March30th
What if you were so outrageous and so unconventional that it allowed you to advertise like a telemarketer but it was viewed as hilarious and not intrusive. You had permission to speak to a large audience that was willing to listen to you talk about something they don’t care about but you did it in such an amazing way that it made them care.
March28th
I recently read Seth Godin’s blog post on “Be what a loser calls a loser” peep it here.
I didn’t realize it until after I read it but I’ll be dammed that’s what it means to be remarkable. Not just a one shot wonder remarkable but the every day kind of amazing. To take what seems normal and turn it on it’s head and to say and do things that the people around you cringe with embarrassment and shoot out comments like “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” and “Dude, seriously you’re being a homo”. When I hear my buddy’s say that I know what I’m doing is bang on.
March15th
I go to a school where you have to buy tickets to pay for parking. It’s not super expensive two bucks gets you 4 hours and four bucks gets you the entire day.
To make this make sense we have to take this back to the beginning of the year. What tends to happen is that at the start of the year a small group of people will put these parking passes back at the spot where you have to purchase them. So say you’re only staying for an hour and their ticket still has some time left on it they’ll leave it for you to come and pick it up or if you need more time you leave it for the next person. This process in September is practiced few and far between but enough people are starting to get caught off guard by this random act of kindness, it’s becoming contagious.
March8th
“Do you want to dress up and look ridiculous because we’re trapped in the middle of no place and there is a grad going on?” “Yes, yes I do.” Before we get into this story lets take it back a bit.
Recently I heard Julien Smith speak at a local social media event. He was the author of a New York Times best seller the book trust agents he also has a blog here.
His most important point in this Pecha-Kucha style presentation was to be or not to be that first domino. Now what’s a domino? It’s the key to well the ‘Domino effect’. That first domino has to take a triumphant leap good or bad it has to do it or rather someone has to do it.
March5th
First a bit about me.
I’m from BC more specifically Victoria and Victoria has a general stance on hating the Olympics. The community in general feels it’s a waste of tax dollars, the homeless have become displaced and it’s an environmental and small business nightmare if they’re unprepared for the massive influx of people. I get it or I should say I used to get it.
Then I went to the Olympics from Feb 12th till Feb 15th. That’s a Friday till Monday. I left a mildly a excited Canadian and came back a flag waving, O Canada singing red stained Canadian beaming with pride. Now don’t get confused, it wasn’t from the fact that we “owned the podium” of the 4 events I actually went to; hockey, curling, woman’s hockey and the closing ceremony’s Canada was only in 1 of them.
December24th
