Good To Be Home
After a week away at coaching and mastermind meetings, it’s good to be back home again.
Whilst I love the networking, catching up with friends and clients, learning and discovering new skills and tips from the discussions and presentations (and as usual I had several big chunks of improvements that will help make things better than ever) … there really isn’t much that competes with the concept of the mastermind group and the chance to get face-to-face with mentors, fellow “students”, speakers and presenters.
Yet after six solid intensive days, it was also good to finally get on the plane and head home.
Flying down from Sydney late last night, we could unfortunately see the bushfire lines in the darkness below … a rather grim reminder of a week of tragic events. But it was impressive to see the generosity of the monetary donations from passengers as the Virgin Blue crew came through the cabin with a collection bag — with all proceeds going to the Red Cross bushfire appeal and passenger donations to be matched dollar-for-dollar by Virgin Blue.
Even the smokey smell on the breeze and the yellow smoke-filtered light is evident today now we’re back at home. My heart goes out to those who have lost friends, family, neighbours and loved ones. I am sure our Rotary Club will be just one tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of volunteers who’ll be focused on different parts of this task for many many months to come.
Like what Jennie Armato commented on my Facebook status (”Dean is quite moved watching the rescue stories of loved ones, and also of Sam the koala in the bushfires“) yesterday …
It’s so great that in such adversity, people are being so amazingly generous and helpful. This is true devastation but out of the ashes rises the phoenix of mateship … and compassion for the poor wildlife too. That koala is adorable.
The Koala is Sam — rescued from Mirboo North bushfires last week after accepting a very welcome drink from a CFA volunteer.
While we were away, I gave a presentation at Mal Emery’s Platinum2Mastermind on Branding and Positioning — and five positioning tools. It was great to get lots of positive feedback afterwards, especially for members who said they’d be following the content of my “2-minute Business Card Workshop” and improve their own cards for their business.
(I’ve gotta say I was happy that my 60 minute presentation ran exactly to schedule — at the 1-minute notice, I literally only had one slide and concept left to present!)
So now we’re home there’s a few follow-up notes to take care of (a great tip from Daryl Grant — put time aside in your schedule after the event to implement), then it’ll be back into client projects, visiting friends, Rotary activities and life at home … lots of projects “on the go” for this year.
And I’m also looking forward to a return to regular publishing of the 101 Copy Tips … lots more great info to share!
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