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 When it comes to technology or looking beyond my own capabilities, not for me radical change! Sometimes it seems as if only hop by incremental hop, do I forge ahead. Until this month, when I took a quantum leap (relatively speaking) and changed the way in which I interview Quest Makers.
When I began interviewing women two and a half years ago, I always had to preface an interview with an apology that I might have to ask them to stop so my fingers on the keyboard could catch up with my ears. The first hop was buying a a speaker phone so I no longer also had to hold the receiver between my ear and my neck. I liked that change: no more neck cricks!
The next hop forward was discovering FreeConferenceCalling.com. I could record the call and replay it later to capture what the fingers missed in the typing, although I still interrupted my interviewee to catch up.
Last October, I hopped again. To celebrate the newsletter's second anniversary I interviewed six of the first Quest Makers about where they were now on their journeys, I planned to provide direct links to the recordings. I didn't touch the keyboard. It was a revelation: no longer was I interrupting the natural flow of thought or the bubbling up of an insight. It made me realize that until then, I had never been fully present to the conversation. While half my mind was listening to the Quest Maker, the other half was on what my fingers were doing on the keyboard.
So what did I do after that revelation? Hop backwards to the old way of interviewing Quest Makers for six more months! Did I tell you how "quickly" I embrace change?
I am here to tell you that I finally quantum leapt this month, when I hired Loretta Oliver of Teleseminars Transcribed to transcribe the interview. For a change, I was fully in the moment as I interviewed Quest Maker Marjorie Treu. (I must admit to having an internal giggle on myself when Marjorie observed that "you need to be comfortable with change, rapid change and being flexible enough" at one point during our conversation. How rapid (not!) had I been to hire a fellow entrepreneur whose expertise is transcribing? You can bet I will be more open to change from now on, especially ones that both enhance an experience like the interview and save time, too.
Thanks to Marjorie, I fully intend to incorporate another change after learning about a technique she calls "going underground." Read on (or listen!) to how doing this once a season energizes and inspires Marjorie as she continues on her own journey!
PS. One of Marjorie's favorite flowers is a red rose: "The last flowers my dad gave me before he passed were red roses."
Rose photo: © darnoc, morgueFile
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