GREAT ADAPTATIONS

If you’re “Twitter-friendly” already, you might consider sending this to those people in your life who just can’t understand what you’re talking about. You know, they make that face and get all flustered and say “but who has time for this?”

Okay, friends. Relax, take a breath, and imagine:

You walk into this big hall, where you see all kinds of diverse people, talking, working together, laughing. Everything looks so interesting.

As you glance around the hall, you see large, clear signs indicating areas of interest. “Dogs.” “Travel.” “Donuts.” “Star Trek.” “China.” “Autism.” “Wordpress.” “SEO.” “Blogging.” “Boomers.” “Party.” “White Sox.” “Follow Friday.”

A little weird. Seriously all over the map. Seems to be a lot of “following” going on.

In front of you is a console where you can enter your own words of interest. As you do this, all around the room, the signs change. You find you can instantly gather a group of people interested in your topic. Some want to learn from you. Some want to be your peer. Some want to help you with your goals. Some are just annoying old guard sales people, and with a click, you can make them disappear from your radar.

And what about that language? So many strange forms of punctuation. And those acronyms! No matter. Just ask. Someone will delight in explaining. They’re playful, and useful. This is a culture. It has its language.

You stand at your console for a moment, refining your areas of interest, and watching the signs around the room change. Soon you have a selection of topics that absolutely delights your brain. It’s a perfect amalgam of you, your life focus, what you enjoy, what supports you, and where you want to go next. You follow your heart.

As you travel through the various areas you’ve selected, you meet so many people who have surprising similarities of life and love. If you choose, you find people in proximity and you can meet them in person. Sometimes you realize an area of interest wasn’t at all what you hoped. Click! Off the radar with that one too. Mostly, though, you find your own brain expanding with the ideas, innovations, and offerings of others. New perspectives give you a boost in your own creativity. You realize you’re actually on to something.

The difficult thing about it all is the excitement. With the rising tide of possibility, you have to keep refining and making more focused choices. And all those new friends!

But you don’t have to stick around when it gets overwhelming. With a blink, you can find yourself at your familiar desk, getting on with other things. The difference is, you’ve tapped into a big, moving river of possibility, relationship, expansion, connections, innovation, and creativity. It’s there. It likes you. The welcome mat is out.

Get started, it’s not hard. Go on www.Twitter.com, enter the small steps to create an account, and then you can come follow me. Just to get going. I’m @brainmaker there on Twitter. We’d love to see you!

Suzanna Stinnett

Now that you’ve visited the hall, be sure you know about The Twalienator

It could be a masterpiece.

I taught my Dynamic Blogging class earlier this week to a group of people, each one of them with a great deal to offer their readers. Since blogging is basically simple self-publishing, it’s easy to miss what else they can be. And it’s important (at least to me) to recognize the impact they can have. Your blog can change lives.

So here’s the deal. Whether you are one of my blogging class attendees, someone who enjoys learning about the brain and technology, or a new reader wondering what my website is about, you are likely to be a good candidate for a great blog. I want you to recognize that and take a few steps toward realizing your potential.

Step: Ask yourself what your inspiration is for your blog. If you’ve had your blog for a while, do you still feel the same way about your material? Do you still want to write the same stuff? Come up with one thing that is new or different about your motivation now. Consider acting, creatively, on that difference.

Step: Before you go to sleep tonight, run a little suggestion through your head: Ask your imagination to come up with three new ways your blog can be more helpful to your readers. Then leave the thought alone. Your imagination knows what to do while you’re sleeping. You’ll know more tomorrow.

Step: If you’re still thinking about a blog but haven’t started one quite yet, get out a piece of paper. Write on it “I haven’t started my blog because _____” and fill in the blank. Write ten reasons why you don’t have a blog right now. I already know what three of them are. Keep going. Then leave it alone. Your imagination is going to work on that too.

This post is coming out of my own recent inspiration about a new direction I’m starting to travel. I recognize a dramatic difference in my energy for the thousand tasks of blogging and my daily sense of renewal now that I have opened up some new avenues. I’ll tell you more about my new stuff soon. Today I want to trigger some of this renewal in you.

Have you noticed a quiet questioning going on in the back of your mind and heart? Something inside, wondering how things might be different – if…? That’s what I hope you will pay attention to today. Your work – your blog – your creation, might be more important than you’ve yet dreamed.

Tell me something that has inspired you today – put it in the comments below. I’d like to know.

Blessings,

Suzanna Stinnett