Wednesday Words
To Go Where Your VisionPoints, a few inspiration points for you and your business.
If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything,
you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
—Marilyn vos Savant
To all you brainy, geeky, planner types, and all you dreamy, emotion-filled, spontaneous types, Happy Valentine’s Day. May your heart and your head get together and bring in customers who love your business all year long.
Grow and be well,
Kelly Erickson
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11 February 2009, 6:10 am
Okay, I literally checked my calendar and said, “Shit, did I miss it? What day are we?”
Unless y’all in the U.S. celebrate on different days… shouldn’t that be pre-Valentine well-wishes?
And as for the quote, I like to think I have the head and the heart that complement each other nicely. Though they do tend to get me into trouble…
James Chartrand – Men with Pens’s last blog post…Why Do Freelancers Neglect Systems?
11 February 2009, 6:37 am
I like this one. After a few years of listening to the head and telling the heart to shut up, I think it might be better to listen to the heart first. Then get the head to figure out how to make what the heart wants to do become a reality.
Brett Legree’s last blog post…viking fridays – a story of give and take.
11 February 2009, 6:54 am
James,
I only do Inspiration Points on Wednesdays. Just just like my Christmas and New Years’ versions weren’t on the exact days, neither is this, my dearest reader.
Reminds me of the time when I whispered in a friend’s ear the morning of New Years’ Eve because I wouldn’t be seeing him that night, and he thought I should have waited…
Brett,
I almost always ask The Kid what she thinks of the two or three I’m considering, the night before I hit publish. She likes to be involved once a week. So I read a couple of others and she didn’t like them, then I read this one and she says yes, that one.
“I have a better heart,” she says. “My head’s really brainy but it gets in my way all the time.”
Brainy brains are handy, though. Hard to get what the heart wants without one!
Regards,
Kelly
11 February 2009, 9:54 am
“I have a better heart,” she says. “My head’s really brainy but it gets in my way all the time.”
Now there’s a Poohism. Except that Pooh is a bear of little brain. But the feeling is there.
~Graham
Graham Strong’s last blog post…5 Steps To Better Brainstorming for the Intrepid Freelancer and Independent Business Owner
11 February 2009, 10:15 am
@Graham
Pooh’s head brainy? I somehow doubt it. According to the song, shouldn’t it be “stuffed with fluff”?
@Kelly
I always go with my gut feeling. (Which is almost never wrong).
I don’t know if that counts as my head. Or my heart.
Maybe it’s my stomach.
Friar’s last blog post…Free Fallin’…
11 February 2009, 10:26 am
@Friar – Pooh’s head is not brainy — by self-admission, he’s a bear of little brain. That’s what I mean: the statement itself does not reflect Pooh, but the way it is said is (in my opinion) very reminiscent…
~Graham
Graham Strong’s last blog post…5 Steps To Better Brainstorming for the Intrepid Freelancer and Independent Business Owner
11 February 2009, 10:35 am
Kelly – Thanks for the pre-valentine’s wish… my heart skipped a beat too. So does that make you a brainy, geeky, planner type (since you’re already on top of Valentine’s Day?) Or is the fact that you brought it up at all make you a dreamy, emotion-filled, spontaneous type? (notice I didn’t say mushy). I can’t decide, so maybe you’ve got both working together for you! If so, what’s your secret?
Todd Smith’s last blog post…How can I sell my greeting cards in your favorite store?
11 February 2009, 1:38 pm
Graham,
Oh yes. I’m Tigger, but the little person is definitely Pooh.
‘Cept when she’s definitely Eeyore. We try not to talk about that.
Friar,
LOL. With you—I never know. That’s for certain.
Todd,
My secret: I’m a hopeless, incurable, romantic.
Slash cranky realist.
That’s what Capricorns born in the waning days of the 60s get. All-out on all fronts.
Later,
Kelly
11 February 2009, 2:01 pm
Kelly – well that makes 2 of us.
well, except that I’m not a Capricorn.
Todd Smith’s last blog post…How can I sell my greeting cards in your favorite store?
11 February 2009, 4:39 pm
I wrote the quote in my Moleskine, and looked at it a few times this week. Heck, it’s been a while since I’ve posted but I can see a re-quoting of this and a link back to you on Viking Fridays when I return triumphant!!!
Thanks again for the quote…
Brett Legree’s last blog post…viking fridays – a story of give and take.
11 February 2009, 4:48 pm
Todd,
The world needs lots of incurably romantic, cranky realists. Glad you’re among the ranks!
Brett,
Your week goes faster up in Canada, I guess. For me it’s only been a day!
Looking forward to your return to 6 Weeks with baited breath, of course.
& you’re welcome.
Later,
Kelly
11 February 2009, 5:02 pm
We’re not satisfied by anything short of the real thing… that’s why I like MCE. Satisfies both my cranky and my romantic sides. hehehe
Todd Smith’s last blog post…How can I sell my greeting cards in your favorite store?
11 February 2009, 5:05 pm
LOL I meant this afternoon hee hee
Brett Legree’s last blog post…viking fridays – a story of give and take.
11 February 2009, 9:01 pm
@Kelly and Todd
What Zodiac sign would Pooh be? (I mean…it would seem pretty stupid if a BEAR was a Bull or a Ram or a Fish).
What about the rest of the Hundred Acre Woods Critters? Not one of those animals matches any traditional Zodiac animal.
(Unless you count the Chinese Zodiac…yes….that makes more sense).
PS. “Where are they now?”. Wasn’t Christopher Robin recently picked up for cocaine posession?
Friar’s last blog post…Free Fallin’…
11 February 2009, 9:05 pm
@Friar,
You’d have to use “Friar Zodiac Signs” for Pooh – he’d be under the sign of the Clyster, probably.
Brett Legree’s last blog post…viking fridays – a story of give and take.
11 February 2009, 9:25 pm
Friar,
You had to ask, I must opine.
Pooh=Aquarius
Owl=Sagittarius
Piglet=Virgo
Rabbit=Taurus
Christopher Robin=Leo (that’s true, I looked him up)
Eeyore=Cancer. Definitely Cancer.
Later,
Kelly
11 February 2009, 11:16 pm
@Kelly
Oh…THANKS a lot. I’m a Cancer.
I get share the same sign as a chronically depressed Donkey!
Friar’s last blog post…Free Fallin’…
12 February 2009, 7:02 am
Darlin’, I’m sorry. Crabby, y’know.
Tee hee.
(Todd, I just realized you are the only person commenting here whose sign I don’t know!)
12 February 2009, 7:07 am
I protest. Tigger is not a Capricorn. Tigger is either Gemini or Cancer. Cancers are not woebegone by any means.
And Piglet would be Pisces. Pooh Libra. Rabbit can’t be Taurus, they don’t explode. Slow burn and internal fury, those ones. Belier, perhaps.
James Chartrand – Men with Pens’s last blog post…Why Do Freelancers Neglect Systems?
12 February 2009, 7:30 am
James,
Bwah ha ha. Pooh is no way a Libra, I have too many of those in my life and I assure you, he ain’t one of them.
And I disagree on everything else, also from personal experience and tons of reading. And you made me go to babelfish for belier, no fairsies.
You know we’re just proving Friar’s argument that astrology is hooey, right?
Later…
12 February 2009, 8:00 am
I’m no expert, but wouldn’t Tigger be a Scorpio? Bouncy, flouncy, fun-fun-fun-fun-fun? Pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?
~Graham
Graham Strong’s last blog post…5 Steps To Better Brainstorming for the Intrepid Freelancer and Independent Business Owner
12 February 2009, 8:07 am
To All You Planners and Dreamers and Astrologers, Come In.
Tigger would be an excellent Scorpio, yet I am Tigger, always have been. Can’t be helped.
*bounces away, looking for the original topic…*
12 February 2009, 8:08 am
I’m Cancer, and if anyone thinks I’m slow, unable to have visions, always look to the negative and don’t bounce… then they obviously don’t know me.
Then again, I’m just special, so maybe that’s it.
James Chartrand – Men with Pens’s last blog post…Why Do Freelancers Neglect Systems?
12 February 2009, 8:10 am
That’s the most wonderful thing about Tiggers — they’re the only ones!
~Graham
Graham Strong’s last blog post…5 Steps To Better Brainstorming for the Intrepid Freelancer and Independent Business Owner
12 February 2009, 8:21 am
Eeyore is a realist while everyone around him has their head in the clouds, steadily getting to the wonders that everyone else will take forever to discover, with lovely eyes, and a knockout smile that he only takes out on special occasions.
Just like I imagine James and Friar, my two favorite, invisible, Cancers. ‘Nuff said.
12 February 2009, 8:41 am
Okay, that is *SO* not how I see Eeyore. And if there’s one term I hate in the world, it’s ‘realist’.
“We’re all going to die of pollution.”
*blink*
“Hey, I’m just being a realist. And this dream of yours? You’ll never make it. You’re going to fail.”
*blink*
“What? I’m just being a realist.”
No f’ing thank you.
James Chartrand – Men with Pens’s last blog post…Why Do Freelancers Neglect Systems?
12 February 2009, 9:44 am
And as usual the conversation goes waaay off in another direction.
I’m all heady except when I’m all hearty, but I’m almost never a mix of the two except when I’m extremely middle about it all.
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12 February 2009, 10:29 am
What Eyeore needs, is a prescription for Zoloft!!!
As for horror-scopes, I don’t have a clue which personalities go with which Zodiac sign.
And that’s something I’m PROUD of!!!
Friar’s last blog post…Six Things about Valentine’s Day that Suck
12 February 2009, 11:56 am
Kelly – shouldn’t that tell you something… I’m the only one who’s sign you don’t know? hehehe. With that clue it should be easy to guess.
Todd Smith’s last blog post…When good lighting isn’t good enough…
12 February 2009, 2:59 pm
Scorpio, then.
Hm?
12 February 2009, 6:33 pm
@Kelly
If astrology were a REAL science, you’d KNOW what Todd’s sign is, without having to guess.
Friar’s last blog post…Six Things about Valentine’s Day that Suck
12 February 2009, 6:44 pm
I’m on the Libra-Scorpio cusp http://www.novareinna.com/constellation/libracusp.html
Kind of fun to read this sort of thing
Brett Legree’s last blog post…viking fridays – a story of give and take.
12 February 2009, 8:16 pm
Friar,
(That substitutes for what I wrote and deleted just now.)
Brett,
So’s my mother. It’s an interesting place to rest your hat.
Better not get Friar started again, or he’ll be back with Astrology-Mocking-Post Part II (I haven’t forgotten, Friar!).
Later…
13 February 2009, 1:16 am
So basicially, the only thing preventing an unborn baby from being “influenced” by astrology, is the uterus and the Mom’s stomach muscles. As long as the kids’s inside, he’s protected, until the moment he’s born. Then suddenly, that instant exposure to the outside world will determine his personality and how he lives.
So what if a Baby’s going to be born when the stars arent’ favorable?
Why dont’ they deliver the kid inside a room, where the walls are lined with steak? The kid can stay inside there, until the stars are more properly aligned.
Interesting if you think about it. You could create a whole race of Scorpios, or Aquariusses, etc.
Friar’s last blog post…Six Things about Valentine’s Day that Suck
13 February 2009, 7:28 am
ROFL. Friar, that is why I love you. Didn’t I try not to get you started? *sigh* I tried.
I know the science. I’m not going to lay out my theory here b/c I’ve laid it out for you before, but basically between the time of year that you’re born and the fact that most of us hear a lot about it all our lives & maybe a few other influences, that’s astrology to me.
And you are *such* a Cancer. Pfft.
P.S. to James, realist and pessimist are not the same thing. Eeyore was a misunderstood savant and a realist, always seeing the truth before others did, leading only those who listened to his carefully chosen words.
(So I know too much about Winnie and friends—so what!)
16 February 2009, 1:35 pm
Yup, you guessed right! Scorpio. And, Friar, it is a real science… believe it or not!
The most accurate form of astrology I know is Jyotish, from ancient India.
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