I’ve had some extra time recently, and so I’ve been working through some of those “I’ll get to it someday” tasks, one of which is going through old files and scanning, recycling, shredding, things as appropriate.
One had a piece of paper in it that has text that appears to have been compiled from feedback forms or something like it. There’s no date or what the original question was, though I can guess it was something like “What does Michael have to offer?” or “What are Michael’s strengths?” or even maybe “What can Michael teach to others?” It’s all anonymous, and I don’t remember this particular list of things or even who the people who wrote them might have been, though if I had to guess, it’d say maybe a coaching-related seminar.
It’s a mystery. But it was with marketing-related papers, and these kind of have a testimonial feel to them, too. So … here they are, the mysterious list of things other people think that I have to offer.
- Even on my worst days I generally ended up laughing and smiling after talking to Michael for just a few minutes.
- Concrete tools that helped me look at things in a different way. New perspectives.
- I wish I had your self-motivation and organization–I’d also value learning how you market yourself and your projects.
- I think you’re great at setting goals and organizing your time and efforts to achieve those goals.
- You appear personally inspired, yet in a very comfortable way.
- I think that life balance, along with your humor, *is* the thing you have best to teach to others.
- There must be some way to learn to do better in a gentle, affirming way. I think that is what you would offer.
- From what I know of you, one of the best things you have to teach is how to have FUN! Lots of folks (maybe me?) haven’t learned to integrate fun into work. Your knowledge of games is one of your strengths. Can you develop a program to teach people how to use gaming skills to make their lives more successful, and fun?
- You are good at bringing people together to share solutions. You are good at seeing possibilities in problems.
- Your ideas on payment/exchange for services, how well it’s working, what you’ve had to modify, what you’ve learned about yourself and others via this process.
- Concepts/examples of non-threatening language–a “quick” course on how to incorporate it in one’s life.
- How to run with ideas you create, not get stuck in the mire of “what ifs” and go for it…even when you’re not sure what you’re doing.
- I think that one of the benefits that you offer is is an ability to look at issues from different angles.
- Money-managing skills, dancing, how to start a business, investing properly according to your heart and situation, how to write in a manner that is both engaging yet employing correct English grammar and syntax, and probably many more skills that I’ve forgotten right now.
- 1) How to make it through/avoid a midlife crisis & be happy at the end. 2) How to get everything done and still have enough free time. How to live on almost nothing.
- Making people laugh.
- It seems that you are pretty comfortable with yourself and don’t waste a lot of time being embarrassed or ashamed about who you are. Taking responsibility for who we are, where we come from, and what we want. You seem like a person who would be great at leading support groups.