I've had a very interesting night, which started off with me having to defend my new Corey Graham 2.0 logo. A case was brought to me that it was not marketable, or was not commercial enough.... It made me think. After speaking with someone close to me it, sparked me to communicate and to express a few things to you.

Now over the course of 2008 I have invested a tremendous amount of time and energy in developing and maintaining my online social footprint through my various blogs and social network profiles. I am not trying to sell anything to anyone, I am merely trying to create a relationship with other persons out there who share my views etc. I charge people with the full responsibility to make a decision as to if they want to be a part of this relationship, to read, follow and comment on my blogs or choose if they want to add me as a friend on the various social networks.
Yes I am charging you to make your own decision. I am not trying to force things down your throat....
Much of marketing today has come down to forcing things onto people that don't need. Or better yet to persuade them that they need it. Although it adds no real value to their lifes.
The consumer is not charged with the responsibility to make the decision, in many cases there is complete disregard for your intentions...you know that. I can see you nodding your head now!


Recently I have been taking the time dig deep lay the foundations for my long range plans. To really live my dreams. As I understand it my core assets are my creativity and my passion for teamwork and building up people.....
If I can do nothing more that help/inspire others unleash their potential and achieve greatness, I will be satisfied with my life.
If I can become the type of person that you do not "spend time with", but rather you invest time. Then I am good, my life is complete.

Its so interesting. I used to think that being called a 'writer' meant you had good command of the English language.

As I have now become an avid blogger I now realise that I am certainly seeing being a writer is so much more.
To have an idea might be easy enough, but to then express it and communicate it with persons of all different walks of life and across different mediums is truly an amasing thing.

I have been taking some time today to just write, and express myself. I can now appreciate in a significant way the place I live because it allows me to take a mini retreat to just write.
Also I have to be glad for my blackberry and the guys at RexWireless for providing me with the tools I need to get my writing on.
Writing is certainly a very fulfilling hobbie.
And for me expressing ideas is even greater!

The Mind of a Writer
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Recently I have been feeling a bit like we don't think that as a people its necessary to invest in building a good effective team.
I feel like the average person does not appreciate how value can multiply when you have good people around.
As I aim to practice leadership and teamwork in my day to day life and watch how the benefits can multiple in a tremendous way.

As I take the time to look around I can see how different forces are acting together to bring together a group of people who are very motivated, talented and ready to work. I see how I am to be a part of it. I am going to take the time to be able to keep up with these people and form something that will be remembered forever.
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Today I learned that all the people I worked closest with on are very motivated and bent on living their dreams.

This is a stark contrast to where I was just about 1.5 years ago.

It definitely a different feeling when you know that you can work with people to help them accomplish their dreams.

In fact it makes me like I am living my dream. I want to be able to help persons live their dreams. I want to be able to keep talented people around me, and make them better for being around me.

I know that as time goes by we will only get better. Each failure will only increase our chance of success.

I have gotten lots of favorable comments about becoming 2.0 but I believe this is my most humble time. When I know that I am able to impact talented and very passionate people to be their best.

This moment is really a breakthrough moment for me, because without the shadow of a doubt I believe in people that believe in me.

Yesterday I was wondering when will be the right time to introduce myself as Corey Graham 2.0 Red Button. I know that the time is now.

Red Button is an interesting concept. Its fresh and different. Red Button is like the same red button pressed by a fighter pilot to launch a rocket.

Corey Graham 2.0 Red Button launches people into action to build their careers and become great.

That is my dream. Its been my dream since I started my first real entity Drenalin Productions.



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Yeah,

Its an interesting thing when its pressure time yeah, the crunch time. Those intense moments that the fine line between winning and losing is clearly apparent.

I have always wondered how do you become the kind of player that wants the ball in the crunch. Yup, the kind of player that is willing to walk on tight rope anything you do could result in a win or a lost.

I feel like I am closer to being that kind of player. With increased confidence, understanding, decisiveness and creativity I find you feel a lot more settled when the crunch comes.

Its the understanding of the situation and the making of a good decision that will make you relaxed in the crunch.

Now for me to go out and put it to practice it.
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Recently I read that hard work in this day and age is -

Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the thing that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier and, after you have done that, to do it again the next day. Seth Godin, Small is the New big

I am really appreciating how this can separate who we are and who we will become. What are the things we will have.

Its still a bit scary though, to wake up each day and aim to do this kind of hardwork.

That fear of failure and possibility of flopping is not something that's easy for us to accept.

I have found that I need to be a little more optimisitc about the future. Its easy to do when you are sticking to your routine, but when you are working hard in the way described above. It take a unique amount of self-worth, confidence and awareness to focus on the positive. Esp when the future has not been proven and you are finding out as you go along.

Life is really an adventure! Enjoy it!
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Self worth is one emotional topic for most people that we meet.
The best of us can have our beliefs, thoughts and our worth tested.
Even one of the great persons of our time had her doubts. Mother Theresa's writings found in recent times was clear evidence that our faith can be tested.
My self worth and self concept is being tested daily at times greater than others.

I know though I am an overcomer and I make sure to diagonise the problem correctly and fix it.
Many times though you really need to stick to fixing it. People will almost always prey of your weaknesses verbally or in action and you need to have that focus to work though and develop your self worth.

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I think I really did feel bad about how the game turned out.
Its really hard starting back as an underdog with something I was so good at.
There are some times when I just fumbled the ball and made no so good decisions.

Its interesting how we can get stick just into what we see good at in day to day life and into our habits.

Basketball reminds me how truly challenging it can be to really develop a skill. To change your rountine to really accept a new way of life.

You have got to be ready to get up again when you fall down. When people might laugh or attack you because your are trying something new.

Its during these dark times when you the new kid on the block is still developing that the reasons and the missions and all the plans become blurred. All the good judgement disappears.
Don't tell anyone but you and I both know how hard it is to keep true to your big dream/plan when people ridicule it.
Yeah, you and I both know how the emotion boils within you. Shh keep it to yourself

These dark times are the times that really determine the kind of player you are.
Its what you do with these emotional and bleak times that really determines who you will become.

Stay focused.
Always keep your mission in focus. Of course this means that you have to really have a good mission.
Not goals you can do without them sometimes, but having that mission and focus is very important.

Wow thanks for listening a load has been lifted!
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I have not blogged here in a while, and that is because much of my energy was diverted into building my core Blog in terms of my career.

www.coreykgraham.com/Blog

This Blog is just about expressing myself. Its for those moments, full of emotion and full of clarity.
This time is the feeling if great joy and peace. And I am proud. I am feeling this way because I just invested my night into a 'charitable' cause.
My basketball team's sports club, Checker Hall Braves. I spent some time on building their web presence, like many things we do, it was no back breaking work. It was just about making a commitment to making it happen, and I did that! Also it is now my area of expertise. And a few moments of my time in my area of expertise is worth so much to the Club as they didn't have someone with this particular expertise.
I might not know anything about law. But it take a few moments for someone else to sort that out.
Its not just money no profit organizations need. They need the expertise.

Anyways
Check it out and let me know what you think!

http://checkerhallbraves.wordpress.com

P.S. I am also going to be building on the Caribbean Entertainment Search. I am allowing other people to use it also. It was really a personal tool, but the few people I let use it absolutely love it!
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Recently I was introduced to the concept of an effective decision maker.

An effective decision maker is one who is not afraid of making decisions in a timely fashion. When they make a bad decision, do you know what they do?

That's right they make another decision.

Decision making is one skill which I have been focusing at improving. I have had a habit of making decisions too late.

As I looking deeper into this idea of decision making it came to me that a lot of us don't make decisions effectively.
In some cases we might have 2 options to take and we wait so long to make a decision that one option is taken from us. Which is bad, but what is even worse is that we feel good about it. We feel good that we don't have to make a decision any longer.
The worry and wondering is gone and we can just get to the action. Even worse is that sometimes we feel like we have made an effective decision.

Yeah this is a mindset that really puts a lid on where we want to go, and being able to get what we want.

I am really getting to appreciate that now.

Recently I had been watching an episode of House, where Dr House's team felt that they should do 2 tests because there was nothing else to try. Dr House said no for no other reason than it was a weak decision. They were at a brick wall and House felt that making such a decision was starting down a path that would lead to more weak decision.

That really shocked me. Really rocked something in me. How many things we do in your fast paced lives today which are not conscious decisions?

What was you last week like?

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Yup

That's right, that's something I have been called. It was something I didn't like and I didn't have a clue what ie really meant.

But I have a greater appreciation for it now. Being a creative guy, there were never any lack of ideas. This when coupled with a burning desire to validate myself, to prove myself to others and get rid of some debt.

It caused me to get started on several projects and many of them ending primarily with good potential. But I was never able to realise that potential.

For a long time I have felt very edgy when it comes to having a new idea, and moving it to a decision to implement it.

I realised that recently I had been failing to really plan. Just taking time even to make a list on the things you want to focus on for a year makes a world of difference.
Added to that, taking the time to prepare and take advantage of the opportunities available to you.

Its only recently that I met a guy who said to me, he wakes each morning and look into his mirror and see the man he wants to be and compares it to the man he is now.
For him that is all that matters.

That was interesting to me for sure.

Over the past few days I realised I reached a similar conclusion.

"As I see the person I want to become. And I focus on getting there all the things I need to have will come to me and happen at the right time and in the right way. Most of all I will be able to make the right decisions to allow this to happen to me." Corey Graham 2.0
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