Last week, I revealed my revelation that I love taking in information and being in the right place at the right time to share what I know.
It turns out that being that person could actually lead to more authentic networking.
The point of networking (amazingly enough) is to build useful connections, reciprocal relationships. This means that you aren’t just looking for people who can help you; you’re also looking for people you can help.
A great way to do this is to keep yourself up to date on your own industry and nearby ones. Read about things that interest you outside your industry. Find ways to connect people you know with what you know.
You’ll feel less smarmy in your networking efforts, and you’ll help people at the same time. Win-win!
Posted by Rebecca as Uncategorized at 7:36 AM EDT
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It’s taken me a long time to figure that out, but it really is what I am at my core. You can see it in those activities I spend most of my time with- teaching, writing, reading.
I’m constantly taking in information. I’m constantly trying to figure out some of what I know so I can put it into words so someone else will know what I know. And that’s not even counting all the time I spend answering random questions that start with, “Maybe you know this. You know everything.” I don’t know everything. I’m just well-read, and I know how to look things up.
More importantly, I’ve always loved learning new things, I love doing research, and I love helping people out. I guess in that respect teaching and writing were both eventually givens for me (I fortunately found both early in life).
Now if I can just figure out how to put aside my shyness, find someone with far better business sense than me, and figure out how to use my love for taking in and spitting out information to my advantage. Any suggestions that don’t involve becoming a private tutor? (After the last two years, I feel a need to take a break form tutoring for a bit.)
Posted by Rebecca as Personal development at 8:09 AM EDT
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Somehow, between wrestling with issues at work, taking on this jewelry teaching job (first class on the 19th!), and starting to think about NaNoWriMo, I’ve let everything fall into chaos.
I’d been working on sorting through and organizing my writing and graphic design projects. The writing part is just down tro all my teaching material. The graphic design project is on hold while I try to find something that will let me arrange things my way. (I tried Scrapblog, but it crashes on Linux.)
I’m working on a pair of fan fictions with the intent of posting one of them to fanfiction.net before NaNoWriMo begins. Both are just sitting there.
My reading list is becoming a slow nightmare as I keep forgetting to add books and shift them around. My project to create one page to follow several of my web spaces is stalling out. My writing projects…scattered hither, thither, and yon (not counting the two fan fictions).
I think I need to just sit down, have a strategy session with Todoist, and get everything back in order. Then I can re-organize myself from there!
How about you? Do you have some projects getting away from you? What are you doing to pull yourself back together?
Posted by Rebecca as Uncategorized at 9:06 AM EDT
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