A Quick Thought on Words

Thoughts will live as long as we remember them, our words as long as others remember them - but what we write?  Our written words live until the computer makers change over to a new format.   ~~ Apr 4, 2012

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

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Surrender To Win

Some years ago, I heard the expression, "Surrender to Win" and it resonated.  At first, it seemed that it was antithetical to all that I knew.  Aren't we supposed to relentlessly pursue our dreams?  Didn't Churchill famously say,  "Never, ever, ever give up" ?  Actually, if you research that phrase from Churchill, he didn't exactly say that, but you get the point.

Surrendering was never one of my strong points, and yet, it truly is the way to find personal development.  In this bustling world where we are taught to fight to the bitter end, surrendering just seems like an odd pursuit.

1.  Worry is wasted energy.  When we worry about the future, which we cannot accurately predict, we assume we are in control of the future.  When we are honest with ourselves, none of us actually knows what tomorrow will bring.

2.  There are things beyond our control.  Only delusional people try to control their entire existence, and often, sadly end up miserable, or in the least detached from people as they plot and scheme more controls, which is an endless cycle.

3.  The past is over, the past is not our reality.  If there is one area that we need to surrender, all of us, it is to surrender what has happened yesterday, or years ago, and most importantly, the bad moment we have just had today.  A bad moment or event, need not become our bad day.  We can start over at any time.

4.  Misery is a choice, so is isolation, loneliness, regret, and shame.  We can carry them around or we can choose happiness and serenity.  Surrendering to serenity,  the present moment, and choosing happiness means we have less stress, live longer, and can approach each obstacle with dignity and grace.

Today, I was told that my heating and air conditioning blower would need replacing, and the labor was 300 dollars.  The parts were 500 dollars.  Eight hundred dollars!!  That thought was terrible, even to contemplate.   I let go of the negative energy, decided that I was not going to spend my day worrying about the money or the loss of same.  Detached from worry, detached from unproductive scheming, the answer almost jumped out at me by accident.  I wasn't going to wallow in the pain and just went about my day. Instead, I plucked around on the Internet, found a forum which said to check a separate component.  Which I did.  I fixed the car for free in 5 minutes.   

A few years ago, I was unemployed, life was pretty terrible.  The storage place called, and said, "Mr. Dunn you have three days, maybe four, and we are selling all your belongings"  WOW!! I had sent out 138 resumes, and nothing.  All the calls were scams, or crappy sales jobs, knocking on doors, likely no better than scams.  138 resumes, and the storage place was selling all my things.

I spoke out loud:  "God.  I am letting go of this situation.  The more I think about this terrible position, the worse it feels.  I am letting go.  I am NOT SENDING OUT ANY MORE RESUMES!!  I have sent out about as many as I can humanly send.  I am letting go of this, I refuse to worry about this.  If they take all my stuff, and sell it, then they do.  If I am homeless, so be it.  If I become a bum on the street, then so be it, but I am letting go.  Whatever happens next is up to you, I am surrendering this entire mess over to you AND I am surrendering to you.  Do as you wish".

By letting go, a tremendous peace came over me, and the worry no longer existed.  I went to my meeting.  I had so little money, that the only way I could get a call was on my voice mail which went to eMail.  I couln't even pay the cell phone bill.

When I arrived to check my computer, there were two job offers on my computer.  And I was working within 3 days, and I didn't lose my belongings.

If there is somebody who is hopeless, or struggling with something that is causing you stress, or a loved one who is ill, I hope this story has helped you.  God bless you, as you surrender to win.

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Lonny Dunn Tweets at @ProNetworkBuild

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

New Twitter Tips

The New Twitter format is only new if you have been through the last incarnations.  If you just signed up the New Twitter is all you know.  Here are two quick tips dealing with Search.

Twitter's most undervalued asset is the "Search" Feature.  Far better than Facebook's, (I personally find Facebook Search to be almost meaningless.  When I want to find someone on Facebook, like others, I use Google) Twitter search has an entire range of commands to help you sort people by place, or  "near" a city, or within a certain geography.  I will not go into those commands here, but will deal with the basics.

The Search feature is located in a small oval box on the top tool bar regardless of which page you are on.  This is what it looks like from my home page.

I have another account strictly for entertainment purposes called @CicerosGhost
so we will use the word "Cicero" in search from the Home Page of Twitter and from the @ Mention Page.   One lady Tweeted yesterday:  "Thanks New Twitter. No Manuel?"  I couldn't agree more with her sarcasm.  I have had to learn to use the new features by repeatedly looking up Cicero quotes.

From the Home Page, above, when we type "Cicero" into the Search Oval, we find TWEETS concerning Cicero.  From image above, we are finding Tweets with Cicero in them.

Tweets Containing the word: "Cicero"

However, from the @ Connect Screen, (button is located on the Top Left of every Twitter Account and Screen)

(formerly called the @ Mentions or Mentions Feature) when we type "Cicero" into the Search Oval, we find PEOPLE WHO have Cicero in their name, as opposed to Tweets containing the word Cicero. 

So remember, from Home, Search finds Tweets.  When you are in          @ Connect Search  finds People.


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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Building an Audience on Twitter

Beginner to Intermediate User

Twitter drives more traffic to blogs than either Facebook or LinkedIn.  Have you ever Googled the key words in the title of your blog, and noticed that you are on page 78 of Google search results?  I wouldn't count on Google to drive traffic to your blog.  If you are going to be heard, if you are going to be noticed in the clutter of the Internet, you need an audience.  If you are going to build an audience, you will eventually run into a paradox.  That if Twitter drives blog traffic, and you must tweet the link to your blog,  how are you going to increase the size of your Twitter following? 

Increasing our audience on Twitter amounts to learning that we must unfollow.  Mastering who to unfollow, and weeding out the unproductive tweeps frees up space due to Twitter follow limits.   It is no secret that Twitter allows us to follow no more than 1,000 people per day, regardless if we are Justin Beiber, or just some new person recently signed on.   Of those thousand people, maybe 100 or 200 follow back.  What about the other 800?   We have to unfollow them.

This is where we run into another Twitter rule:  We cannot "aggressively follow, then unfollow".  Twitter does not want us to strip the followers as soon as they follow back, or worse, follow a thousand people, and then unfollow them immediately.  This will get one's account  suspended until we reply to the eMail and beg forgiveness.

I use http://Tweepi.com  (Free Version) to Unfollow.   There is no need to "set up a profile" on Tweepi, you can by-pass this step.  Use the "FLUSH" feature to unfollow tweeps who are not following back.

Always unfollow from the last page.  After logging in, and going to the "Flush" feature, on the bottom of the page is a small square on the lower left corner.

This is key to your unfollowing process.  Always work from the last page, backwards towards today.   Mastering speed and ease of use on Tweepi means getting familiar with the arrows (indicated in the above screenshot) and quickly going to the bottom of the screen and moving on to the next group of followers.  Mastering Tweepi means immediately scrolling to the bottom of the page, and hitting the "next" or "previous" button.

For the intermediate user, or someone who has been on Twitter for more than 3 months, here is another Tip:

You can use http://Tweepi.com  "Clean Up" feature to unfollow people who haven't tweeted in a few weeks.  These are rather safe, since they are A. Following You.  B. Are probably innactive  or C.  Have forgotten their password to Twitter.

Using Tweepi Cleanup to Find and Unfollow 1500 Innactive Tweeps

Using this feature, we can locate those followers who are no longer "Active".  Why is this a safe bet?  It is a logical and statistically probable conclusion that someone who hasn't tweeted in 3 months (or 5 months or 12 months) is probably no longer on Twitter.  In the very least, they will not notice that you have unfollowed them to free up space under Twitter guidelines, so you can follow more people each day.    I have also found it to be true that someone with a low ratio of followers to following is NOT as good an account manager as someone who has a high ratio. (Tweepi allows you to control this feature as well.  At the top, again in the "column" feature, you will note a column marked "Ratio" just click that button, and Voila!  you have this very important statistic).


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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Get More Done Each Day

My dad, an executive for an insurance company taught me early on that writing things down crystallises our thinking, reminds us, and helps us to accomplish more in each day.  I think it was Napoleon Hill who used this technique and said, "Use this method.  You might not get ALL the tasks accomplished each day, but you will never discover another better method for getting them done either".

I received an eMail reminder of this easy method for accomplishing more each day, and I have reprinted it in it's entirety from Dan Robey.  Here it is:

Here's a question you may want to ask yourself regularly:

What am I doing with my 24 hours?

In other words, every day, what do you have to show for burning
through another 24 hours of your life?

If the answer is, 'next to nothing', or 'not nearly as much as I
would like', then I'm happy to tell you that you can change that
right now, and in a moment, in this email, I'm going to give you a
simple system for doing it.

If you're ready to put more life and more action into your day,
then get a pen and paper and write down this simple system.

It consists of 3 basic steps. Here they are:

1. Write down all the tasks you want to get done today

2. Assign a specific block of time for completing each task
   (like 30 minutes)

3. Select a task, start a timer, and focus on nothing else until
   that task is complete!

That's all there is to it.

Simple, yes! Incredibly effective, YES!

By itself, this system can put your productivity into high-gear -
IF you use it.

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As a productivity and efficiency expert for Evan Carmichael, I have some variations and tips on this above, easy method:

Make sure you can accomplish the task.  Don't write down, "Climb Mt. Everest" ... Tasks are achievable daily accomplishments, not life goals.

Write down the tasks you want to accomplish in no particular order. Don't worry about HOW you will get them done, just write them down.   As you go about your day today, and as you think of things, just write them down, don't worry about prioritising them yet.


At the start of each day, review your list for that day. 


Assign a task number, 1.,  2., 3.,  etc. to them at the start of the day.


Accomplish the HARDEST task first, the rest of your day is downhill.


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I hope these simple effective reminders make you more productive this week.  Remember, only about 5% of working adults actually write things down.  Move into the elite group, accomplish more.  Life is progress, not perfection.  Take what you learn, and pass it on.  Plant and Sow.


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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Social Media Marketing and Your ROI

Here's a great resource I found on LinkedIn this weekend.  It's a free download from Argyle, which recently raised 1.2 million in funding.  This is a complimentary  eBook about Social Media Marketing, and measuring your ROI (return on investment).

Free eBook: http://www2.argylesocial.com/l/9922/2011-11-14/60SR

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Giving

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.   

Wayne Dyer

Nobody wants our junk.  Giving an old set of clothes or a worn out car as a tax write off is fine for some folks, but I don't seem to benefit spiritually from giving those things.  I have been dwelling on ways to give something I am good at, for which I generally get paid to show professionals, writers, business owners, and corporations.   And it always comes back to my time.  The most valuable commodity we all have is our sincere honest effort, our best, the grand sum of all we have learned - ourselves.  

I would like to take this opportunity as the year ends to offer of myself, and my skills at Social Media to ANYONE who reads this.  If you would like to:

    *  Expand your audience

    *  Get more followers

    *  Learn Social Media 

Than I am offering an hour of telephone consultation to anyone who wants to leave a post below in the comment section.  If nobody comments,  well, at least I offered.  If 30 comment, well I guess I will have benefited 30 folks.  

I manage multiple accounts across all spectrum of Social Media, I write articles, I do networking events, and I have been involved with motivation, management, and training most of my adult life.  I just want to give back, to help others, and show my appreciation during the Holiday Season to all of the followers and all of you who have interacted with me, and have taken the time to stop by my blog. 

Here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2