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About Me
My friends call me Dhru (like Drew). I'm the ceo / cofounder of the Clean Program. I'm all about soulful people and community.
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Jason Mraz - Zero Percent (live version)
"The root of my struggles always comes back to fear. The fear is often the byproduct of me resisting something. Key is to find out what that is. What is it that I’m resisting? Find that out and you have freedom."
"I couldn’t understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn’t flying as much. Before, I’d sit on a plane and pull out a computer and start writing a speech or whatever. And on most planes, there are no plugs, so I’d open up my computer and wrote until the battery died. Because I had this pressure of knowing the battery would die, I wrote monumental amounts in short periods of time."
[Music] Dispatch - The General
Any Dispatch fans other there?
Brian Dawkins on his alter ego. This is dope. The idea of playing a certain roll to achieve a specific objective.
I’m really feeling this.
What's your super power?
When you meet someone, you need to have a super power. If you don’t, you’re just another handshake. Don’t say, “Hi, I’m Don, I’m from Cleveland.” Instead, try, “Hi, I’m Don, I tell stories that spread.” It’s not about touting yourself or coming on too strong. It’s about making the introduction meaningful. If I don’t know your superpower, then I don’t know how you can help me (or I can help you).
Keep reading via Seth Godin
What does a connection email look like?
I send connection emails out regularly to the people in my network that I think would benefit from meeting one another. It is a great way to expand your own network and, most importantly, a wonderful way to create new friendships and connections for others.
The larger mantra behind this is:
1) Introduce people who would benefit from knowing one another: Introduce people with some sort of context, not just for the hell of it. Set the stage by telling them why you thought they should know each other. Do they share common goals, passions, missions, interest, business possibilities?
2) Do it regularly: become known as connector, the guy or girl who regularly connects others. The power of this comes from doing it regularly so the momentum can build. Make sure people know you are not shy about connecting them to other people you know. I have lots of people who ask me, “Hey, who’s someone I should meet?”
3) Get out of the way: don’t try to force the relationship down a particular direction, just introduce them and let them figure out if they should stay connected. This isn’t about controlling your network. This is about letting new connections blossom without your involvement.
Your Own Network Grows
One major side-effect of doing this that you meet the coolest people ever. Your friends and new connections are constantly connecting YOU to other cool people. It’s tough to explain, but in a weird way you being to attract quality people into your life because you are a connector of quality people.
If you want to learn more about how this works I suggst you read Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi.
Now, here is an example of an actual introduction/connection email:
Michael meet Jon
To: michael simmons, jon bischke
Subject: Michael meet Jon
Michael, I’d like to introduce you to Jon Bischke,
In addition to being a health and personal development enthusiast, Jon is also super passionate about teaching others and reforming our education system. Jon is the CEO of EduFire.com, a site that allows teachers to live video stream classes online.
I originally met Jon at a We Like It Raw retreat last year and we quickly realized we had a lot more in common than just our passion for health. Specifically we both realized we had a passion for 1) learning, 2) entrepreneurship and 3) connecting people.
Jon, Michael Simmons also shares a passion for learning, entrepreneurship and connecting people. In fact his book, Extreme Entrepreneurship was one of the first entrepreneurship books I ever read. In that book I really learned the value of mentors and connecting those in your network.
Michael currently is the team lead of the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour company. They travel from state to state giving lectures at schools and colleges about the power of entrepreneurship.
Normally I end off these connection emails with why I’m introducing two people, but in this case I think it’s pretty clear.
Michael, I’d love to see you possibly teaching some classes on Jon’s website. And Jon, maybe you might be interested in being a speaker on one of Michael’s tour stops. http://www.extremetour.org/callforspeakers.html
Here’s to new new connections!
Dhrumil
Michael on FB: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?sid=495d8aff1de74696fc98ed81432ba2eb&id=814970&hiq=mich
Michael on Twitter: http://twitter.com/michaeldsimmons
Jon on FB: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500456005&ref=ts
Jon on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonbischke
"The relationship between Stewart and the media is a marriage of the self-loathing and the self-loving: He insists their real news is fake, they insist his fake news is real. He doesn’t take them seriously at all. They take him way too seriously. But nobody takes anybody as seriously as Jon Stewart takes himself."
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Real Medicine Foundation
Nipun asked me to pay-it-forward so I sent the money he sent me to chairty that is doing some fantastic work. I have a call on Friday with their directors, looking forward to learning more about their approach.
The Real Medicine Foundation provides humanitarian support to people living in disaster, post-war, and poverty stricken areas. We believe that “real” medicine is focused on the person as a whole by providing physical, emotional, economic, and social support. By using a personal approach, Real Medicine forms partnerships with individuals and existing organizations throughout the world, allowing us to create effective models and sustainable solutions that can be applied globally. What started out as a promise to a small village in a devastated area on the Indian Ocean is growing quickly into an international network of “Friends helping Friends” around the world.
DHH on saying “No”
It’s so easy to say yes. Yes to yet another feature, yes to an overly optimistic deadline, yes a mediocre design, yes, yes, yes. We all want to be loved.
But the love won’t keep you warm for long when you’ve taken on yet another obligation that you don’t whole-heartedly believe in. You very quickly become trapped in a pit of guilt when the stack of things you’ve said yes to loom so high that you can’t even see the things you really should be doing.
That’s not a good way to live or work. Which is why you have to start getting into the habit of saying no. No to things that just don’t fit, no to things that just aren’t the most important right now, and no to many things that simply don’t cut it.
"Back in 2001, as the Internet boom turned into a bust, M.I.T.’s Quarterly Journal of Economics published an intriguing paper called “Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment.” The authors, Brad Barber and Terrance Odean, gained access to the trading activity in over 35,000 households, and used it to compare the habits of men and women. What they found, in a nutshell, is that men not only trade more often than women but do so from a false faith in their own financial judgment. Single men traded less sensibly than married men, and married men traded less sensibly than single women: the less the female presence, the less rational the approach to trading in the markets."
