here’s a fun example from a recent exchange that i am unpacking
for valusync purposes:
Napoleon Hill’s father was a dentist. He was a speaker, writer and
publisher, and certainly hypomanic. He did not succeed at anything
or find peace until his mid-50s. He did well with his first series
("Secrets of success" or something multi-volume) but the
depression killed it. He had a blockbuster with "Think and grow
rich", then his wife took him to the cleaner and won the rights.
His children had long stopped talking to him by then. Finally he
remarried and found a more peaceful life
Sri Ramana Maharshi. One of 20th century greatest gurus.
Which is seen on a value judgment reading those two pieces as
more favored.
I’m not saying this is right, I’m communicating from and too,
values bias, to provide an example, because i’m trying to
unpack my own perception here, fyi.
I just thought i would share with you some of the packing
materials, hehe.
this also helps u understand valusync processes and
fundamentals, how people communicate their values position and
what it means when they are out of sync…
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How is this different from what I am saying? I am saying
partner with people who want to put your stuff out (and who
maybe know how), multiply your reach by 10 or 100 with no
additional work from you and less headaches, and bring money
into the system so the work that you don’t want to do can get
done (I kind of see this in "bootstrap" phase now). Are we on
the same page or not? What is it I am not getting?
Some feedback about Fast Start.
Who is Blair? It was a brilliant interview, can I invite him
into Foundation @F-L-O-W ? This is the kind of thing you
should do more of.
Napoleon Hill’s father was a dentist. He was a speaker, writer
and publisher, and certainly hypomanic. He did not succeed at
anything or find peace until his mid-50s. He did well with his
first series ("Secrets of success" or something multi-volume)
but the depression killed it. He had a blockbuster with "Think
and grow rich", then his wife took him to the cleaner and won
the rights. His children had long stopped talking to him by
then. Finally he remarried and found a more peaceful life
Sri Ramana Maharshi. One of 20th century greatest gurus.
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no, u misunderstand
i don’t want success that imprisons me, that is not success at
all, u are unable to make the distinction
i am producing PLENTY of content
there is no system to do anything with it, i have never said
no to gary once about using content in any form he wants, so
what is limiting this thing is the system, not me, but i am
not going to imprison myself in the process, already been
there done that…
the reason u see the offers flying around is because we have
no system…
and until u or gary or anyone understands enough about that,
there won’t be one…
i am doing what i am doing because it’s flow, if i can’t make
any more money than i[m making and no one else can either
using and packaging what i am putting out, i won’t change…i
will just find either someone who can, and wants too, or pull
the system down to where i can run it again like i did
i dont’ plan to go out of being @F-L-O-W to make money, or to
torture myself…
at this point, gary, and others don’t know what to do with the
stuff to make money, and that’s ok…maybe i’m too far ahead
of the game, but i don’t plan to stop doing what i am doing to
stop and bring other people along, don’t get me wrong on
this…but i said two years ago and i’m of the same opinion
i have a narrow role in this, if it doesn’t get out into
"wider" distribution, so be it…because i have already done
that wider,tread-mill distribution stuff, i have already made
millions mark and wouldn’t trade my life right now for any of
it…
so, your assumptions in my view are for someone else…because
i already understand all this typical entrepreneurial
marketing stuff and i ain’t going to do it…
there is another way besides growth, and i’m practicing it…
if i can’t find anyone to buy any of this stuff, and gary’s
tired of working for free, then he needs to either figure out
how to do the membership stuff and package the material in a
way that works, or do something else @F-L-O-W for him
i don’t know what puts gary in F-L-O-W, he doesn’t say a word
to me, hehe…
i assume at some point, he’ll find it and what we need
@F-L-O-W, will come to us…in the meantime, we have a ton of
stuff that could go to blogtalk, i generate quality clips and
material everyday…
why gary doesn’t use some of that and get going…ask him,
hehe…
i generated a few minutes today that was absolutely
flabbergasting if u get it, never been discussed that i am
aware of..and i generate stuff by the boatloads, anyone of you
can use it, under our arrangements to generate traffic,
memberships etc, but frankly, we don’t know what we are doing
for the membership system anyway…
so there is no system under this boatload of content…and no
one to sift it for use…it’s just a ton of stuff sitting
around…
and so be it, i am doing what i feel i have to do to
eventually codify this very complex system, and that drives
me…
as to whatever anyone wants to do, it’s fine with me, which i
keep saying, but don’t give me work i don’t want to do
marc…hehe
if u don’t want to do it, its ok too…if there is something
here that u think works for u, i’m all for being guided to
give u what you want, as long as u don’t start giving me
tasks…hehe
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I am hoping to get some continuity income from the membership
site, which will encourage and inspire everyone in the system
at no cost to you. Much less cost IMHO than what you are doing
already, because you are managing web infrastructure with
offers flying all over the place. We want to take some of the
infrastructure costs and maintenance out of your hands, and to
compensate Gary for work that he does in that area.
If you are going to grow your platform and make any money you
need to get on a system such as BlogTalkRadio that has
automatic distribution and lots of free content. My point is
that you are producing all this content that has virtually no
reach. Whenever I challenge you on this you say "I don’t want
to be too successful". You are already working your butt off,
IMHO you could be more successful and work less by doing this
more intelligently. And start to create a system that feeds
itself.
I am listening to some Fast Start calls now. Useful when I
can’t sleep.
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well, that can be done, we do have some of that already in the
works, but you’re ahead of the system
worst thing right now is good marketing success, as for
anything other than the book, we have no fulfillment system
other than me, and the way i work, i don’t want more of what u
described below, yuck…!
we need more systems components before we get too successful,
or all i will be doing is working all the time doing bs that i
don’t want to do, that is a sentence, not at all @F-L-O-W
u and i have different ideas and space-time spans, so we’ll
need to be sure about what we are trying to get, i don’t want
anymore shitwork and that’s all that is evidence below…
we have a lot of system things to get done…before we get too
good at marketing…or i get marketed into misery
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Yes this is all good.
I am not challenging your Valuesync idea by the way, just the
timing of it.
I think its very important you get your stuff on BlogTalk
Radio or another channel that is going to give you automatic
distribution. My wife does it and she gets thousands of
listens. The main site also has to have lots of good
sound-bites (interviews) and opportunities to dig deeper.
Also you need to publish some client coaching sessions so that
people understand that you actually work with people at a very
deep level, and that you are not just some kind of academic
talking head. The Lifestyle design coaching we’ll do in
January will be good, but you should look around at anything
else that people would be willing to be seen. The FLOW
interviews in San Antonio were fantastic (I haven’t seen them
all by the way, were they ever published?), if one or two of
these could be published , that is the kind of thing I am
talking about.
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here is a model that would work well for the future @F-L-O-W
a person comes/finds/is directed to an online survey, (a way,
not THE way)…
example"
What’s your Life @F-L-O-W quotient…
they take the survey ( u can see how they did it below,
example)…
we have several assessments we can use, be, do, have, become,
as well as dynamic density, fyi, i also have a new one on
leadership style, whatever
they take the assessment, give us their name and email , we
evaluate their answers and provide them with a video that
speaks to their core system…4 videos to start, 16 later,
with combinations
they then get the model @F-L-O-W in their frame…
then get sent to site, exercises something they expect, and we
can introduce them easily to,
this is me, almost like me, not quite like me, not me, this
then keys us to the next scenario
then off to the site of their choosing to experience @F-L-O-W
that is more consistent with their core dynamics
i’m not suggesting we do something this ambitious to begin,
what i am thinking about is the design for it in the future…
this is where the world will go, it will fractionalize reality
to give people particular characteristics than broad based big
launches and stuff like that, especially as the world begins
to fractionalize more, which @F-L-O-W will specialize in
helping people do, find a fish bowl that works for them and
then help them become happier through the fractional process,
seeking scaffolding instead of progressivity to manage
complexity assimilation
while i know i’m ahead of the game, and u have to make $5
before u make $5000, this design will help us get to where the
puck is…
should one of you have ideas that the rest of us can piggy
back on and support, we will collaborate, however, it’s clear
to me that each of the people has a different core, which is
why i chose you, and by doing that, allows u to work in an
area where your values are in front…
as to resourcing all of this, that will come with the buildout
slowly, if one of us has a more commercial idea then resources
can be directed there and then re-allocated later after
leverage is created, but the fundamental fractionalization of
the be, do, have, become and contribute design will be in
place gathering momentum for a time when we have to have
valudynamics that can provide the content that the
fractionalized effort is going to seek…
each of the systems will have their own timelines and density,
as well as frequency, it could be that we want to focus
resources in one area, but that doesn’t mean i will abandon
the design, since the model fundamentally is key @F-L-O-W…
one of the ideas i do have is to funnel energy into each area,
in order to prove the entire point, so the model becomes the
model and not a prostitution, which is not the model, and an
antithesis to the thesis…
just some early morning ideas
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yes, its obvious to me these are unconscious actions, that are
not entirely made up of the reasons you consciously
explain…and that was my point about valusync…
was to get from you what you wanted to give (defend), but
merely to show an example to an objective person what it might
mean to see a full, mostly derogatory paragraph, including a
reference that
Napoleon hill was not a dentist, his father was.
Sri Ramana Maharshi. One of 20th century greatest gurus.
the values connotation here is obvious, and it might not have
been conscious to you, what you did, regardless of your
fascination, but you didn’t notice how the "affect" might
appear, because as you say, you weren’t concerned about that
among friends maybe…
but values are almost never a representation of what we
intend, but what happens in the pre-dispostion that sets up
the perception…
what’s interesting is that you probably still don’t get the
values connotation that is implied, hehe…
to a person sensitive (we all are, that is why we have filters
and biases, duh) to some things, the immune response coming
from the "improper" syntax and semantics is
communicated…which connotes the values position
unconsciously, both in the perceiver and the provider.
i’m no longer talk about you, and haven’t been in the last
couple of emails, so no need to defend your position, i get no
harm intended or done…but to me a good example of values
conflict, the assimilation and contrast effects and how affect
gets transmitted, something that i myself am starting to
understand more…
the reference to Napoleon Hill (in case there be any
confusion) was because you said on the call that he was a
dentist. He was not a dentist, his father was a dentist. Then
I got started on Napoleon Hill because he is such a
fascinating character and because I have diarrhea of the email
;).
The reference to Sri Ramana Maharshi is because on the call
you called him "Sri Ramana".
For the rest I don’t understand this email or the point you
are making… which is fine as I aspire to understand about
30% of what you say.