Tickled Pink

Global Girl

I was tickled pink today to attend a symposium called Global Girl, Intimate Leader.  It featured three awesome speakers and topics all related to being and raising strong, thoughtful women today.  It was wonderful to be surrounded by about 300 like minded parents (mostly moms) and educators as the speakers discussed a wide array of issues related to leadership, change, psychology, learning and sexuality.  One of the speakers, Dr. Meg Wheatley (author of Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time and Leadership and The New Science) used a phrase I just loved:  She said you have to walk out of some situations to be able to walk on to bigger, better things.  Walk out to walk on.  So I've been thinking:  What do I need to walk out of to walk on?  What about you?

Email may be old school, but I still think it's cool

Have you heard?  Email is old school, passe, the pony express of the 21st century.  That's according to a recent article I read.  But today, email brought me a great tickled pink moment.  I read an article in PINK magazine recently (which I also love so check it out if you have the chance) by a favorite author of mine, Lisa Earle McLeod.  I took just a couple of minutes to email a letter to the magazine's editor to say how tickled pink I was to see Ms. McLeod as a contributor to their magazine.  (She wrote a book called Forget Perfect that had a huge impact on me, check it out at www.forgetperfect.com/books/forgetperfect.htm) 

Maybe an hour later, I got an email from Ms. McLeod herself saying that the editor had forwarded my email to her and she was just tickled pink (my words not hers, but I think she'd be OK with the paraphrasing) that her book had made a difference to me.  Now, how cool is that?  An email from an author I've never met and we both made each other's day, all thanks to the powerful network that is email.  2-4-6-8, who do you appreciate?  Email them today and tell them!

Randomly Perfect

I just find life to be so randomly perfect!  In a few weeks, I am going to giving a talk on how to build your business and your brand by giving back.  It's a talk that I have given before and have just recently been asked to do twice more locally.  This weekend, I was at the bookstore, hunting for a book that the kids wanted, when I happened upon "The Go-Giver" by Bob Burg and John David Mann.  Or should I say the book found me...that's the way one of the authors, John Mann, put it when I emailed them my story.  How cool is that!  Email an author and they email you back.  I was completely tickled pink by the book and the way it fit with much of my own philosophy as well as fit well into these talks I'll be giving.  I was doubly tickled pink to have the authors return my email with a couple of suggestions for me.  What randomly perfect thing happened to you today?