The Invisible Mentor

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Do you know how to solve your own problems? You have been asked by the new management team to look at the feasibility of re-introducing a product, which failed five years ago, what steps do you take before you report back to them in two months?

I am experimenting with the way I present information, so I am posting a previous post but in a different format. Please let me know which format you prefer. How can you use the information in the presentation to solve the challenge outlined above? Are the steps given, detailed enough for you to follow them?

Now let’s re-frame the problem slightly, the management team has asked you to re-introduce a product, which failed five years ago. You have been given six months to launch the product. Using the Reverse Problem Solving Technique, how do you proceed? Let’s keep the conversation going, what are your thoughts?

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I created the presentation below for a Slideshare competition, but while I was creating it I had my blog readers in mind because I thought it would be beneficial to you. Please let others know about it if you find it useful. In the presentation there are influential book lists that can help you decide what to read.

There are clickable links within the presentation to make it easy to download the reading lists as well as visit the websites mentioned.

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A few days ago I promised that I would create a slide show with photographs of nature to see if nature can really mentor us. Here is the slide show, please let me know what you think.

Here are my thoughts on the photos with accompanying music. Life may be cloudy but there is beauty in everything, even our sorrows. All we have to do is take time for reflection. We all need nurturing to sustain us and we need to nurture others so that we can all spread our wings and soar. Life is fluid and squirrely, but it is important to enjoy the fruits of  life and its many wonders. If we stretch ourselves we will grow because lessons are always around us. Mother nature can guide us, if we let her, is that not what a mentor is?

What are your thoughts, could nature mentor you?

Music Credit: Say Hey (I Love You), Michael Franti

Small changes can give you very different results in your life. View both slide shows below, they both have the exact photographs but I changed the style effects: one is remix and the other is prism. The slides were created using the technology at Slide.org.

Which of the slide shows do you prefer? What emotions do they stir up in you? What do you see, and what do you feel when you watch the slide shows? Now turn the sound off your computer and watch the slide shows again, do you feel differently, how? In the busyness of our lives, we live without really feeling or seeing? Reflect on your life, how might some small changes in your behaviour give you very different results? What one small change can you commit to making? The popular quote attributed to both Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin says “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Photo credits: Avil Beckford

Song Credit: Faith Hill, This Kiss

I wanted to do a slideshow blog post but did not have a clue how and where to begin. I knew that I would have to figure it out someday, but kept putting it off. Have you ever done that?

Joanna Young at Confident Writing is having a Mission Im(Possible): Group Writing Project where she asks individuals to write a post in a format that they are unaccustomed to, and I thought that someday has come. I used my close friend Google to figure out the technology that would allow me to create a slideshow that is compatible with a WordPress blog. This post is my entry into the Mission Im(Possible): Group Writing Project. I created the slideshow using the tools at Slide.com.

If a picture is really worth a thousand words, what is your story now that you have watched the slideshow? Mine would go something like this. As I journey through life, I take different paths because I stumble, but always pick myself up. Some paths are easier than others, sometimes they are steep, cloudy, crowded, or busy. I reflect on the experiences that I have on my journey so that I can course correct if necessary. I look up and see the beauty in all things, and I try to laugh and not take myself too seriously. There are lessons all around me, I learn, move on, but most importantly I remember that though the destination is important, the journey is the key and so I smile because all is well.

Exercise

Select photos that have a special meaning to you and write a cohesive story based on what you see and feel. The Invisible Mentor is about peeling off layers and getting to the real you.

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