Specifically, if you discover, in frustration, that you’re pathologically incapable of doing one thing at a time, consider the possibility that you’ve been unknowingly trying to “focus” on two, twenty, or twenty thousand disparate things that you don’t really care that much about. Just consider it.
Last week I did my 4th annual talk at the WETMA (Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology) conference.
In 2007 I packed the room with a talk titled “Beyond Search: Google Tools You Don’t Know About Yet” or something like that. People sat on the floor. I thought I was a rock star.
The next year I was paid to speak. [#thankyou](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You)
Each year I’m invited back. Each year I get a little bit more sassy. Two years ago my message was, “Screw the tools!” Last year it was, “It’s about the people.” Both talks failed.
This year I asked, “What are you scared of?” Four years of presenting taught me one lesson. People were scared. Scared of their technology guy. Scared of their principal. Scared what people would think. Scared of the students. Scared of themselves.
I punted this year. I simply asked, “What are you scared of?” I made them write it down. Then I asked, “Seriously. What are you really scared of?”
I wish I could have captured that moment. #powerful
Try it.
We’ve all been asked to look at “before and after” pictures of Japan.
What the New York Times does here is incredible.
Satellite Photos – Japan Before and After Tsunami
Data Source: The Daily Page
…and while I’m not a lawyer, I believe the March 3, 2011 figures were given while under oath.
I’ll do this for $3 million as long as they provide afternoon snakcs.
Also in court, DOA chief legal counsel Cari Ann Renlund said the state received an estimate from a vendor that it would cost $7.5 million to clean up the damage done to the Capitol’s marble walls from the adhesive and tape used to put up signs around the building.