How much can you take and keep moving forward?

From the Sociological Images blog: “Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first presidential candidate to use television commercials. Below is one of his commercials, made by Disney, from 1952. Eisenhower was skeptical about using television and his opponent, Stevenson, wouldn’t appear on television because he thought it demeaning to a man ascending to the presidency. Eisenhower won.”

[Via BoingBoing]

We were in a meeting with a new client talking about business and such when I hear someone at the door. So I direct myself to the stress-free room (reception area) and much to my dismay find a police man standing there. He looks at me and asks if so-and-so person was there, to which I reply “yes she is, hold on a sec”. I walk into the office (being followed by the cop), look at the client and say “he wants you”.

He in turn points out the window and asks “Is that your car over there?”, the client now frantically screams, and I repeat, screams: “OH MY GOSH THAT’S MY CAR!!!!

I looked out the window only to witness a car perpendicularly parked on the street, now, not along side the curb mind you, on the actual car-passing-where-motorists-drive street. A car… blocking traffic, in the middle of the busy street… my client’s car!

She throws her arms and hands in the air and runs out the office like a mad woman towards her car… Shahar, myself and the policeman just stood there in silence for a little while not really knowing how to react… followed by sporadic moments of incessant laughter!!

Well as it turns out, on her way to our office my client was listening to the BuzzBooster’s Guide to Self-Promotion CD. She was really into it, and very excited to come meet with us so when she saw our building she just parked her car and came to see us (not realizing that she was in the middle of the street).

It’s truly really funny… she parked her car in the middle of the street!! What I still don’t get is how she walked through the entire parking lot and didn’t realize it! =D

Hahaha there’s the BuzzBooster Effect in action for you!

Every characteristic of yours is an asset in business, sometimes we need to learn how to use it in sync with everything else, but nonetheless it can be a valuable asset. So what if you’re a little too creative, or perhaps too analytical, who knows even a little clumsy? Incorporate it to your brand, show the world who you are and allow them to engage with you because of it. So you have a “sneaky paw?” Don’t fight it, use it to get a better grip on that yummy bone!

“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default”.

J.K. Rowling speaking at Harvard part 1:

Read the entire text, get mp3, or watch the full video at:
http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html