JOIN US FOR A WORLD WIDE BIRTHDAY IDEA-PARTY!
24 HOURS OF PEOPLE HELPING ONE ANOTHER LAUNCH THEIR DREAMS.
WHEN IS THE PARTY? FROM SLOVAKIA to SOUTH CAROLINA HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
The party runs 24 hours from midnight to midnight on March 24th, London (UTC) time
When is that in the US?
8 pm on the 23rd to 8 pm on the 24th in NYC 7 pm on the 23rd to 7 pm on the 24th in Chicago 6 pm on the 23rd to 6 pm on the 24th in Denver 5 pm on the 23rd to 5 pm on the 24th in Los Angeles
MARATHON SCHEDULE
Each cycle of the party lasts for an hour and a half. At which time a new Success Team Leader introduces themselves, we stretch our legs and get ready for the next hour and a half part of the call. You stay for as long as you like, come and go as you like and participate as you feel comfortable.
What's an Idea Party?
Barbara believes that all individuals, along with their friends and acquaintances, have within them the resources and tools needed to realize their dreams. Getting started is as simple as throwing a party… an idea party! It’s fun, easy and it works
-- PBS, on Idea Parties
An idea party is great, throw out a wish for something you want and any obstacles that might be keeping you from getting there and watch dust fly. People at the party will have names of people you should call and names for you to drop. They will have cars you can drive cross country for pay so you can get to the meeting that will land you the adventure you have always wanted to have.
Maybe you need to find work right now and can't figure out how you're going to do it? That was me. I was writing a book and needed income while I worked on it. Thanks to an idea party I have an enjoyable, profitable business NAGGING people! The work relates to and informs my book, it's amazing!
-Rachel Z. Cornell
The NAG
An Idea Party comes in many forms: you can run one in your living room, Success Team leaders schedule an Idea Party for the 7th meeting of the 8 week program, on site or on the phone, and I'm planning to celebrate Wishcraft's publication date, Mar 24, with a rolling, round-the-world, 24-hour marathon of an Idea Party -- probably on UStream with a little internet radio and a lot of Twitter thrown in.
But that's just the form of an Idea Party. The content, the thing that happens, is best described in this letter by one of our veteran Success Team leaders, answering a new leader who was hesitant about the concept:
New Leader: I’m not sure sure my pilot team is comfortable with asking their friends, etc. to come to a party to share their ideas and get advice or stuff from people they don’t know. Seems like an odd concept….?
Patty Newbold, veteran leader and director of TeleTeams:
It may seem like an odd concept, but the Idea Party is one of Barbara's best inventions! Isolation really is the dream killer, as she keeps telling us. We run out of steam trying to reach our goals on in isolation. First, we need support. But we also need information, and a 6-person Success Team often doesn't have all the information a member might need. The more people involved, the richer the the Idea Party, and who should you invite? You never know.
Every one of us knows someone who knows a big shortcut to another team member's goal. But there's a good chance we don't know how much anyone knows without asking. And we'd never think to ask without the stimulus of an Idea Party.
For example, I invited a friend to an Idea Party. He's a corporate trainer who works for many of the largest companies in the area. I thought he might be helpful to some of the folks looking for work. I had no idea he was looking for help putting together a video demo reel. Fortunately, someone else had invited a video producer who works in advertising. When my trainer friend stated his wish and his obstacle, the videographer introduced himself and my friend's problem was solved.
It's lucky I invited him -- not because anyone needed to know anything about training or the companies who are his clients, but because -- and this happens all the time, but it's always unexpected and always exciting -- he had the answer for a completely different problem: One of the team members was an artist trying to figure out how to get better photos of her work to send out to prospective buyers. Her problem: the texture in her paintings never shows up. Unknown to me, my trainer friend is married to an artist whose work appears regularly in Architectural Digest thanks to the services of a great photographer. She, too, had needed a special photographer for her textured paintings, and he had found just the right one for her. He shared the photographer's name with this stranger he had just met at the Idea Party.
And the video producer who helped him? She was looking for help publicizing a problem with our local ASPCA. We had no PR people at the party, so all the rest brainstormed ways to get local TV coverage. Given all their different backgrounds, the synergy was really great and the group came up with excellent ideas, building on each other's suggestions. No one could have come up with those ideas on their own.
One of the brainstormers was a young artist works with stained glass. The artist gave him the name of a store where he might be able to sell his creations. And so on.
It's a great concept. You need people who have done big things, people with many different interests, people who know lots of people, and people who are really creative and love to toss ideas around.
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Now let's move to the Wishcraft Birthday Party 24-hour global marathon Idea Party to be held on March 24. I'll be running the first hours. Our best Success Team leaders from all over the U.S. and Australia, India, Egypt, Israel, Germany, England, South Africa and Brazil will be leading at different hours -- and you and all your friends will be the creative people with lots of different interests who love to throw ideas around.
And we'll all be tweeting what's happening so we'll draw in even more jolly thinkers who will just solve one problem after another and launch one dream after another.
That's the kind of birthday party Wishcraft really want. (It told me.)
The cost? You guessed it: free. Bring your brain and your generous nature (and your sense of humor) Your presence will be very much appreciated. Who will present wishes and obstacles? The winners of the Wishcraft30 Challenge. (You can see some of their faces on the 'Video Love Letters' page. )
I hope you'll be there. I will. I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Barbara S
HOW TO JOIN THE PARTY
We want you to come. The sessions will be led by Barbara and her Success Team leaders. Team Leaders are trained to lead Idea Parties and for this Wishcraft Celebration Global Marathon Idea Party we have Team Leaders from ALL over the globe!
The Idea Party is free. In fact, we hope you'll twitter it and bring in your friends, because the more people attending, the more ideas will be called or messaged (or twittered) in to help the 'subject' of the moment.
The subjects are all prize winners of the Wishcraft challenge. (We already have some winners - check out the 'Video Love Letters' page.)
Questions? Comments?
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