The Power and Promise of Connecting
The Power and Promise of Connecting
Thursday night (April 12th) , along with our colleague Alex Giorgio, we gave a 2 hour tele-course asking the question “How Do You Know Your Soul’s Calling?” That afternoon, through Google Alerts we saw that someone had written a post talking about our course. What a surprise and what a pleasure.
That “someone” turned out to be two someones — Mark Armstrong and Laurence Cumbie. Their blog is called Mainspring Mindshares and their URL is:
And, as the final treat, they both joined us on the call and we got to meet them and discover a little about who they are.
All through the power and promise of connecting.
So now we want you to know about them. You’ll see the the blog they wrote about our tele-course below. And when you go to their blog check out their archive. You’ll surely be intrigued, sometimes perplexed, but in the end delighted.
Thanks Mark and Lark.
Here’s their blog post.
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Head Docs Live!
Judith & Jim | Alex Giorgio
These online surveys and Ask-style marketing campaigns are sometimes irresistible to me - after all, why wouldn’t a know-it-all like me not relish the idea of providing my stupid opinion, or possibly helping somebody out with some dumb answer I might could provide?
But then I also make it a rule to participate only with those who more-than-likely won’t get bent-out-of-shape by my responses either!
Cases in point are husband-and-wife psychology team Judith Sherven and Jim Sniechowski; and Alex Giorgio - all three more than up-to-the-task of entertaining someone as lazy and stupid as me.
Tomorrow night they’ll be holding forth in a 2-hour online tele-course entitled, “How Do You Know Your Soul’s Calling?”
Check it out! You’ll find these head docs are not so much into psycho-babble so much as they’re genuinely motivated to inspire others to greatness.
And this is something I can get behind - especially since I want everyone I know to be great, including Mark!
Now Mark doesn’t know this yet, but I’m gonna let Mark foot the bill on this one too… just you wait and see… as they’re asking for a wee bit of funny money for this… and it’d be my guess to be a bargain at that!
[P.S. - Oh yea, I had already responded to an earlier Judith and Jim campaign before this one, included below. Naturally, for amusement purposes only. <<{{:>)]
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“If you had just one question to ask about your soul’s calling, what would that question be?”
I submit laziness and stupidity - framed properly - can sell… since these attributes have been maligned for too long in our capitalistic society.
These are appellations which hardly apply to anyone I know or have ever known, mind you. It’s difficult to be slothful and idiotic, even to barely get by in this world.
But, hey, I’m living proof it works for me!
Would you agree? Given the disaster many have made of their lives - with all the wrong turns, false starts-and-stops, emptiness, and resultant stress, etcetera - this news may come as welcome comic relief for many others.
I like being lazy and stupid because I feel I live life more playfully and joyfully and experience just as much, if not more, than when I was industrious, in a hurry, and always felt compelled to be “smart” about every action I chose to take.
This, for me, was a startling revelation, one which has allowed me to be quite productive in realizing my ambitions nevertheless… and, all this, despite the naysayer inside me who finds this notion preposterous.
Nowadays, this naysayer (Mr. Chatterbox) exists in my mind to keep me amused – much like the court jester (“talking headâ€Â) entertains the kings and queens of commerce and polity to this day!
I find my connections with everything and everyone contained in my daily experiences to be more vivid and exponentially more real.
If I never sell this idea it will have all been in good fun; and I will leave it as my legacy…
… As I insist it’s good for the soul to slow down enough to enjoy life and save my focus for a more meaningful contribution… true to my “soul’s callingâ€Â.
Lark
Mark and Lark.com
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About Mainspring Mindshares
Mainspring Mindshares
Dallas, Texas, US
Mark Armstrong is the current owner of a web design firm; and Laurence Cumbie is the current owner of a food and beverage equipment sales company. ***********************************************************
Mainspring Mindshares, newly incorporated as a Texas LLC, is an internet publishing and marketing consultancy, founded in September, 2006.
April 16th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
What a wonderful and valuable tele-course you hosted!
Who’d have thunk it - such a cheap date would turn out to be so worthwhile! (You know I’m kidding…:)
Mark and I have listened to the call each 3 or 4 times… as there’s always some fun, useful or inspiring little bit of human sound to mysteriously want us to listen to it again… over-and-over.
One of these days I hope to share the story of why we actually chose to participate with the two of you… AND Alex particularly… on this one little “tele-course”.
And to think it was nothing scarier than easy conversation - with some interesting people - on a telephone!
Mostly strangers before this call, there were lessons and takeaways for us all; and as you often say (so true), it really is… all in the connection.
Thanks for recognizing us here in your blog. We both feel honored you would take the time to do so!
For you internet marketers out there - all 250+ of you who regularly keep our email addresses loaded up in your auto-responders… and our inboxes full of excitement - guess who has Mark and Lark’s attention moreso than do you today?
[Hint: It’s kinda like when we must pick-and-choose a good restaurant… our decisions about which one are often influenced by that special place where somebody actually knows our names… or makes us feel special. The very best ones - whether we’ve ever been or not to that particular restaurant - make it their mission to know their guests’ names. (I know. I used to own a rather formal fine dining restaurant - except I always referred to it as a “spaghetti joint” – and often asked my guests if they were “slumming it” again… and would they prefer I told no-one they were there? Hey, whatever it took to take the starch out of the experience – for all of us!)]
It’s the essence of hospitality to make “visitors” feel comfortable, like at home. As professionals and “good people” - all three of you - you’re able to effect this much better than most, I assure you.
And I like this “personal touch” in marketing - as I really do believe it builds community in a virtual world more effectively than anything else I’ve seen yet!
Keep up the good works, Judith and Jim. And happy hunting… house hunting, that is… for that souls’ calling of yours too, okay?
Lark
[P.S. - Do you like to ride bicycles? Las Vegas is a good place for it, I hear. You don’t have to listen to so much noise – if you grab the best spots!]
April 16th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Dear Lark (and Mark too),
Yes, we experience the wonderful connection too!
Many people used to think that the virtual world was populated with strangers writing stiff, pre-digested
hocum.
But when people write like you just did, your warmth and heart come shining right through!
And the connection grows.
Plus it’s been our experience that every single person we’ve met online — was very much, in person, the way they were online — so we can form wonderfully rich, meaningful relationships online -
AND, we look forward to hearing why you took our course — when the time comes.
Thanks again for writing Lark — and being so openly generous!
We look forward to hearing from you again —
Because It’s All in the Connection,
Judith
http://www.judithandjim.com
July 30th, 2009 at 12:22 am
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