Sunday, September 7, 2008

My inner Moo

The past month or so has been one of the worse times in my life for stress. I can easily think of other times I hated much worse, but lately, I have let the stress get to me too much and figure it is time to work on the inner moo.

I think I have learned a lot in the past 2 months. Many will likely disagree, that's their opinion and they are welcome to keep it. All that matters, at all, is what's within... the inner moo. So, now, it is all about "me", the real me and my inner moo and I'm using "The Big Moo" as one of my tools.

The Big Moo talks about being remarkable as what is really needed to be a differentiator from average and ordinary to remarkable. The Moo Big tells us:
  • Remarkable is being unafraid to stand out. I'm not afraid of that, just look at the out of the box stuff my staff has done and is doing.
  • Remarkable is knowing that a risky idea might fail, but a boring idea will definitely fail. Boy is there a lot I'd like to say here, but there might be a few loved ones that might be offended. This has hit home very recently... call me on my video phone and I'll tell you why.
  • Remarkable is failing often and then trying again. Just think if Edison had given up after the first 5,000 or 10,000 failures when he was experimenting with what would become a light bulb.
  • Remarkable is more doing and less planning. More testing and less waiting. More dreaming and less sleeping. God, I hope people where I work read this!

I am a remarkable person and I know it. I hope you are too. I know my Dad was a remarkable person. Beginning tomorrow, I go back to living the life of a remarkable person, despite what others think, do or say.... remember, I can, because I am remarkable! What about you? Do something worth taking about... do something remarkable.