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Cara Lumen "The Vision Distiller" (Santa Rosa, CA USA)
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9 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Are You Busy Doing Small or Thinking Big?, April 26, 2009
I so did not want to read this book. I'm busy. I'm up to here with projects and ideas and clients. If I'm not thinking bigger then I sure am busy not doing it. Michael Port's The Think Big Manifesto gave me the opportunity to closely examine exactly what I was and was not achieving.
As I read I began to underline things that were important to me, that held meaning, and suggested opportunities. Was all my busy-ness about doing big things? Or small things? When did I schedule time to look at why I was doing things the way I was? What vision was I using as my measuring stick? I began looking inside for the answers to those questions.
As I read I began to question both my personal life and my business life. The section on the importance of collaboration shouted at me. I'm a loaner, I like doing things by myself, but through this book I began to see collaboration is a major place for me to consider making a "think bigger" change - while being true to myself, while staying authentic, while moving out of my think-small comfort zone. I began to get ideas - more teleclasses, smaller chunks, home study courses. But wait, isn't that what I've been doing? Isn't that well within my comfort zone because I'm good at it? Where do I need to place myself in order to stretch, to offer more, to make a bigger difference? I kept reading.
Only recently have I become very clear about my core and I'm 76 - so don't give up. When the book asked "Will you be happy doing what you're doing in 20 years" my mind flew to age 96. And yes, every day I'm getting closer to being so deeply in service that each day is a blessing. With age has come the opportunity to do exactly what I want to do and be with only the people who inspire and motivate me. If I have 20 years left (actually 38 years since I'm going for 114) what kind of a difference can I make? How can I be a vital catalyst in the lives of others?
Michael speaks of the need to train ourselves psychological, intellectually and physically. I love to learn new things and teach others so the intellectual part is easy. My discoveries also guide the look and feel of my business. Psychological preparedness becomes easier with age if you question why you are doing what you are doing and why you are not doing something that would be a good idea. As you age clear patterns emerge and you begin to form a better picture of your core values. Being physically prepared to think big is an interesting idea. You have to have the strength and stamina to do what you are called to do. I've got to work harder on that part.
His suggestion to compare how we see ourselves with how others see us is an extremely valuable concept. If you pay attention to what others say to you and what they ask you to do for them it will reflect back to you a bigger "you" than you see. Allow how others see you to point to your "think big" path.
The Think Big Manifesto makes you examine where you are, how you got there and what you really, really are capable of being. Busy or not, this book will give you pause - pause to look for ways you can begin to think bigger.
Cara Lumen, Marketing Coach and Author
www.caralumen.com
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
A Cornerstone Book, April 13, 2008
The times they are a' changing, and we have to be prepared to rethink, reposition and restructure our business. Michael Port's Beyond Booked Solid not only shines light on the path ahead but it offers us innovative "next steps" to stay ahead of the game.
Michael knows we have to build our business from the inside - from our passion, our beliefs, and our values. As we get busy learning and applying new action steps to build our business, it is easy for us to lose track of that core foundation that contains the reason for all we do. Michael asks us to move beyond our unconscious beliefs and perceived limitations and go for the biggest, highest, most unbelievable vision we can conjure up.
And then he shows us how to structure it.
A Cornerstone Business Book
I've have already read Beyond Booked Solid twice and I know it's going to stay handy on my office bookshelf just like Michael's "Book Yourself Solid" has done, because there are so many important ideas in it. This is a cornerstone book, a book upon which to build a strong business foundation even as it helps you turn the corner into a new vision and version of your business.
As an invited early reader for Michael's manuscript, I quickly realized he was asking us to move to a new vantage point, to begin to see our business as a structure for which we are the sole designer of its architecture.
When Michael asked me to create the BBS Toolkit to accompany the book I got to read the manuscript again, this time looking for ways to create questionnaires and exercises that would help me (and therefore you) really apply this important work.
The Beyond Booked Solid Toolkit that comes as a free download with purchase contains 40 thought-provoking, insight-revealing exercises that have been developed from the content of this remarkable book. In fact, the realizations you reach from moving through these exercises and studying the concepts in this book are so revealing that I have added them to my own personal Quarterly Business Review, a sort of Solstice, Equinox ritual, during which I look to see if I'm truly going where I want to be going.
It's all inside
In Beyond Booked Solid we are asked to create an open space in our mind, creatively articulate our vision, and define and design our business architecture to bring that vision into its perfect form. We are then guided to innovative action steps that help us maintain our new structure and keep it aligned with our passion and values. We are guided to build our business from the inside out so that it is truly an expression of our uniqueness.
Michael Port is an explorer and a visionary and Beyond Booked Solid is one of those exceptional books that absolutely belongs on your business book shelf - one you will pull out to refer to time and time again.
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