Where do you need to be?

Looking out over the next few weeks or months, where do you need to be? Is there a place, an event or city you need to see to get some of the new ideas you will need and use in 2011?

Traveling a bit over the past year, I experienced a couple of ah-has when it comes to professional development and building a network:

1. There are ideas available to me, am I available to them. As I was driving through North Carolina last spring, I set the car radian to "scan." For a while, I listened to tiny bits of different songs and talk radio. occasionally, I heard something that made me stop, listen and think.

Next city you visit, go somewhere where you can watch the world go by. A coffee shop, a park or a cafe are all great places. Observe as people walk by. Listen to bits of conversation. Notice what books or magazines they are carrying. Who knows, you may see a title or headline, or hear a comment that sets you off searching for some more new ideas.

2. Stay in touch with the people you meet. There are people we come into contact with all the time when we travel. If you happen to strike up a conversation and go as far as to exchange information, do keep in touch. Send them a card or give them a call.

It is possible to change what you see by changing the way you look at things. Talking with people and continuing to let them influence our ideas and actions is a single, strategic and powerful way to identify changes we could make and experiment with them.

Where do you need to be? Quick, visit a website or two, make a few phone calls, and see if you can get there in the next few months!

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[Soto19Kathy]

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