Inspiration, Change, and Happiness

December 12th, 2010

Leo Babauta of zenhabits has an interesting quip in a post called “Get Inspired” about someone enthralled in their passion professing out load on the street corners of San Francisco. He then asks:

How many of us can claim to be that excited about anything we do? If you don’t get excited by what you do, why not? Is it something we can change?

I know Gary Vanerchuck certainly is. I tend to think more like Gary than Leo with this. If it’s something we have to manufacture it isn’t from the heart.

What do you think? (Psst… Great video there as well)
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Jeremy Day has a post called “Why Is Change So Hard” that everyone knows about but is always hesitant to do anything about. I think most people fear change because they are addicted to their habits and fear change. It would expose their vulnerabilities and embarrass them. This isn’t something they are consciously doing. It has been ingrained into them over their lifetime and and most stems from when they were young. Jeremy has some some sound advise on planning which controls expectations and can help curtail the anticipated apprehensions. I think that examining your past, going through an affirmation program of some type, will also work just as well.

What say you?
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Finally, I invite you over to read Tina Su’s blog “Think Simple Now” Tina was recently voted one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Female Bloggers”. Her goal when she started blogging was to bring more happiness in the world. Lofty yes. Did she do it? Head on over and check the site out. She opens up and shares her joys and experiences in life. You’ll like it.

Finding My Right Brain

October 10th, 2010

Thank you for taking the time to read my new blog. I’ve explained the rational for the change of my blog and my new focus toward what I refer to as right brain thinking in both of the ABOUT THE SITE and ABOUT CHRIS pages. I think you will find the change pleasantly surprising.

All my life I’ve been pretty much a left brain thinker and have to come to realize that a common thread I really enjoy out of my past vocations, past blogs, and past businesses has been dealing with people. This is pretty much a right brain thing and I’ve chosen to focus toward that direction. I’m leaving most of the technical know how and training I provide to my clients and business partners. I’ve given away a lot of things over the last year including a 215 page book on traffic generating strategies.

The introspection I’ve had over the last year has led me to discover the real passion I have and that’s working with people, whether that be with my business partners or advising and consulting with new people I meet. That shouldn’t change any of my established relationships I have with people, including you, it’s just my focus is going to be on more right brained thinking arena. Since it is something I do enjoy writing more about, my content should be much more frequent and also relevant to everyone.

When I was writing about all the technical things I did, it got to be a chore that reminded me of my old Information Technology jobs. I would rather talk about observations and thoughts of people and other things that I find interesting, educational, and most importantly, humorous. So you will find that my new emphasis and focus is going to be on personal and business development, life and work balance, nutrition and exercise, and humor.

Again thank you for supporting me.

My Passion For Building My Business

July 7th, 2009

Johnathan Budd had a highly passionate post with a video and at the end we were asked to leave a comment:

I want you to LEAVE the BIGGEST reason you are building your business, spending your time learning new goals, researching how to succeed, and developing yourself into an entrepreneur.

This is how I responded.

I am driven. I am motivated. In that internet marketing is now a science, it is the creative aspects that I like. Creative aspects for me are the results from the originality of thought, the expression, the interaction, the learning, the teaching, and gaining satisfaction from accomplishment. The challenges make it much more fulfilling than any 9-5 job ever could. It’s like I am painting a masterpiece and I have to concentrate on the brush strokes on a small corner of the painting. As I work on the colors and learn how to mix the paint to achieve the exact real life colors and textures and then transfer them to the canvas, a picture of the future is emerging.

I of course will have to consult with others with whom I will associate to have them help and guide me and give me perspective to the process of finishing the painting. And it will be those relationships that I end up fostering that will determine whether my painting is a masterpiece. I can’t do it myself and when I do finish the painting, it will be because of those with whom I trusted and shared my passions. The success will be reciprocal as one of my passions is to help people understand and achieve things that they didn’t know they could archive or thought unattainable. My way is perfect only for me. But there are things I can offer that will help others and in return I will learn from others.

In the end, I want to be able to help people and kids in some of the eastern Europe countries that would make a typical U.S. minimum wage job seem like a muti 6 figure job here. Outside of the main cities there are families that live on $50 a month, don’t have a water heater, use outhouses still, and live the life our parents and grandparents lived in the 20′s and 30′s. There are orphanages whose conditions are deplorable at best, and run by corrupt governments and bureaucracies were little ends up directly benefiting the children. That’s my dream. to see the smile of some happy children who are the happiest they’ve been in their lives just because I bought them all some new shoes.

Taking Actions Daily – Where to you stand?

June 19th, 2009

In a recent study conducted by ThinkTQ, a training and publication organization, illustrated how people develop strategies for achieving their own success and dreams. This is what the data found and concluded:

1. 26% focus on tangible targets they want in life.
2. 19% set goals aligned with their purpose, mission, and passion.
3. 15% write down their goals in specific measurable detail.
4. 12% maintain a clearly defined goal for every major interest and goal in life.
5. 12% identify daily, weekly, and long term goals with deadlines.
6. 7% take daily action towards their attainment of at least one goal.

The bottom line is people take very little priority which equates to ACTION to achieve their goals.

So your questions to ask yourself:

1. Do you have a goal or dream?
2. Have you written down your goals?
3. Have you broken down one of your dreams into tangible measurable tasks?
4. Are you acting on them daily?

In subsequent posts I will be examining ways to establish the differences between dreams and wishful thinking and how you can identify and act upon them.

I’ll see you at the finish line.

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Greetings!

June 8th, 2009

Greetings everyone. First I want to thank you for visiting. I’ve made this new site to help consolidate some of the other web sites that I have still floating out there in cyberspace. If you read my About Me page you can find out more about me. Some of the content will be migrating from some of the other sites but some of it, though valuable at the time of writing, has become somewhat dated because of the speed at which the internet and technology changes.

I’ve had a hodge-podge of literally a dozen or so sites and they were getting hard to manage. I am consolidating and as a result now have this site www.ChrisKilber.com.

In some of my most recent business endeavors I have been doing business coaching, marketing, and teaching leadership to both off and online clients. The experience I have gained is priceless. Another reason for the consolidation is because I want focus more on the online aspect of my businesses. This does not mean I will cut down my interactions with my business associates because the one passion that drives me is working with people. I enjoy teaching and showing people how to do something, encouraging them, and watching them grow in there personal and business lives.

They say that the definition of a successful leader is not how high they attain their own goals, but how high they lift the others around them to help them attain theirs. If I want to reach the goals I have set for myself, it will of course have to involve lifting those with whom I associate. I hope you enjoy the new format and if you feel you would like to discuss any potential ideas or goals with me, or have any questions, it would be my pleasure. to talk with you.