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Why networking is a vital part of saying I Exist

Networking is a subject that I’ve been greatly involved with this last year. I had the great epiphany that networking is important. A-hem! Please excuse me. What I meant to say was: “Networking is vital!”

 

Imagine the following: Nobody knows you. You are not a personal brand. How do you say “I Exist”? Remember that the Cause I started is all about saying I Exist efficiently. You can say I Exist to yourself for as much as you want. It will not be of much help. Well at least not until you figure out that saying I Exist is what you really want to do. So, naturally, you’d start saying I Exist to people you know or come into contact with. You see? Networking. The very first step to getting noticed.

 

We build the game that gets you noticed at Cif2.net. When you build your Smartsite, one of the first things that you have to do is to actually network with people. That’s the most simple and most basic thing that you can do to get noticed right away. Yet, it is overlooked a lot.

 

Networking is vital. James Altucher, angel investor and Tech Crunch editor, said that his deepest regret is that he ignored networking for most of his life. “It’s the reason why I’m not a multi-millionaire.” he sais.

 

So start networking. Attend the conferences and events taking place in your city, in a city near you, find people, meet people. Say I Exist!

Say I Exist by allowing other people to say I Exist

Dale Carnegie wrote an amazing book called “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. It is not a book of manipulation, it is simply a book of urging people to be more human and empathize with the people with whom they interact.

 

In the book, Dale wrote that president Roosevelt was very popular. Extremly popular. And the key to his getting noticed and being so popular was the fact that he remembered the names of each person he came into contact with. Remarcable? Yes. And no. He didn’t do this because he was a super-human. Don’t think that he had the memory of an elephant. He simply exercized. A lot. With each name he heard. After meeting any one person or group of persons he closed himself in his office and shut his eyes. Then, he recalled the faces of those persons and to each face he attached a name. He repeated until he thought he got their names right.

 

You see? A simple excercise. Why doesn’t everybody do it? Because they are too busy with only caring about their own selves. This is a great way to make people know about you. Simply remember things about them and then show them you remembered them. Everybody wants to be remembered. And you will have just won a new fan. A new person who will talk about you or even recommend you when need be.

 

Say I Exist, but also allow others to say I Exist..

Integrity and how to use it to get noticed

Integrity. People know about this value. You know it too, right? You see it in people’s LinkedIN profiles, on their facebook pages, their websites, their pitches…

 

But what do they know of integrity? They just use it to try and sell themselves, poor mediocre bastards. Integrity when you hear it is just like something those mediocre people would say to try and look good.

 

What about the people who actually value Integrity? Who live and breathe integrity? Well, those people you and I talk a lot about. Remember that business partner or that friend who said (did not even promise or give his best word) that he’d do something and really did it. He really did what he said he’d do. On time. Exactly as he said. Now remember how many times you’ve told others about his deed.

 

We talk about the people who deliver on their promises. Why? Because they are so very hard to come across. We’re used to liars, to lazy people, to people who don’t care about anything or anyone. So when we finally see someone who DOES what he/she SAIS, we’re like “Oh my God! Unbelievable.” So next time a subject related to that person strikes in a conversation you go like: “I know someone who…”

 

This is perhaps one of the best networking tools available in the world. I mean it’s obvious. Maybe that’s why it is ALWAYS over-looked. People will always recommend those who live and breathe integrity. Because they are always trust worthy. And we only want to recommend trust worthy people.

 

Find integrity. Other then inner peace, it will open doors in your quest to get noticed. The best doors.

The Blind Man who asked for money and the change of perspective that got him the money

A blind man was staying on the cold floor of a crowded street. The wind blew hard, careless for the things which lay on the ground. Including our poor blind man. Near him, the man had a hat with just one coin inside. In his hands, he held a sign which read: “I’m blind. Please help me with some money.”

 

He could not see anyone. He could not see anything. And there was the cold of the street and the emptiness of sight. Cars raced through the streets and cab drivers cursed as loud as they could. And he was just a poor blind man who wanted to hear the cling of coins being tossed into his hat. But the footsteps of passers by kept going, seemingly not noticing the poor blind man.

 

Until one day, one man came to him and took his sign. The blind man was petrified. What could he do without his sign? But suddenly his sign was brought back to him. The man walked away.

 

Sounds of coins clinging, rushing past one another were heard near him and no, not near him. He knew they were all being tossed right into his hat. People did not ignore him anymore and gave him the money he was craving for so long. What did that misterious man do?

 

He took the sign and changed what was written on it. From “Help me with some money. I am blind.” to “What a wonderful day! You can see it, I can not.”

 

That was the whole magic. The magic of communicating directly to the souls of passers by.

Be a Rockstar

Be a rockstar. In your own way.

 

In the world of today, everybody is making a lot of noise. There’s a lot of noise everywhere, in every possible domain. And if there isn’t much noise yet in one domain, you should expect noise to grow fast in just a few months.

 

So much noise makes things become boring. Really boring. And all the same. You have to stand out. Don’t be boring. I may not really care about this, but you should. Being boring will affect YOUR life, the way you see the world, how much of the world you see. It will affect your career, your willingness to smile and be happy. Being boring is horrible and it’s the one thing keeping you from greatness.

 

Go ahead an be a Rockstar! Who.. you? Yes, you! When you’re a rockstar in your own domain and in your own way you will finally feel that your life is going places. It won’t be simple. But it will be worth it.

 

The easiest way to become a rockstar is to find the things you Love and get noticed for doing them. Pursue the things you love and always say “I Exist!” while doing them. Let people know about you. About what your are doing. You won’t go from today boring, tomorrow rockstar. But over some time you will. And you will start seeing that people want to listen to you. They will love to be influenced by you. You will gain relevance and break through all the noise.

 

Think of this: Mark Zuckerberg. Who is he? Many people still don’t know, unless you tell them “He’s the guy who made Facebook”. reply is: “Oh, that guy. Yeah I know him now”.

 

Getting noticed for being awesome at doing the things you love is the best way to become a rockstar. So go ahead, say “I Exist!”. Be a rockstar.