LinkedIn summary posted today

Millionaire status came to me at age 40. I didn't realize it until I was 43 - right around the time I calculated that, on February 9th, 2010, I was simply going to run out of money. (You can imagine my wife's feelings of ambiguity.)

I have held so many positions in so many industries that I shake my head and wonder how it all happened.

"Chip, haven't you settled down yet?"

No.

And I doubt I ever will. I have found that my here-a-little-there-a-little background has given me breadth and depth of experience that are simply unavailable in a "career track." I may be doomed to a life of professional obscurity - maybe even ridicule. So be it. I wouldn't exchange my experiences for anything. Life's happier riding the horse the way it's going. I am willing to run the risk of ruin for the chance of increasing my freedom. I have found that "failure" and "success" are sets of circumstances that simply follow one another and are, in hindsight, often difficult to differentiate. So, like every good business man, I've decided to make it up in volume: the more success, the more failure and the more failure, the more success.

I have chosen to focus on marketing (and it's sidekick sales) because, best I can tell, it is the key to the well-being of business. The patent office is full of good ideas that aren't making a difference. Getting them to market is what counts. If an idea cannot positively impact the lives of real people - it has no real value.

I have a goal of starting 12 businesses in my life. I'm currently at 6 - including my junior high paper route. I hope to work in as many industries as I am able. Too bad I have so little time.

What I become through my experiences is what matters most to me - not the dollars or the acclaim I may gain. Human development is all that counts. What I am and hope to become, expressed through the investment of my time, are my greatest assets - both to me and to those I seek to serve.

I hope to be better - today.

My take - not that anyone asked

Sidewiki is simply going to shed greater light on the content. For some that's good and for some...not so much.

in reference to: Google Sidewiki: Danger « BuzzMachine (view on Google Sidewiki)

Don't forget to turn on Email Post links in Blogger

While you won't be able to see the page referenced (it's for the settings for my blog), your blogger-based blog setting is going to have the same thing. Maybe other will too. If you don't turn the Email Post links on, your visitors will have a more difficult time sending your post to friends and associates. Why is it off by default? I have no idea.
in reference to: Blogger: Glutathione (GSH) - Basic Settings (view on Google Sidewiki)

Anyone know about this service?

Pixel Pipe

An important quote

"If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember anything." -Mark Twain

Resources Galore

Here are the sites I am fiddling with at this point:

Friend Feed
My Life
Gabcast
Pixel Pipe
(and several that aren't coming to mind immediately)

The serious challenge is understand the wealth of resources.

Where David Armano's presentation on U.0

Thanks again, David.

in reference to: Brand "U.0" (view on Google Sidewiki)

The Artful Balance in Personal Branding

When one thinks of a person as a brand, that person's growth can be threatened.

"But I am creating my brand to sponsor my growth!"

No debate. We just have to realize what we are doing.

Two quotes come to mind:

"First we shape our buildings. Then our buildings shape us." -Winston Churchill

"The problems we now have cannot be solved by the thinking that originally created them." -Albert Einstein

We have to make sure that in our branding, we (people) can still progress. We don't know everything. When we learn something new, our views change and, if we are a brand, we throw off the brand consistency. Catch 22.

If we will remember that, to those who interact with whatever brand we create, they see that brand as a person. In harmony with our circumstances, we must build into the brand the ability to grow with us - one way or another. If we try to maintain the brand we created and do not make space for the person we have become from our growth, something - sooner or later - is going to give. It is much better for everyone if the tectonic plates of our characters are allowed to slowly slide past one another instead of hanging up and later reconciling themselves violently.

We are here to grow...and we are not alone.

Need to watch

We've heard a bunch about people being brands. It's actually the other way around: a brand is a person. As people, we only know how to relate to people.

in reference to: YouTube - David Armano, Brand U.0, Critical Mass (view on Google Sidewiki)