This blog is now successful (changing hearts and minds)

Sometimes you get exactly what you need exactly when you need it. I shall be floating on air all day all week for this comment (btw, if you need me I shall be atop my cloud so calls are going directly to voice-mail).

While I clearly have a purpose (my mantra!) for this blog--I really want need to use my little voice to make a big difference...even if it's through a lot of small victories. Otherwise I feel I'm not doing my part. And that my blog is not successful.

See, I'm grateful to live in these connected times. I view these communications tools as 'gifts'. But I feel these gifts give us not only an opportunity but a responsibility to make this world better--even if we're bettering it one mind/heart/blog at a time.

Just to be really clear: Better practices and better people is the ROI I seek from my blog. If I get to build my business that serves to let me do more of the programs that make for those better practices and people (that's why I say "advancing" all the time).

So you can imagine my elation when Philippe Deltenre (of Brussels, BE) left me this comment on a post from earlier today. Philippe you're getting a BIG kiss from CK when I get to meet you!

"Since I'm reading you (and a lot of other great american bloggers), I must say that you managed to change my image (I should say my fear and my clichés) of the USA."

By the way, Drew McLellan is hosting a great discussion asking us how we should be pricing the upcoming (and very exciting!) eBook. I was talking it with Luc Debaisieux and David Reich yesterday and explaining how the question of price led to this question for me: how much does the USD price we decide upon for the eBook equate to in other economies?

Point is, other regions was the first place my mind went to. More to the point, it's become so natural for me to think WORLD and "other" being it's the WORLD wide web. Especially since America is only about 5% of the world (though a very mouthy and powerful minority are we).

I've cited before how lucky we are to have 'global' conversations...and how advancing they are for me. So it's just a big kick when I get to see they're advancing for others. Yep, in helping to change even one mind, it makes my heart feel really, really good. Plus, it makes me feel like this blog is successful (yippie!)

Thank you, Philippe (it means the "world" to me)--please tell many, many more how much there is to benefit...and how many minds we can change...if we use these technologies to truly connect and really listen. Back to my cloud now and yes, success is sweet indeed ;-).

Update (couple hours after originally publishing): I just found out (really, just now!) that it's Philippe's 100th blog post. Ain't that all sorts of cool?

Comments

[Philippe]

"Philippe you're getting a BIG kiss from CK when I get to meet you!"

I print this one :)

[mindblob]

I'm pleased to read Philippe's comment. It shows that conversation opens more than professional learnings. It lets whoever is open minded discover the world differently through someone else's eyes. It lets whoever communicates openly, sincerely, truly, passionately or simply with heart... a unique opportunity to share and find common understanding frequencies. True inspiration. You are the best at doing that CK.

My learning from you : making this world a better place is possible. Even in business... it is possible. You blew away the very last doubts I might have had about it. It is by being fair to each other that men and women will grow. Same thing in business. If the consciousness is not quite there yet in the business world, people are learning... fast, thanks to this conversation. I like it when you say "...it is more than an opportunity : it's a responsibility."

I believe this is the only way I want to see the future, my work, the contribution I'll bring to people of this planet. Although I have not found "how to..." yet, now I know the direction is good and keep moving that way.

I want you to know that YOU and a few extra-ordinary blogger friends I was lucky to meet are inspiring this. And it is indeed way "above" business. That many of us benefit from your eyes and feel over all the subjects you bring forward.

So yes, this blog is definitely successful.
And... thank you. : )

[CK]

Luc:
"I believe this is the only way I want to see the future, my work, the contribution I'll bring to people of this planet. Although I have not found "how to..." yet, now I know the direction is good and keep moving that way."

Why Luc, it's you who taught me we need to start acting like the world is as small as we purport it to be (it's also flat, as I understand after a 550-page read ;-). So you're already doing it, silly. Rock out, pal.

Philippe:
Thank you for your comment. Now you see how much it means to me (and you likely didn't know it at the time...which makes it all the more perfect).

[Jane]

I also read American blogs to get a more balanced view of citizens of the US than that in our media
J

[Bob Glaza]

You've developed keen insight here, CK - thank you for sharing the comment from Philippe. And for letting the world know. It is encouraging to know that your small little blog (actually not so small:) can change a view or notion without coercion. That is true power and influence. And I feel it starts from your desire to share.