My weekend was a chaotic, maddening, blissful nightmare.
Walking in late, to a room full of bright ideas, I paused, and walked back out, wandering if I really wanted to pitch. I had 4 minutes to prepare if that were the case. Where were the notes I took this week? Hmm. Ok, fine, I'll do it. Then, I was on stage, going through my purse and talking about how the chaos in my bag could solve so many problems we face today. Then voting began, I won a team, and 47 Hours to build a billion dollar idea. Prior to that, I was supposed to have turned in the mock up for my Ted X Talk, but do you know I never got around to following up on that? And why? Because of my chaotic world which leaves little room to follow up with everyone I've met.
Walking in late, to a room full of bright ideas, I paused, and walked back out, wandering if I really wanted to pitch. I had 4 minutes to prepare if that were the case. Where were the notes I took this week? Hmm. Ok, fine, I'll do it. Then, I was on stage, going through my purse and talking about how the chaos in my bag could solve so many problems we face today. Then voting began, I won a team, and 47 Hours to build a billion dollar idea. Prior to that, I was supposed to have turned in the mock up for my Ted X Talk, but do you know I never got around to following up on that? And why? Because of my chaotic world which leaves little room to follow up with everyone I've met.
Billion Dollar Math
I like to break down problems in math solutions. Lack of follow up equals lost contacts, lost contacts equals unemployment, unemployment equals depression. So let me build this app to make the world a better place! Understand, it's important to follow up with everyone. Not just some people, all people. And this is important for all of us. Even a preschooler needs to learn to stay in contact with his classmates. Why? Little snotty nosed Bobby who likes to eat dirt may grow up to own the largest mulch manufacturing company in the US. And little Aaron who liked to color inside the lines is going to need a job. Adventurous Bobby is more likely to hire boring Aaron if they stay in contact throughout life. |
Leadership
So I had this team of people I didn't know, who were excited about my idea. I intended to not sleep. The second night they stayed up with me. It was beautiful. And ineffective. I couldn't get people to quickly show me their strengths. I had to call in a graphic designer/ accountant to build the pages my computer programmers weren't able to. And these programmers worked for like 4 hours strong. To only show me NOTHING when I came back to them. It hurt. I liked them as people, but they were young, college aged. My strongest team member didn't show up the second day, but worked from home, like a digital assistant. She was an angelic God send! My programmers were so dedicated that I was happy to have met them, I didn't want to send them home. So, I let them fall asleep and worked through the night with the accountant on hard numbers that made my stomach turn. He brought the app pages together seamlessly, with the help of a hardworking programmer. The sun rose and it was pitch day. I smelled like 2 days ago. And honestly, I didn't want to let my team know that I was not excited about pitching. I got caught up in the competition. I'm a sore loser. 50 customer discovery pages went through my mind, I walked off stage in the middle of the pitch. My accountant took over because the judges had 5 minutes of questions I wasn't interested in answering. But what potential investor isn't going to ask a million questions about a billion dollar idea? I wanted to lose. I wasn't ready for the world to understand the concept before I had a full grasp to it. And now, what do I do with all this knowledge? When I see people, I also see the screen which would appear above their heads in my concept of how we could all better communicate with each other. I am really uninterested in meeting people because of this. I'm analyzing EVERY interaction. It's a rough time for me. And I couldn't be happier.
Ted Talk
My consultant life has picked back up. I've analyzed every area of opportunity for financial growth for this client, in both business and personal. Since I'm taking over the company's sales, I'm making pretty big ones accidentally, with what's got to be a lazy yet brilliant effort. I'm applying everything I've learned about how people interact and honestly, it's unfair. I'm about to become the best salesperson on earth. And I'm already bored.
So I guess I'll work on my Ted Talk concept and post it later. Calling it : Fail More
So I guess I'll work on my Ted Talk concept and post it later. Calling it : Fail More