Teachers are Sexy
I remember the first teacher I had a crush on. I mean, I don’t remember her name, but I remember her. She taught my Junior high school English class. She had long black hair, a winning smile and a way of making prepositions seem so very, very naughty . . .
. . . But anyway, teachers are sexy. And teaching? Even sexier.
And through Biznik you (yes, you!) can be a teacher. All you have to do is sign up to give a Biznik seminar. Pick a topic, pick a time, pick a place and WHAM you’re well on your way to teaching your very own Biznik class.
Why would you want to put it all that time and effort into sharing your hard-earned knowledge with your fellow Bizniks?
Well, all sorts of reasons:
1. It’ll make you feel good about yourself.
2. It’s a great way to promote your business and get other Bizniks talking about you. Teach a good, useful class (one that’s more than just a two-hour commercial for your business) and you’ll quickly get your fellow Bizniks on your side.
3. It’s fun.
4. It’s a great way to build up your self confidence and hone down your business message.
5. As stated above over and over, teaching is sexy. By teaching a class you’ll increase your persnal sexiness by 30 or perhaps even 33 percent. You just can’t get that kind of return anywhere else.
So, you, the phenomenally talented Biznik reading this screen, do yourself–and your sexiness–a favor, write Dan McComb and sign up to teach your very own Biznik class. Do it today!
on March 28th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Michelle Bates sent me this today - a slick little web tool that the City of Seattle publishes on their website, which allows you to quickly find a publicly available meeting location. Some of these are only available to non-profits, which we’re not, but most are open to any group, and some are free. Check it out - just put your mouse over the section of town you’re looking for, then drill down on a red dot to see the name of the venue and contact info. You have to wait a minute for the page to fully load after clicking the red dot for it to work…
http://www.cityofseattle.net/neighborhoods/meetingplaces/
on March 28th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Thanks to biznik for the chance to hold a class, it was fun. And a special thank you to Christopher Braxton for use of his conference room in downtown Seattle.
I facilitated a class on the Four Agreements +1 last night, and the room was packed. A lesson learned that I want to share with you all, from the page of my life-book enitlted, What not to do: I learned that I don’t enjoy teaching other people’s material very much. As much as I love don Miguel Ruiz’s book The Four Agreements, and the powerful material therein, I find that I enjoy teaching my own material, from my own experiences and insights. In fact this is my passion: to inspire others thru sharing experiential wisdom (not just lesson plans).
And that is what I will do in the very near future…so keep posted!
Future teachers: your questions for the days ahead: what is your passion? And what do you most want to share with others?
Thanks again for the opportunity(to learn)!
Rev. Elke
on March 30th, 2006 at 7:36 am
Her name was Susan… she taught high school Engliish… and watching her write on the chalkboard is the reason my English suffers as it does.
There is a class that I could offer that may be of general interest. I call it the ball story and it’s to do with some of the lesser known benefits that can be obtained using a Gym Ball. (I’ll be doing a blog on it very soon if I can ever get around to it.)
I had thought I would look for a venue up this way (Everett) since my local gym is also interested in doing a presentation on it, but the idea of a place in Seattle is fine with me. Dan, I’ll check on the venues.
Here are some of the features. Please let me know if you have an interest. I could probably handle up to a dozen of you at a time. I think we could do it all in two hours.
1. Qualifying - people who already sit in front of a TV at night for 30 minutes or so are the best candidates for playing on the ball. If not, it’s a fit-this-into-your-schedule kind of thing.
2. 5 Favorite Tricks on the Ball - there are lots of cool things you can do on the ball… infomercials are full of them, everyone is teaching the classes and doing the tapes, etc. We use the ball to achieve spiine-related stability, flexibility, mobility or balance objectives. Some of these are common, others you won’t find anywhere else. Usually, if a patient qualifies for a ball, there will one compelling reason for them to get a ball and spend the time and it will usually involve one of these five tricks.
3. Testing Your Back - Back pain is or will be a problem bad enough for 8 out of 10 of us to miss work. The nature of back pain is that it recurs. Etc., etc. There is a 3-minute test which is the most reliable indicator of whether you will a bad back episode (other than whether you have already had one - that’s THE best indicator).
4. What to do if you fail the test - It’s a simple exercise, but kind of a long story (and it takes props and visual aids which I have to provide).
5. As always, there are reason why great ideas fail. Using the ball requires a consciousness about risks, cautions, exceptions, etc. We’ll make sure you know whether you should and how to properly do the ball tricks, as well as how to know if you getting an ok response.
I share Elke’s preference for talking about things I know the most about. I’ve been referrring the gym ball as the “magical cure” for over ten years and told the story a million times (includiing the local newspaper) so this will be a piece of cake.
Interested? Email me with your favorite day of the week and time of day (as long as it’s Friday, Saturday or Sunday and not too early or late). And if you have a venue that could hold us and several balls and a white board, that would be cool too.
DD