What my Preschooler can Teach you about Online Success
Written on November 8, 2007 – 2:06 pm | by Shana Albert |
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
For the most part my Preschooler has no problem following these basic
rules. Why is it that many adults in the Online World have trouble following
these basic rules that most Parents instill in their children?
I believe that the rules we were taught growing up can help
us in achieving Online Success.
Rules my Preschooler Follows
|
Basic Rules for Success
|
|
- Honesty is always the best Policy
|
- Don’t put more in your mouth than you can swallow
|
- Know you own limits. Doing an exceptional job on one project is
so much better than doing a mediocre job on many projects.
|
|
- If you accepted a project you must follow through.
|
- Don’t play with another toy until you put away the toy you were
last playing with
|
- Complete the project you are working on now before you start a new
project.
|
- Treat others the way you want to be treated
|
- Even in the Online World tact is extremely important. Please, remember
honesty is important, but there is a way to be honest tactfully in
comments and blog posts
|
|
- Just because it is the virtual world please and thank you is extremely
important. One of the things you don’t want to be known for is rudeness.
Follow the basic rules your mom taught you and you can’t go wrong!!
|
- Do things because they make you happy
|
- Blog about things that make you happy not because you think they
will make you money or bring you more viewers… your readers are
smart and they will notice.
|
- Stop watching TV!! Go outside and play.
|
- Knowing when to back away from the computer is very important. Keep
yourself happy and having fun in other areas in your life and your
professional life will be better for it.
|
- Surround yourself with friends that make you laugh and bring you happiness.
|
- Remember that surrounding yourself with certain people because it
will bring you success is not the same thing as friendship. Surround
yourself with people that make you feel good and bring you happiness.
|
Technorati Tags:blogging, etiquette, success
7 Responses to “What my Preschooler can Teach you about Online Success”
By Christian on Nov 11, 2007 | Reply
Back to basics. Thank you for this insightful reminder.
By bLuefRogX on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply
That’s actually a pretty good analogy
Thanks
By Michelle on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply
Hi Shana. I absolutely love this post! I have a preschooler too, and it’s good to go back to the basics of what’s important. It’s fascinating how you saw the parallelism between it and online success!
By Michael Lodispoto on Nov 25, 2007 | Reply
I have a 3 year old son (am divorced though and don’t have him more than 2 or 3 days a week) and kids can teach us much about the world. We are all just big kids. There is a little one inside us all and through them happiness and being natural play-full is just the norm. I read a while ago some article regarding why kids learn so well. They are as you know little sponges. My son just from watching Diego and Dora on the Noggin channel knows all of the colors in Spanish and knows more vocabulary than I learned from years in High school.
He wants to learn, where as I didn’t at the time.
Your advice on taking a step back and getting away from it all is great advice. Unfortunately for someone like me, a typical workaholic, unless I am playing with my son, or working - I don’t feel productive.
Kids are productive (learning) doing anything, and happy doing almost anything.
To get that innocence back would be fantastic.
Until I can do that though articles like yours have the effect of reminding me at least that I should chill out more.