Tonight is adventure night. Well, some may not call it an adventure, but it’s adventurous for me as I can be somewhat shy around new people unless there’s some common purpose or goal. As such I’ve decided to dip my toe into the Meetup pool, and tonight I’m heading out to meet a group of complete strangers to see James Arthur Ray (“balance is bogus!”) at the Westin Bayshore talking about Attracting the Life You Want.
I want a life that doesn’t see me shy around new people unless there’s a common purpose or goal. Anything you can do about that there, James?
Tonight it’s the Vancouver Professional Mixer group, with stealth connector Jill. From what I’ve seen so far, she is everything Malcolm Gladwell suggests in The Tipping Point that connectors should be: living in multiple worlds (in a good way: at least two Meetup groups that I’ve seen so far, plus a ‘real’ life which would include friends, relatives, work, and special interests); genuinely interested in people; seeing things in you that you don’t see in yourself; easily relate to people they meet.
I did join other groups but so far this is the only one where I felt like I was connecting with a real person – with someone I could relate to. And for a shy toe-dipper this strikes me as a good place to start.
So, VP Mixer – here I come. And James? You’d better pull up your boots because I’ll be watching you…
