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Instant Sean

You wanna know what I’m working on…

Montage #1 for 2012

Yup, if you listen now, you will get to hear something that no one else has heard yet.

But they will and it makes me proud of the job I have.

I get to help people during the year and make lifelong friends!

Making a difference…

The greatest thing a man can do is ask for help. Men rarely ask, and tonight I had a friend ask. Some people would consider it a sign of weakness. I consider it a sign of strength. People who have the fortitude and heart to ask for help sometimes know what they need to do, but they need someone to push them to help them forward.

But my goal is to help…

because if I help others, in turn I will be helped myself.

Ready to make a difference?

I’ve going to start on my work for the CMN Radiothon in the morning, one of the best charity fundraisers that I have EVER been a part of.

And part of me is scared. Scared that we won’t raise enough money for this great hospital.

But when it is all said and done, if I do my best, I can truly be proud of my work.

An open letter to my beautiful, wonderful, loving wife Joanna.

My dearest Joanna,

I know that you are worried, sick , tired and anxious. We can’t control sickness, we sure as hell can’t control the job market. BUT our love for each other, we can control. You can remember that I goto bed each night thinking of you and the kids, and that my first thoughts every morning are after holding you tight.

We are in a pinch, we’ve gotten out of pinches before. We didn’t know how we were going to pay a bill, but mysteriously a check we didn’t expect came.

I can do anything in this world as long as you are next to me holding my hand. I can not be defeated, I can not be held back. I am strong with your words, even stronger with your smile.

We have seen such great things together and have experienced things and opportunities that others only WISH they could.

My dream is to continue to experience, to love and to hold you tight each night with the same love that you give me each morning.

Unconditional.

I love you now and forever,

Your husband.

Perspective: Radio edition.

Today’s topic is perspective. At work today I got a call from a listener that just fits everything I’ve been talking about recently.

“Hello Sean, I won Monster Truck tickets, but you never told me to pick them up, so I didn’t so I want tickets to the next concert that comes into town.”

HUH Are you kidding me, this winner was with me and I told her the same thing I told the rest, pick the tickets up on Friday. Now it’s OVER A WEEK AFTER the Monster Trucks were in town. When I told her that I would be unable to accommodate her request and offered her dinner and some t-shirts she screamed at the top of her lungs she said to me :

“Fuck you, I’ll never listen to you ever again.”

She got mad because I didn’t agree with her and in the end she took her ball and went home. Is this my fault, no. Did I offer a substitute prize? Yes! But she was so blinded, by not getting what SHE WANTED, that her fit and hanging up on me didn’t bother me at all. Ten years ago, I’d be shaken. I’d be worried about that one person.  What happened if she determined the ratings of my station. OH NO!

But I realize now that I can’t control her actions. I can’t control that she didn’t pick up her tickets. I can take responsibility for calling her week of the show reminding her to pick up the tickets, I can take responsibility for even having her tickets with me at the event waiting for her. I can’t take responsibility for her not picking them up.

That’s what years in radio have given me, perspective. Instead of worrying about what I can’t control, the actions of other people and how when they don’t get the results that THEY want, I worry about how I can deliver results to them.

It doesn’t matter if she got mad and took her ball home.

I’ve got other friends to play with.

And for the record, her ball sucked.

Promotion at work!

Great news! I’ve been promoted to Director of Digital Media for my company regional office.  I’ve been hoping for a day like this where I can take the knowledge that I have been growing with my #wahooligan group of friends and utilize it to improve my companies position online and utilizing Social Media to our advantage.  It’s a new adventure and I hope to take it to new heights!

Thanks to my family and friends who continue to encourage me on this new path.  

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Thank you Robert Frost, I’m back on a new road. Where it takes me depends on the friends I make on the way.