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Why this blog? Good question. I wasn’t sure at first. All of my life I have been told to focus on becoming excellent at one thing. Just one thing.
That has been nearly impossible for me to do as long as I can remember.
What a relief it would be for me if I could boil all of my interests, talents, dreams and goals into one unique focus and excel at it.
So, in creating this blog I debated: What among my areas of expertise and interest should I focus on here?
Do I want to blog about Photography? I’ve been engaged in that passion since I was about 8, when I was given an old Hasselblad range-finder by a neighbor. I ran around with black & white film shooting landscapes like I was Ansel Adams (long before I even knew who he was).
Or, I thought, maybe I should focus on advancing my love for painting and blog on the subject of Art? I’ve been painting nearly as long as I’ve been shooting photos. Encouraged by my father, who bought me canvases, paints and brushes for my 10th birthday. He was a very good sketch artist (engineer by trade) who taught me the importance of capturing light and how to create depth with shadows. I wasn’t as good a painter as I was a photographer, but I have always loved seeing the world from both perspectives. Maybe I could engage people like me who’ve been art amateurs for decades.
Writing is another love of mine, but I knew that simply by blogging I would be able to express myself through the written word. It doesn’t matter the topic, as long as I care about it and have a comfortable degree of knowledge and experience, I can write about it.
The nagging topic at the top of my mind was to focus on my professional career as a Nonprofit Fundraiser by blogging to help others be successful in my field. Except that after 11 years working happily and successfully in that field and gaining my Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) status, I am ready to try something new…
Voila! That was it! I decided that I will blog about my recent career shift from fundraising to becoming an Executive Career Consultant, Outplacement Agent & Advisor. So, I started to design a blog for that singular purpose.
But in my effort to focus on one topic, I kept hitting a mental wall.
What about all of my other passions? I wondered. Should I have multiple blogs for each beloved topic? What a nightmare that seemed; to try to stay on top of so many posts and updates! I knew that after a few weeks, I wouldn’t be able to keep up. What would be the point of blogging about photography if I never had time to get out with my camera because I was incessantly blogging?
Then a conversation I had with a longtime friend came back to me. She recently reminded me that we are each multifaceted people who have never been very good at focusing solely on one interest – despite having been pressed most of our individual lives to do just that. It was recognizing the “seeker” quality in the other that made us instant friends and lifelong soul sisters.
I am aware that some people are truly gifted with one unique talent, like music, mathematics, scientific research or art. They pursue it as if there is no question that is what they should do. I knew an elementary school friend who was already certain by fourth grade that she was going into aeronautical science. She planned early on to go to MIT when most of use had no idea what MIT even meant. From what I’d later heard about her, she had done exactly that.
I have never been one of those kinds of people. I never knew exactly what I wanted to be when I “grew up.” All I knew was that I wanted my life to be creative, exciting and filled with interesting people. I have since learned that I require multiple opportunities for change and growth in order to feel fulfilled.
So, here I am, breaking all of the “self-branding” rules by not focusing on one identifiable topic – thereby muddying my personal brand. Nevertheless, I think the topic of being a Seeker - or “Scanner” as favorite author, speaker, and career/lifestyle coach Barbara Sher refers to people like me – is quite an interesting topic. Scanner is a fine term, but I see myself more as a seeker of adventure, knowledge, experiences and opportunities who constantly “scans” the horizon for these things and jumps in with both feet until I lose interest. In my mind I am a Seeker.
I know that there are lots of people out there just like me who will understand and appreciate the challenge to be a Seeker in a world full of settlers. I hope we can support, honor and encourage our unique, multifaceted, “Seeker” selves here.
I look forward to your contributions!
Kat
Beloved Woman!
Mr Turtle was, Indeed, a grand mirror for YOU! Wise, conscious and crisp as deeply browned toast. Yummm. You were there to be reminded of what this planet that you helped design and create was all about! Your dilemma about the the photography passions…rightly so. And I would like to suggest you send me a way for ME to send you some photos I took of ANGELS. You laugh…but this is true. I can teach you how to do it, and you won’t need a Blad to do it. A simple digital cam with a FLASH works just fine as long as there is NO UV filter over the primary lens. *poof* it works. ANyway, it’s almost 1 in the morning, and although I can sleep-in tomorrow [Yeaaaa!] I prefer to get back to the puter and twitt my brains out. My name is @twittbrain and I’ve only been on it for about a week now, but have 200 followers…heading for about 100K. I wanna create an internet marketing empire…or something that will sustain my other endeavours helping peeps with problems and diseased bodies. I am co-owner with a biz partner of many years…in adult repair stem cell clinics in Mexico. We have some new tricks that will put a decided SPIN on the other peeps on this wonderous planet we skitter around on…and hopefully drop the dreadedly high price to something the poor peeps of mexico and other poorer countries can AFFORD easily. We do NOT use the fetal or embryonic stem cells!! We use your very own blood or fat (adipose tissue) tissue to create miracles! It’s a LOT easier to draw a little blood from your pretty arm, add some hot sauce n stuff, cook it in a petri dish a few days, then re-inject it in your tummy fat–which is surprisingly painless cuz we use a teeny-tiny needle. I was really shocked the first time…and it was over before I knew it. wow. I have to say it again—you are SO pretty…just mindblowing PRETTY, Kathleen! That photographer was really capturing your true essence in that photo—unless that photographer was YOU! Kinda think it was not that I’m typing this…and getting THAT FEELING it was you. haha Oh well…sometimes it’s hard to be sorta psychic…and get away with it. lol I have a totally wild background in metaphysics, edgar cayce and hugh lynn cayce—who used to stay at our home in dallas when they would come back from egypt or india, and just wanted some place to relax and NOT BE MESSED WITH from the HQ in virginia beach. I have a bio that would blow you away, too. Steven Speilberg signed the movie rights to MY LIFE back about 20 years ago…then his life was threatened for it. Gimme a friends email addy if you wanna play it safe. I have this driving urge to get these photos to you via email, and my bio. Lotsa stuff going on right now, and I feel you would be really interested in it. Just a FEELING, and I’m rarely wrong when it comes in that way. You know what I mean cuz you get the same twinges, too. The instant I saw your face, it was like, “OMG! I know you!” From where? You know that better than I do, but does it matter? You gotta see these photos! I feel you can do a LOT with this quantum physics that is deeply involved in this technology. We had about a 98% “fix rate” with peeps with cancer using this angel miracle healing thing we did. WE is me and my old biz partner in a shrimp and tilapia farm in Belize on 7000 acres, with francis ford coppola on one side of us, and micharl cousteau on the other. i was the inventor of the Slightest Touch.com orgasm device, and Rick Harris, my biz partner, was the President. After we lost interest in sex, haha, we started the healing gig, and I built several websites for it, all of which are gone now. I still have a blog on it: http://amhstevon.blogspot.com/ Rick wrote the text and I created the blog and took all the photos. I have pix of angels that are 18 feet in diameter–six of them in what we called THE SIX PACK! they even followed us to cozumel when we were down there for a week scouting for a place to build our international healing center. That is all been transferred to Guadalajara, where Rick now lives, and comes to dallas about every 2 months now. We have a crack team of doctors (MDs no less) that want to go to mexico and do some really groundbreaking research tests with us. We think we can totally reGENERATE a golfer’s back disks in a very short time! Ditto for professional athletes with all sorts of injuries, and take that HEALING TIME from months to just a couple of WEEKS! The owners would rejoice at that, considering the millions of bucks we could save them for a fast recovery! I also wanna grab some generals in the mil. and wake em up to these amazing adult REPAIR stem cells! If you would like to delve into this subject just a tad, check out our friends down in costa rica and central america… this site is just awwesome! http://www.youtube.com/user/cellmedicine This doc is sorta doing what we have been doing with race horses for years…regenerating peeps bodies,and working with parkinsons and other really nasty diseases. I was one of the first peeps in this country to build RIFE MACHINES THAT WORKED!~ I only sold them to doctors. Long story, and thats where speilberg came into the picture. *crick crick* get that photo>>??<< hehe
OK Lovely, AMAZING Lady Kathleen! pweeze hit me back somehow. I have had a feeling something was gonna come of all this twitt thing. Im @twittbrain on twitter. I am working on creating a marketing blog, but stuff keeps getting in the way of launching it. Know what that's like? Hmmmm? lol Yeah, I know. my cell is four.six.nine. three.two.three. nine.one.zero.seven anytime you like. you have my email now, and twitter addy…so just push your lovely and Oooh So Slender fingers to do it.
Namaste Beloved Woman! Blessing upon Blessing to you and yours!
Steen Braun ~ Dallas
nite nite!!
Hi Kat,
That was really wonderful revelation of how this blog came to be. I would like to place myself in the category that you are in. Seeker or scanner. Just that I often failed to continue with my seeking/scanning. By reading this I feel like I’ve got to do what I want to do. What I’ve been good at.
Have added you on my gtalk, as I’m not on Twitter. Hope you won’t mind
Hiya i am new to this board i hope i can help out & give something back here because i have learned a huge amount myself.
Cheers
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