Category Archives: Doodling

Weekly Challenge: Despina Yeargin- Live In Your Dreams: A Few Simple Steps

Got dreams? Take action. Oh, but where to begin?

We’re all familiar with the quotes about taking action, but how do we move
beyond the dreaming stage of an idea to the action stage? How do we get that
seed to geminate; how do we transform that dream to a living thing in which we
live, so that (technically speaking) we are living in our dream?

  1. Review the idea and turn it into a story—your story.
  2. Learn the story. Dream it in your bed at night.
  3. Wake up and write your story—pen to paper. No typing on a computer.
    Hold that pen in your hand and move it on the paper. Give it life!
  4. Read your story. Read it. Read it out loud and rejoice in it!
  5. Smile. You are halfway there.
  6. Look around you. Reach out to a few trusted friends. Tell them your story
    and ask them to join you; to help and support you.
  7. Smile. You are very lucky to have such friends. Give them a hug.
  8. Write down the first 10 steps that you need to take. Make them simple and
    make them real. Make them affordable. Make them sustainable.
  9. Put one foot in front of the other. Take that first step. Woo-HOOO!
  10. Smile. You are there. You have entered your dream. Really!
  11. Don’t stop walking.

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Way too simple, right? Yes. Exactly! Keep it simple and you will begin—you will take that first step and you will make things happen. Keep a child-like desire TO DO, instead of the learned habit of waiting for everything to be perfect before you begin. The people who don’t wait for that perfection are too busy making things happen. Join them. I will, too.

Despina Yeargin

Despina develops and maintains social media profiles for individuals and the heroes of small business. She also coach them on how to manage their social media presence and put their best foot forward.

Despina writes. She particularly enjoys the challenge of writing for others. I write copy for websites, marketing materials, and you-name-it. I also offer ghost-writing and editing services, as long as we can spend time and get to know each other, so I can represent you and your work appropriately.

2014, Despina Panagakos Yeargin, a.k.a. @DespiDoodle Find me at: http://despidoodle.tumblr.com/

 

 

Weekly Challenge 10/13/14: Paul Hebert, Why do we fail?

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Quote:  “Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.”-  Alfred Pennyworth

Challenge: Everyone is going to fail sometime at something, the key is getting back into the saddle and continue to ride on!  How do we we gain this resilience? First make connections, just as Bruce Wayne had Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman mythos, we need individuals and groups who can listen and give us those small words that hold us up and keep us going when the times get tough!  You maybe already tough, but if you need a helping hand connect with a group or motivated individuals to help you build your dreams.

Napkin Doodle and Quote inspiration from Beer and Napkin Board of Advisor Paul Hebert

Paul is widely considered an expert on motivation and incentives and has been interviewed by the BBC, quoted in USATODAY, published in Loyalty360 magazine, published whitepapers and articles for HRM Magazine, is a contributing author on the Fistful of Talent blog, founding member of the editorial advisory team at HRExaminer.com, writes at his own company’s blog and is the Social Media Editor for the Enterprise Engagement Alliance.

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Weekly Challenge May 19th, James Thomas, Unplug and Get Active

JT-beer-and-napkin-2 In celebration of National Bike Month  our challenge comes from industrial designer James Thomas.  Studies show that even a moderate amount of activity can increase creativity for hours. Get on your bike and ride! Challenge: Break up your daily routine with a bike ride, run, or walk. Be open to inspiration along the way allow the creative energy to shape your work for the rest of your day. James Thomas, an industrial designer with an interest in cycling, photography, architecture, lighting, active transportation, sustainability, and art & design in general. You will find content about all of those topics and more here. If bicycles are your main interest, check out my old blog at BicycleDesign.net. That one is no longer updated, but there are 8 years worth of archives that are worth exploring. You can follow James here JCTdesign.net and Twitter/JCTdesign

Weekly Challenge May 5, 2014: Mark Oehlert, Nourish Conversations

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Our weekly challenge comes from Mark Oehlert, Customer Success Director at Social Text/PeopleFluent

Quote: “Imagine that the ‘grapevine’ is not a poisonous plant to be cutoff at the roots, but a natural source of vitality to be cultivated and nourished…these conversations are as much a core business process as marketing, distribution, or product development.” -Juanita Brown, MIT Organizational Learning Center and Society of Organizational Learning

Challenge: Find ways this week to nourish conversations and view them as core part of your business.

Mark is an anthropologist, historian, speaker, author, and a technologist. He has worked at the Pentagon, as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies and as a federal employee. Now he works for Socialtext (part of the Peoplefluent family), helping companies be successful using social collaboration tools. I’m fascinated with the intersection of technology and culture. I tweet incessantly and take a lot of pictures with my iPhone. Hi. You can follow him here http://about.me/markoehlert