Networking is Farming

When you love what you do, the networking part of your work is never a chore, it's part of what you do 'ToBeMe'. Whatever your business or career, in the connected world we live in everyone is a networker.  Tor those who have that natural affinity with people, it's a small step to leverage that talent for networking and integrate it into business as usual.
For those of us who are natural introverts, it can be a challenge to accept networking as a life skill for everyone and not a work skill for salespeople.

If you really love what you do, the networking part of your work can be a fun part of what you do 'ToBeMe'.
As you develop your networking skills, and they are learnable skills, you will equally develop a natural ease that will bring networking it into your daily interactions... in and out of work.

Be careful though, as you successfully master 24/7 networking, sharing what you are passionate about easily becomes an unconscious, effortless even addictive habit, sit next to a Villa fan on a long train journey for proof.
The point is, what you have to offer does not have to be restricted to the office, or the endless round of networking events, there are opportunities to share and be of service with people all around you, all the time.

Being a more considerate [extrovert homework] and competent [introvert homework] will help you smoothly blend the modern way of working into your lifestyle, connecting with new clients wherever you go.  Sensible, sensitive networking, done with, ease and authenticity will supercharge your success.

'Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting. It's about cultivating relationships.' - Dr Ivan Misner the Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization.

TOCD

The Alchemy of Dreams

The Alchemy of Dreams

Dreams while they appear, to promise, the ability to carry, the most incredible, unbelievable and empowering imaginings
Across the mysterious river of intangible impossible faith, into the common scheme of everyday things, on gossamer wings
Regularly, they seem to me, to be such fragile tenuous things

Dreams examined from a certain viewpoint appear as pale, weak and hollow constructs
The dream constantly struggling with existing beliefs to maintain itself in the mind of one or an enlightened few
The dream is often driven out of consciousness, its version of truth ridiculed and branded… impossible… 
Belief in its impossibility soon withers the dream
It may quickly become less than a strand of a reflection of a shadow waiting to be reborn and re-revealed
In different minds or from other's thoughts.

Dreams shared by the majority are rarely long-lived
The journey into familiarity weakens not the dream but respect for the dream And the same miracle through regular occurrence encourages faith to take on habit
And habits design themselves to be comfortable and unquestioning, promoting, in turn, a pleasant dreamless sleep.

Dreams can lose their power to motivate, to move into action, as they are shared and accepted.
Imagination not driven by wonder and risk may rest in the pleasures and security of faithlessness, doubt and idle questioning
And fail to ignite the questing to realise the dream.

Dreams, though, however threadbare, rare and distant
Throughout history have proved themselves resilient and persistent.
Hope has been, time and time again, revived and anchored in the stuff of dreams.

The leader and the dreamer when they become one, defy all odds, working together to fashion the future of, from and for our Dreams. 
- TOCD