Kathryn BERRY

This week in blogging heaven Lucifer fell.  I need help to move forward. I can’t do it all on my own. Ariel suggested delegating work from the very beginning and if this social media campaign is going to work, I need to do exactly that but I’m not ready. Why? Well, I feel that I have other goals I need to fulfill first. I think it was very telling that Ariel’s challenge was not on my ‘vision board’ in week one.  If we bloggers are to accomplish everything in Ariel’s book in nine weeks, it needs to be on the board. Why did it take me four weeks to realize this? Well, I didn’t really know what I was getting into. I’m good at ‘learn as you go’ and is probably why I am a risk taker; I’d rather not know the details beforehand or, like most, probably wouldn’t go there and be a nay sayer, like the rest of them. I wouldn’t have started my own juice company in my 20s and become an exclusive supplier to one of Canada’s dominant coffee companies. I wouldn’t have then become a banker with CIBC and be assigned to the strategic alliance project with the Bank of New York’s Trade Finance. I wouldn’t have given all that up to move to France and find my true love and passion, my family and music. Rich is a state of mind not a dollar figure.

So this week I stepped back a bit because I didn’t want to eat that elephant whole. I only put up a band Facebook page as part of my social media engagement. I still need to work on building my website and set up a Twitter account, among others, but I know that I need someone in the game with me to optimize these tools. So what does this mean to The Blog Challenge? I don’t really know cause this ain’t X Factor; no one in the judge’s corner is providing feedback and no one is being voted off. I’ve tried to use the Coaching Corner on Ariel’s Mastermind but there’s been no reply. I think Ariel might need a few extra hands too. I’ll be interested to hear the mid-challenge phone conference call recording, though.

Down but not out, Kathryn