You don’t have to be faster than the lion.
Just be faster than your friend.
Just be faster than your friend.
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.
Not my first blog.
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 (deserved or not). 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.
Refreshing
In my former life, I made so many presentations, and 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. (More about my information packets HERE.)
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 to put down some of my presentations 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, and I did a second book. And other blogs. This was fun, and even though I was nowhere near done learning, I intended to start passing along some of what I learned to others.
No pressure
So I published blog entries and stories using my info packets, and sometimes I went back and edited in an ongoing manner. I still do sometimes. Nothing is ever perfect. But nothing is quite finished, either. So it’s nice when you guys join me with comments, too. No pressure on any of us. No Lion.
That’s part of why I like Medium so much.
Thanks for joining me.
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