Kyle Thomas

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Just Good Enough

I love trying to be creative and smart, but at the end of the day the content like videos and blog posts I create are not as good as they could be.

Someone is always doing the same thing better. Yes I know I mustn’t compare myself to others, but seriously who doesn’t.

I often times have ideas in my head for a videos, interviews and blog posts, but 1) I  have a hard time getting the ideas out in to a full thought out piece of content, and 2) when I do make the content if is not up to par for my standards and others. I see others create stuff and I love it, they make it look good and for some reason I can’t do the same, at least to the standards I think it should.

I must continue to remind myself that every time I try something I learn from it. Every time I see something I think looks good I should take tips from it for next time.

When I see something that I think is better than something I have done, I go through a couple different stages. At first I will like it, think it is nice. That I will hate it, and myself thinking about how careless I was about what I created and how someone else is always better. Then I will start becoming more realistic and try and forget about it and move on and take a lesson from it. Finally I come to this stage where I think about what I need to take away from it and apply it to the next time.

Eventually I will know how to look, write, produce and create something that I will be comfortable with. Or rather eventually I will come to grips with myself and not let others bother me.

Off to the staff Christmas Party

I’m about to head off to the Motion Media Christmas party. Am really looking forward to it. Will be good people and lots of laughs. We are having it catered. A very talented Italian lady is going to make us some authentic Italian food, which I’m sure will include pizza, pasta and the works. I’m excited, as I love my food.

As this is the Christmas season, I want to share with you this little song I found:

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
The Twitter bird in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Two Magpie tweets,
And the Twitter bird in a pear tree.

On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three Brogan blog posts,
Two Magpie tweets,
And the Twitter bird in a pear tree.

On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Four Facebook apps,
Three Brogan blog posts,
Two Magpie tweets,
And the Twitter bird in a pear tree.

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Slow Week Changes to Dokie

THis past week has been slow at work. I have been working on preparing a Full Day Social Media Workshop. I have to admit this has added a little pressure on me. I will be, for the first time, going to have to prove myself to the folks of Fort St John. Everyone has faith in me, but I am always going to lack a little confidence, and will always be a little nervous.

I have given a couple other presentation, but this time it is slightly different. Instead of doing just one, I will be doing a couple in one day. So I have been working on creating these 40 minute presentations.

I have found it a challenge to get my thoughts and knowledge in order to present them. What I am realizing is that as I work on one presentation I think of something that needs to go in another. Of course then I get distracted with the other one, and it become a circle.

Now the presentations are almost done and I will finalize them this weekend. But tomorrow is going to be a change of pace. Actually it is going to be the opposite from what I have been doing. I will be heading out to the Dokie Wind Project with Andrew to take some photos and video. Should be a lot of fun, especially if I end up a tower.

Dokie Wind Farm

Place in my head

The last day or two, I haven’t been able to focus properly at work. Not that I’m not enjoying it. I actually really am, but I think the lack of hydration mixed with the back I never seen the sun is getting to me and giving me headaches.

Today at 3pm I couldn’t handle it anymore and needed to get out. So I picked my tiny laptop and headed to Patch Java. For some reason Coffee Shop sooth me. I enjoy the atmosphere and the hustle.

Luckily, a lot of my work can be done form anywhere. Even if I need to chat with a co-worker, we use Google Talk (I use iChat) to communicate when someone isn’t in the office.

So here I sit in the coffee shop writing up some outline information on an upcoming Social Media Workshop we will be putting on.

Cheers.

One Year Later

Funny to think that one year ago I was on a plane back to Yellowknife for the Thanksgiving weekend. I was like many other students heading back to Yellowknife while being away from school. The only difference was I really wasn’t happy with my situation.

I was in Dawson Creek, BC, a fine city of 10,000 people, taking a program for Business  Management or something or rather, I was 1 of 3 people in the classes. This was a problem. The content was very dry, and very unappealing. To top that, because of the lack of human interaction I was getting, and being to reserved to go out, I went into a depressing slump.

Shiny happy peopleI wasn’t happy, I wasn’t learning anything, and I wasn’t meeting anyone. Sure you can blame this partly on me for not taking the initiative to get out, but that was just who I was. Needless to say when I went home for Thanksgiving, I made the decision to quite school and drive back to Yellowknife upon returning to Dawson.

I do not regret that decision one bit, maybe I regret the $5000 I was in debt, but that just comes with the experience. Over the next year I got to do some amazing things, and grow as a person. I worked my way out of debt, slowly, wrote up business proposals, got government funding, consulted at a large conference, had a booth at a trade show, covered all most every event in Yellowknife during the time, was “Media” at the 30th Folk on the Rocks, fell in love with Hawaii, got a “good job, we should talk” from the mayor of Yellowknife, toured around Alberta and BC in September (creating the current debt I have now) and got offered a job on the eve of my 20th birthday in August.

Needless to say I took the job and that is what leads us to today. Had I not do all those things, and pushed myself to get out of my shell, I don’t think I would have taken the job, nor do I think I would have been offered it. I’m a bit of a believer that the resume is dead, and in this case mine was, I don’t even know where it is, my boss – friend – Andrew, kept a close eye on me for a year after we met in Dawson Creek, while I was in school, and I guess thought I had the potential to help grow his business.

The story of what I actually do at work is for another day, but I will close this post with a smile on my face, because I’m happy. Although I’m in debt $3000 right now and am 1500km away from family and the city I love, I know I’m in the right place and I’m having a blast doing it. I’m a huge believer in only doing what you love, and I can truly say I love what I’m doing. I’m working in a great place, with great people, with a LOT of great opportunities.

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