A couple surprises this week. The first was I filled more pages in my journal that I have in several months as I made an effort to become more aware of the less resourceful habits that are due to be replaced. I’d not accounted for this in my plan and pretty much everything but the presentations for the conference were dropped. The second surprise was the amount of time I invested in the research for the presentations. ((LaTex sources and pdfs available at http://dorion-mode.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/btc-history-{I,II}.{tex,pdf})) I re-read dozens of articles in the process of paring down the content for the 2 hour long presentations.
The problem as I see it is not the time I spent per se, but that I allocated the time “last minute”, which resulted in emergency mode behavior, something I said last week that I didn’t want to do.
A challenge I dealt with is related to coming out of the shadows. What I presented I’ve held to be true and shared with people in private, the stakes were raised with the public presentation, but in the end I’m pleased with the outcome and can build off overcoming that challenge. I received a lot of positive feedback from conference goers that are greener in the game and had not been exposed to the history. I also enjoyed the process of unloading from my headcase the history as I understand it, because a) it deepened/renewed my appreciation for TMSR and b) will result in blog material that will both stand on its own and further support the benefits of TMSR OS article. ((It’s unclear if a series of articles or a mega article is a better choice. For the actual articles, I expect to put a lot more content because I’m not constrained to 2 hour long spoken presentations and I’ll have to write what I said plus more. I guess the best strategy is to publish some outlines and ask for feedback.))
We have a verbal commitment from an attendee to start our training this year, optimistically in April or May, but he may be delayed till September based on his work schedule. Another said he’d be registering in the WoT, setting up a blog and exploring Eulora. I strengthened existing local relationships and made some new local contacts, the most promising recently left a major local private bank and is focusing on his own investments and independently brokering real estate and insurance. I see potential in him as both a client and referral source.
I did get some decent physical and language exercise and JWRD business development outside of the conference, but pretty much everything else was lost to the wayside. My journaling process ignited a review of some Jung, and I found a couple articles covering his approach to anxiety disorders and how to overcome them to be most insightful. They seem to further back the potential efficacy of my Master’s “no shame” approach. Interestingly, when I was learning about sales, Shameless Shamus Brown’s blog and sales training was the first mindset I found resourceful. Let’s try that on this week.