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Intrepid Innovations Networking Club Newsletter – March 2009 – Page 1
Welcome to the Intrepid Networking Club Newsletter!
In this newsletter, you'll find:
Introductory Letter Page 1Pictures from the March networking event Page 2“It’s Okay to Fail” Page 3“Networking: Worth Its Weight in Gold” Page 5Updates and News Page 6
March Introductory Letter
Hey everyone,Another month gone – have you made pr ogress toward your goals? Have you built newrelationships? Are you one month
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than you were at the end of February?If you joined us on Monday, March 30
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,you met some fellow Intrepid networkerswhohanded out business cards, made new contacts, and had a good time. Check out a f ew pictures from that event on page 2.For those of you who were able to makeit, it was a pleasure meeting you in personandfun to see people from different backgrounds and fields coming together. Many peopletold us that they enjoyed the event, and that they met some people they otherwise never would have met if it weren’t for the Intre pid networking event.Again, remember to check us out on our Intrepid Networking Club Facebook Page.We’ve got plenty of other networkers on there, and we encourage you to share your goals, thoughts, and insights with the group.As we head into April, we hope that this letter finds you well. Make this next month agreat one!
 Keep on networking,
The Intrepid Team: Aaron, Phil, and Dan
 
Intrepid Innovations Networking Club Newsletter – March 2009 – Page 2
Intrepid’s March Networking Event
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, Intrepid Innovations met with friends, contacts, and some new faces atKoozy’s Bar and Grille in West Allis, WI. For an entrance fee of $7.50 (but free to thoseof you in our Intrepid Networking Club), everyone was treated to some good food andgood conversation. Here are a few select pictures from the March networking event:Intrepid networker Shelly Krug andIntrepid president Aaron RobertsonRaffle drawings, including a pair of $100 prizesIf you weren’t able to make it to the March event, keep on the lookout for our upcomingevents in April and May.
 
Intrepid Innovations Networking Club Newsletter – March 2009 – Page 3
It’s Okay to Fail
by Dan Kenitz, Director of Content Development
It’s common knowledge that whenever you try something new, you won’t be very goodat it. Forget words like “talent” and “inclination” for a second – if you’re trying to growas a human being and build a skill you didn’t previously have, you’re not going tosucceed right away.That’s okay.Look up the story behind any great success, and you’ll find that their success was built ona giant foundation of failure.In hindsight, we usually don’t regret our failed attempts at success. We regret returningto our comfort zone and giving up. Even if our failed attempt – like getting shot downfor a date – was painful, there’s something positive about that pain, like the soreness after a good day of working out.People don’t seem to understand failure in the slightest. They think it’s something to beavoided like the plague. It’s not. Failure is part of the process, like it or not, and your choice isn’t between failure and success, it’s between living comfortably and growing asa person. Failure comes with the territory of improving yourself.I know of one dating company that occasionally encourages clients to actively walk up toa woman and try to strike out with her.What happens? Disaster, right? Actually, many times the client relaxes because they’renot so afraid of failure, and find that they hit it off with the woman. They
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fail, tryas they might. Actually, they ironically end up failing in their attempt to fail.It reminds me of the episode of Seinfeld in which George decides that all of his instinctsin life have been wrong. He decides if his instincts are always wrong, then the oppositemust always be right. He hits on a woman, telling her “I’m George. I’m unemployedand I live with my parents.” To his surprise, the woman opens right up. Throughout theepisode he does the opposite of what he always does and it lands him a new girlfriendand a new job.Instead of rationalizing that failure is too scary for us to make attempts at success, itmight be better to go out and actively try to fail. Lose all attachment to the idea of “performing well.” Simply go out, fail, and you’ll learn that not only can you handle thefailure, but it’s not really that scary in the first place.Success is often a numbers game. Those who make the most attempts will tend to makethe most shots.
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