Want to take a Bold, Outrageous, Provocative Leadership stance in YOUR Market this year?

The Wealthy Thought Leader live-in-person training is coming up apace on March 18 through 20.  Buzzing is hardly the word, it seems, to describe things behind the scenes!

Meanwhile, as if bringing 75+ people together in one room isn’t enough – hang tight for the really incredible thought leadership that’s getting ready to emerge – we are adding a bold, new element of our own.

Now it’s possible to attend the Wealthy Thought Leader training in a simulcast format LIVE-via-video from your own chosen location. This means anyone with an internet connection and time to participate March 18th onwards, can now empower themselves with what’s needed to:

• Stand out in an overwhelmed world (some would say full of infocr_p)
• Match the above with high-end money models that are pliable and reliable
• Sustain your money-making power with a personal, entrepreneurial ecosystem (this is delightful if a little vague to describe in a simple bullet)

Tickets are not el cheapo ‘just’ because it’s live-via-video, for one reason — this is not a pile of recordings for you to have as a ‘nice to’ in order to contribute to false feelings of ‘I’ve done something about my thought leadership, I’ve bought something.’

This is an opportunity for a embodied participatory experience from your satellite location, with a dedicated coach to just you and your simulcast compatriots, dedicated laser coaching call with me, and more, including social networking backchannel to interact directly with the presenters.

If you’re used to us here at Thought Partners International creating things that have never been seen before, here is another example, and I welcome you to check it out at this link.

Enjoy! And please send questions if you have them. When new ground is being broken – one can’t always be sure the message is being communicated – so your help letting me know if this is of value, could be of more value, and/or just isn’t landing, helps me enormously.

Here’s to a world of fierce entrepreneurialism accessible to all…my biggest prediction for the coming years.

P.S. Curious about adding a simulcast version to your OWN event? Post below please. Amongst all the preparations, it may be possible to do something about that, demand warranted.

Great Work Versus Good Work, What are you doing?

Busywork and infocr-p are two of the biggest enemies to you doing the work you’re here to do.

While I wield my powers for good in the infocr_p arena, my friend and colleague (also of the super power variety) Michael Bungay Stanier, is launching his new book today:

Do More Great Work: Stop the busywork and start the work that matters.

If you’ve been following me on Twitter you’ll have noticed him checking his Amazon ranking from the TEDActive Blogger’s Alley – see photo.

But wait a second… if his book is launching TODAY why would he be checking his Amazon ranking… last week?

Because…in true ‘walk the talk’ fashion…Michael’s book has ALREADY hit best-seller status in multiple places, a week before his launch.

That’s cool, in my book. (Ahem.)

I admire this book greatly, for its content, which includes:

- 15 “maps”, exercises to help you find, start and sustain your own “Great Work”

- Original guest contributions from people like Seth Godin, Zen Habits’ Leo Babauta, The Art of Non-Conformity’s Chris Guillebeau, and others

- Real Coaching tips scattered throughout. (Not pretend coaching tips, mind you. You know the ones that are just plain boring questions with the word ‘Coaching’ at the top of the page. Which makes sense of course because Michael was once voted Canadian Coach of the Year.)

- A full list of additional resources, including some free online resources.

But of course, there is another level.

This book is a great example of more than great content.  From it you can learn:

-   How to generate attention for something that started as outside the ‘mainstream’ conversation. Gain attention for something new. (Not an easy thing.)

-   How to create useful and appealing exercises people will actual do. When someone bought a book from Michael at the TED.com conference, she immediately flipped to the cool exercise pages and started filling them in. She said she ‘didn’t care’ about the rest of it necessarily, although it was nice, but Michael’s strength is in helping the reader integrate the learning.

Most of all, and I will say more about this later, but this book is an example of something you may not realize:

This book started as a little online document. It morphed into a self-published book. It then found a home at a publishing house where it now proudly resides.

‘Do More Great Work’ represents the best of all publishing worlds, and is the result of a doggedly creative mind.

Today is a great day to purchase it if you are so moved, and doing so gets you some carefully selected, non-overwhelming gifts.

Go here to order – a perfectly giveable, readable, useable and enjoyable book.

Congratulations to you Michael!

A Course About People | 5 Little Things You Want To Know

Your 5 snippets of people wisdom for this week (from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team) are listed below. We hope you’ll find one or two that you’ll find helpful this week.  Enjoy!

• People have two parallel tracks: what’s going on in the outside physical world and their internal interpretation of that outside world.
• People are interdependent.
• People believe that they are in control of their own lives, but outside events that completely change one’s life can intervene at any place and any time.
• People are far kinder to one another than they are to themselves.
• People spend more time worrying about what might happen than dealing with things that do happen.

If you’d like to receive these snippets in your email each week, please visit us at www.ThoughtsByEmail.com and sign up.

If you have any thoughts, please don’t hesitate to leave us a comment!

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Highlights from 2010 TED Conference – Blaise Aguera y Arcas Demonstrates Augmented-Reality Maps

Would you prefer to see pictures of our future or the future of our pictures? (How about both?) And Do Microsoft Employees Really Have Crabs?

For a touch of ‘Blade Runner’ in real life, click to watch this 8-minute video which shows a live demo of a powerful piece of software called Photosynth, which many are describing as set to ‘utterly transform’ the way we experience digital images.  Say goodbye to rough, stuttering mapping or awkward stuck moments in your GPS. We’re talking about a beautiful interactive 3-dimensional space that renders reality almost…boring.

Here’s the thing to remember and watch. Innovation usually happens in leaps, so if you have been working on changing the way the game is played in your market, it pays to fuel yourself with inspiration to be bold.  Next, what will be fascinating to watch is how this new technology yet again gets adopted by users. The adoption curve on technology seems to get shorter each year – its communities are so ‘fit’ to try new things and spread them to the mainstream.  Exciting, even if frustrating at times, because of course not all ideas explode.

As for the business applications, shiny new technology provides a fantastic opportunity to stretch our practical imaginations.  See if these questions help:

What value does this technology add to life? If you can think of 3 ways, try thinking of 3 more. Keep going until you’re stuck.

What businesses are needed before or after this innovation? What does this offering require, in order to exist? What opportunities for new business services sprout up as a result of this hitting mainstream? Think of this line of questioning as ‘x-ray vision for income streams.’

In my experience, people make the question of ‘how to make money’ far too difficult.  Wherever there is a problem, there is money to be made. Wherever someone is already making money there is more to be made before, after, beside, in and around.

Click here to view the video and contribute to the discussion…remember…all TED talks at the site are no-fee and just 18 minutes in length.

Come Up with Exciting New Marketing Campaigns in Just Minutes

“Imagine Being Able to Come Up with Exciting New Marketing Campaigns in Just Minutes” – Cool Tool For Entrepreneurs, Business Consultants, Coaches and more.(As seen in Springwise.com)

The perfect gift for entrepreneurial clients, I’m so delighted to have found Australian ChildsPlay Marketing which aims to help business owners create their own marketing campaigns without spending an arm and a leg hiring experts. Now that’s an idea I can get behind.

Toward that end, it now offers a set of cards containing 125,000 different marketing ideas. The first deck helps businesses identify the target audience for their campaign—first-time clients, journalists or passing traffic, for example. The second, meanwhile, offers a variety of potential offers such as promotional sales, samples or new services. The third and final deck helps business owners choose a communication vehicle, with options including cinema advertising, packaging or mail-outs.

Zeroing in on a card from each deck, then, guides businesses toward the best campaign to fit their needs.

ChildsPlay Marketing Cards are priced at AUD 69, including GST, or US 61.81. Check out www.childsplaymarketing.com to play the cards virtually and admire the fine online video work being created. Bravo!

A Course About People | 5 Little Things You Want To Know

Here are your 5 little snippets wisdom for this week, from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team. We hope you’ll enjoy!

• People’s differing perceptions are at the root of most conflict.
• People sometimes make mistakes with the best of intentions.
• People have a unique beauty.
• People usually have an answer to the question they ask.
• People do what they perceive as working for them, even when it doesn’t.

If you’d like to receive more snippets like these via email, please visit us at www.ThoughtsByEmail.com and sign up.

What do you think?  Let us know by leaving us a comment.

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Is it REALLY a Small World? Canada, Canadians and a Spot of Humor in Good Fun

With Vancouver hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics, apparently these are some questions people are asking. These have been excerpted from a greater article about questions posted at various tourism websites.

(I’m choosing not to ask who was paid to compile or answer them.)

Note: I’ve removed the countries of origin from the questions. It’s all in good fun, and well, maybe just a little bit of a public service announcement.

Q: I have never seen it warm on Canadian TV, so how do the plants grow?

A. We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around and watch them die.

Q: Will I be able to see Polar Bears in the street?

A: Depends on how much you’ve been drinking.

Q: I want to walk from Vancouver to Toronto – can I follow the Railroad tracks?

A: Sure, it’s only four thousand miles, take lots of water.

Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Canada, but I forget its name. It’s a kind of big horse with horns.

A: It’s called a Moose. They are tall and very violent, eating the brains of anyone walking close to them.. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.

Q: Are there supermarkets in Toronto and is milk available all year round?

A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of Vegan hunter/gathers. Milk is illegal.

Q: Can I bring cutlery into Canada?

A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do!

A Course About People | 5 Little Things You Want To Know

Your 5 little snippets wisdom for this week are listed below, from the collection by Thomas Leonard and his R&D Team.  We hope you’ll find them meaningful and useful as you go about your week.

• People are afraid to look foolish.
• People respond to love and nurturing, and to the absence of it.
• People respond to incentives.
• People are always capable of much more than they know.
• People are happier when they are learning.

If you’d like to receive more snippets like these via email, please visit us at www.ThoughtsByEmail.com and sign up.

We’d love to hear your thoughts.

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Hanging Around At The Gamechangers Roundtable – Accompanying You In Your Bigger Game

Have you ever experienced the surge of energy that comes from over 100 comments appearing, like circles of mushrooms, on blog post after blog post, for nearly 30 days?

30 days in a row, that is. That is what’s called a force of nature, and Sarah Robinson is THAT. Now, she’s marshalled her talents to bring you a wonderful Roundtable of Gamechangers, so you can learn from them.

Join her at this no fee gathering online…as she pulls up a virtual chair and interviews a series of what she calls ‘trail blazers’ about the why, what and how involved in changing the game.

Go here to read more, and once again, reflect upon the format and nature of this offering..you might discover a thing or two to inform YOUR plans.

Build Your Business Like You Mean It: If You’re Going For a Big Income Goal, Make Sure Your Foundation Is STRONG.

You wouldn’t build your dream home on a piece of property with erosion issues, right?

When building a Lego® building, you’d make sure the base is wide so you could build tall and proud, I’m sure!

Your business is the same way…and if you’re building for the long haul, or have ambitious income goals, it’s all the more important to get the foundation – those papers, government docs, contracts, filings and more, all tickety boo.

And why wouldn’t you, especially if there’s someone on hand who’s been through all the bumps, and can make it clear, simple and easy?

I’m delighted to introduce you to Alexis Neely, creator of the LIFT System, and a top-of-class lawyer, mom and creator of 2 million dollar businesses which she has then sold. A powerful combination she really is. (And she wears a flower in her hair, too!)

She, like me, has helped many business owners over the years, and seen her share of:

Wrongful dismissals, deaths without wills, bankruptcies due to financial blindspots, no-contract ‘business’ deals that go sour, lawsuits within previously solid teams, accusations of fraud, and more.

As a result, she’s written a much-needed document called the LIFT Manifesto which grabbed my serious attention. When we talked, I said what I felt in my heart, and that is ‘Alexis, we’ve been waiting for you.’

I know this may seem like a boring topic, but I challenge you as a ‘real-deal’ business owner to suspend that assumption and see for yourself:

Click here to read the LIFT Manifesto

If you mean to continue to succeed, and be around a long, long time, I can’t think of a stronger recommendation to make to you at this moment.

Also, in full disclosure:

As a measure of my support for LIFT, I’ve agreed to support Alexis as an official partner – it’s a real win-win for all!

I invite you to see for yourself by clicking the above link, knowing that if down the road she becomes someone you work further with, I’ll receive a payment from her for this intro. The real kicker is, I’d tell you about LIFT and Alexis anyway, regardless. And that’s all I got to say about that.

When The People Who Help You Collect Money Online Have New Rules – It Pays To Pay Attention

My friend Ken McArthur has the ear of people in the know, and the people in the know say that new rules have arrived.

Most of us take our payment processing for granted. It’s like our banks…do you ever worry that they’d refuse to let you withdraw money? But if shopping carts, merchant accounts, and other payment processing tools were to disappear, wow, where would we be, right?

For the full list of guidelines, click here to read Ken McArthur’s post in his Marketing Thoughts Blog. Thanks, Ken, for passing along this direct source of info!