Seeing red!

This is not an angry rant by a madman.

I took a few days off. I needed it. All it takes is a break, away, and you see things differently.

• Your sense of smell is more acute in Vermont, smelling maple anything, breathing in all that clean country air.
• Your sense of taste, critically evaluating which sample of cheese at innumerable dairies is THE best, (is it possible that a Canadian 10-year-old cheddar is as good as a Vermont 3-year old?)
• Your sense of hearing, crispy leaves underfoot, wondering if things that go bump in the night outside are the curious rumblings of moose, or worse, bears.
• Your sense of vision, staring up in the southern sky before dawn at a meteor shower, waiting for the next cosmic light show by nature, taking in the unspoiled landscape, feeling small at Quechee Gorge.
• And your sense of color, seeing the hues and tints of changing leaves at peak, a colorful pageant, when you round a corner on a country road and have to stop and capture the beauty, as in this photo I took.

I saw red. And I mean RED!

Away from home and office, I stopped watching the evening news and resulting broadcast discourse. I took a break from politics. I discontinued (for now) posting my political POV on another social medium.

And the few days away made me truly appreciate the beauty we have around us. That sense of well-being is only being fully felt now that I have returned to business reality. While amid all of it, I sensed it, but perhaps I overdosed.

I want to preserve that euphoric feeling, but I may sink into the normal day-to-day. I’ll just have to recheck that photo above and get the rush of the memory of it all.

Friends, make me stick to it, remind me when I go astray. Colleagues, tell me when I can do better, constructively. Clients, let’s path find new ways to make your needs better met by what I offer. And if you attend one of my upcoming events, tell others how I helped you, not as an advertisement for me, but as an offer to help them do better, based on what you learned. Pay it forward.

My little introspective essay for the fall as we begin to wind up soon for year end.

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About Marc W. Halpert, LinkedIn Trainer and Evangelist

I am a “multi-preneur,” (www.dhirubhai.net/in/marchalpert) having started 3 companies, all of which I continue to operate. My latest business, connect2collaborate, spreads my LinkedIn and networking evangelism worldwide to train and coach others to better explain their brand and positioning on their LinkedIn profile pages:

• as an “evangelist” recognized by LinkedIn to help nonprofits cultivate talent pool, volunteers, boards, and corporate sponsors.
• as a LinkedIn corporate trainer.
• as a coach helping professional practitioners use LinkedIn to better achieve their goals.
• as a high-energy speaker at conferences.
• as a volunteer coaching and teaching the underemployed to master new better career objectives.

I blog daily on LinkedIn topics to encourage readers towards a more beneficial use of this amazing tool. I speak about LinkedIn at public events and private corporate sessions too. I was very pleased to be named to the LinkedIn 200 and my book published by the American Bar Association “LinkedIn Marketing Techniques for Law and Professional Practices” was released June 2, 2017. A new book on LinkedIn for nonprofits is in the works!

I welcome your comments on this Post! Do you see red too?