Personal Revelations of the Magnificent Megan M. - Latest Comments

Re: My Piece of the Puzzle

CoCreatr — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:34:04 -0000

Welcome to a new way to catalyze ideas. Some of your Clients will need parts or prototypes made. More pieces to the puzzle. Or if they see what can be done, they catalyze even more ideas.

Great news: it is becoming easier, faster, and cheaper. Who'da thunk?
Here is a video, a write-up and plenty of links I hope help the product-inclined.
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Re: Lazy Reader

Max Morris — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:07:32 -0000

I'm pretty convinced it does if you work hard and keep pushing at it. By all accounts, it takes some time to get it right. I was flying along pretty well and ended up getting lazy again, but I still pick up a book and go through it remarkably quickly when I'm motivated and don't want to spend a lot of time on it. I had to adjust the techniques I'd learned at the Photoreading seminar to ones that were very similar but worked better for me, though. It's probably a personal thing. If you're too skeptical, I doubt it works well. But at this point I don't care if it's a psychological fake-out, because I learned stuff that works for me. So I'm happy. Ha!

I don't know what speed it is, honestly. But I know that I read very fast before, and when I apply myself, I can get through the same material much faster now. Non-fiction, not fiction (I haven't tried fiction this way, and I'm not really all that interested in doing so).

For what it's worth, I'm glad I did it and don't consider the money ill-spent. It was a really fascinating experience / set of skills to learn.

Re: Lazy Reader

Matt — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:10:24 -0000

I arrived at your website while googling photoreading to see if students of photoreading thought it lived up to its promise.

It's hard to tell how you feel about it from this post - are you able to read at the (ridiculous?) speeds that Mr Scheele claims are possible (25000 words per minute?). Your post seems to say that this is possible, but not fun? Is that about right?

I am interested, for many of the same reasons you outline - I am craving information. Is it too much effort to make it worthwhile?

Thanks,

Matt

Re: Control Freaks (On Their Knees)

Megan Z Taylor — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:37:03 -0000

When you first started describing your injury, I thought, 'Ooh, I know what that is!' because it sounds an awful lot like hyper-extension, which I have done to BOTH my knees. More than once. (Ouch.) Don't know about the tendon snapping thing, though.

When it was the worst for me, I was playing Ultimate Frisbee and I ran at a guy to beat him to the frisbee and I was told that, at a distance, it looked like he tripped me, but in reality, he never touched me. I got within about a foot of him, and my knee sort of... popped, and I crumpled. Boom, down. And it swole (swoll?) to the size of a softball and was just ugly, and it hurt, and I could barely walk.

To this day I have to be careful about how I position my knee when I've got something on top of it (the covers, my husband, whatever) because if I move it the wrong way it'll hurt like a bitch.

Don't know much about Airrosti (although the website I found on it was fascinating), but one of the things that really helped me was Rolfing (http://www.rolf.org/), which is something my mom and step-dad are certified in, and it's really great.

But hopefully things do continue to get better for you (and NY didn't strain it too much), and very cool life lesson that you arrived to at the end.

Re: Wherein You Find Out Just How Scary That Idea Blueprint Girl Launch Was — Surprise!

Angela Lussier — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:56:18 -0000

Hey Megan! I LOVE this post and think it so perfectly defines that scary moment in time when your mind is less like a flower and more like a boxing match of scary versus more scary. It's cool to hear that you did this and I'd love to interview you for my blog. I'm having a hard time with my title right now too, mostly because it doesn't really fit me at all - good to hear this process is not as easy as others are making it out to be. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to seeing you at the Triiibes conference in a few weeks!

Re: Megan M. and the Camera Rig of Doom

Sean Oliver — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:13:56 -0000

Ok. I love that shirt all kinds of lots.

Re: Nostalgia Scrubber Bar

Sean Oliver — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:09:59 -0000

I had no idea you could do that. It's like a little time capsule eh?

Re: Where is your happiness?

Herb Nowell — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:55:03 -0000

He has a book called "Authentic Happiness" that covers the territory in more detail, as well as a website of the same name.

I'm a huge fan of Learned Optimism, the book helped me make big changes in my life for the better. He goes through his work demonstrating pessimism is a lesser form of depression and spends several chapters on working to change it using similar techniques.

Authentic Happiness goes beyond that to building a better life with the tools he discusses at TED>

Re: Control Freaks (On Their Knees)

Teresa — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:49:29 -0000

Funny how injuries can teach us a lot about how much we *can't* control our lives. I tore the cartilage that attaches my abdominal wall to my rib cage (ow) about 3 months ago and, like you, had no real serious signs anything was wrong. Then I woke up one night (about a week after what I believe to be the moment that caused the injury) and noticed it hurt really bad to lie on my right side, there was this nasty pressure, and...yeah, something was definitely wrong.

It does take over your life, the constant care and the pain that go with an injury, but I completely agree these sorts of situations teach you there's really only so much you can do to make sure it doesn't happen again. That's life, right? We do the best we can with what we've got (energy, training, abilities, commitment, etc.) and that's all we can do! You'll get better, you'll get back to crossfit when you're ready (I LOVE CROSSFIT...though I haven't done it in awhile), and you'll be much more attentive to the physical signals your body gives you to stop. Same goes for the bigger picture of Life, too.

YAY LIFE LESSONS!

I <3 your video blogs, Megan! Hope your knee works its way back to good nice and soon. :)

-T
@TransitionalTee

Re: Subject Lines Are For Wimps

Paul Durban — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:00 -0000

Okay, Megan. You're off the hook.... for now. But I'm watching you! (you know... on your blog)

Keep it up and we just may take you out for ice cream.

Re: Why Buy Southwest? Well…

Nicholas Haasch — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:15:34 -0000

It's all about the emotions. Mmm... Sell the risk of fear or sell the satisfaction of known comfort. Yes! You are right. :)

Re: Why Buy Southwest? Well…

BobPoole — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:14:36 -0000

Stuff like that does happen all the time on Southwest. The company encourages its employees to have fun and to make sure the passengers have fun too.

Sounds like you got caught up in it too! They are still the only airline out there that seems to really care about their customers these days so I fly them too.

Re: Happy Halloween!

Max Morris — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:47:29 -0000

Hee, yes, you'll see it when we visit. ^_^

Re: Happy Halloween!

hardlypie6 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:10:52 -0000

Marty can haz haircut?

Re: Happy Halloween!

Nicholas Haasch — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:12:35 -0000

Oh noes!

Save the magnificent Megan from that hideous beast of a bunny!

Re: Quit Taking Yourself So Goddamn Seriously

Charlotte — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:14:17 -0000

Thanks. Needed that. :D

Re: Quit Taking Yourself So Goddamn Seriously

MarthaAtkins — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:46:08 -0000

OH MY GOD you crack me up. Forwarding this to all my clients (and my brother) who need to get a grip. Cheers -

Re: Quit Taking Yourself So Goddamn Seriously

Nicholas Haasch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:52:25 -0000

Come on Megan. Seriously? ^^

Re: Why yes… I have survived! (At least, so far…)

James — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:14:34 -0000

I'm glad to hear you live Megan!

Re: Why yes… I have survived! (At least, so far…)

BobPoole — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:45:20 -0000

Marty told me he was taking good care of you. Then he laughed that strange laughing noise that he makes sometimes.

It's all around us here. I'm spraying vodka on everything and everyone to help disinfect. So far, it's working or at least nobody seems to be complaining.

Re: Why yes… I have survived! (At least, so far…)

Jodi Kaplan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:53:43 -0000

Oh dear. Hope you feel better soon!!!!

Link to some lovely looking veggie soup:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/tas...

Re: Why yes… I have survived! (At least, so far…)

Ryan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:26:46 -0000

Cute!

Re: Making Plans for Making Music, BBC Radio Wales, and the Mad Science Experiment That Is My Life

Charlotte — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:20:09 -0000

Awesome!! Very cool project. :)

Re: Making Plans for Making Music, BBC Radio Wales, and the Mad Science Experiment That Is My Life

Nicholas Haasch — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:37:27 -0000

O_O

Megan makes music! =D

Re: Part Six: The Results (and the Video)

Max Morris — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:45:06 -0000

I don't sing like that at karaoke, no. But I manage pretty well. ;}