I wrote an article yesterday and was trying something new. I had recently read a post on marketing and the use of intentional poor grammar as a marketing tool, and wanted to give it a try. Well, it worked…sort of. Lots of people read it and some even responded to let me know how much I sounded like a chimp. I got responses from people that have never, ever responded to anything I have ever written before, which was sort of nice. The trouble is, the overwhelming comments to me were that incorrect grammar, of any capacity, from an education company were anything but good.
So, I’ll not do that again. That is the beauty of life. I am able to try new things and if they work, do them more often and if they don’t, scrap them for something…new.
What is the take away and how can an professional continuing education serve its clients better from this lesson?
I say the lesson is to reiterate how trying new things is the only way to go. Stagnation is death. We have a choice to make a change…to try something new, and if it doesn’t work the way we wanted, to try something new once again.
If you are not happy with your job title or present income reality, make a change. If your current skill sets are preventing you from advancing, learn something new. If you are bored to tears with the industry you serve, switch. And if it doesn’t work out…try something new again.
But I can’t learn that…I haven’t tried that before…I’m only a (insert job title), there is no way I’ll be able to be a (insert fantasy job title)….it goes on an on.
Let us not forget that two brothers working in a bicycle shop are responsible for the entire aerospace industry. They were courageous to try something that had never been done before. They struggled. They were laughed at. They made incredible sacrifice. But they tried new things and stuck with what worked and changed what did not.
Do you have it in you to try something new?