How Does the Online Idea Party Work?
You have a dream or a wish, and an obstacle to getting there. (If you don’t think you know your wish, work through my kick-starter and read this post. To learn why you must put logic aside to find your dream, read the following.)
The online Idea Party is here to help you – and the other fellow party goers – with your wishes and obstacles.
Voices from Success Teams and Idea Parties:
Having a team to report to and hearing what everybody did each week is very exciting. It’s kept me moving all year. In the past I made some good starts on my own, but found, every time, when the energy ran out, I ran out. Now it doesn’t run out.
Jade G.
Children’s Playroom Therapist, New York Hospital
I would do a painting a year, a sketch a year. If it was only me I know I would never do it. Having to tell you makes all the difference. It’s crazy why I didn’t do this years ago, it’s so easy all of a sudden.
Caroline R. Personnel Executive, Macy’s Dept Store
Post Your Wish and Your Obstacle Here!
And help your team mates out when you can. Use the Reply link to help, the form below the comments to add your own Wish and Obstacle.
(Your first comment below has to be approved, so it may not display instantly depending on the time of the day. Once your email address is approved you can post instantly. If you want your own profile photo to show up beside your comments, instead of the cute little design, upload your photo on Gravatar.com and give them an hour or so to make it happen.)
I do have a question for folks who were on the last call (apologies; internet decided to pick today to be wonky) — is / was the recording ready / made available? I’m not sure I got an email notice …?
My dream is to start a group for developing goals. That’s what I need to do, as well as stop letting myself isolate myself.
Lisa –
Do you have your group formed yet?
I’m stuck myself on some technical and relational stuff, and in getting stuff together for both my family & myself (I’ve been tending to some folks with illnesses), I could really use the help.
I’ve never made as much progress as fast as I did when I was on Success Team, but they / we only meet for 8 weeks!
🙂
My wish is to interview Barbara Sher for my blog, personalpowerroadmap.com, where I have a series “Interviews with Creative Thinkers” http://www.personalpowerroadmap.com/interviews-creative-thinkers/
For more than 12 years I have admired Barbara for her creative thinking and positive attitude. I (and my readers) would love to know more about her process and how she comes up with new ideas.
My obstacle? I do not know Barbara personally and am hoping to overcome that by joining this unique online club.
I have loved government, history and politics since I was a child. Worked on many campaigns and wanted a forum to bring people together to solve America’s problems. So I finally did it and created a new site by myself…just taught myself as I built it. If you could please visit my site, make comments on any posts that you might have professional expertise in, or personal experience, and also share us on social media so we can grow, that would be wonderful.
Please subscribe to our list, read the page called ‘The Goal’ so you understand what I’m trying to accomplish, and send me ideas on issues we should be speaking about and I will create more posts for solutions. If you’d like to write a blogpost on a particular issue that is close to your heart, I’d love it!
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Hello. I am a 20 years old boy from India. I recently watched Ms.Sher’s video that how isolation makes us so blocked or restricted. My DREAM for now is to talk. Talk a lot, to different people who have stories to tell but nobody to listen to them. I want to be a story teller as well as a listener. I want to be an open ear, to all.
Here everyone is busy figuring out about themselves and is not ready to hear what other want to say.
My OBSTACLE is I have no one to talk to. And that may be a similar problem for many others. So why not use this platform to talk, to enjoy and to cherish our stories.
We all have stories to tell Kushai , and many of us have family ,but no one to frequently talk to as sometimes people get busy living their life. I can relate to that, and although I do have some stories I can share pubically there are stories I can not share yet as they are still to raw .
Hi Kushal. Have you heard of human libraries? I think they are rather new and not yet widespread. The general idea is that rather than checking out books, you can go to different people seated in an area and hear their story one on one. You could go to hear stories, or you could volunteer to tell your story. I have always thought the idea was fascinating. If there is not one near you, maybe you could start one? I wonder if a local library would team up with you to get this going? Have an event once a month or more often if there is interest. This would be a wonderful opportunity to help people tell their stories and to participate! Try searching for ‘human library’ online to see if you could find more information. Best of luck!
My current reality wish list is kind of big and I currently have no funds for this but a girl can dream and acheive those dreams . So in my New reality I wish to have the funds and helpful people to assist in the running of and management and creation including but not limited to,taping ,and editing of videos for a YouTube channel / wesite and other social media sites,and also a graphic artist that can help me with sell sheets and graphic designs for a separate product design line. The Y.T. channel ,and web site will be mainly about fashion,art, design,travel,and food ,and will be about some of my designs and creations, but I also want this to be about colaborating with, and motivating, and empowering others to create their own art , and designs too . The obstacles are currently not having the funds or the people to assist me yet . I did go to the Fashion Merchandising progran in Honolulu a long time ago , and am very creative,but haven’t designed for about 19 years . I prefer designing,although I can make patterns and sew I would prefer someone else do the patterns and sewing. After my mother passed away 19 years ago I haven’t been able to design much but was encouraged to get my “mojo back” last year . The “mojo” challenge was to submit swimsuits to Sports Illustrated Swimsuit for their 2016 issue . I submitted 3 swimsuits which I sent to NewYork, and although none were in the 2016 Swimsuit issue , one momokini is on the Sports Illustrated Swim web site ,on a rookie model named Sofia Resing in Zanzibar . So now I have my mojo back and also realize wishes do come true , and if I could do that at 59 years of age , I know this wish can come true too. And I Thank You in advance .
I have another dream to add!
Dream: to leave my job and be self-employed as a meditation teacher (preferably by the end of this year and hopefully with a large amount of passive income eventually)
Obstacles: Lots! Lack of business knowledge. Meditation being an area that often doesn’t make a lot of money. Being a newly-qualified meditation teacher. Quite a lot of competition locally.
Maybe some of the other competing mediator instructors would be willing to be interviewed, so at least you could learn from them- especially advice about how to pick up business knowledge and make a living at it.
In reply to Louise on wanting to get married…there is an excellent TEDX talk on that. She learns how to have a great profile, becomes the most popular and then selects who she wants.Sorry I don’t have the title.
The picture and visuals are very important because men are so visual.
Is this your dream, Carolyn?
“DREAM: I would like to live and work in Italy for a while, immersed in the culture and history and getting to know the people. I’ve considered teaching English as a Foreign Language there. I’ve explored some programs online like Language Corps.”
Just click on “older comments” on the left side above and you’ll find your post. There is already one reply from Skannie Way 🙂
sorry, this was the wrong place…
Thanks Lisa, will look it up!
I sent my dream and obstacle to you a few weeks ago, but it has not appeared on this board. Can you share what’s happening with that?
Thank you!
Is this your dream, Carolyn?
“DREAM: I would like to live and work in Italy for a while, immersed in the culture and history and getting to know the people. I’ve considered teaching English as a Foreign Language there. I’ve explored some programs online like Language Corps.”
Just click on “older comments” on the left side above and you’ll find your post. There is already one reply from Skannie Way
I sent a dream and obstacle to you all a few weeks ago, but it has not been published. Can you tell me what’s happening with it?
Thank you.
Send it again, Carlyn. I’m not sure what happened but it’s been a rather insane month so far and I guess it fell through the cracks.