Social Media and You

“Strive for perfection but don’t wait for it.”

(Perhaps this post  belongs on my other blog, but it’s here now, and so it goes.)

• Talking about Michael Gerber’s challenges in his E-Myth in my local networking group. Create the perfect system.
• Thinking about Valeria Maltoni’s weekly Tweetchat on Kaizen. Perfectibility as work/lifestyle.
• Loving the work I do, helping people express their brands online. And thinking how vast the field is.

I want to reject Gerber’s ideas, because they’re contrary to an artisan approach. But I know that the truth is, though he leans to the right, Gerber’s got a point. Whether you expect to incorporate your business or remain a tradesperson, your search for perfectibility is paramount. Your progress in perfectibility is the yardstick of success.

When you give things an Oriental slant, seeing work as practice in the slow patience of a belief system, the ugly edge of mechanism is softened. It’s not robotic, it’s devotional.

But really it’s the mere fact of the ‘net that forces us to work smarter, right? The vastness of it.

The reality that we have this tool for discovery of self and other that lets us envision a perfection heretofore unimaginable.

Well, there’s no doubt what to crow about in this post. I just read Valeria Maltoni’s “100 Thoughts on Social Media.” Go there now. Read. Come back.

How much of that amazing post did you bookmark? I found delectable description after incise commentary after another delectable description throughout. It’s rare to read the truth about inbound marketing so clearly written.

“…use your content and smarts to elevate the other.”

This is the pith of it.

Way back when I studied theatrical improvisation, we learned a fundamental rule to that hair-raising art. We were trained to look out for your fellow actor. Make your fellow actor look good. This will make you look good.

The lesson was an epiphany for me at the time, and continues to reveal itself as I age. I’m blown away that the Conversation Agent has nailed the same attitude as essential to social media.

There are 100 of these pearls on the one blog post, folks. The most profound analysis of the state of social media I’ve ever seen. Affirming so much of what I’ve suspected all along.

Look at this one! ” … choose teaching over winning.”  And this solemn call: “…want less, do more.”