Last year at VMworld 2014, I had some fantastic experiences and met heaps of great people (some of them are the kind of people who talk funny and use words like ‘heaps!’). I found myself challenged by certain conversations, and motivated, inspired, and excited by others. During the course of the show last year, at some specific point and more or less unintentionally, I found myself setting some goals based on what I was observing and hearing. I said to myself – “By this time next year, I will accomplish X, Y, and Z.” This post may be my first non-technical article on my blog, so I’m excited to break into that space and share two things: the three goals I set for myself and what my experience was in my pursuit of them.
Perhaps not surprisingly, these goals I set myself came about from things I realized in 1:1 conversation, or in a 1:few setting. Large groups are so fun, but I also love the depth that an intimate conversation setting can facilitate. I spent the day of registration wandering around with my friends Eric Wright and Angelo Luciani, and Eric and I were in the same hotel a 20 minute walk from the conference center, so we walked alone back to the hotel a time or two. They had no idea about this, and the only thing I’ve ever said about it was a hint I dropped a moonth or two ago. But it was with them that either a conversation or an experience caused me to set each one of these three goals. I’m on a plane now headed to VMworld 2015 and I’m so excited to land at SFO and wander around downtown San Francisco with those guys (and others) again, and who knows – maybe set some goals for next year! So, about the goals…