Just Getting Started

“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

Here it is - my NEW Website - Launched Today! www.findyourplatform.com

I bought this domain name last year at the August 2007 Get Paid to Speak Champ Camp -it was one of my 10 goals that I wanted to complete.
http://www.worldchampslive.com/champcamp-getpaid.html

It didn;t take a YEAR to create it - it took a year to believe I COULD make it happen - so I may be slow - but at least when I go to Champ Camp this year on Saturday August 9th - Monday August 11th - I can feel great about KNOWING that I made a deadline - and I won;t be sitting there saying - "I WISH I..."

Well, at least I won;t be saying that about my website but I may be saying it about "asking for a fee"... (but that is another post!).

ANY and ALL feedback is welcomed - I need to work on the colors - I can finally say - "DONE IS BETTER THAN PERFECT"!!


Do YOU have a Website?
Do YOU want a Website?
What’s stopping YOU from following through on “Just Getting Started”?


http://build-website.com/guide/objectives.html
..”it would appear that many web page developers have not clearly defined their objectives!

“There are many good reasons for building a web page but it is important that your goals are clear. Your objectives should drive the content and the design. Many people build home pages as a hobby, purely for their own personal development. Others build them to promote business, social, cultural, humanitarian, or business objectives”

“Knowledge of web page development can help you in your career. Many businesses today have their own corporate Intranet sites, which are simply internal Internet systems used to share corporate information. The ability to communicate electronically is a valuable skill to employers”.

“There is also potential for generating income from the web pages you develop. This is done by publishing interesting pages that attract large numbers of visitors and then selling advertising space, goods or services from those pages”.

FACTS

http://build-website.com/guide/objectives.html

Web site

http://www.hometravelagency.com/dictionary/web-site.html

web site. Informational or commercial computer files posted on the Internet and viewable from remote computers.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/web_site.htm

A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization.

launching

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&defl=en&q=define:launching&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

• e act of moving a newly built vessel into the water for the first time
• introduction: the act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line"
• the act of propelling with force

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Done IS Better than Perfect!

"Done is Better than Perfect" !!
2001, WCPS, Darren LaCroix

OK here it is...about to be launched...and it may not be DONE....and it may not be PERFECT but as Darren says "DONE IS BETTER THAN PERFECT"!! It has taken me a year to launch my new website. I bought the domain name "Find Your Platform" at the Get Paid to Speak (GP2S)Champ Boot Camp in Phoenix - Aug 2007.

Next friday on August 8, 2008 I will board a plane headed for Calgary, Alberta, Canada to attend GP2S Champ Camp again and I will be able to announce that I completed one of the many committments that I wrote on paper. I am finally going to have a website to help me promote myself as a speaker!

I am seeking any and all feedback and I am sure the site will evolve but it can;t evolve unless I start somewhere. At least I can cross this "to do" task off my list!

To be launched any day now my new website address is

www.findyourplatform.com

Have YOU completed any tasks or committments during the past year?

If not are you getting closer to YOUR goal/s?

If not what is stopping YOU from "Done Is Better Than Perfect"?

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FACTS

DONE
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/done

1. Having been carried out or accomplished; finished: a done deed.
2. Cooked adequately.
3. Socially acceptable: Spitting on the street is just not done in polite society.
4. Informal Totally worn out; exhausted.

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PERFECT

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/perfect

1. Lacking nothing essential to the whole; complete of its nature or kind.
2. Being without defect or blemish: a perfect specimen.
3. Thoroughly skilled or talented in a certain field or area; proficient.
4. Completely suited for a particular purpose or situation: She was the perfect actress for the part.
5.
a. Completely corresponding to a description, standard, or type: a perfect circle; a perfect gentleman.
b. Accurately reproducing an original: a perfect copy of the painting.
6. Complete; thorough; utter: a perfect fool.
7. Pure; undiluted; unmixed: perfect red.
8. Excellent and delightful in all respects: a perfect day.
9. Botany Having both stamens and pistils in the same flower; monoclinous.
10. Grammar Of, relating to, or constituting a verb form expressing action completed prior to a fixed point of reference in time.
11. Music Designating the three basic intervals of the octave, fourth, and fifth.

My Mission Statement?

>...."whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth." ...."And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream, Page: 22, 23

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_statement

A mission statement is a brief statement of the purpose of a company, religious group or organization. Companies sometimes use their mission statement as an advertising slogan, but the intention of a mission statement is to keep members and users aware of the organization's purpose. In the case of public commercial companies, the primary purpose must always be to uphold the interests of shareholders, whatever the mission statement.

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I am on a MISSION to find my very own “MISSION STATEMENT” and usually I would post the meaning at the end of my BLOG but today I am posting it here thank you to my fellow Edge Member and E-friend and Michael Cortes, Michael Cortes, Presentation Coach & Speaker http://www.michaelcortes.com www.youcanpresent.com

I have been looking at other websites and trying to get ideas for my OWN MISSION Statement because I am about to launch my very own “FIND YOUR PLATFORM” website!! Yeah, I know, it’s about time (!) I bought the domain name a year ago in August when I was attending the “Get Paid to Speak” Champ Book Camp. One of my goals and accountability was to have the site up and running before now but I just may make the deadline before I head to Calgary on August 8, 2008. LUCKLY I found a VERY handy webmaster who has offered to help !!




My journey into finding my mission statement is a lot harder than I thought it would be – I need to reflect what it is I DO, what it is I WANT TO DO and what it is I will do with what I do.

So now I am asking the question that Darren LaCroix has asked me – WHY ME? Why would the meeting planners hire ME? What is it that I have to offer others and why would they want to listen to me?

Well Michael Cortes broke it down for me like this he writes - “I want to inspire others” I want to raise awareness by sharing setbacks” “ I want to raise awareness by sharing my ”. And you want to share your success

Ellen Witt Clark mentioned I should add my humor as a coping mechanism

Rich Hopkins said – “Mission statements can be overrated, and often limit our scope. Try a value statement instead, keeping every action in line with your core values”. “Kind of like a speech - rip away everything that doesn't push your message forward”.

Edge member, toastmaster and E-friend Bob (Mongo) Jensen writes -
"Enriching ordinary people's lives by helping them become extraordinary public speakers".

I will share more – but I have to go and pick Sabrina up from Camp Christopher and then we are gett’n our hair DID – yesterday we got our nails DID!!