There is a saying back where I’m from. If you and a friend are being chased by a lion, you don’t have to be faster than the lion.
Just be faster than your friend.
It may surprise you, but this is not the first blog I have worked on.
There are five or six different perspectives a blogger can use for their voice, but I am just talking about two here. One is the Hot Dog Expert and another is Fellow Traveler My previous blog was a bit more on the technical side, and after I had been in that business three decades, I was automatically labeled the hot dog expert. I didn’t feel like I had any room for error, and surely none for humor and whimsey. I had to be faster than the lion.
This venture is a good deal more laid-back. Here I am the Fellow Traveler. I don’t already know everything, but I’m willing to share with you, my readers, and Fellow Travelers things that I learn, as I learn them. Refreshing. At least to me.
In my former life I made so many presentations, I began to be comfortable and relaxed making them. By the hundredth presentation, I could do them in my sleep. This eventually altered the physiology of my thought process. I didn’t memorize speeches, but they became information thought/idea packets.
I could shuffle them around, if a prospect interrupted with questions. They were like mental 3×5 cards. I didn’t have to restart at “Once upon a time.”
After a customer convinced me into putting down some of my presentation into a written form, I discovered that the info packets made good chapters, too. All I needed was a voice recorder and a way to transcribe. I was a very slow typist, but there were people who could do that, and there was voice recognition software.
It seemed to end up so easy, I did a second book. This was fun, and even though I am nowhere near done learning, I intend to start passing along some of what I learned to others.
So I will publish blog entries using my info packets, and sometimes I will go back and edit in an ongoing manner. Nothing is perfect. But nothing is quite finished, either. I wish you guys would join me with comments, too. No pressure on any of us.
Thanks for joining me.
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