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The Mic is On! It’s Your Dream Home for Sure!

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight we’re talking dream homes!

manor of the others

We might also talk about

  • littles homes in the countryside
  • mansions on the grounds
  • cottage in the woods
  • city apartments

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic Is Open! Start Your Engines! It’s Cars!

Links Leaked All Over the Cars!

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Vroom Vroom Leak

In an amazing turn of Open Comment Night events, as soon as we started our cars they started leaking — even our new friends from askpatty couldn’t help. It seeems their vehicles were leaking the most links all night! It’s as if the cars WERE the link leak virus.

The Link Leak Virus was to be part of the whole operation, whether we were Mother Teresa, Mark Cuban, Lucille Ball, or Donald Trump.The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes.Things quieted down as our engines warmed up.

We still told some wonderful car stories.

Cat woke to Tanks and a coup. She’s in our thoughts.
HART says never ask a police officer fo an ID.
It’s a Birthday for Designers Who Blog

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared.

Vrooom, Vroom Summary by Rick Cockrum

What Rick writes makes us all sound so interesting. I think we should do this again!

Liz our hostess once again,
Open mic once more begins.
Tonight it’s cars and highway travel,
Women and garages, the pain unravels

Breanne is first, she made our day,
Working with women and the web she’s not shy
With dogs and cars she loves to play.

Douglas stopped in for a glance.
Of American cars he is derisive,
European luxury is his vision.

Susan came for a while,
Click and Clack make her smile.

Jody popped in with statistics galore
Of cars and women she can tell us more.

Kirsten has good luck car shopping,
But mechanics can really get her anger hopping.

Cat’s in the middle of a Thai coup,
No TV, no phone, with tanks all around,
Communication through the net is still sound.

Katiebird tells us of her great scare.
A truck has attacked her
With never a care.

HART has stories that are really quite grand.
We can’t help but say
HART, You’re the MAN!

Scorpia rides a taxi and walks a fair bit,
But storms are around her,
She returns to her cave to prevent getting hit.

Joe makes us jolly with his verse wit
The women console him,
They say they won’t nip.

And Candice is the sys-op, Ferraris her bag
Stuck in an Accord
Made her quite sad.

Seanrox loves his Mustang, he’s built for speed,
Laptop in one hand, pizza the other,
He rides through the land,

Ben drives up in an old Mazda.
He says his car sucks,
So The Great Big Small Business Show was noted.

Trisha watched House before she came.
She couldn’t stay long
Due to rather bad neck pain.

Renée sold her car and wanted advice
On what car she should get for the tall and the short,
Abby wrote in and called for divorce.

Meikah sang a song about strong inner pain,
Fast cars and freedom, our childhood dream.
That leads to life that our parent’s life sang.

Starbucker’s hearing the train’s lonesome wail,
Life has been good, he’s seen his family and then
Phil, his main man.

Tony picked our collective minds,
About a problem with driving as our ages do climb
We had little to say, the law doesn’t help,
We just cross our fingers, and in time cross that line.

Becky’s car broke down,But she still brought the drinks.
Happily married she’s in a small town.
Her spouse the mechanic, she cures computer hijinks.

Christine made it in at the end of the night,
But her wifi wouldn’t last,
She had to take flight.

And Easton had Arny, a little Geo
With tires like cookies,
The car finally had to go.

AdLib slept in for once I should say
But day or night,
He can’t stay away.

And Alvin, though clueless
With cars as it seems,
Has a brother who sees them fulfilling his dreams.

And finally we end , sixteen hours in,
Hendry Lee with a Wow! You talk like the wind!

Rick, you are the special one. Thank you so much for doing this again! thanks to everyone who participated!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic Is Open! Start Your Engines! It’s Cars!

The Mic Is Open! Start Your Engines! It’s Cars!

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight we’re talking everything cars!

cars

We might also talk about

  • cool cars, fast cars
  • first cars, junkers
  • things we did for cars, things we did in cars
  • places cars took us

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic Is On! We’re Having Parallel Lives!

Link Leak Virus Overtakes Parallel Universe!

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Everyone Knew the Time Warps Weren’t the Only Thing

If we could have as many lives to be as many versions of ourselves as we could be, what might we become? The outer limits of Successful-Blog had that conversation and weird musical sounds were heard coming from every category in the sidebar. No one actually said that an extraterrestrial would be a choice, but . . . some thoughts in that direction seemed to come up.

The Link Leak Virus was to be part of the whole operation, whether we were Mother Teresa, Mark Cuban, Lucille Ball, or Donald Trump.The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes. But we were in a summertime frame of mind.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared.

What Actually Happened?

And this week Rick Cockrum of Shards of Consciousness found a creative way to tell the story of last night’s event.

AdLib is happy just as he is
Fresh bread close at hand, hair down to his chair
His blog back in biz, and music filling his air.

Joe is a lawman,
A wookie for real
Protecting us all with McGyver’s great skill.

Scorpia, too, is content
As she already is
Everyday fantasy is already her biz.

Liz directs song and the dance,
Electronics begone.
Children, flowers and writing Is where she belongs.

Renee comes in singing,
Dancing dog in her arms.
Man and canine alike, she soothes with her charm.

Christine’s in Missouri
Her ballads filling college breeze.
She stopped and said hi before the clock made her flee.

Chris Cree is traveling,
A hero in the stars,
Humming Led Zeppelin, escaping storms in his car.

Seanrox cooked at the barbie,
A feast he laid out
While being James Bond with a bottle of stout.

Douglas dropped in among us,
Just to say hi
Then time warped him away, away to fly.

Ben plays great hockey,
And cartoons on the side,
With Basil his donkey, round the world he does fly.

Starbucker wings in
Home from the West,
Song and dance in his soul, with his wife he does rest.

Cat steps in for a moment,
Still fuzzy with sleep,
Tea in the morning, as to bed we softly creep.

Tony’s in a time warp, two hours behind,
Somewhere he is starving
Drawing comics so fine.

Phil zips by so fast
Pac-man behind him
In a kung-fu world Donkey Kong races past.

Wendy said it was fun
From time zones away.
In the alternate world she stops by to play.

And Ellen pops in
With a comment from home
She read the discussion as a way to be grown.

So another mic closes
It was quite a feat.
We think of you often until the next week.
— Rick Cockrum of Shards of Consciousness

Thanks, Rick, for that great summary! Thanks Everyone, for coming!
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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5 +1 Whole Brain Steps to Believable Strategic Goals OR Find Your Bliss Without Wasting Time

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But the Sky Is WAY Up There!

Strategic Plans logo

When I introduced this series with the overview The 5 Step Strategy that Saved a Company Can Also Get You to Your Dream, Chris and Hendry Lee pointed out in the comments a mistake that is easy to fall into — setting an unbelievable goal.

After all, we’ve decided. We want to get going, make things happen, put our strategy in place. So let’s choose a goal that’s mighty, powerful, and going to get us there now. Friends and family, thinking the problem is self-estem, often advise and encourage us to do just that.

Soon enough we end up with a goal like this one.

“Find Your Bliss and the Money Will Follow.” That’s a dream — too nebulous to be a strategic goal. I can imagine bliss, sort of, but I can’t define it. I can’t put my arms around it or draw a map to show me or anyone how to get there.

The irony is that when we face an impossible goal, we become overwhelmed, lose that self-same self-esteem, and talk ourselves out of our quest, knowing we’d fail. After all, I can’t ahieve or become what I can’t define or see — I’m not foolish enough to try that.

End of quest, end of strategy to improve,.we’re left without the goal, somehow feeling less for even thinking about trying. We might even be thinking that strategy is something that other folks do . . .

Pfft! balderdash, piffle, and keruffle. All four apply to that response. Add to that . . .

Unbelievable!

We’re not what’s wrong in this picture. The goal is. [Read more…]

The Mic Is On! We’re Having Parallel Lives!

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about.

Tonight we’re talking having more than one life!

castle Beach Barsailboat

We might also talk about

  • Donald Trump or Annie Lennox
  • Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela
  • Steven Spielberg or Meg Ryan
  • anyone real or fictional

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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