To Your Success!
This article is dedicated to Niall of Disrupting the Rabblement who wrote about The Month of No Self-Promo: How Can I Help You Be Successful? Thanks Neill for the inspiration!
You can be more successful in two months by becoming really interested in other people’s success than you can in two years trying to get other people interested in your own success. – Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
Value. I struggle with that. I struggle between being too much like a “personal blog”, telling my own stories, versus actually writing something that people would find valuable beyond those stories.
I’ve got a good story. But how do I weave my journey to help others on theirs? How can I help you be successful, particularly when I haven’t figured it out for myself?
I am in survivor mode. I’m a survivor. While it’s really cool that I can survive for two weeks on only $10, the not so cool part is that I am on a base level existence, often dwindling my resources and barely getting by. The easy, programmed way of thinking is to go into loops and cycles about how useless and hopeless it seems, how you are so poor, or deprived, how you’re a loser, a failure, and ultimately have nothing to offer. That’s wrong.
I’m getting myself out of these loops, and ultimately out of survivor mode, but not without some conscious effort.
I feel useless. Useless in the sense that I’m not contributing to greater things beyond my base existence. And lets face it. Scarcity is a shitty business model.
How can I be of service? How can I help you be more successful? How can we both thrive? Ultimately, my work is web design services but that could evolve as I evolve. I want something more. Something that approaches people on a holistic level.
Your Success is My Success
For the next two months, I will actively change my focus from my story and help you out on yours.
To achieve this, I am asking for your help by introducing yourself in the comments. Please feel free to do so! I’d like to know who my readers are, new or old.
What are you working on? Is there anything you’d love help in promoting?
Do you have a question that I may be able to answer? How can I help you solve a problem?
Would you love the chance to tell your story on my blog to reach new audiences? If so, email me!
My friend, Neill, is giving himself some guidelines that I’d like to adopt.
- All tweets and Facebook updates have to help promote someone else’s work.
- Reach out to at least one person every day and ask how I can help them.
- Actually follow through and help people, without any expectation of reciprocation.
- In every blog post that I write, highlight some cool shit other people are doing.
It’s easy to think that I have to help myself first, before I can help others. But what if it can be the other way around? Why not try?
This “experiment” will start TODAY and officially end two months from now, on March 15th. Of course, I hope that the lessons learned will last beyond that and into a clearer business/lifestyle model. So I can finally learn, once and for all, how to weave my stories with purpose.
My hope is that in helping others, I help myself and break my cycle of scarcity into clear abundance and thrive-ability, and have fun doing it! Will you be a part of it?
To your success!
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