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good morning bigmoose friend,
this morning i am going to talk about cheerleaders.
not the sequinned and lycra adorning type you see at cheer competitions, and in the breaks at dallas cowboys games.
no, i mean the cheerleaders we have in life, backing us, encouraging us, cheering us on, often without us even knowing they are tooting our horns for us.
cheerleaders are gold.
they could be your parents, your teachers, your work colleagues, or just people that like what you do, and want to tell the world about you, often without you even knowing the volume and quality of their work.
i have come to realise that i have some cheerleaders in my life, and i never really recognised it.
this is professor dylan jones-evans obe.
he is one of my cheerleaders, and i’ve only just realised it fully, sometimes my naivety amazes me.
going back to when we did a kickstarter campaign to raise £20,000 for the bigmoose coffee shop, when we achieved the £20k with two days to spare, dylan publicly encouraged us to do a stretch target of £30k, which we did successfully, all down to his encouragement.
my recent tedx talk had two people judging the hundreds of candidates who applied for one of the much sought after slots on the bill, dylan was one of them.
cheerleading from afar.
but impacting my life from the wings, and i have only just realised a number of other events that dylan has supported me and bigmoose with, i love discovering things i’ve missed for so long, life sure is interesting.
another of my cheerleaders is a blog reader i shall for security reasons call ‘abi carter’.
abi carter and i met ten years ago this month when we both spoke at an event one august morning, and at the event was a beer stand, which i took a sample bottle from, and proceeded to place on the lectern, drinking intermittently, telling the audience how nervous i was, and how the beer was to take the nervous edge off.
whether that was appropriate behaviour or not, it was to help abi carter become one of my best cheerleaders, and a very good friend, and she is responsible for at least three companies committing to join us at project 1 million 2.0 with a cumulative net value of £30k.
also, as well as being an amazing cheerleader, she has hands down got the best network i know, and last night introduced me to a charming chap, who is a lawyer for a formula 1 racing team, and after hearing the bigmoose story is going to help us however he can, abi carter strikes again.
so after this realisation of how important our cheerleaders are, i am going to start looking deeper into my support network, and try to encourage them to help us with selling bikes for this event, so if you read this blog and cheerlead from afar, now is the time to shine, please help us with this big challenge, we need all the help we can get.
this week was a better week, with nobody cancelling, and four new signups, not the level i targeted myself with last week, but good progress, onwards and upwards, we are going to do this.
oooh, i nearly forgot, our therapists that work for us are putting a team together and taking a bike, how cool is that, and i anticipate quite emotional, which will be brilliant, it’s gonna be amazing.
so, that’s a couple of people that cheerlead for me, and bigmoose, who have you got in your life that cheerlead for you, maybe have a think, you might discover someone you never really realised was doing some great work on your behalf, and if you do, maybe thank them, call them, send them a token of your appreciation, i guarantee you will make them feel amazing.
until next week, thanks for reading.
blue skies,
jeff
p.s. abi carter is also the only person to have mocked me having parkinsons………three times.
