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Pixar's Joe Ranft's 2 Rules for Living
Copyright © 2002 - 2010 by Susan Harrow. All rights reserved.
Joe Ranft knew how to live. Considered the heart of Pixar's
films his sense of humor and gift for storytelling were
legendary throughout the industry and throughout the world.
How can you apply his life lessons to promoting yourself,
your product, business, service or cause? Storytelling is
key along with two others.
1. The journey is the reward.
I want it now. I can't wait. Hurry, hurry. Show me the
money. What do I get? Life will be better tomorrow.
Stop.
What about now? What about doing without knowing what will
result, just for the fun of it?
This is what Kathan Brown, a client of mine who is legendary
in the print making/etching world and who has worked with
such artists as John Cage, Richard Diebenkorn, and Richard
Tuttle, writes in the opening of her book, Ink, Paper, Metal,
Wood:
"Thirty-three years ago when I founded Crown Point Press I
didn't have a clear plan, but I liked the feel of ink on my
hands and the look of it after I'd printed it onto paper
using an etching press. I liked working with polished
copper, aromatic liquid tar, rosin from pine trees, and wax,
heated and rolled out thin -- poetic materials from another
age."
She goes on to say that she started the press for her
friends who were painters and sculptors and how they taught
her ways to make sense of life in this day and age.
During this time when our troops and the Iraqi people
continue to die, when hundreds have died or are in desperate
straits in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, when depression,
obesity and anxiety have become as commonplace as the
housefly, how does what you do help us make sense of the
world?
And while the journey is the reward, Kathan says, "You can't
just sit around and enjoy. You also have to look for the
next step."
2. Trust the process.
Process is often mysterious, frustrating and slow. Process
is also miraculous, easy and instant. They are part of the
same continuum.
Margaret Welty is a great example of trusting the process.
She's an artist and gifted teacher who just got her own
cable TV show ). She has attended the Sound Bite System for
Success (tm) teleclasses ) every single time they've been
offered.
She practices weekly with her sound
bite buddy and has done
so for over six months. She's made dramatic strides that
have come from trying different ways of saying things,
hearing her sound bite buddie's feedback and booking herself
on radio shows so she can hone what she's learned. I love
the phrase (sound bite) on her website: "No Talent? No
Problem! Drawing Free allows anyone -- even YOU to start
drawing NOW."
Even me? With Margaret holding my hand I will trust the
process and give it a go. No doubt Joe Ranft would cheer me
on.
Susan Harrow shows you how to trust the process while
doubling or tripling your business in her book, Sell
Yourself Without Selling Your Soul®. Learn how to promote
yourself, your business, your product or your cause without
bragging, begging or whoring-and get exactly what you want-from the media and ultimately, from life.
http://prsecrets.com
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a top media coach, marketing strategist and author of
Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul® (HarperCollins),
The
Ultimate Guide to Getting Booked on Oprah, and
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