Who do you most want to benefit from your work?

by Christine Martell on June 18, 2009
in Creative Small Business

This is part of a series of posts showing how I am working through the worksheets on the Good Little Biz™ site.

Dreaming Worksheet

Good Little Biz has a series of worksheets, the first one is about Dreaming.I started by writing the answer to the question, who do I most want to benefit from my work?

The professionals who use the tools and their clients

Next I quickly selected images from the VisualsSpeak ImageSet in response to the question, and assembled them on a piece of blue background paper. I photographed it, then recorded myself describing the images in the screencast below.

What do the words tell us?

From the words describing the image, I get

working directly with diverse independent professionals
collaborating and creating tools
professionals provide link to bigger group by working with them as clients and colleagues
- kids
- different races, ethnicity, regions
- corporate people feeling out of place
- people unhappy in their jobs
- people interested in personal development
- relationships and families
- having fun
- working with challenges in gentler more playful ways

What do I see?

As long as we assemble the images quickly without thinking too much, there can be additional clues in the visual language. The center often holds something important, and the center of this image is about the linkage. This photograph was also in the center in the question about what I love to do. Perhaps even more significant this time, since this question specifically asked about who, and still the central answer is its about providing links. The specific who isn’t as important.

I want to help my colleagues get better results for their clients. I can reach more people indirectly, more people can benefit from the visual tools if I work in collaboration with others. Use visual tools to help deepen the interactions they are already having.

Visual tools are fun. Most people find it delightful to look through the images and find things to speak their stories. There is so much hard in the world right now. Any little piece of joy that can be interjected seems really important to me.

Join me?

Anyone interesting in working through the worksheets with me? No pressure, informal. I started a group on the Good Little Biz site called Creative Good Little Biz. Email me christine (at) visualsspeak . com or Dm me on twitter, or just join the group after you register for GoodLittleBiz if you are interested.