Take a leaf from the Chairman – and Flo Rida

By Peter McDonald

Michael’s not back on deck yet so it’s me again this week.

He’ll no doubt be replenishing his endorphin levels, living his best life away from the trials and tribulations of work. Good luck to him.

Feelings are a funny thing and vary from person to person. Me, I’m a pretty passionate guy by nature so that makes me a strong feeler – for better or worse.

But wherever anyone sits on the feelings spectrum, its highly unlikely that recognition of them or something they’ve done would weight them more so to the care-less than to the care-more end.

There are those in our world who are drawn to the limelight. Good luck to them too. They love being the centre of attention and are driven by awareness. Yet there are others who are very uncomfortable with being celebrated, happy to know within themselves that they’ve done good.

An acknowledgement by peers is something special though, because it’s an informed belief. It has gravitas. A positive contemporary critique adds value in both personal and professional contexts.

When we’re made to feel good about something, positivity literally pumps through us. The chemical signals in the brain that block the perception of pain and increase feelings of wellbeing – endorphins – increase in volume. We’re more energised and feel more capable, our attitude becomes even more ‘can do’ and we focus on the solution not the problem.

Professionally, the ability to profile ourselves or our business as having been deemed highly competent within our industry at what we do in the context of our direct competitors – or even sometimes by those competitors – delivers commercial benefit. Relative positioning instils customer, or potential customer, confidence and can be used as a tactic to influence buyer behaviour.

So where am I going with this? Submission for the MEA Awards to recognise outstanding performance in event delivery over 2021 and 2022 is only a touch over a month away from closing. If you haven’t yet tendered your nomination form, it’s time to get moving! If the prospects of feeling good about yourself and winning business strike a chord, click here to be taken to the submission portal.

There’s 38 opportunities to nominate over 7 categories, so if you feel you nailed an event or element thereof over the past 2 years, and made lemonade in a time of lemons, I strongly encourage you to get busy responding to the criteria in the hope of being able to leverage a possible victory to individual and professional advantage.

Success means you never gave up, no matter how hard it got, so you deserve to feel good about it. Flo Rida’s song Good Feeling is about him feeling powerful, strong, and lucky. Earning a MEA Award can do likewise for you and have you singing along with him

The mountain top, walk on water

I got power, feel so royal

One second, I'mma strike oil

Diamond, platinum, no more for you

Gotta drill it in, never giving in

Giving ups not an option, gotta get it in

Witness I got the heart of twenty men

No fear, go to sleep in the lion's den

That flow, that spark, that crown

You looking at the king of the jungle now

Stronger than ever can't hold me down

A hundred miles feelin' from the picture smile

Straight game face, it's game day

See me running through the crowd full of melee

No trick plays, I'm Bill Gates,

Take a genius to understand me

Oh, oh, sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah

I get a feeling that I never never never never had before, no no

I get a good feeling, yeah

Source:

Song – “Good Feeling” 

Artist – Flo Rida

Album – “Wild Ones”