#Grow. #Growing.

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  grow 11:28 pm on November 11, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: leadership ( 9 ), mvmt ( 6 ), opportunity ( 3 ), questions   

  Lift, Help Me Achieve Anything 

  

  Lift.do - Achieve Anything

   

  #wow.
  Talk about #GROW.

  I caught wind of Lift.do from a friend that thought of me immediately after discovering it for themselves.

  I do not know how they came upon it. I do remember when they shared it with me.

  I quickly signed up for a private invite to Lift in August of this year.

  I do this often. Find some new technology promising to deliver progress, sign up, test it, figure it all out, and then share it ritually with my people. It’s important part of how I lead.

  This week, I received an email from a highly successful technology entrepreneur named Tony Stubblebine.

  His email came to me three months after I sent him an email explaining my genuine interest in contributing to whatever he was planning to launch next. He has a great blog here. I read it often.

  Back to his email. It was an offer to everyone who had ever emailed him about Lift. An offer to apply for participation in a 4 week trial program being launched by the company.

  The benefit was simple: they would offer me a coach, a tool, and a process that would help me achieve anything.

  Sounds like #GROW. So, I decided to apply.

  I have been re-imagining the next phase of my professional and personal life for a few months now. My work has brought me a lot of meaning, quality relationships, and thankfully, some successes. 

  I took this invitation from Tony and Lift.do as a prime opportunity to express myself honestly about what I am now hoping to achieve. It’s a bit different than what I have historically sought out to do.

  You can see that application here:
  http://www.rolandobrown.com/achieveanything/application

  As you can see, the application they sent has sweet introduction text suggesting that they are empowered enough to help me transform from being super to being super human.

  Who wouldn’t be moved by that?

  My community knows. I’ve long hoped to achieve some reliable level of super humanity.

  I have even spoken publicly about this aspiration in pros, on stage and in blog posts.

  So, here’s a copy of my application for your review:
  http://www.rolandobrown.com/achieveanything/growsubmitted

  It wasn’t a perfect application.
  I didn’t want to procrastinate and over think it, or even over strategize.

  I just wanted to be honest, and ask for some help in strengthening my personal and professional practices.

  It was invigorating.

  Whether I am accepted into the training program or not, I trust this entire process is already proving to be a valuable investment of my time.

  If you have any ideas, comments, feedback, let me know.

  -Grow

  —
  Rolando Hernandez Rodriquez Brown
  Father, Poet, Cultivator & MVMT

 Maker

  “Be a contribution to those you choose to move with.”

   

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  grow 11:27 pm on November 11, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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  Grow Submitted to Lift.do 

  Below is the application I submitted to Lift.do.

  The text can be found below it.

  

  Application for the Lift.do 4 Week Trial Program

  Summary:

  At 29, I find myself at a critical juncture. I am either going to commit to wholly growing my company,  or wholly growing myself within a company. I hope to achieve effectively making this decision, and then successfully creating the right environment to realize what I choose to pursue.

  I’m looking to join a highly effective team, whose product or service is going to change the world.

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  Story: 

  Thank you. My name is Rolando Brown.

  After years of helping other people to accomplish their goals, it can be quite a moment when you find someone willing to help you with your own.

  Whatever Lift ends up becoming, I appreciate you all for your intentions.

  Intention is vital in the practice of realizing human transformation and potential. It’s a remarkable, and generous thing to set the intention of helping others achieve anything. In my own effort to help others, it has sometimes been difficult to highlight ways I could have equally used the help. With the goal of practicing generosity without expectation, I found myself very rarely asking for anything. So this feels like a significant moment.

  I hope to achieve identifying, applying for, interviewing and being offered to accept a job, at a technology & community driven company.  I hope to focus on strategy, growth opportunities, customer service & community development.

  In particular, I aspire to be a thriving members of a technology team that is driven by  human transformation, and responsible for delivering and maintaining a leading consumer product. I would love to be able to work from NY for three weeks a month, travel to the Bay Area, CA for 3 to 5 days a month, as well as visit other critical markets in the United States and/or abroad.

  Furthermore, this company would valued my recent entrepreneurial experiences as an independent consultant, record label owner, community organizer, and writer.

  It would be awesome if this company was clear, from a human resources perspective, that I was valuable investment. And that I could identify, strategize, inspire and help shape breakthrough ideas and processes.

  I am a Father, a Poet, a technology and communications consultant, and a founding member of a collective called MVMT (http://www.mvmt.com).

  I’ve organized over two dozen events, and have a rich social network across the country.

  I presently train people how to transform their relationships with technology and technology platforms such that they develop a practice of experiencing technology as an expression of their humanity. I’m working on several projects for ZeroDivide.org.

  I helped to publish two impact reports on innovative job creation during my work with Inner City Advisors.

  I am asked to speak to young leaders often about my story and work.

  I have several people who I work with weekly, acting as their leadership and strategic coach. I listen, and make critical connections on their behalf.

  I have invested several years of my life into both the private and the public sectors, paid and unpaid.

  I have made music and poetry, and still do.

  At 29, I find myself at a critical juncture.

  I am either going to commit to

  wholly growing my company,

  or wholly growing myself within a company.

  I hope to achieve effectively making this decision, and then successfully creating the right environment to realize what I choose to pursue.

  I’m looking to join a highly effective team, whose product or service is going to change the world.

  If Lift.do can help me achieve this, I will be eternally grateful, and mutually generous.

  —-

  Rolando Hernandez Rodriquez Brown

  Father, Poet, Cultivator & MVMT Maker

  “Be a contribution to those you choose to move with.”

  GROW » Free MVMT Guide + Video

  http://www.mvmt.com/guide

   
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  grow 4:30 pm on October 20, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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  #occupy 

  “I’m Free.
  Not defined by what I am,
  but what I give to my community and humanity.”

  #occupy
  
  First, to Hon. George Martinez & Clara Guerrero: Thank You.

  

  Occupy Wall St. Hip Hop Anthem
  Occupation Freedom, Ground Zero And The Global Block Collective

  People have either asked me over the last few weeks “why aren’t you involved in #Occupy WallStreet, #OccupyOakland, etc.?”

  Some have gone as far as expressing an expectation that I would be directly involved.

  I’ve responded to them mostly with questions, questions rooted in appreciative inquiry:

  • What do you believe will add value to society generally?
  • What do you believe will add value to the society you move in specifically?
  • What spaces have you left to occupy wall street?
  • How are those spaces being cared for in your absence? And by who?
  • In what ways are you unwilling to tolerate the greed and corruption?
  • In what ways are you willing to tolerate the greed and corruption?
  • What do expect will come from #OccupyWallStreet?
  • What have seen you witnessed come from the occupation thus far?
  • What do expect will come from your involvement?
  • What do you expect will come from mine?
  • What did you contribute?
  • Who do you see at these occupations? Who don’t you see?
  • If you’re like me and you’re still asking questions, what do you expect to contribute when you do?
  • How & what do you expect I can contribute?
  • What moved you try to move me?

  I move mostly from a place of intuition, looking for where to start my contribution.

  Right now, I am occupying several spaces,
  and working with the intention of bringing to these spaces, questions of what I can contribute, and how this contribution acts as a offer my community, and to humanity.

  Occupy spaces with questions.
  Occupy spaces with answers.

  Watching this video, was the spark I needed.

  To those that participated in the creation of it, thank you.
  If art is process, I wonder what questions and answers you came to in the creation of this video.

  To those that are asking me questions, thank you.
  If asking the right questions is still a skill worthy of investment, I wonder who is invested in you?

  To those that are creating answers, thank you.
  If these occupations lead to connecting people who can discover answers to questions asked by humanity for generations, I wonder what spaces we will occupy next.

  -Grow

  http://www.occupytogether.org