Ignite without Igniting – The Zenness of Submitting for Ignite Phoenix

Its been a highly productive day here at Ignite Phoenix Headquarters: Laundry done and ironed, kitchen cleaned, and multiple blog posts abound. One nice aspect of the iPhone is that it is also an iPod and one great thing about the iPod are Podcasts. I was blasting away to Zencast’s piece on Thinking while getting all of the kinks out of my shirts and as the monk was talking about letting our thoughts help us learn more about our thoughts. Naturally this got me thinking about Ignite Phoenix and all of the people who are thinking about submitting their presentations but are caught in not submitting. Am I making sense here? Probably not.

Recently I was talking with someone about submitting a presentation on an aspect of their life that I think is fascinating and whenever it gets brought up in a group everyone wants to know more. Sounds like a perfect example of an Ignite Phoenix presentation, right? Well Mr.Uncertainty has grabbed this individuals confidence and given it a few hammer throws to the face, because they are worried that it just won’t make sense to anyone.

This is a common issue I come across when talking with people about submitting a presentation. They are worried that since their topic is so personal that people either wont get it or that they will think its unimportant or both. This is just plain silly thinking and must be conquored or else society as we know it will fail!

Here is the straight stuff folks: You are a very interesting person but you have been put in this role where its best not to draw too much attention to yourself for whatever reason. Stop It! Stop IT NOW!

Head over to the Ignite Submission page and let us know what it on your mind. If we need some clarification we will ask you for it first. If you are unclear on exactly what you are going to talk about that is fine, you have a few weeks to get it sorted out. Besides we might not even pick you and then you will have spent all that silly worrying over nothing anyway (how’s that for a confidence builder Tony Robbins, huh?).

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