MUSINGS and other writing by Mark Kolke

. . . . . . there is no edge to openness

TODAY'S MUSINGS

FEEDBACK / COMMENTS

MARK SPEAKS

MARK'S SPEAKING TIPS

ARCHIVED COLUMNS

ARCHIVE WINTER 2020-21

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2020

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2020

ARCHIVE SPRING 2020

ARCHIVE WINTER 2019-20

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2019

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2019

ARCHIVE SPRING 2019

ARCHIVE WINTER 2018-19

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2018

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2018

ARCHIVE SPRING 2018

ARCHIVE WINTER 2017-18

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2017

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2017

ARCHIVE SPRING 2017

ARCHIVE WINTER 2016/17

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2016

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2016

ARCHIVE SPRING 2016

ARCHIVE WINTER 2015/16

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2015

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2015

ARCHIVE SPRING 2015

ARCHIVE WINTER 2014/15

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2014

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2014

ARCHIVE SPRING 2014

ARCHIVE WINTER 2013/14

CONTACT

MY REAL ESTATE LIFE

WHY I WRITE MUSINGS

SHORT STORY PROJECT

POETRY PROJECT

SELECTED OTHER WORK

CRAYONS READY, WRITE. NOW

Friday Nov. 4, 2016

 

Every day.

A blank ‘white board’.

What are you writing on it?

Like opening a store selling artfully selected goods. Easy: plan, stock shelves with what customers ache for, open doors = success!

What?

Commitment to idea is key, essential.

Yet commitment can as easily be obsession or ill-considered fantasy. Can any great idea, product, service, book or event be assured by any winning formula?

Starting anything – a recipe checklist maze – to stun, to amaze!

Doesn’t matter whether it’s this moment’s whimsical notion or long-pent-up dreams. Belief in ourselves comes through, success oozes over steaming cauldron’s rim. Front burner – roiling. Oh yeah, that’s what we want. Need. Must do.

What is on our shelves? Would anyone want what we are creating? If I’m creating a shoe store, a plumbing wholesale or an on-line vendor of coffee makers – experience, suppliers, great people, a plan, some ability to do math + secret sauce = magic. Not my first rodeo, it’s my next.

What does that ‘store’ in my mind have on its shelves?

What am I selling, to whom, and why do they need me, want me, out of a sea – an ocean really, of every option imaginable, just a click or two away?

Every day, every week – write on these walls, yell down our halls, stand proud on this soapbox – tell the whole world. Every corner, our speakers’ corner. Every morning, lungs bursting, fresh air breathed deeply, living wide, standing tall in celebration of everything we’ve ever done, what we are doing now.

Painting walls with dreams, write it, reams and reams.

Go ahead, it’s your Friday.

Whiteboard, empty, waiting for you …



Join Musings Mailing List
Join the Musing following ...

Join Musings Mailing List
Join the Musing following ...

always welcome ... FEEDBACK/COMMENTS ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓ ... please!
First Name
Last Name
City
Province/State
Country
E-mail Address
Comments
Comments, pro or con,  are always welcomed are most often published the following day under COMMENTS RECEIVED.
 
Please use this FEEDBACK COMMENT form.
FEEDBACK / COMMENTS
←
 
Or forward your replies/comments to: kolke@markkolke.com 


sign up to get Musings free daily


Comments are always welcome - please contribute to the discussion.  Reply to: kolke@markkolke.com

You can also connect with me on LinkedIn. This site is updated daily, each column is retained in the archive when the next day's column is loaded ...  


Copyright - all rights reserved - Mark Kolke, © 2003-2021