Imagine your house has just gone up in flames…
Visualize a real life made-for-TV 6 p.m. news story blaze – a burning inferno!
Now picture this…
Your face covered in sweat has turned almost black from the smoke. Falling to your knees, face buried in the cool dew of the grass, sheer determination the only lifeline you had. Bruises cover you from head to toe. Is that blood, tears or sweat in your right eye? A coughing fit racks your body. Every bone in your body feels like it’s broken. Still gasping for air, fighting for every breath – you smile. Gratitude begins to flood into your cells with the sweet flavor of oxygen bringing you slowly back to reality. Rejoicing you made it out alive, marveling at the grit and sheer determination coming out of nowhere as you fought to live – you say thank you. In a zombie like state, a fleeting thought flutter by, “Is this a dream?” It feels a nightmare – only it’s not. It’s your life. Or was. And as tears stream down your face, horrified at your loss…the numbness finally begins to wear off.…
And belatedly the question sneaks in, “Oh God, what did you leave in there?”
Now, take control and ask yourself, ”What’s still in the house worth “facing the fire” to risk your life to “save”?”
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Me and my son Brooks at the age of 6
Yes, it pays to be in the game, Moms and Dads.
(Minus your black berry, your iphone or God forbid your laptop Captain Obvious.)
At the game, no matter what age of the players, you see athletes large, small and in between.
Some are gifted and know it, so they coast.
Others are not as blessed and know it, so they work like crazy.
A select few are gifted and work like crazy.
There is a place for all of them in youth, junior high and high school sports.
But more importantly there is also a place for you as their parents.
Maybe you’re stuck behind the wheel feeling like an unloved bus drive.
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Ok, I admit it, even I need some time off every now and again. So, during my Thanksgiving break, the amazing Sean Platt met with my One Click Society radio show guest, digital media entrepreneur, Matt Edelman to talk super heroes, super digital relationships and super new ideas:
I think the interesting thing about how the world
has changed is that human interaction is almost always now
predated by digital interaction. So, when you meet someone, if
you have had any communications with them before meeting them, I
would say the majority of the time, it’s not even by phone. And
you’ve likely researched that person or the company they’re
working with to learn much more about them than you ever would
have known 10 years ago, 15 years ago before meeting them. So,
there really is a different starting point in every personal
interaction than there ever used to be…..One of the biggest
challenges for media companies in the last decade has been
trying to keep consumers trained in the way that the media
companies always took for granted. That’s not something that has
worked out so well for the record industry, for example.
It’s been an enormous challenge for the film business. It’s
becoming perhaps an even greater challenge for the television
business. And then when you get into the news category or the
sports category, the media companies in those businesses
typically made money because they reached consumers almost
entirely through television, and they were paid in one of a
couple of different ways to do so. Now, if they don’t provide
that information for free to consumers, they’ll lose their
audience. So it really does depend on the category, and
consumers migrate to the lowest common denominator in terms of
barriers to get what they want.
Listen to Sean’s entire conversation with Matt at One Click Society on Positive World Radio Network just by clicking here.
Or download the complete transcript of his conversation with Matt Edelman by clicking here
