Several times over the last year I have talked about the online Marketing Seminar I took by Seth Godin.
I didn’t necessarily take it to learn Marketing, although I knew at the time that marketing is a skill anyone can benefit from, including myself. I enrolled because I wanted to learn from Seth Godin.
He’s a blogger, a marketer, an author, an entrepreneur, a freelancer, and a speaker. His list of accolades are long. He has a rich following, and every time I listen to him on a podcast I’m impressed with his clarity of thought. I have read several of his books and he inspires me. I wanted to dig into his framework, so I took the course.
In the midst of it I blogged about understanding myself as a consumer (here), I wrote about my insecurities that were coming up because I didn’t have any background in marketing concepts (here), I included it in a feature Friday and suggested you take a look at it also (here).
As the seminar started to wind down I wrote about how anxious I was about applying the knowledge (here).
I mentioned it again in this blog when I started to realized the power of engaging in a new experience and how much it changes us (this is a good one).
In the seminar, Seth encouraged us to form mastermind groups. I am in a group of 6 who meet online every week since, and the lessons have kept coming. I wrote about them in this blog
It takes me a while to process my experiences because change isn’t easy. As I was going about my days, I started to really see in a change in myself that I think was 90% sparked from what I had learned in the seminar and how I was applying it. I wrote about that here.
Over time I started to understand more clearly the way my underlying beliefs had held me back in the seminar, and how uncovering them and letting them go made such a profound impact, I wrote about those here.
I wrote about the marketing seminar once more in this blog when I talked about the value of feedback in our lives, and there is a future blog rolling around in my mind about giving good feedback, which was a skill I learned in the seminar.
The marketing seminar is 50 videos and designed in way that most of the learning comes from peer interaction and feedback in the message boards. If you read through the links to my blogs, you will see it had a pretty large impact on who I became last year.
Seth has opened up registration today for another round. If the seminar interests you, click here for his blog post today introducing it.
I loved it but it’s not for everyone and that’s ok.
You know what is for everyone?
- Enrolling in something.
- Learning something.
- Stretching yourself.
- Committing yourself to doing hard things and seeing them through to the end.
- Leaning into something or someone that interests you and seeing where it takes you.
- Showing up for life.
- Pushing through fear.
- Leaving your comfort zone.
These things are for everyone.
I found it with an online seminar on marketing… you may find it somewhere else.
I encourage you to find something.
You just never know where it might take you.
P.S. I am holding a 2 hour class in Airdrie on the evening of January 24. I hope you’ll join us, it will be a good place to start. The theme is self awareness and I hope to incorporate as many of these points into the evening as I can. You can sign up by clicking here.