“You can think all day, all week, or all year about a hobby, dream, goal, or business you’d like to delve into, but until you talk about it, you’re much less accountable. By projecting and communicating a clear vision and message, you pave the road for further action and bring others (the listener) into your community, whether they become a part of its actualization or not. Once words escape your lips into the receptive ears of another human being, what was once a lonely voice in your head is now a formulated, debatable, accepted, rejected, or more literal aspiration.”
Ladies Who Launch, p. 170
Conversation: Grant McMillan, via email. Goal: Find means to facilitate project communication. Google Wave anyone. Grant sent a link for this Wave praise. Need to look more closely, but it has tremendous collaborative potential.
Conversation: Kathleen McMillan, via email. Goal: develop more ideas for BlueBeary.
Conversations: Voters on IndieHeaven, via Facebook and email. Goals: (1) raise the song through the Fan Faves chart [#17 today], and (2) invite other people to share memories of their own grandmothers. Here are two lovely notes.
- I remember her laugh, her sideways look at people who were being funny, her love for God. I remember the fudge she made every year for Christmas. She just passed away in 2007 at the age of 103 ... she lost her mother at age 6 and was a widow for 51 years. She experienced much loss but always kept her sense of humor... when she got macular degeneration (limited her eye sight)... she said it was better because now she couldn't see the dust and someone else would have to look after it :)
- I remember the first time I saw my Mennonite Grandma take her long hair out of a bun:) I was just a little girl and fascinated by how long her hair actually was! Then, she got down on her knees and began praying in German! I pretended to be asleep but I'm sure she knew I was awake! She was SO sincere and earnest and I knew she had a wonderful talk with Jesus that night! I wanted to be just like her when I grew up:) Thanks again, Grandma:) (She died years ago and I still think of her amazing love for God:)
Conversation: Raymond Lacusta, via email. Subject: his documentary about the Minus 40 Tour will air on SCN (Saskatchewan Community Network) 15 Minutes of Fame on Jan 27 and 31, and will be available afterwards on the internet!
Conversations: Shopping trip with Mama and 3 young girls, in person. Goal: Buy for fabric and notions to make the birthday bears. Successful! 3 different kinds of fuzzy blue for the top, 2 kinds of brown for the bottom, sequined ribbon for the belt, and felt for the faces. Later I started cutting some bodies while the girls designed faces and cut the belts.
Conversation: myself, via reading Ladies Who Launch. Goal: personal and business development. See quote at beginning of post.
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