Comments on: rain check http://www.bethdunn.org/2008/05/17/rain-check/ Inbound Marketing for Creative Small Businesses Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:45:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Rachel Happe http://www.bethdunn.org/2008/05/17/rain-check/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Rachel Happe Tue, 20 May 2008 14:01:35 +0000 http://smalldots.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-230 Hi Beth - this is exactly what I was talking about - albeit with a different type of technology. And while you are at the wiper blades, may I recommend RainEx....amazing stuff and probably horrible for the environment but it makes your windshield she water like a duck. And I would love to reschedule lunch/dinner :) Hi Beth – this is exactly what I was talking about – albeit with a different type of technology. And while you are at the wiper blades, may I recommend RainEx….amazing stuff and probably horrible for the environment but it makes your windshield she water like a duck.

And I would love to reschedule lunch/dinner :)

]]> By: Tina Mammoser http://www.bethdunn.org/2008/05/17/rain-check/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Tina Mammoser Mon, 19 May 2008 21:37:50 +0000 http://smalldots.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-229 A small techie Aha moment was when I "got" rss feeds. Within hours I had Google reader and subscriptions to about a dozen feeds that normally I rechecked all day. So simple! Oh the time I could save! The Google updates I could get to check on references to me or relevent topics! Sooo many more people I could now follow and read without guilt! That's why I'm here. :) A small techie Aha moment was when I “got” rss feeds. Within hours I had Google reader and subscriptions to about a dozen feeds that normally I rechecked all day. So simple! Oh the time I could save! The Google updates I could get to check on references to me or relevent topics! Sooo many more people I could now follow and read without guilt! That’s why I’m here. :)

]]> By: Marie in Maine http://www.bethdunn.org/2008/05/17/rain-check/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Marie in Maine Mon, 19 May 2008 09:51:35 +0000 http://smalldots.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-228 Mine came when I quit my corporate job in 1999 after months of panic attacks and withstood other people's questions and comments: "but why would you leave such a great job?" The human body & mind can only take so much stress before it starts to tell you something. So man people don't listen, they take a pill to make it better, they say they have no other options. I hated my job, it was not just stressing me out, it was depressing me. I tried going back to a different, seemingly less stressful job a few years later and the cubicle walls drove me nuts. I don't make anywhere near as much money now but I am a lot happier. No more pantyhose either! HA! I have found winter blades are wonderful things to put on in October in preparation for snow. The ice doesn't get stuck in the holes because they are covered. Mine came when I quit my corporate job in 1999 after months of panic attacks and withstood other people’s questions and comments: “but why would you leave such a great job?”

The human body & mind can only take so much stress before it starts to tell you something. So man people don’t listen, they take a pill to make it better, they say they have no other options. I hated my job, it was not just stressing me out, it was depressing me. I tried going back to a different, seemingly less stressful job a few years later and the cubicle walls drove me nuts.

I don’t make anywhere near as much money now but I am a lot happier. No more pantyhose either! HA!

I have found winter blades are wonderful things to put on in October in preparation for snow. The ice doesn’t get stuck in the holes because they are covered.

]]> By: Amy Lenzo http://www.bethdunn.org/2008/05/17/rain-check/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Amy Lenzo Sat, 17 May 2008 20:00:02 +0000 http://smalldots.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-227 This is a great post, Beth, and I love Jeane's comment. This is more about mastering a skill than finding the right piece of technology, but I remember the first website I ever built - the frustration of not knowing how to do things and then persevering through the frustration until I figured it out. Wow. What a feeling of expansion and excitement came over me when it actually worked! It was like a whole new world opening up before me (and I've never looked back). Much much earlier in my life, when I was 14, I made a decision to leave my narrow home and seek adventure in the wide wide world...throwing myself on the mercy of strangers ala Blanche DuBois. :-) Again, this wasn't so much a specific tool I discovered, but in this case it was a discovery about myself, and about life. I found that most people are kind, that most of us out there are good-hearted, and that was an incredible 'aha' moment that changed my life, literally. My experience could have been very different, of course, and it wasn't all hearts and flowers, but having that positive early experience was a major factor in giving me the courage needed to live my own life. This is a great post, Beth, and I love Jeane’s comment.

This is more about mastering a skill than finding the right piece of technology, but I remember the first website I ever built – the frustration of not knowing how to do things and then persevering through the frustration until I figured it out. Wow. What a feeling of expansion and excitement came over me when it actually worked! It was like a whole new world opening up before me (and I’ve never looked back).

Much much earlier in my life, when I was 14, I made a decision to leave my narrow home and seek adventure in the wide wide world…throwing myself on the mercy of strangers ala Blanche DuBois. :-) Again, this wasn’t so much a specific tool I discovered, but in this case it was a discovery about myself, and about life.

I found that most people are kind, that most of us out there are good-hearted, and that was an incredible ‘aha’ moment that changed my life, literally. My experience could have been very different, of course, and it wasn’t all hearts and flowers, but having that positive early experience was a major factor in giving me the courage needed to live my own life.

]]> By: Beth Dunn http://www.bethdunn.org/2008/05/17/rain-check/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Beth Dunn Sat, 17 May 2008 13:25:10 +0000 http://smalldots.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-226 What a great story, Jeane. I think this might be a common element of lots of AHA moments - the realization that we have power, that we can be agents of change, that we can do something, that circumstances might not be limiting us as much as our perception of them are. Sounds a bit wackadoo, but it applies to life-changing stories like your own, and something as simple as understanding how a blog works. Which can also, as a matter of fact, be life-changing. What a great story, Jeane. I think this might be a common element of lots of AHA moments – the realization that we have power, that we can be agents of change, that we can do something, that circumstances might not be limiting us as much as our perception of them are.

Sounds a bit wackadoo, but it applies to life-changing stories like your own, and something as simple as understanding how a blog works.

Which can also, as a matter of fact, be life-changing.

]]> By: Jeane Goforth http://www.bethdunn.org/2008/05/17/rain-check/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Jeane Goforth Sat, 17 May 2008 11:36:35 +0000 http://smalldots.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-225 My Aha moment was almost exactly a year ago. Depressed about my job at a nonprofit I had supported ardently for years before I worked there--dying program, unethical behavior, abusive working conditions--I had decided to quit. A long discussion with a co-worker about what the program should/could be started me thinking that instead of just quitting, I should try to change things. The concept that I wasn't just an interchangeable cog in a bureaucratic machine, that I could create change, was a crack in the universe, a lightening bolt. First, I made a terrifying attempt to change the existing organization. When that was obviously not going to amount to much, I joined my co-worker in creating a new organization. I am designing my own meaningful job--not my dream job, because I never would have dreamed this big. I've never been poorer, but I've never been happier. If I died today, I would be satisfied because I didn't just dream about having an impact on the world, I took action and can see that I have had an impact--small, maybe, but more than I could ever have imagined was possible. My Aha moment was almost exactly a year ago. Depressed about my job at a nonprofit I had supported ardently for years before I worked there–dying program, unethical behavior, abusive working conditions–I had decided to quit. A long discussion with a co-worker about what the program should/could be started me thinking that instead of just quitting, I should try to change things. The concept that I wasn’t just an interchangeable cog in a bureaucratic machine, that I could create change, was a crack in the universe, a lightening bolt. First, I made a terrifying attempt to change the existing organization. When that was obviously not going to amount to much, I joined my co-worker in creating a new organization. I am designing my own meaningful job–not my dream job, because I never would have dreamed this big. I’ve never been poorer, but I’ve never been happier. If I died today, I would be satisfied because I didn’t just dream about having an impact on the world, I took action and can see that I have had an impact–small, maybe, but more than I could ever have imagined was possible.

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