NOW is the time Alberta!
NOW is the Time Alberta!
It’s been several months since we started curating Experience: LEAP, and February 29th is quickly approaching.
As I sit here today, I feel as though the world is screaming to get our attention. It’s urging us to stop worrying about what others think, and finally take action to move forward. What’s going to happen?? We make a mistake? We fall down? So what!? Just get back up again!
I refuse to sit back and cross my fingers and “hope” that our economy and the world around us will get better. I’m not going to curl up and hope that everyone else will make a better community for me. I am moving forward, taking action, making a difference!
Trust me, it breaks my heart to see talented, skilled people in our city and province lose their jobs. Do I believe that media and communications are important? Do I believe we have huge opportunity in the energy sector? Transportation? ABSOLUTELY! However, I do believe that NOW is the time to think differently and create a new perspective.
The ways of our past WILL NOT move us forward. Lives, economies, and much of our world is cyclical; however, each cycle is unique enough to ensure that any predictability is suspect and unreliable. Continuing this cycle of “boom” and “bust” will only result in continued hardship and pain…until we choose to BREAK the cycle.
I am by no means suggesting that we drastically change the way we live and do business. However, we need to seek out new perspectives. We can do this by:
1. Encouraging new and BRAVE thinking
2. Supporting and applauding the ‘game changers’ and ‘dream chasers’ in our world for taking risks
3. Thinking differently and not following the crowd
This is not new and radical thinking, there have been many "game changers"who have taken the LEAP and been catalysts for positive change.
? Henry Ford – failed 5 times before the innovation of the assembly line
? Walt Disney – fired for “lack of imagination and no good ideas”
? Albert Einstein – expelled from school
? Thomas Edison – teachers told him that he was “too stupid to learn anything”
? Oprah Winfrey– fired because she was “unfit for TV”
? Steven Spielberg – rejected from film school 3 times
? Babe Ruth – held the strike out record for decades
? Steve Jobs – fired from his own company
? Soichiro Honda – rejected by Toyota Motor Corp. for a job
? Theodor Seuss Giesel – 27 publishers rejected Dr. Seuss’ first book
? Elvis Presley – In 1954 the Grand Ole Opry said, “you ain’t going nowhere”
Sadly, most of us have to first suffer through immense pain and frustration to want to make a change. Then we need to hear and try new innovative approaches/ideas several times, then we need to see others doing it or trying it before we feel we can make the change. How many times will we ride the wave before we choose to embrace a culture of change?
I believe that we have the right people, the right community, and the right innovation accelerators to put our province at the forefront of the world! It’s time for the rubber to meet the road, it’s time to take action!
NOW is the time to take the LEAP (even if it’s a small LEAP) toward the Alberta that we are capable of creating! NOW is the time for an event like Experience: LEAP!!
Will you take the LEAP with me on February 29th??
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Key Account Manager at Inform Food Brokerage Inc.
9 年I absolutely agree. I'm getting tired of all the negativity in the news about Alberta. We are a strong Province with so many talented people. Thank you for reminding me.
Community economic development | City building | Strategic leadership | Public relations
9 年This is incredibly refreshing. I truly believe this too! This is the year of opportunity!
Director, Infrastructure, City of Beaumont
9 年Everyone should read this post! Monica is right, the time to innovate and think differently IS now!! I am saddened by the hardships realized by many as a result of the economic crisis in the energy sector and there is alot of negativity in the media and otherwise about the current state of the economy. People can essentially choose to sit back, endure and complain about it, or try and figure out ways to push through, overcome obstacles and elevate to a higher level. I am not saying this is an easy or quick process, only that it is possible with the right mind set and tools. Monica and Barbara from Project:Shine as well as their many strategic partners have been working extremely hard planning the details of Experience:LEAP to provide attendees the tools and inspiration to promote positive change in one's life and/or business. It will be a truly remarkable experience and I urge you to attend Experience:LEAP on February 29, 2016. Are you ready to make a change?