I confess, I’m a bit of a Seth Godin junkie – I read everything I can find of his, and have always imagined how much fun it would be to sit around a table with him and talk ideas. (Obviously in my head we are cut from the same slightly strange cloth – and would get on instantly and become great friends)… yesterday that chance came…. and went. And still it changed the way I think… let me explain.
At 2.30 yesterday afternoon I got the email I have dreamed about..
September 13 session in my office
By request, I’m offering a small group session in my office on the 13th of September. Call it group coaching for lack of a better term… bring your marketing, business model, web or other challenges and we’ll try to work through them. A few big ideas are likely to come of it for each attendee.
Apologies in advance if you can’t get a ticket, but if it goes well, I’ll probably do it again. Details and tickets.
I clicked on that link so fast I could have been an olympic clicker – my time had come. It was expensive – $3,200 – but the chance to be one of 14 people spending a day with Seth was a dizzying thought. I am a one person business, I don’t have an expense account to fall back on so I had to think about it. I thought, and I thought, and I thought. I did the math, and I did the math again. I knew it just may be the best investment I had ever made in myself or my business and did I mention it involved Seth Godin?
My practical head then clicked in, and I checked my calendar. I already had a speaking gig booked and that, in my world, is the one unmovable thing. Nothing is more important than that. Nothing. Not even Seth. (sorry Seth)
Then I started thinking of all the things I would have had to have done to prepare to meet Seth. How I would have had to be on top of business planning like never before, how I would have wanted my ideas developed and analyzed before I met ‘the man’ – The 3 weeks would have been spent preparing like never before. Wait. What?
Why didn’t I just do that anyway. If I would do that to meet Seth, why wouldn’t I do that to meet myself? I still can’t make the 13th, but on the 14th I have very important meeting, one that will mean me having all my plans aligned, my business direction clear, and my creativity firing. I would love Seth to be there, but it will be just me. And that’s enough, after all I can always ask myself ‘What would Seth say?’
Who would you like to meet, and how would you prepare? Shouldn’t you do that work anyway?
Dear Seth, if you or one of your assistants has a google alert set for your name and you happen upon this post, Thank You. Let’s hope we meet one day.
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