I’ve been preparing a few small things for an upcoming meetup with some of my fellow altMBA alumni — we have some good questions that we’ll talk through with the group to guide our sharing and collaboration. During this meet up, the final challenge that each of us will answer is an interesting one for me. That question is:
“… Ask a question about something you need help with, a connection or an insight or a nudge that would help.”
It puts a big smile on my face, because an emerging theme or area of focus for me right now is to push myself on getting better at asking for help… and getting better at receiving it when help does arrive. I’m not always good at asking for help. I know I can get better at it. I’m working now on getting clear about how I’ll ask my altMBA peers for some help or for a nudge … and I know I’ll be ready to receive whatever help, advice, or nudges that they can gift to me.
“Be grateful for every little mercy.”
–Lanell Coultas
The more I look around, the more I see help just waiting around every corner. Abundance begets abundance, and “abundance begins with gratitude”.
Oil Spill – Quick Update
Rusty and I had an epic night this past Tuesday. Most of our work centered around next phases for our website and our efforts to raise the volume for promoting Badass Backpacks. But we’re also in full swing with Critical Path #1 (making bags) — I’ve been on the phone with our maker this week, and we’ve also started our “sample bin” where I’ll be collecting all of the materials together before shipping them off to be constructed. Preparing the sample bin will be a multi-week process as I still have to order quite a few parts, and also because we’ll be waiting a touch longer on the printing queue (fabric printing). I’ll get some photos of the sample bin ready for the blog soon. And what is Eli up to? Well, she’s just hanging out with some animals in Alaska that are rehabilitating from being covered in oil. You’re amazing Eli! Here’s a quick snapshot just a few steps further back from the painting I shared a smaller snippet of last week – this comes from one of the paintings by Eli that will be featured on our upcoming bags:
