Lenten Season. Maybe it is an approach to eating, studying, or work. Something as easy as having a salad for lunch each day without bread, chips, or carbs. Coming into work a half hour earlier could be helpful. Perhaps praying more each day or attending a Bible study. It may mean sacrificing.
Linda lists a few options for Lent. check the podcast to hear them.
So that wraps up today’s podcast. Please take time to relish all the Mini Miracles that continue to shower and bless you. We’ll be back next week so please check in. Thanks!