Inspiration = Webstock

by sue on January 24, 2012

I’ve been an extremely fortunate person in my life.

The places I’ve worked, the people I’ve worked for and with, the things I’ve seen and done. So while here is a great space for me to talk about the frustrations and my experiences so hopefully i learn from them and maybe help someone else, I also want to honour all the good things. Because the good things in my life have defined me more than the bad.

So to begin, lets start with an experience that change my life.
Webstock, “The mostest bestest scientifically proven amazingest conference ever. In the history of the world. Fact.”

Some people assume Webstock is just about the web, just for those who work on and in and around the web. Those people are WRONG.

Yes Webstock is all of those things, but it’s something else, something a little more magical, a little more special and a little unlike anything else. Webstock is a conference that inspires you to be the very best at what you do, to have the most fun possible at what you do and to make the world a better place doing what you do.

Sure this applies to people working in the web but as someone who lives on the remotest fringes of the geeky web world these days I can tell you from personal experience it applies to everyone, and it can apply to you work life, it can apply to your life outside work, it can apply to those secret dreams your harbour inside your innnermost being, it’s that magical.

What Webstock will do is make you think, challenge how you do things, challenge how you think about things and inspire you. Each person on that stage is a world leader in what they do, but more than that. Each speaker loves what they do, breaks all the rules and more.

In short  Webstock is the Ginsu knife of conferences.

Webstock ’12 trailer from Webstock on Vimeo.

Am I going this year? no but I’ve been lucky to attend  3 times and each time resonated with me in a different way and I still have so much sitting in my brain, and so many things i want to do  from the 3 I attended I’m not sure it has space for 4.

 

If you don’t believe everything I’ve said Why not check out past talks from webstock, it won’t cost you a thing, because hello that’s how cool Webstock is. Even if you couldn’t make it to a Webstock event they are sharing it with you, there’s no charge for access, no limited viewing time, just some amazing talks from amazing people for Free.

 

Now if that isn’t the best ”But wait! There’s more!” I have no idea what is.

 

 

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Take a pinch of Coco

by sue on January 17, 2012

That’s how it’s supposed to be right?

especially here in the southern Hemisphere where everything stops at Christmas, annual leave is taken and people slowly drift back to work during January, refreshed and relaxed from summer holidays.

For people like me in the world of selling lovely things (lovely was banned  from my vocabulary for 2011 but I’m letting myself resurrect it for 2012) December is crazy and then it’s all a bit quiet till sometime mid feb or march depending on how popular you are. So for the creative types it leave many hours over the new year to in the words of the wonderful emma, Make some plans, schemes, hopes and dreams

Every year without fail I start thinking about things, making many of those things

but then the world of my reality hits me, the one where CFS likes to remind me every January that sometimes it’s in control. So while my brain has all these things running around my body is screaming sit down slow down, because for the last few years my not so wee body has had a huge CFS crash in the first few months of the year.

It’s a result of the pressure I put myself through every December  and a timely reminder that the 50% rule is one that serves me best, think of what I want to do, what I think I can do and then automatically halve it by 50% and i get to what I’ll be able to do, except in January and February when my list is at 0 and if I get anything beyond that it’s bonus time.

When I first think about that it feels  hard and unfun. and boring oh so very boring

But If I put my mind to it and think a little more and remember this lovely postcard that I have on my wall it can be a word of fun and different and unusual. So my list of everything for 2012 current looks like this

1. apply some coco channel  to my life.

She is famously quote as saying

“Get yourself fully dressed and then, before walking out the front door, pause by the mirror and remove one item.”

and

“Less is always more.”

this is so much more fun than the 50% rule so that’s my 2012 list apply some coco

Let’s see what happens

 

 

 

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