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Monday, September 19, 2016
Nobody Is Perfect
The recent Paralympic Games have reminded us very well just how much is possible even with what we call a disability.
Many people have experienced things that have left them in a less than perfect way, In some cases this is clearly visible and easy to see. We compare ourselves to them and if we have all our limbs we look at them as though they be missing something that we have.
Yet not all situations that leave us less than able can be seen.
Stroke, brain injury from accidents or other causes. Kidney or liver problems, cancer, mental health problems are just some things we can face that may not show and yet leave us unable to do all that some others can do.
Even with everything working, we are all different.
Some are good at communicating. Some are not. Some are good at maths while others of us don't process well that way or never really got the knack.
While technology is improving the abilities of those of us who have been faced with loss of a limb and given back mobility in a way that was once impossible we still look for differences instead of how we are alike.
The recent interest in Steampunk is fascinating as it looks back to the steam era and imagines a future work born of mechanics and clockwork. The images that are created as a fashion statement don't seek to hide difference but rather to enhance and make a feature of it.
So we move into a new time where jobs are still stuck in many cases much like in Victorian times even though technology has long moved on. We are capable of doing much more with less and yet we have people with disabilities trying to fit into a system that pretends to need traditional working habits of full time employment, even as the workforce is casualized and benefits denied to those who are willing and able to work full time and in fact would prefer that. At the same time, those who would like a more flexible arrangement are seen as being 'inferior' in some way from an employment point of view.
Instead of looking for differences from the norm, perhaps it is time to review what we consider to be "normal". The definition that we are using seems to me to be out of date and less than useful in the current environment.
Disabled, or not disabled the same things apply to us all.
We need to feel useful. We need to have something that satisfies our need for purposeful living. We need to be able earn money and to fit a life around our working hours.
We need encouragement when things don't go to plan. When life doesn't work out the way we hoped. Or when other stuff just gets in the way of us operating at full capacity.
Looking Forward
Do you need some encouragement?
Do you know someone else who could use some?
You probably do, though you may not have heard it from them.
We all need something to hope for. Something to push ourselves a little bit harder to achieve. Not because someone else expects it but because we do.
And that takes a certain amount of confidence to believe that we do - even though we may be less than perfect - deserve that.
Everyone is entitled to make some plans. Big plans, or small plans, it doesn't matter. Just put it out there in your future and set some memories of things that have not happened yet, that you want to reach.
Celebrate your difference.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015
Working For Promises
It's an interesting world in which we live.Changes happening every day to the way we work, the way we get remunerated and the way we use media and technology.
While industries employ weasel language to talk about "flexibility in the workforce" what they mean is casual jobs and no benefits. Contracts replace employment and many jobs lack the security of employment that can allow the person to plan ahead, borrow money and invest in a home. This group which is growing by the day has been called The Precariat - for the precarious financial situation in which they find themselves.
"Millions of people across the world, including many Australians, are living and working in economic and social insecurity, many in casual or short-term, low-paid jobs, with contracts they worry about. Their incomes fluctuate unpredictably, they lack benefits that most people used to take for granted.
No paid holidays, no sick leave, no subsidised training, no worthwhile pension to look forward to, and no assurance that if they lose their job they will be able to rely on state benefits or other assistance." - Guy Standing is the author of The Precariat - The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury) see more on that here in this article on The Drum
Naturally in such a world, retirement funding is up to the individual and we know from experience in Australia prior to compulsory superannuation and in the US (where retirement benefits were changed in the 80's to allow employers to only match contributions from employees) that many people will not put enough money aside (nor be able to afford to) nor be able to retire since they will have few resources to depend on, aside perhaps from a windfall legacy when their parents die.
Similarly, the technical world is full of sage advice on the new paradigm and how people will be moving from job to job expressing their skills and running their career as "my personal business". This is an attitude that we will have to cultivate but we're not there yet.
Part of that techno wonder is the miracle of the start-up where people can be promised big bonuses when (If) 'the ship comes in' and the company gets bought out by a mega player. Meanwhile they can graft away on a subsistence pay - or work for basically nothing. Since most start-ups are likely to fail, many will put in the time and at the end have a very expensive lesson to show for it. Some interesting perspective on this fact is outlined in this piece "Advice for US Entrepreneurs Who Move to Europe" on the difference between the US and Europe when it comes to start-ups. In Australia you can figure the conditions are most like Europe than the US. Bold highlight is mine.
"Another legal obligation that is very common in Europe and unheard of in the USA is state-mandated severance pay packages. This is a direct impediment to start ups, the reason being that most start ups fail and in the USA there is an understanding of this. In the USA employees demand stock options as upside should the start up succeed knowing that there will be no severance package should the start up fail."
Then there is the virtual sweatshop model that is growing apace, where you contribute your writing, your creative pieces and don't get paid. Oh, yes you will benefit, you're told, by "all the exposure" you'll get. Meanwhile if the business takes off and the owner sells it for a bundle, that's going in their pocket, but never yours. That exposure? Probably worth very little in real terms.
Illustrators who have been working professionally for decades are struggling to find work. Where then will the work come from for all those following who are studying visual arts and joining the list of people looking for that creative work? Well there are sites that promote "Freelance" jobs - where you can pimp yourself out in competition with those in third world countries where $10 a day is possible to live on.
Harlan Ellison is a very good and famous author who had something fabulous to say on this matter. He's 'paid his dues' and still yet the hucksters will try it on to get work free. Here's what he thought about that.
So what is the way forward?
It seems that the system in which we work will need to change to accommodate the new less-that-full-time workplace. Perhaps decoupling benefits from employment so that they accrue the same way that superannuation and retirement savings do, and are portable from job to job. A change in the way that banks approach lending for people in this new workforce and perhaps an additional payment made to those who are not regular employees.
It's definitely a topic that needs to be on the agenda for discussion because it is likely to affect every family, and living well in this new environment is going to depend on having a well considered and implemented plan to deal with the issues that pertain.
Working for promises? That's a mug's game.
Don't be a mug.
Update:
With the growth in social media platforms many have a huge following personally - but that doesn't translate into job offers or financial reward.
Like this article outlines...
"The restaurant was hosting Buzzfeed’s Golden Globes party. For the past two years, Ashley has been one of the most visible actresses on the company’s four YouTube channels, which altogether have about 17 million subscribers. ...
The awkward part was that Ashley wasn’t there to celebrate with Buzzfeed. She was there to serve them. Not realizing that her handful of weekly waitressing shifts at Eveleigh paid most of her bills, a coworker from the video production site asked Ashley if her serving tray was “a bit.” It was not.""
The disconnect between internet fame and financial security is hard to comprehend for both creators and fans. But it’s the crux of many mid-level web personalities’ lives. Take moderately successful YouTubers, for example. Connor Manning, an LGBT vlogger with 70,000 subscribers, was recognized six times selling memberships at the Baltimore Aquarium. Rosianna Halse Rojas, who has her own books and lifestyle channel and is also YouTube king John Green’s producing partner, has had people freak out at her TopMan register. Rachel Whitehurst, whose beauty and sexuality vlog has 160,000 subscribers, was forced to quit her job at Starbucks because fans memorized her schedule.
In other words: Many famous social media stars are too visible to have “real” jobs, but too broke not to." Read the full story here: Famous and broke
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Saturday, January 04, 2014
Goal Checker - Make Sure You Make The Right Goals
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Here's another tool to help you with your goal setting. Many goals fail because they don't have any real purpose that we care about at a visceral level. There are ramifications for everything we do - checking the ecology of these and understanding the full implications makes a world of difference to both deciding if this goal is really one to pursue, and what the full meaning of achieving that might be.
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Monday, December 23, 2013
Time For Some Self Care
Activities are starting to wind up for That Time Of Year. The end of the year sets the signal for shopping, and thoughts of holidays and presents and eating too much, sitting too much, and indulging in activities that may take the rest of the next year from which to recover. Too much money spent on stuff that has little value, too much food and drink. Too much added to the credit card.
Of course not everyone has the same need to do the social thing. Many are alone at this time of year and that family that was so big just a few years ago can be shrinking in ways that you never imagined might happen. Parents die, family members move - or we do. Relationships finish. Children leave home and move away. And suddenly that large circle of relatives and people you don't see any other time of the year, has contracted and become quite small, or evaporated completely.
So what do you do when you're not surrounded by hordes of family and friends during these times? Consider how you might use this time to reflect on the year that's gone and review how that's been for you.
Where have you been successful at what you set out to achieve?
Where did your results not get where you wanted them to be?
Map out where a change in methods might have made the difference.
Self Care - Nurturing.
We often think in terms of how to help others. How to do something nice for others. Now is the time to think about doing something nice for you.
Go easy on the alcohol. An alcohol induced fog doesn't improve anything. Make the holidays a time of conscious relaxation. Spend the time practicing mindfulness.
Review your appearance.
Try a new 'look'! Is it time for a change from that haircut that you've had for so long? What do you need to improve your appearance and feel more confident? Is it time to lift your game when it comes to personal grooming? This can be a time to attend to those personal appearance issues that you have been too busy to get to through the year. Book in for a good cut, or a wax and polish. Get rid of those stray hairs that have sprouted in places no hair should grow. Have a day at the spa or book in for a massage and some pampering that you've never done before.
Book an appointment with a stylist and have your colours done so that you are buying the shades that work best for you. Learn how to dress to be noticed for your classic look that makes the most of your style. This can increase your feeling of confidence and be good for your career too! And definitely will help with dating.
Clean out your closet and pitch out those clothes you are keeping for 'just one more wear'. Ditch everything that doesn't fit, whether it is too small or too big, if it doesn't fit you now, get rid of it. Donate it if it is in good repair, or just toss it out. Those things that have been hanging in your wardrobe since 1990 - it's time to go. Old shoes that you never wear because they pinch your feet, those belts that are in shocking colours or don't fit any more get rid of those too. Old handbags or briefcases that have seen better days, out.
Look classy! Now you have made some room, think about some basic classic pieces that will improve your wardrobe and help you look your best. Pick pieces that will stay in fashion long after the latest fad is over. Replace old underwear, odd socks and stock up on new socks or hosiery so you're not running out at the wrong time. Take any shoes that need mending or polishing and have them put in order.
Me-Time
Review your goals. What do you want to happen in the year ahead? Start writing them down and exploring some wishes that you've had but never committed to achieving. You can find more here to help with beliefs and goals.
Watch some movies you've missed. This is your time to pamper yourself so settle back and catch up on some movies you wanted to see but didn't get around to, or revisit some old favourites.
Read something you love. If you have that pile of books in your home that you've been meaning to read sometime, now is your chance. Find something to suit your mood and just waste as much time as you like doing nothing more than reading or playing at a hobby you've let go.
Make some phone calls. Yes the telephone still works for talking and this is a good time for you to make some calls and reconnect with people you have not spoken to for a long time. Let them know you are still alive and are interested in their life.
Learn to cook. Too many people fall into relationships because they don't know how to look after themselves. This is especially true for men. That's a terrible reason to be in a relationship so make it your business to start cooking for yourself. If the thought of that scares you because you don't know how, then make a list of the things you would like to eat and then you can track down the way to do it. There are many great tutorial videos and websites now to learn just about anything you could imagine, so there is no excuse for being limited in this way. Good eating is at the heart of your good health and self-nurturing means looking after your body.
Start a physical exercise program. This might be just to start walking, or riding your bicycle or going to the gym. Pick something that you can do easily and without a bunch of equipment to buy or other obstacles that can become excuses for not doing it, and pick an activity that you will be able to continue for the whole year. Make that a priority and dedicate some time each day for this activity, even if it is just 20 minutes a day.
Go for a hike. Take the camera and do a photo-walk of where you go. Be that a hiking trail, or a trip to a city that you see every day but have never looked at with a tourist's eye. Discover new sights in old places. Or visit a new place and photograph the images that makes it unique.
Here's The Sneaky Bit
You don't even have to wait until the holiday season. You can do this any time. Pick a weekend. Pick two weekends a year to mark on your calendar and make it your special time for you.
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Friday, November 08, 2013
Another Four Years To Achieve A New Set Of Goals
So in 2012 we had another election result in the USA election. During the lead up to the voting there had been all kinds of postings on the internet from both sides of the political divide complaining that the President had "disappointed me", "not done enough", "not done anything!", and more of that nature but less polite.
With the election concluded we know that there is another period of four years to follow this last period of four years. So I thought to myself - is it true? Has the President not done much in the past four years? What has he done? This is what I found in 2012. According to Washington Monthly, here are a few:
- Passed Health Care Reform
- Pushed Broadband Coverage
- Expanded Health Coverage for Children
- Passed Wall Street Reform
- Repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
- Reversed Bush Torture Policies
- Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program,
- Expanded Pell Grant Spending
- Increased Support for Veterans
- Passed Credit Card Reforms:
- Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco
- Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill
- Created Recovery.gov
- Recognized the Dangers of Carbon Dioxide
- Expanded Stem Cell Research
You can find the complete list here
To me, that looks like a fair bit to have accomplished. In any circumstances. And yet I am more interested in your results.
So What Does The Average Person Accomplish In Four Years?
And it got me to wondering. It's easy to be critical of others in the public eye. Just point and complain, and some do that without even checking out what has been done. Certainly, I have not achieved anything of such importance in the same 4 year period. I had not brought in a big public policy, or implemented some social justice program. Nothing like it.
I wonder for those who are reporting being disappointed, what their own report card on the past four years would read like.
We are quick to make judgments about others without relating that back to our own performance. What would be 'enough' for the President to achieve in a term. What measure are we holding ourselves to when we look at life in 4 year intervals?
Four years is a good chunk of time. It is enough time to do a great many things. Have you accomplished all that you set out to achieve during the past 4 years? Did you start with some goals to achieve, because many didn't even get that far.
What Will Achievement Of Your Goals Mean To You?
Are you happy with what you achieved during this last 4 years? What stands out for you during this time?
What about the next four years... will you set out to achieve something specific that you'll commit to do in the next four years?
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.
And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn
Setting Goals
I like to look at goals with clients for the next 12 months and for a 5 year span. A 4 year span would do well too and if we segment these four year intervals to coincide with elections, that could be a good way to piggy-back our own goals so that we can do our own audit of progress while we compare that with that our governments have achieved over the same period. That makes some kind of sense as it is a built-in measure of time.
Politicians come and go. What's critically important to us all - is what we do about the things over which we have control. That's our life. We are the President of that. Make it a job we can be proud of having done well.
Action
Review the past 4 years and honestly report on your performance.
Take some time out and commit to some goals that you will reach in the next 4 years.
What will you be able to say, in four years time, that you achieved in this term?
Edited: This post updated in November 2013
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Sunday, November 03, 2013
How To Step-Up In Your Business.
Accepting personal responsibility for our actions and our performance in the roles we undertake is a sign of our maturity and character.
Performance is something we can judge in others and conveniently miss when it comes to our own.Often the topics of business issues come up and there is a rash of activity and articles posted online and in books about marketing and ways to move things around in business. Working with business owners on many of these issues, it is clear that they all tend to resolve back to the same issue.
It all comes back to the actions, skills and attitude of the business owner.
Perhaps not surprisingly, we can end up in business without preparation and training in the particular skills that will enable us to perform excellently in our new role as CEO of our business. Sometimes we just start doing what we love and before we know it, our doing-what-we-love activity has become a real life business and suddenly we’re faced with employees, compliance issues, customers to serve, and a need to keep the rent paid and feed all the mouths that are depending on us. Meanwhile the world has changed, and the way that we always knew how to do what we do, have changed too.
Now we have to contend with competition from big operators with vast budgets for marketing and advertising and a willingness to sell under our cost of goods, just to squeeze out the local operators. We have a changing marketplace where customers expect access 24/7 to our business and will spend their money elsewhere if we don’t make provision for them in a way that suits them best. Higher expectations and access to an internet full of alternatives makes it important that we keep up with the new changes, but often we can be so busy just ‘putting out fires’ that we don’t even notice how much is changed – or that those changes can also bring us opportunity, along with threats to the status quo.
So how do we grow into the role that our business needs us to assume?
How do we move from the harried business owner, to the calm, in control CEO who runs the business as a business, and maintains a standard of service and product that can compete in this new environment?
Review Your Current Position
Think about it ... What commitment you are going to make to yourself and the contract you’re willing to enter with YOU to perform at the level the CEO of any business, should deliver. Commit to deliver for your business. Write it out and sign off on it. Get it witnessed!
Get Help: See What’s Hiding In Your Blind-spot
You know the signs on the trucks when you’re driving “if you can’t see my mirrors, I can’t see you”. The same is true in business, and while we are looking the issues that are right in front of us, we are in danger of not seeing those things that might be causing some of our problems, or those things that can blindside us and wipe us out fast, or just cause a slow and miserable death. What is in that blind-spot can be leading to money bleeding from the business, preventing money coming into the business, or creating an environment that is stressful and bad for business and everyone in the business, and customers who would willingly spend money ‘if only’.
You get a different perspective when you can share what you see, with someone who can see the same thing from an outside perspective. This value of this can be immeasurable. Make sure what you think you are seeing is really what’s there and get an external viewpoint from someone who can not only see, but understand how to analyse what they are seeing.
Consider Your Business Vision
Nobody can build anything well, if they don’t know what it is supposed to look like. Try putting that furniture together if you don’t know what goes where. It is too hard! And it doesn’t need to be. Pick what YOU want your business to be like.
Understand if the business doesn’t look like you thought it would – or would like it to – then it is up to you to recalibrate, retool if necessary, and revamp to create the vision that you DO want.
And you need people to help you, so you need to engage your employees, and others who will help you achieve bring your vision to life, so they know what it is, and you all know when you have arrived and can keep it flourishing.
Create A Blueprint
Just as you need to know what something should look like, before you can build it, you need some guidelines to make sure that you put it together the way that can get you to the final result for which you are aiming. Your blueprint is your working document to show you what, how and where everything goes and when it will be done.
Follow Through
This is blueprint is worthless unless you make the commitment to yourself and to the project to do what you say you will do those actions that need to happen in order for it to be done now. If you don’t know HOW to do it, or to do some part of it, then that’s okay. Just find out! Yes you can find out anything you need to know, and you can find it inside the business, or you can find it outside the business if you don’t have what you need to do it. Finding the help you need, well that’s part of your commitment. No excuses.
Make Yourself Accountable To Someone
One of the great things in business is that we often get to make the decisions. One of the terrible things in business is we often get to make the decisions, and not be accountable for the results. That’s bad for the business and while it sometimes feels like a good thing... it is bad for us too.
This is where ‘the rubber hits the road’ and this is where we find out if you are really Stepping Up in your business. It can be scary, here on what can seem like the ‘bleeding edge’ but is just doing what we should be doing from the outset.
Push through that barrier, and you’ll find your better self on the other side.
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Passion Alone Is Not Enough
"Follow your passion" "Make your passion your business"
Is common to see this suggested as a good thing to do.
But is it really good advice?
Some people like baking muffins so they think opening a restaurant might be a good move.
In reality, it could just be a good way to start to not like making muffins.
A better indicator for opening a restaurant might be if you can say –
- I love serving people and
- I’m good at finding ways to produce good quality food customers love
- and that makes me good profit.
- And - I am passionate about following budgets and know how to plan meals without waste.
- And - I like working long hours, 7 days a week and
- I don’t mind not making a lot of money.
If you want your passion for muffins to be your business then you might test that out by working out...
- How many muffins you need to make to cover the rent and the expenses and your wages and start making profit. And you know
- How you can sell that number of muffins to make enough money to pay those expenses and make you lots of profit.
- And that you are content to make muffins, market muffins, sell muffins and live and breathe muffins and little else.
Even the things we like to do, can get old when we have to do them every day all day.
Sometimes if you like making muffins, it is a good idea to just make muffins when you feel like it.
Jim Collins, in his business book Good to Great suggests what he called his:
Hedgehog Principle
The question that we need to ask when we are considering turning our passion into a business, are our Hedgehog questions. There are three.
What are you passionate about?
What can you be the best at?
What can actually make you a living?
And the answer must meet all three criteria.
This exercise can also be used by young people trying to sort their way in life, their personal hedgehog, as much as a business trying to figure out what purpose they serve.
So if the answer to all 3 questions is Yes – following your Passion might be a good idea.
If:
- · You’re passionate about it
- · You can be the best in the world at it
- · You can make money doing it. – And you know how.
Remember - And the answer must meet all three criteria. When you refine your thinking in this way – that clarity helps you to focus.
But be clear that this is the beginning and in business your time will be spent on many things that need to be done that don’t involve that element about which you are passionate.
It’s said that:
“Successful people do those things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.”
Some people are unwilling to be uncomfortable. Learn to be uncomfortable and see it as a sign of potential personal growth. That's a marker as a Good Thing.
A lot of things that the business needs doing, is stuff that we really won’t want to do. But must.
But what if I have a business that is not my passion?
Here’s what nobody tells you.
You can become passionate about anything.
Your attitude will dictate how well that passion lasts.
Passion is the start point. Alone it won’t do anything.
Passion needs to be supported with good habits that get you the results that you need.
If you have a business that is not your passion you may still have good habits that let you make it successful.
Now … time to get passionate about it.
And it is not just the thing the business does – get passionate about how well you do what you do and how well you serve your customers and how valuable your business is – or will be – to the clients you serve. Notice that you can do the same thing to enhance passion in all your relationships.
If you are not already valuable to them – then that’s a sign that there are improvements to be made to bring your value up higher for them – and make your business one that you can truly be proud to own and to represent and to promote.
More important perhaps is to consider how well your habits are helping you to achieve the outcomes you want.
It's not discipline you need.
We sometimes think we have a discipline problem. When in truth we have no problem with discipline. We can do habits that are not supporting our interests, easily and on cue every time! We just have the wrong habits for the results we want. When you swap those for habits that go with the results you want – then you really have something.
Check your passion levels.
Are you feeling passionate about what you do?
If not –
If you are not passionate about what you are doing – you have two choices. You can do something you are passionate about – but that might not work.
Or you can get passionate about what it is that you are doing successfully now.
And you can make those muffins in your time off... any time it pleases you.
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Passion is the start point. Alone it won’t do anything.
Passion needs to be supported with good habits that get you the results that you need.
If you have a business that is not your passion you may still have good habits that let you make it successful.
Now … time to get passionate about it.
And it is not just the thing the business does – get passionate about how well you do what you do and how well you serve your customers and how valuable your business is – or will be – to the clients you serve. Notice that you can do the same thing to enhance passion in all your relationships.
If you are not already valuable to them – then that’s a sign that there are improvements to be made to bring your value up higher for them – and make your business one that you can truly be proud to own and to represent and to promote.
More important perhaps is to consider how well your habits are helping you to achieve the outcomes you want.
It's not discipline you need.
We sometimes think we have a discipline problem. When in truth we have no problem with discipline. We can do habits that are not supporting our interests, easily and on cue every time! We just have the wrong habits for the results we want. When you swap those for habits that go with the results you want – then you really have something.
Check your passion levels.
Are you feeling passionate about what you do?
If not –
- What element of what you do can you ramp up feeling good about?
- Where can you push yourself to be the best at what you do now?
- How much more of yourself can you bring to whatever it is that you do?
If you are not passionate about what you are doing – you have two choices. You can do something you are passionate about – but that might not work.
Or you can get passionate about what it is that you are doing successfully now.
And you can make those muffins in your time off... any time it pleases you.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Pursuit Of The Idea
Can you sit down and actually bring those ideas into production? That's the skill to build.
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Are you lousy at self promotion too?
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