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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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What I have experienced in the last 15 days since my daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor has proven yet again how blessed I am to be friends with the most generous, smart, caring, and supportive people on this planet.
Thank you to Allison, Ori, Ken, Carla, Sarah, Alison, Scott, and Dave for being in [...]


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<div id="attachment_1993" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/10-days-later-epw.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1993" title="Gracie 10 Days After Tumor" src="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/10-days-later-epw-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Gracie 10 days after the tumor was removed</p></div>
<p>What I have experienced in the last 15 days since <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/the-reason-why-epw-is-mia" target="_blank">my daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor</a> has proven yet again how blessed I am to be friends with the most generous, smart, caring, and supportive people on this planet.</p>
<p>Thank you to Allison, Ori, Ken, Carla, Sarah, Alison, Scott, and Dave for being in my inner circle, people to whom I could send the most shocking text ever (&#8220;gracie has a brain tumor&#8221;) in those first few dark hours, people who all immediately found the best ways they could support me &#8211; via f2f, texts, phone calls, messages, tweets, blog posts, taking stuff over, and everything else you all did that I don&#8217;t even know about. You are all amazing.</p>
<p>Thank you to <a href="http://twitter.com/AllisonNazarian" target="_blank">Allison Nazarian</a> for being the first person I told, who called me immediately as I was still sitting in shock in the doctor&#8217;s office, who talked to me on the phone for the one hour drive up to the UCSF children&#8217;s hospital. Thank you for being on constant text alert, checking on me, crying when I couldn&#8217;t, reminding me to drink water, worrying for me, and every other way you support me every day.</p>
<p>Thank you to <a href="http://twitter.com/nummiesbras" target="_blank">Alison Kramer</a> for dropping her life (with 3 kids &amp; her own business) to fly from Toronto to be with me, face to face, in San Francisco for a week. When she texted me the day after the diagnosis asking if it was okay if she came, it was so hard for me to say yes, I felt so uncomfortable accepting such a generous gift of time and support … but I really did need her. Not only did Alison bring Starbucks &amp; breakfast for me every day, and regular snacks for me and Gracie … Alison also brought peace. Alison was a playmate for Gracie, and a friend for me who was 100% on my side. Alison listened to the hospital talk, and also made sure I got out &amp; had fun conversations about anything *but* the hospital. You were an angel for me, Alison.</p>
<p>Thank you to <a href="http://twitter.com/kenmoorhead" target="_blank">Ken Moorhead</a> for the calls and texts, for immediately taking over my business without asking me (since he knows I would have said no) and for quickly writing a blog post to let everyone know the short version of why I was MIA, even before I could think. Thanks to Ken and <a href="http://twitter.com/carlayoung" target="_blank">Carla Young</a> for doing the heavy lifting of taking over my blog, email, facebook and twitter until I was able to handle it again. Thanks to Carla for being practical and doing research and doing thinking when I couldn&#8217;t and for sending an hilarious present to the hospital. Thank you to Ken, Carla, Allison Nazarian,<a href="http://twitter.com/sarahrobinson" target="_blank"> Sarah Robinson</a>, and <a href="http://twitter.com/johnnybtruant" target="_blank">Johnny B. Truant</a> for volunteering to write guest blog posts to keep ElizabethPW.com online &amp; the traffic flowing. You all made it easy for me to drop everything to just take care of me &amp; Gracie.</p>
<p>Thank you to <a href="http://twitter.com/couchsurfingori" target="_blank">Ori Bengal</a> for always being available for a phone call, whether to just talk, to listen to my insanity or to distract me with tales of his. Thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/unmarketing" target="_blank">Scott Stratten</a> for lending me Alison for the week <img src='http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> , for keeping tabs on what was going on with Gracie, for the video and the texts &amp; tweets &amp; posts on FB. Thanks to Sarah Robinson for keeping tabs on me &amp; supporting me &amp; worrying for me, even as her own life is crazy/awesome. Thank you to Dave for checking on me, grounding me, always getting me, and reminding me that I&#8217;m more than a mom with a kid in a hospital. Thank you to <a href="http://twitter.com/mamabritt" target="_blank">Britt</a> for bringing me desperately needed Starbucks, snacks &amp; toiletries &amp; distractions, and tons of toys and craft stuff for Gracie.</p>
<p>And &#8230; thank you to all of you.</p>
<p>Thank you for your emails, texts, tweets, @ replies, DMs, phone calls, facebook posts, facebook comments &amp; likes, blog posts, and blog comments. Thank you for your thoughts, prayers, wishes, energy work, and rituals.</p>
<p>I really don&#8217;t know what I have done to deserve having all of you in my life.</p>
<p>I hope someday that I am able to return some of the generosity, caring, and support that you all have unconditionally shown to me and Gracie.</p>
<p>Thank you, and I love you.</p>
<p>#<em>thatisall</em></p>


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Over the past few days, I have been privileged to experience what happens when some amazing human beings come together to help and support and love one of their own. (Note: If you haven&#8217;t heard the latest about Gracie and EPW, read this first.)
I have seen people like Carla, Ken, Sarah, Alison and Ori spring [...]


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<p>Over the past few days, I have been privileged to experience what happens when some amazing human beings come together to help and support and love one of their own. (Note: If you haven&#8217;t heard the latest about Gracie and EPW, read <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/the-reason-why-epw-is-mia" target="_blank">this</a> first.)</p>
<p>I have seen people like Carla, Ken, Sarah, Alison and Ori spring into action in a way that awes me, makes me cry every 32.6 seconds and does me proud.</p>
<p>Not surprising, or even unexpected &#8212; but very, very ironic.</p>
<p><em>Why ironic?<br />
</em><br />
Because, you see, these are my “fake” friends.</p>
<p>These are the ones I met in that fake world of cyberspace and social media (twitter, specifically).</p>
<p>The ones who I don’t see face-to-face with any regularity, the ones I would never run into at Publix, the ones I can’t meet at Starbucks with five minutes’ warning, the ones who live Lord-knows-where-but-definitely-not-where-I-live.</p>
<p>These are the “fake” friends that I get questioned about – lots – in my “real” life.</p>
<p><em>“Why do you spend so much time talking to/texting with/tweeting these people?”</em></p>
<p><em>“Isn’t it weird that you are such good friends with people who don’t even live here?”</em></p>
<p><em>“Are you going to meet those people in Vegas again?!”<br />
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Yes, my “fake” friends.</p>
<p>The very same “fake” friends who, within hours (and in some instances, minutes) of the news about Gracie from EPW, rallied, communicated, planned and organized.</p>
<p>Like the “fake” friend who got on an 8am flight Saturday from Toronto to San Francisco to be with EPW for one full (and uncertain) week. Oh, and she left three not-at-all-fake young kids at home with their Dad so she could do so. (She runs a business, too, by the way. So she has just a tad bit on her plate.)</p>
<p>Then there is the “fake” friend (in Indiana) who, by Thursday night, had emailed Carla (Calgary) and me (Florida) log-in, scheduling, calendar and inside business information so that we could coordinate and plan for an unspecified amount of time’s worth of blog posts, tweets, emails and promotions.</p>
<p>From the first night, Carla was researching the science and medical aspects, tweeting for EPW, strategizing and keeping her head on straight. (In fact, her business head and practical questions gave me a cold hard dose of reality in terms of how my own business would fare if I had to leave it indefinitely. Lots to look at and change in that department for me, but that’s for another post.)</p>
<p>Ken and Carla didn’t let emotion stop them; in fact, it made them more focused and purposeful in their emails and actions. Admirable in any situation; freakin shake-your-head amazing given the distance, the full plates we all already have and their no-nonsense approach. (Maybe they felt they could focus better after telling me that they were OK with me worrying for the both of them. This is definitely a group in which each person knows his or her place, and does what he/she does best.)</p>
<p>More “fake” friends…including the one who, like me, needs to come up with blog post titles in her head as a sort-of therapeutic way of dealing with whatever this or the next moment brings.  Everything has a corresponding blog post title, that’s how we process it and carry on. (I always have to remind myself that not everyone is like this. And that it is a little weird, actually. I can say that because I do it too.)</p>
<p>By the way, that’s the same “fake” friend (Alabama, by the way) currently driving with her husband and son to North Carolina while communicating with me via texts and updates back and forth.</p>
<p>I’d be remiss if I didn’t tell you, as well, about the “fake” friend (sort-of Texas, now dog-sitting in California, couchsurfing everywhere) who is available 24/7 (literally) for jokes of any and all kinds, from corny to belly-laughing to X-rated to so-stupid-I-don’t-know-if-it-is-funny-or-ridiculous.  (Full disclosure: I knew this “fake” friend from the days before twitter an Facebook, so maybe he is only a “half-fake” friend.)</p>
<p>And then there are the numerous “fake” friends who have emailed, tweeted, texted, called and messaged me over the past 48 or so hours, asking from the bottom of their hearts what they can do for EPW and Grace, how they can help and begging me to, at the very least, make sure Elizabeth knows she is in their thoughts and prayers.</p>
<p><strong>Yes, these are the “fake” friends I am proud to call my own. </strong></p>
<p>The ones who have shown their true colors in ways I’d have bet on but couldn’t really have imagined.</p>
<p>The ones whose hearts and minds and business acumen and all-around life skills know no bounds, geographical or otherwise.</p>
<p>The ones I am learning from in many ways, in just about every moment.</p>
<p>These are the ones who, together, are capable of just about anything. The ones who, ultimately, care more than anything about a beautiful and sweet five-year-old girl in a San Francisco hospital bed.</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s some fake stuff, huh?!</strong></p>
<p>As many of you know, EPW and I are in constant touch, literally, every day, all day and some of the night long.</p>
<p>One of the exchanges from what I would imagine is now in the tens of thousands of texts I once sent her talked about my views on the term “IRL” or “In Real Life.”</p>
<p>Sometimes, when people who know each other through a medium like twitter meet up offline, they say they are finally meeting “IRL.” I told EPW that I didn’t feel that was an accurate term because a massive part of my “RL” is people who don’t live in my area code. People I don’t see every day or every week or even every month. I told her I felt that using that acronym downplayed the significance or importance of what were and are some of the most important relationships in my life. They are part of my “RL” even if I don’t see them every day or every week (or month).</p>
<p>So I always use the term “f2f” (face-to-face) as opposed to “IRL.” Telling her that made me feel better, though it didn&#8217;t seem terribly significant at the time.</p>
<p><strong>Now, it makes more sense than I could have imagined.</strong></p>
<p>These “fake” friends? I’ve never met anyone like them. I’ve never seen a group of people come together in such a loving and totally productive way. Without fanfare. Without nonsense. Just doing what needs to get done for our friend. Our very, very “fake” friend.</p>
<p>So to my “fake” friends, and there are many more of you than those I have mentioned by name here, I say <strong>THANK YOU</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Thank you</strong> for showing me that true friendship and true love can be and are very, very real and profound no matter what form (or medium) they come in.</p>
<p><strong>Thank you</strong> for being as weird as I am, for being able to take charge when you need to, for shining in moments that aren’t bright and happy and shiny and for letting me worry (quietly) and write blogs and emails for EPW so that I can do what I do best. (Just don’t ask me to take over any tech-related responsibilities.)</p>
<p>And, above all, <strong>thank you</strong> for letting me be in this IRL, not-always-face-to-face, not-your-mother’s-friendship with all of you.</p>
<p><strong><em>So with apologies to Oprah, I will now tell you what I know for sure:</em></strong> Some of you may question or judge what is unfamiliar or uncomfortable to you. I know it because I have been on the judging end, and I have been on the being-judged end.</p>
<p>Either way, my love, my friends and my world may not look like yours. It doesn’t have to and they don’t have to. That doesn&#8217;t change how very, very real it all is, or how very, very fortunate I am.</p>
<p>So next time you want to ask me why I text so much on my phone, or what’s with my obsession with twitter or who these people in freakin Canada, Indiana, California, Alabama and who-knows-where-else are, please remember what I have shared with you today.</p>
<p>These people are some of the best friends I have ever had. And even more, they are my family.</p>
<p>#thatisall</p>


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The most important resource for you to find &#38; build your tribe, to develop relationships, to create a community &#8212; isn&#8217;t twitter or facebook, it&#8217;s not email marketing or affiliate management software, it&#8217;s not tweetups or telesummits or amazon.com campaigns &#8211;
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<p>The most important resource for you to find &amp; build your tribe, to develop relationships, to create a community &#8212; isn&#8217;t twitter or facebook, it&#8217;s not email marketing or affiliate management software, it&#8217;s not tweetups or telesummits or amazon.com campaigns &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>the most important resource in building your tribe are your <em>evangelists</em></strong><strong>.</strong></p>
<p><em>If you want to learn more about building your tribe &#8211;&gt; next week I&#8217;m launching the pre-sale of <strong><a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/buildyourtribe/" target="_blank">Build Your Tribe</a>, the new program to teach you how to find those people who resonate with you and build relationships to revolutionize your business &amp; your life</strong>. <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/buildyourtribe/" target="_blank">Learn more and get on the First Dibs list </a>(it will only be open for 3 days!).</em></p>
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<p><em>How do you want to be acknowledged for spreading the word about your favorite people, programs, &amp; brands? </em></p>
<p><em> How do you thank members of your tribe for passing you along to their people?</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your ideas, feedback, and comments below!</p>


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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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This summer I&#8217;m so freaking excited to open four new programs for you: Build Your Tribe, Find Your Truth, the Advanced Video Series, and the Quickstart Video Program.
In the spirit of &#8220;this is not a freaking non-profit,&#8221; I&#8217;m launching the heck out of these this summer.
I will be asking you to help. (More on that [...]


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<p>This summer I&#8217;m so freaking excited to open four new programs for you: <strong>Build Your Tribe</strong>, <strong>Find Your Truth</strong>, the <strong>Advanced Video Series</strong>, and the <strong>Quickstart Video Program</strong>.</p>
<p>In the spirit of &#8220;<a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/sell" target="_blank">this is not a freaking non-profit</a>,&#8221; I&#8217;m launching the heck out of these this summer.</p>
<p><strong>I will be asking you to help.</strong> (<em>More on that later.</em>)</p>
<p>Meanwhile, sign up now to get on the First Dibs list &amp; you&#8217;ll be the *first* to know when these programs go live!</p>
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<h3>#1 &#8211; Build Your Tribe (prelaunch May 25-27, 2010)</h3>
<p><strong>Create relationships. Build a tribe. Engage. Join the conversation. </strong></p>
<p><em>Yeah, but what does that mean? How do you actually </em>do<em> that?</em></p>
<p>In BYT I&#8217;ll teach you both the technical steps as well as the strategy behind each step of building your tribe.</p>
<p><strong>You will find &amp; nurture a tribe that resonates with and buys from you. Because of who you really are. </strong></p>
<p>Building my tribe changed everything for me &#8211; especially as I launched a completely new business in 2009. All my successes, the money I&#8217;ve made, the joint ventures and opportunities and friendships and masterminding &#8211; it all came from that tribe.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll be focusing on five tactical areas for building &amp; nurturing your tribe: social media, email, deliverable content, blogs, and live interaction.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how it will work: BYT will be a virtual self-study program delivered via video/audios &amp; pdfs, broken down into short lessons. You&#8217;ll also get video tutorials on the technology and case study interviews with both experts as well as regular people you haven&#8217;t heard of who have got results. I&#8217;m probably going to throw in more stuff too unless <a href="http://twitter.com/KenMoorhead" target="_blank">someone</a> stops me.</p>
<p>It will be freaking awesometastic. The prelaunch is in less than 2 weeks. <em>#yay!</em></p>
<p><strong>Get on the EPW First Dibs list to keep up with the latest on Build Your Tribe and everything else I&#8217;m launching this summer.</strong></p>
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<p>(More on Find Your Truth, the Advanced Video Series, and The Quickstart Video Program coming soon)</p>
<p><em>If you have anything you&#8217;d like included in BYT, or anything else you would like to learn from me or need help with, leave a comment below!</em></p>


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Stalking people online is an art form.
And I don&#8217;t mean that crazy stalking that results in me unfollowing &#38; blocking some creepy dude at one in the morning while I&#8217;m in Vegas because he is suggesting he may drive across 4 states to find me. #truestory
I mean keeping up with the most important people in [...]


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<p><strong>Stalking people online is an art form.</strong></p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t mean that crazy stalking that results in me unfollowing &amp; blocking some creepy dude at one in the morning while I&#8217;m in Vegas because he is suggesting he may drive across 4 states to find me. #truestory</p>
<p><strong>I mean keeping up with the most important people in your business. </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>The most important people in your life. Not missing those most important tweets.</p>
<p>And this is hard to scale. I mean, I obviously can&#8217;t read all of the tweets of the 13K people who follow me.</p>
<p>And no, I don&#8217;t use Tweetdesk or Semantic or any of the twitter clients or applications to manage my stalking.</p>
<p><strong>I use twitter lists.</strong></p>
<p>No only do I love using twitter lists on twitter.com from my desktop or laptop (I typically have 4-5 tabs open in Chrome to do this), now Tweetie 2.0 on my iPhone can also access my twitter lists, so I can effectively stalk from anywhere.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s how I use twitter lists to maintain my most important relationships and make additional connections with my tribe.</strong></p>
<h3>1. Stalking in real life.</h3>
<p>When I went to South by Southwest in March, I dreaded being in downtown Austin overflowing with 11K people at SXSW interactive (plus thousands more at the film &amp; music festivals). How could I possibly find the people most important to me?</p>
<p>So, I created a <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/sxsw" target="_blank">SXSW twitter list</a> of my twitter connections going to SXSW. Now I could easily use Tweetie on my iPhone to find out who was doing what at any particular time. I could find out who was having coffee where, what bar they were going to, who was at what session, who was missing because they were still in their hotel room. And hunt them down.</p>
<p>I have also used location based twitter lists to develop a network of connections before I visit &amp; have a tweetup (like <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/chicagoftw" target="_blank">Chicago</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/sanfranciscoftw" target="_blank">SF</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/peepsinsandiego" target="_blank">San Diego</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/reasonstolovecanada" target="_blank">Canada</a>), have a list of <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/peopleimstalkingkindof" target="_blank">awesome people who I&#8217;m stalking</a> and want to connect with in real life, and a <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/peopleivetweetedupwith" target="_blank">list of people who I&#8217;ve tweeted up with</a> so I can remember to connect with them again online.</p>
<h3>2. Stalking online.</h3>
<p>There are some people for whom I don&#8217;t want to miss anything they say on twitter. And there are others for whom I want to catch most of what they say.</p>
<p>For business, I use lists like my private &#8220;rock star&#8221; list (179 people, changes weekly), and my lists of <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/membersofliveyourtruth" target="_blank">members of Live Your Truth</a> and #<a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/lytchat" target="_blank">lytchat</a>.</p>
<p>For fun, I keep a list of people who are <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/inappropriate" target="_blank">inappropriate</a> (yes, as you know, always need a bit more snark in my life).</p>
<p>For me, I want to keep track of all my best friends. So I&#8217;ve created a private twitter list just of those 7 BFFs. And I pretty much read all of their tweets. #powerstalkingFTW</p>
<p>Why do I keep my &#8220;rock star&#8221; and &#8220;bff&#8221; lists private? Because those are just for me. It&#8217;s not an objective standard I&#8217;m using for those lists. It&#8217;s pretty much just who I feel like reading today.</p>
<h3>3. To enable others to stalk each other.</h3>
<p>I&#8217;ve created lists to facilitate different parts of my community to connect with each other. Lists for <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/infjsareawesome" target="_blank">INFJs</a>, #<a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/lytchat" target="_blank">lytchat</a> and for <a href="http://twitter.com/ElizabethPW/membersofliveyourtruth" target="_blank">members of Live Your Truth</a>.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the secret tip &#8211; if you care about building relationships &amp; creating a tribe &#8211; the most effective thing you can do is to empower your tribe to build relationships with each other.</p>
<p>Relationships that don&#8217;t necessarily involve you, but you were the thing that brought them together. Not only does this strengthen your tribe, but it cements you in their minds as the connector. The nexus.</p>
<p><strong><em>Have you seen other effective uses of twitter lists?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Are you using twitter lists?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>I love to hear your experiences, feedback, and questions below! </em></strong></p>


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So right now I&#8217;m in the middle of designing and writing the copy for my new website, which will go up later this week. And, if left to my own devices, I would spend all of my time over the next 96 hours obsessing over it.
And not get any other work done.
But, alas, I am [...]


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<p>So right now I&#8217;m in the middle of designing and writing the copy for my new website, which will go up later this week. And, if left to my own devices, I would spend all of my time over the next 96 hours obsessing over it.</p>
<p><strong>And not get any other work done.</strong></p>
<p>But, alas, I am one of only two people working for my company, and there&#8217;s other work to get done.</p>
<p>So instead of actually working on that other work (including writing this post and another guest blog posts for <a href="http://www.momeomagazine.com/" target="_blank">MomEO</a>), I did what any highly productive CEO would do.</p>
<p><strong>I went and complained on twitter.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Whining on Twitter" src="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/images/whine.jpg" alt="" width="382" height="189" /></p>
<p>And my wonderful friend <a href="http://www.nummies.com/blog/" target="_blank">Alison Kramer</a> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/nummiesbras" target="_blank">nummiesbras</a>) replied to my complaints in a flash of brilliance:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Inspiration" src="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/images/inspiration.jpg" alt="" width="382" height="189" /></p>
<p>Finally! Inspiration!</p>
<p>And that leads us to the point of this blog post.</p>
<p><strong>You see, I complain about two problems with writing.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The first is that I feel the need to be inspired. </strong></p>
<p>To have a flash, a possession come over me that demands I write an epic diatribe full of insight and pronouncements on life or business or reality.</p>
<p><strong>Obviously not a sustainable business model. </strong></p>
<p>I can&#8217;t base the blog of a real business, one that needs continuous traffic and new content, off of random and unpredictable inspiration.</p>
<p>And, as we&#8217;ve all said before, <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/epic" target="_blank">every post does not need to be epic</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The second complaint is that I don&#8217;t have time to write. </strong></p>
<p>Now this excuse is becoming more and lame. I&#8217;ve hired <a href="http://kenmoorhead.com" target="_blank">Ken Moorhead</a> (@<a href="http://twitter.com/kenmoorhead" target="_blank">kenmoorhead</a>) as my COO, which means that all of those back end things of my business are being handled by someone much more suited for that than I.</p>
<p>And seriously, some of the time I&#8217;m futzing around on social media or answering emails could be dedicated to writing.</p>
<p><strong>But writing, or any creative endeavor, doesn&#8217;t just need time. It needs space.</strong></p>
<p>When my mindset is in the middle of a project, when I&#8217;m stressed out about a conflict with a loved one, when the apartment is a mess &#8230; I can&#8217;t create.</p>
<p>I have no mental space. No spiritual space. No void created for the chaos of my mind to find a nexus, to pull together disparate pieces of information and ideas into a message. Into a truth to be spoken.</p>
<p><strong>So, instead, I whine.</strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s freaking useful &amp; productive, eh?!</p>
<p><em>Ah, but it was, wasn&#8217;t it?</em></p>
<p>I whined. And now, I am writing. About said whining.</p>
<p>And, that&#8217;s the nexus of this post.</p>
<p><strong>Write from the now. </strong></p>
<p>From how you feel, where you are, what&#8217;s going on, in this moment.</p>
<p><strong>Because there is always inspiration in this moment. </strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s the only place where inspiration lives. In the now.</p>
<p>So if you have a blog post to write, or a video to create, and don&#8217;t feel like it, or have writer&#8217;s block, or are obsessed with your website or your house being a mess or the fight you just had with your friend or how cute your cat is &#8230; write about that.</p>
<p>And yeah, you may want to relate it somewhat to your business. Or what was on your writing calendar for that day.</p>
<p><em>Or not. </em></p>
<p>I invite you to let inspiration, let the moment lead you to what to create. Don&#8217;t force it inside a predetermined framework. Don&#8217;t think your way into it.</p>
<p>Because, the thing is, you already know.</p>
<p><strong>Just get out of your own freaking way, and write. </strong></p>


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So generally speaking, I don&#8217;t get intimidated by anyone.
You make a zillion dollars more than me, are decades older, have a blog with a billion readers? Awesome. I&#8217;m much more concerned whether you are a non-idiot who is funny &#38; has something interesting to say.
I pride myself on being able to talk to just about [...]


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<p>So generally speaking, I don&#8217;t get intimidated by anyone.</p>
<p>You make a zillion dollars more than me, are decades older, have a blog with a billion readers? Awesome. I&#8217;m much more concerned whether you are a non-idiot who is funny &amp; has something interesting to say.</p>
<p><strong>I pride myself on being able to talk to just about anybody.</strong></p>
<p>But I totally have a ridiculous fangirl thing for @<a href="http://twitter.com/gapingvoid" target="_blank">gapingvoid</a> (<a href="http://gapingvoid.com" target="_blank">Hugh MacLeod</a>, author of &#8220;Ignore Everybody&#8221;). I re-read his book once a month. Tell everyone to buy it. Read his blog. Follow his twitter. I&#8217;ve even bought a <a href="http://www.gapingvoidgallery.com/product_info.php?products_id=51" target="_blank">print of one of his cartoons</a> as the first piece of art for my wall. Actually, the first art print I&#8217;ve ever bought in my life.</p>
<p><strong>And he was on my short list of who I wanted to meet (<em>aka stalk</em>) at SXSW.</strong></p>
<p>So instead of finding him in his booth or at a coffee shop or a bunch of other places I could have tracked him down for a conversation (because, as I lamented to <a href="http://twitter.com/sarahrobinson" target="_blank">Sarah Robinson</a>, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I could talk to him!&#8221; or &#8220;I might throw up on him!&#8221;), I chickened out.</p>
<p><strong>And went to hear him on a panel on Monday.</strong></p>
<p>And tweeted about it.</p>
<p><strong>And 15 minutes before the panel, he @ replied back that I should go up to him before they start, and say hi. </strong><em>(omg!)</em></p>
<p>But I missed the tweet, in my lame effort to concern iPhone battery power. #<em>technologyfail</em></p>
<p><strong>And after the panel, even after I had read the tweet, I could have talked to him. </strong></p>
<p>But I freaked and went down the escalator instead to grab lunch with a friend. #<em>lameexcuse</em></p>
<p>Later I tried to find him in the expo at his table. He was either not there or was being interviewed on camera. #<em>stalkingfail</em></p>
<p><strong><em>So what&#8217;s the lesson?</em></strong></p>
<p>I should have talked to him. When he *invited* me to.</p>
<p>Or found him at a coffee house, or some other place where he was not being bombarded by people.</p>
<p><strong>The lesson is that everyone is fangirl/fanboy about someone. </strong></p>
<p>We all are slightly insane.</p>
<p>This happens when someone says or does something that has a huge effect on our lives, before we&#8217;ve connected with them as human beings. It&#8217;s completely one-sided. And can get a bit wonky.</p>
<p><strong>But really &#8230; we are all just people. </strong></p>
<p>We want to make a connection with the very people who love our work.</p>
<p><strong>I mean, wtf are we doing this for anyway, if we don&#8217;t get to talk to each other?</strong></p>
<p>So the next time I get all fangirl over someone, I&#8217;m tracking them down &amp; making a connection before I get too wonky.</p>
<p><strong>And if you see me at a conference or tweetup, and want to come talk to me, do it. </strong></p>
<p>If I&#8217;m sitting by myself, it&#8217;s not because I want to be alone, it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m an introvert and networking is scary.</p>
<p>If it helps, send me a @/DM on twitter first, and I&#8217;ll give you a specific invitation.</p>
<p><strong>See you then. </strong></p>
<p><em>Have you ever been nervous to talk to someone?  (Did you every throw up on someone, because I&#8217;m kind of worried about that.) What happened when you got up the guts to talk to them? </em></p>


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But in the age of social media, of being able to connect with people via twitter, facebook, phone, email, skype &#8230; why do we need to go to live events at all?
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<p>Right now I&#8217;m in SFO airport about to board a plane to Austin (via Las Vegas) for<a href="http://sxsw.com" target="_blank"> South by Southwest Interactive</a> (SXSWi).</p>
<p>But in the age of social media, of being able to connect with people via twitter, facebook, phone, email, skype &#8230; why do we need to go to live events at all?</p>
<p>Why go to seminars and conferences to learn? Why not just learn new stuff via information products and</p>
<p><strong>Why do we need in real life? </strong></p>
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<p>Are you coming to SXSW? Make sure we find each other!!</p>
<p>And &#8230; what have you got out of meeting people in real life?</p>


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I talk about Live Your Truth all the time (it&#8217;s even tattooed on the inside of my wrist!), and every so often someone actually asks me straight out, &#8220;what do you mean by live your truth?&#8221;
As I&#8217;ve said many times, I can&#8217;t tell you what it means to live your truth.
Because it&#8217;s your truth.
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<p>I talk about Live Your Truth all the time (it&#8217;s even <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/tattoo" target="_blank">tattooed on the inside of my wrist</a>!), and every so often someone actually asks me straight out, &#8220;<em>what do you mean by live your truth?</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>As I&#8217;ve said many times, I can&#8217;t tell you what it means to live your truth.</p>
<p><strong>Because it&#8217;s <em>your</em> truth.</strong></p>
<p>Not <em>the</em> truth. Not <em>my</em> truth. Not the truth written by the gurus or dictated by institutions or governments or your parents.</p>
<p>But your personal truth.</p>
<p><strong>Now, that&#8217;s all nice and good, but you may want a little more freaking direction than that.</strong></p>
<p>I define &#8220;living your truth&#8221; in two different ways … one is the mission of my company, and other other is my personal definition &amp; the tools I use to apply it in my life.</p>
<p><strong>Live Your Truth empowers solo-entrepreneurs to make a greater contribution to the world and become more successful &amp; fulfilled by doing what is a natural extension of who they really</strong><strong> are.</strong></p>
<p>(<em>thanks to </em><a href="http://twitter.com/KenMoorhead" target="_blank"><em>Ken Moorhead</em></a><em> for yanking this out of me during a late night consulting session</em>)</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s not *my* truth and it&#8217;s not *your* truth … that&#8217;s just what I&#8217;m doing here in this business.</p>
<p>Living <em>my</em> truth is about begin 100% myself 100% of the time, about speaking the things that everyone thinks but no one says, about choosing to be uncomfortable every day, about being a visible leader of this movement.</p>
<p><strong>But what could Living Your Truth mean to you?</strong></p>
<p>During the first weekly <a href="http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com/lytchat" target="_blank">#lytchat (live your truth twitter chat)</a> we discussed this very question, and here are some of the responses:</p>
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<li><a href="http://twitter.com/idance_iwrite" target="_blank">idance_iwrite</a>: Actively letting go of what other&#8217;s want from you and listening to your &#8216;inner voice&#8217;</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/JanieC" target="_blank">JanieC</a>: letting the real and best you out of it&#8217;s hiding spot</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/LisaMHines" target="_blank">LisaMHines</a>: Being courteous to others, but not letting them persuade your actions, words, etc.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/kymleeisawesome" target="_blank">kymleeisawesome</a>: knowing what you are &amp; are not responsible for. not doing anything that doesn&#8217;t fit your vision for yourself</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/tarufisher" target="_blank">tarufisher</a>: For me, #LYT is saying &#8220;no&#8221; when I mean &#8220;no&#8221;, and &#8220;yes&#8221; when I mean &#8220;yes&#8221;.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/ACCompanyC" target="_blank">ACCompanyC</a>: disregarding the &#8220;shoulds&#8217;&#8221; &#8211; or at least questioning why should I?</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/LisaMHines" target="_blank">LisaMHines</a>: LYT means staying in a centered place, honoring my true self in everything I do.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/JanieC" target="_blank">JanieC</a>: getting rid of barriers, real and imagined</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/bethearle" target="_blank">bethearle</a>: For me it&#8217;s living my values</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/JennaAvery" target="_blank">JennaAvery</a>: Having the courage to say what I mean, mean what I say, do what I love, and love what I do, in all things.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/bethearle" target="_blank">bethearle</a>: practicing outwardly what my inner self knows intuitively</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/lizschneider" target="_blank">lizschneider</a>: keeping soul-level promises that i make to myself.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/jaladesigns" target="_blank">jaladesigns</a>: 4 me, its simply just being myself instead of trying 2 b perfect. It&#8217;s living &amp; operating w/ honesty, integrity &amp; decency.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/lorilatimer" target="_blank">lorilatimer</a>: Doing what&#8217;s right for me, not what anyone else thinks or wants</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/lizschneider" target="_blank">lizschneider</a>: Living my truth means, &#8220;walking my talk&#8221;, speaking what I think and doing what I speak</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/truthlifecoach" target="_blank">truthlifecoach</a>: It’s about honoring my core values and trusting my “gut&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/jhaubein" target="_blank">jhaubein</a>: Being yourself no matter what others might think of you. Staying true to your values.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/daniellemmiller" target="_blank">daniellemmiller</a>: making sure my purpose and values are not compromised by my head worrying about what others think</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/jenngbob" target="_blank">jenngbob</a>: Living my truth means not feeling guilty for doing what I intuitively feel I should be doing right now</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/ChristineVenart" target="_blank">ChristineVenart</a>: For me, living my truth means to show up as myself always, push myself past my fears, and to say the hard truth</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/kymleeisawesome" target="_blank">kymleeisawesome</a>: not being afraid to take that leap of faith, facing down the fear and moving forward into uncertainty</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/lorilatimer" target="_blank">lorilatimer</a>: It also means saying &#8220;no&#8221; when that&#8217;s what&#8217;s best for me &#8211; something I didn&#8217;t used to do</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/KyraHowell" target="_blank">KyraHowell</a>: Living my truth means knowing my vision and allowing that to be my life.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/m_michael" target="_blank">m_michael</a>: Living my truth: Being fearless w/o recklessness</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/YourGoToGuy" target="_blank">YourGoToGuy</a>: Simply doing instead of worrying.</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/daniellemmiller" target="_blank">daniellemmiller</a>: complete trust in my intuition and &#8220;gut&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/chrisarcucci" target="_blank">chrisarcucci</a>: speaking &amp; living my truth with compassion and clarit</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/lorilatimer" target="_blank">lorilatimer</a>: Getting out of my head and listening to my heart/intuition</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/bethearle" target="_blank">bethearle</a>: not following the crowd/ marching to my own drum</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/MarySchaefer" target="_blank">MarySchaefer</a>: Giving myself permission to be BIG and small and loving myself in any state</li>
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<p><em>So … I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts &amp; ideas, by you commenting below &#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>… do any of these resonate with you? What do the words &#8220;live your truth&#8221; mean to you?</em></p>
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