Does Being Yourself Make You Look Like You're At The Bus Stop In Your Underpants?

BuffoonI am excited.  Ideas come to me in furious cascades.  I am quick on the hip to debate and illustrate my point of view.

I do not edit myself very much.

The result?  I fudge it up some times.  I put my foot in my mouth.  I sound like a buffoon.

That’s alright with me though.

I have found that when I do over edit, I leave good stuff on the table.  I over analyze and script and think and rethink and in the time to put something together that would have normally taken me 20 minutes has now taken 2 hours and who knows if it is really any better.  Further, it isn’t authentically me.

I posted a grammatically incorrect title for a post a few weeks ago on purpose, to test how it would do.  The reviews told me that that was stupid to do for the sake of marketing.  Fine.  I will not do that again.

But today I posted an article and via su.pr, a blog distribution channel, and I wrote the title grammatically incorrect by accident.  For this I am not sorry and you can brace yourself to see it again in the future.

I believe in editting and review and consulting, however until my budget will support those facets in greater depth, I am going to be me and give you, my readers, clients and critics, the very best that I have, which will invariably have a few dings and dents from time to time.  That’s all I have…my very best!

Now, I am not telling folks to not point out when I say or write something that makes me look like I’m standing at the bus stop in my underpants.  I want feedback and critique and criticism.  But understand, that it might be met with “Thanks, I appreciate your point of view.  Not much I can do about that, but I do value your thoughts. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a business to run.”

That is me.  I am who I am.  I can not be anyone else, nor do I care to be and my hope is that you’ll appreciate me for it.

That is all.

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