Was not planning on blogging today, but wanted to get some things off my chest. A bunch of stuff is really getting on my nerves at the moment.
Firstly, I am a Nottingham Forest football club fan. We keep getting thrashed under the management of Steve McLaren, the fans are planning on staging a protest prior to this weekend’s game and I have no idea what they are hoping to achieve with it.
If our manager goes, who do we want to replace him exactly? And we’ll have to pay out compensation. If we want our chairman out, who else is going to invest money in football clubs that lose money? Why don’t our players seem to put any effort or enthusiasm into playing and play with any passion at all?
Then there is a couple of issues I have with Facebook. Why is it that when I accept a friend request from someone in a related field with hundreds of mutual friends, that they need to then write a message on my wall with a link to their website – which I then delete. Why do they need to then send me an email saying “come and LIKE my fanpage too please” – just sod off. And as for those people that send me invites to a weekend workshop in Australia in 3 days time when I am based in England…. Sheeeez….
Then each day when I login to write my blog here, I have to delete 300-400 spam comments that people have left, often they are generic messages that they think will get past our spam filters. The idea is that they want to create backlinks from good and proper sites like mine with certain keywords pointing back to their own crappy sites. These lazy-arse douche bags (I have been watching South Park recently and therefore have started using the term douche again) want to benefit without actually contributing anything of any value at all. Were I not a better man, this stuff may well end up making me feel like this:
I am feeling much better now that little lot is off my chest… And lets be honest, there is so much to else to focus on and be happy about right now…
The great news is that the sun is shining gloriously and I am shortly heading out on a 20 mile run along the sea front. My legs have recovered wonderfully from my marathon last weekend and my training schedule for this December’s next marathon is now underway.
More importantly though and what is outweighing everything is that my new diploma course starts tomorrow… This years fully booked monthly diploma is about to get underway and I can’t wait to get started. The course content is as up to date as I am, the delegates seem like a fabulous bunch, though I reserve the right to change my mind once I see their reaction to how much homework they get, I have a marvelous team assisting me and we are going to have a lot of fun.
That’s better, that’s the good stuff… Have a wonderful weekend…
I love your ranty posts the best!
Haven’t the slightest idea what you’re talking about with the football but I’ll assume you’re right.
I agree with the Facebook stuff though! Drives me insane when people send an invite to something 3000 miles away and I have to go to the trouble of getting rid of it. I’m lucky I don’t get people trying to promote their businesses really. That would bother me. I think I’d be like “I thought you wanted to be my friend, but you just wanted to USE me!”. Sob.
Your venting woke me up nicely. Thanks Adam!
Thanks Gråinne, though my football pain continues as our manager and chairman have just resigned, while I was working at the weekend I deleted 12 posts on my facebook wall from people adding links about their businesses and still got invited to an event in a language that I do not speak or understand! Hahaha! Good to hear from you, A.
Well I am glad you got that off your chest before tomorrow. I am one of the lucky ones to be starting your diploma course so I am pleased to see you are looking forward to our months ahead. What was that about homework!
Best Wishes Andrew
Hi Andrew, I think my optimism was vindicated by the the end of the weekend, as I waved everyone home, I was thinking what a great group we have this year… And yes, it was probably for all of your benefit that I did get things off my chest before the weekend… Great seeing you, A.
Ranty is real!
Hi Adam, As with Grainne, I have no idea about the football part of what you said!
Not so sure about the Facebook bit. As someone beginning to build a business I expect to use FB to publicise what I do eg new blog posts which will have affiliate links (some of them will be to some chap called Adam Eason, because I own some of his stuff and it’s really good!)
Do you not think it’s ok to use FB for marketing, or is it the way it’s being used eg. ‘in 5 minutes I have a $10,000 dollar workshop on the other side of the world, would you like to come?’ This looks like (and I had not considered this until reading your rant) a bit of a numbers game approach. That would feel ok to me if I were selling cups and saucers (bizarre where free association goes) but doesn’t feel so good when selling personal development… but now I notice I am getting into my own ‘stuff’ about money and therapy/coaching (which is why I am still broke!)
Anyway, thanks for the rant, it was thought provoking.
Best wishes,
Richard
Richard, there are means and ways to market yourself with a ‘social media’ platform such as Facebook – in my opinion.
My own blog posts get posted on my own profile and people that enjoy my work make an informed choice about reading it. I use my own personality and idiosyncrasies to market myself there too, but I don’t attempt to directly sell and shove overt sales messages on other people walls without having developed any kind of relationship with them or attempting to understand if my message is totally irrelevant or not. This is ill-conceived and works the opposite effect than the desired one in my opinion.
That stuff by Adam Eason is good, you are quite right. Good to hear from you Richard, A.
… and… relax…! Love the ‘F’ based rant Adam. As I’m one of the ‘fabulous diploma bunch’ I was wondering if, now you’ve met us, you’re still in the same frame of mind. The first weekend was great and I loved every minute of it. (Although I’ve yet to see the homework pile!) Can’t wait for the next one. Now, where’s my brand new fob watch…
Dave, I thoroughly enjoyed the first weekend with you and your group, I think we are going to have a marvellous year, some great people on board! The homework is coming your way later this morning… Be sat down!
Best wishes, A.
Hi Adam. I totally sympathise about the annoying links added to your FB. We get these too on ours. It’s parasitic is what it is. Thank you for another great weekend… I have one question for you. You replied earlier in this post that there are SOME great people on board on the diploma course… which ones are they?… Do tell… I won’t gossip, honest… 😉 A word can paint a thousand pictures… I jest of course, see you next time. Dave
Hi Dave, you were definitely on the list of great people, I assure you 🙂
Delighted you are enjoying the diploma course, keep up the great work my friend, A.