My Choice? Community

Moving forward on making this blog a habit, I will continue to reach my goal of 21 posts. Why is 21 the magic number? From what I have read it might have originated form a 1960’s Psycho-Cybernetics book that talks about the shelf life a mental image has before there is a perceived change. As a responsible blogger, if the 21 day rule has peaked your interested please click here to find some interesting research on the 21 day rule from a fellow blogger. I am sure that my 21 post attempt is modeled loosely on the rule, but I see it as a terrific job aid. Given the sharing of knowledge and ideas seems to be the theme at hand, my value proposition of choice today is “Community”.  

"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants"

-Thomas A. Edison 

While Thomas Edison might have been talking about the inner workings of the human body, I like to think that social media is alive and our interactions are the inner workings of its online persona. As I join the community of bloggers and marketers, I have found that this persona called social media has an interesting mix of ideals that make up the vast portrayed by its inner workings (the community). We have leaders of international affairs and industry that inspire the community to think in terms of economics (I.A. Blog); this is accompanied with ideals on how to market you “self” Industry (Employer Blog). Our inner workings can be driven at times by compassion and care for beings that are unfortunate to have few ways to communicate to the world what their joys and hardships are about; the humanitarian in us becomes part of this online community (Humanitarian Blog). Members of our online community can also portray the kind of passion for the arts that it can drive their personal life into success via what they love (Dancing Passion Blog). 

As humans we are communal creatures, so even if it’s your physical or virtual community...

Your Personal community:

You academic community:

Or the community that inhabits your heart:

Make it good, make it influential…. Make it your own

My Choice? Perseverance

It is safe to assume that this Blog that has started as a class assignment on my social media image will clearly catch on as a habit. In order to make this Blog a good habit I want to propose certain stages of positive attitudes, at times aggressive, but in a positive light. My value proposition of choice today is "PERSEVERE".

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

Perseverance is part of the fighting spirit we all have as people, but it is your choice to embrace it or falter it to submission. I personally like to compare the fighting spirit to the image of Theodore Roosevelt. From an asthmatic child to a warrior that created the first U.S. Volunteer Calvary Regiment famously known as the Rough Riders; his words personify what perseverance mean to me. You can choose to complain, criticize, or point blame in way of cowardice; you only persevere by finding victory in your failures or recognizing the pain and blood in your victories.

Many might ask “Hey Vik, who cares about stubborn perseverance when it comes to Social Media, it’s all about fun and bar talk”. First of all if you are persistent you can get out of foolish social media habits and pick up some good ones through your channels of good influence. Someone is always watching through the looking glass and evaluating your brand, so why would you take a chance and taint your brand. There might be many that have already created a social media reputation that is less than admirable, but you always have the chance to fight out of it and re-brand… through my professional career I have heard that it takes 21 days to form a habit, so take the advantage and count 21 days of good influence and positive branding.

All in all is fight for what you want, and fight your way out of your mistakes; be valiant instead of timid or else you will be eaten alive by all the evil that surrounds us. Focus on the beautiful reasons that are worth protecting; many of you that know me know her as the beautiful reason that I fight for, but regardless if it’s a her, him, or it, find it and persevere for them.