The Introduction

 So, I'm home today with my 5-year old who woke up with a bit of a fever and a slight cough.  Prone to pneumonia for some reason, we thought we'd play it safe and keep her home.  One of the many benefits of being a full-time consultant (code for UNEMPLOYED), is that my schedule is much more flexible than that of my partner.  So, on a day where I've got a meeting or two scheduled, I can usually re-arrange things to make them fit the crisis - big or small.

I'm still formulating my "grand opening" of this blog.  Trying to put together a dramatic "opening" that really puts out there what these principles are without giving too much away from the upcoming book.  I will say that while I originally envisioned this book focusing on training and people who do public speaking, the current economic situation has caused me to re-think that focus.  I think what's needed is something concrete and succinct to help the many people out there who've been caught in the crunch and have joined the millions of job-seekers out there vying for a little bit of crust from the pie that most of the fat-cats already devoured. 

How do you have an edge going into an interview?  What will separate you from the next hungry (figuratively AND literally) Joe Shmoe and Suzy Q so that a prospective employer will take notice that YOU are the one they've been looking for?

Enter - the Piooya Principles.

The first principle, the Power of Language.

Welcome Everyone

So, while down in Gainesville, Florida I had the opportunity to go out to dinner with a couple of other professionals in my field of training and development.  I was talking about my book (which I'll get to in a minute) and one of them said, "you should have a blog!  You can ask people to share their stories of when they've used these principles 'piooya' and you can add these to your book."  WOW!  As much as I've thought about how I'm too busy to blog - on the road too much to write a blog - too worried about what people might say or think to write a blog...it finally hit me that this really was a good idea!  Maybe it was the soft jazz, maybe it was the fact that the suggestion was coming from someone I barely knew (their suggestions always seem to sound so much better don't they) - who knows why this idea finally "clicked" with me - but indeed it did.  And so, here I am.  Blogging!

In the coming days I'll share more about what I'm hoping to do with this blog - how I hope it will be a place for others to share stories related to the underlying theme of my book 'The Piooya Principles'.  It will also be a place where I share some insights about some of my travels around the state and the country.  In fact, I'm sitting in the airport in Gainesville right now waiting to return home to Minnesota.  From 60 degrees to 5 degrees below...

only in America!