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Shannon Mouton
Shannon Mouton

the principal at Topaz Consulting, is a relationship marketing professional, with a passion for utilizing social technology for building B2B/B2C relationships, sharing information, networking and advancing the greater good. She has over 20 years of public relations, marketing and community building experience. Her combination of political, nonprofit, higher ed and corporate experience has afforded her opportunities to build communities where none existed, develop and launch innovative programming and bridge generational, economic and racial divides.

Shannon serves on the board of directors for the In Series, a Washington, DC performing arts organization. She is a regular contributor to Women Grow Business and Discover Exceptionalism, and her blog, Shannon Sez So, examines life's joys, pains and idiosyncrasies. Shannon is the founder of Topaz Consulting, a DC based marketing consultancy with a nationwide portfolio of clients. She graduated from Mount Vernon College (now part of The George Washington University) and is a proud native Washingtonian.

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25 Things To Do in the Dark

Over the last few weeks Twitter has been unpredictable with almost daily FailWhale sitings, and he is probably going to continue wreaking havoc as the World Cup and Wimbledon are now overlapping. Instead of obsessively refreshing HootSuite, TweetDeck, Seesmic or Twitter.com, consider any, some or all of the following as things you can do in the [Twitter] dark.

  1. return phone calls (yes, it is still a valuable communications tool)
  2. read and answer email
  3. sign up for a volunteer activity
  4. put in load of laundry
  5. listen to that archived webinar
  6. talk to your child(ren)
  7. go for a walk around the block
  8. read and comment on a couple of blogs
  9. eat lunch away from your desk
  10. call your Mom/Dad/brother/sister
  11. write the thank you note
  12. clean out your desk
  13. follow-up with the contacts from last week's networking event
  14. organize your bookmarks
  15. read the article s/he gave you last week
  16. write presentation and/or finish the proposal
  17. plan the lunch/dinner/party
  18. vacuum the family room
  19. clean out your in-box (some people still have those)
  20. order the _______ from ____________.com
  21. say a prayer or meditate
  22. write a blog post (or even two)
  23. make a donation
  24. reach out to an old acquaintance
  25. read the report, not just the summary

 

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Ahhh, tomorrow

Tomorrow, what a wonderful word.

Little Orphan Annie sang about the virtues of tomorrow. Its promise of another sunrise in the midst of a gloom condition. Tomorrow is the great unknown. You don't know what will happen. Who will you meet or run into? What adventures await when you leave home? Tomorrow provides hope, yet another chance and do-overs, and it gives you opportunities to correct mistakes, make amends and get it right. It is tomorrow which makes yesterday a memory and today tolerable.

Tomorrow, what a horrible word.

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." It allows you to procrastinate. It is your greatest excuse for not doing, being and accomplishing. You assume tomorrow will be there for you, to do what you are not doing today. Your unfulfilled today morphs into a tomorrow filled with today's leftovers, as well as work of its own. Tomorrow robs you of the today that is to come.

Will you start the business?
Will you send the proposal?
Will you make the call?

What do your tomorrows look like?

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Posterous theme by Cory Watilo.
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