HIT Piece 03.17.2015

The grind, the grind, the grind…

Is all real.

But that doesn’t matter, unless the grind starts grinding me.

And I can’t really be worried about what other people are thinking right now.

Not even in the dark of night.

-Peace Be With You All-

Jesan Sorrells, MA
Principal Conflict Engagement Consultant
Human Services Consulting and Training (HSCT)
Email HSCT: jsorrells@hsconsultingandtraining.com
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HIT Piece 03.10.2015

The world is full of three things: problems, ideas and people.

The world is not full of three things: value, implementation and character.

One thing I have been struggling with lately is that I see abundance everywhere online. There is so much virtual space on the Internet that it’s almost overwhelming.

But how many people are choosing to build their own platforms in this virtual abundance, versus those people who are hanging out in neighborhoods already designed and built by someone else?

This is not only a social media application question (although the cloistering is most notable there) but also it is a general philosophical question for anyone who’s developing anything on the web.

As I have been thinking more and more about what this project for peace will look like five to ten years out, I have been more and more considering the efficacy of designing on open source platforms, marketing through freemium or low cost channels, the power and exclusivity of paywalls, and how to develop, grow and scale this project without encouraging cloistering, prejudice or assisting, either tacitly or openly, the development of scalable ghettos.

Heavy considerations all.

-Peace Be With You All-

HIT Piece 03.03.2015

I am ready.

It’s time to start building something bigger than myself.

The first e-book is coming along, as is the first traditional book, the first leadership program and the first systems design program for organizations.

The first season of the podcast is here, the second season is coming along and the first presentation to a room of over 100 people is coming in the summer.

The first webinar project is coming, the first multiparty project is coming.

And yet…

I have been insecure and lethargic since October. I have been struggling to identify if any of this is working. I don’t know if I am running to avoid failure…or running to embrace it.

What do you think?

-Peace Be With You All-

HIT Piece 02.24.2015

I was sitting in a room the other day and heard someone in the room next door talking about launching a “buy-now” button.

They are doing it for their business to continue to remain relevant in the 21^st century with a population of buyers for their products and services, whose perspective has changed on how to buy.

Turns out, that people, and industries, can change.

-Peace Be With You All-

HIT Piece 02.17.2015

Making a mistake is not that hard.

As a matter of fact, we do it all the time as human beings.

But the importance of mistakes, failures, or only accomplishing part of our goals, is not always acknowledged positively because, we fear vulnerability as adults.

In the business and corporate world, we still give lip service to the idea of the importance of failing, but the majority of us still work in systems, dedicated to the process—and following it to never fail.

I fail all the time.

I am also struggling to be vulnerable and authentic in this blog, when I present and facilitate and when I work through interviews with guests on my podcast.

But I’m not there yet.

And yet, like many of you out there, I am still making mistakes.

-Peace Be With You All-

HIT Piece 1.27.2015

I’m a pusher.

I see everywhere the potential in other people to be greater than the sum of their parts, and I see the possibilities in other people’s situations to improve and advance that they sometimes don’t see themselves.

I want them to be the best that they can be using what God gave them.

Sometimes this is interpreted as me being domineering, controlling, a “Type A,” confrontational or even obsessive.

I get frustrated when I see people, organizations and even communities, not living up to the promise of their talents, abilities and skills.

It breaks my heart—and confounds my mind—to see all the potential in others that they don’t know they have.

It’s been 15 years since I legally became an “adult” and almost 25 years into my Christian walk, and I keep being taught a long, hard lesson.

I think that I’m going to have to keep relearning it until the end of my walk on this Earth.

I’m going to have to evolve into a puller, rather than a pusher.
-Peace Be With You All-

HIT Piece 1.20.2015

Someone told me the other day that I was scaling Human Services Consulting and Training horizontally in a way that has never been seen before.

The projects, the marketing, the sales, the personal relationship building; apparently I’m going in multiple directions at once, spreading the tentacles of my project far and wide.

Just thought I would pass the observation along.

-Peace Be With You All-

Jesan Sorrells, MA
Principal Conflict Engagement Consultant
Human Services Consulting and Training (HSCT)
Email HSCT: hsconsultingandtraining@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HSConsultingandTraining
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Sorrells79
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jesansorrells/

HIT Piece 1.13.215-Thoughts About Distribution Models

Content development is not the hard part.

Getting attention for the content through social is not the hard part.

The hard part is finding platforms and venues (or, if you’re in sales, “funnels”) through which to send my content.

I am approaching 400 articles on the HSCT #Communication Blog, but no one asked me to distribute the content I created until they saw me distribute it—consistently—through other places.

And, by the way, everything is content—images, videos, podcasts, and the blog.

But, building a distribution model from scratch?

Well…that’s like building Rome inside of ten years…

[For more on how to starts this process, look here and here.]

-Peace Be With You All-

HIT Piece 1.13.2015

I am fascinated by diagnostic instruments.

These are tools, such as DiSC, the STRONG Inventory, the MBTI, the Thomas-Killman Instrument and others, that purport to help people understand what’s going on inside of their own motivations.

Unfortunately, these diagnostic instruments have not evolved over time to reflect advances in neurobiology, psychology, sociology and even anthropology and linguistics.

I believe that this is a problem, particularly as leap-frog advancements in high tech, computational fields have allowed people (at the individual and group level) to integrate more and more reacting and responding with their prosocial tools.

I think we should take apart some of these old diagnostic tools and test some assumptions, before foisting them on a generation who’s brains and responses have been socially molded by advancements that weren’t even dreamed possible at the time of their creation.

[Shout out to Sherrill Hayes for turning me onto this.]

-Peace Be With You All-

HIT Piece 1.06.2015

I am wondering about the allure of false peace.

You know the kind of “peace” that comes from accommodation, rather than effective confrontation.
You know the kind of “peace” that comes from quiet acquiescence to the outcomes of the process of conflicts.
You know the kind of “peace” that people seem to favor, when they shrug their shoulders, and seem to passively accept a false outcome, rather than doing the hard work of actively pursuing a different choice.

I wonder if the presence of false peace makes it harder for real innovation and change.

There is a marked difference between real peace and being “just left alone,” or, vainly hoping that the lion of conflict will consume your emotions and spirit last rather than first.

I wonder, do people really want change in their hearts, or do they just say that they do with their mouths?

-Peace Be With You All-

Jesan Sorrells, MA
Principal Conflict Engagement Consultant
Human Services Consulting and Training (HSCT)
Email HSCT: hsconsultingandtraining@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HSConsultingandTraining
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Sorrells79
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jesansorrells/