Every year FG sends an annual Thanksgiving card. This year I got them to make an electronic version too. Here it is - Happy Thanksgiving!

Since we had to shrink it for the blog, you can't quite  read the caption. It reads, "Sun Rises Over the Hand in the Sand, Punta del Este, Uruguay 2009." The back story is that the sister of an FGer, April, took it on their trip to Uraguay earlier this year. Talented family!

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First, BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: FREE ONE-HOUR COMMUNITY Q&A WITH ME, THIS FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 12 p.m. Eastern, live at KeithFerrazzi.com. Mark it on your calendars now! I’ll be live on camera fielding your chatted questions. Come get some coaching on your business or career, or just ask whatever’s on your mind! Unlike Lucy, of course, I won't be dispensing psychiatric advice - or charging a nickel!  This is my way of saving THANKS for including me in your journey toward success.

Now, onto today’s tip. Usually I deliver practical business advice here. I hope you’re OK with me instead sharing with you a quote on romantic relationships that resonated so deeply with me that I wanted to pass it on:

When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity, in freedom. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Relationships are a constant process of both being and becoming. Don’t be afraid of change – or of the need to “work” on your relationship. That’s how relationships survive. Anne Morrow Lindbergh was married to Charles Lindbergh for 45 years, until his death in 1974.

Does the quote resonate with you, too? How many times have you fallen in love - with the same person?

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Last week I asked you to vote on my posting schedule. More than a whopping 170 of you (many of whom were Alex Mandossian's readers, thanks for visiting and I hope you stick around!) voted, setting a new comment record here.

And the winner, by a vast majority, is ....
2x per week!

I really appreciated those of you didn't vote yes or no, but who asked, "What do you want Keith?" Total generosity, I love it. And no doubt, two times a week is much more maintainable for me.

I also appreciated those of you who said, "I WANT MORE!" I'm going to follow through on the 2x per week commitment, Tuesday and Thursday mornings. But starting right away, you can look forward to a Friday post that rounds up the most exciting, useful relationship-oriented news and commentary of the week. Sara Grace, KF.com's managing editor, will publish it, and the entire team (including me) will feed her links. Actually, you can too: sgrace at ferrazzigreenlight dot com. Put it in your address book! And remember, send only posts & articles focused on relationships and relationship building.

Speaking of the KF.com team, have you "met" them? You can read our story here.

And again, thanks to Alex, for the inspiration - and for sending his thoughtful readership my way.

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Whenever possible, I want my readers to be in charge. You speak, I’ll listen. As a smart man recently said to me, “You want a marketing genius? Ask the market!”

Here’s the question: Should I shift from three to two posts per week?

Cast your vote! I'll announce the verdict next Thursday. If 2x receives a two-thirds majority, then every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 a.m. Eastern, you’ll see a new blog post. Otherwise, I’ll stick with three.

Make your YES/NO vote in the “Comments” – and tell me why.

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Hello from Sara Grace and the web dev/editorial team at KeithFerrazzi.com. We just got our first VERY ROUGH mockups from our developers and wanted your feedback! Looking for your thoughts on: General layout, color palette, header design, and features. What do YOU think Keith Ferrazzi's web site should look like?

Brilliant designers: Want to take a crack at revising the look & feel? Send it to me at sgrace at ferrazzigreenlight dot com before Monday. We'll post all the entries on the site and pick a winner with voting in the comments. Prize will be signed copies of Never Eat Alone and Who's Got Your Back. (We can't guarantee we'll use any of the submitted ideas, but we may!)

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Keith will be sharing success strategies from WGYB to help people manage this tough economy, on Weds, July 29, at 1 PM EST. Executive coach Patricia Wheeler will moderate.

The seminar is FREE and you can register here.

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Listen here. They even cut a handy 15 min version of the talk - call it the drive-through version of the Four Mindsets.

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Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back have many entrepreneurial artists and entertainers as fans and practitioners. Photographer Sherry Mills is one such person and I’m proud to present her as the first in a new series we’re calling “Help Wanted,” in which we profile a Greenlight Community member who needs advice, information, or leads to help achieve a current project or goal.  Now presenting…

WHO: Sherry Mills, Photographer and Founder of
A CLOSER NY

WHAT: A Closer NY is a series of close-up photographs of New York City intended for large-scale display on local walls and billboards. According to Sherry, “A CLOSER NY offers that a simple shift of focus can liberate us inside of our landscape. All of the photographs of A CLOSER NY are close-up snapshots of things found simply as they exist on the byways and buildings of New York. By taking what is right in front of us on a small scale, and blowing it up on a massive scale, a newfound observation of our surroundings becomes inescapable.” The mission of this project is to provide people with the opportunity to examine and connect with the immediate surroundings of day to day experience - and "to see the limitless beauty available at every turn."

The first outdoor display went up January 2009 on 40 feet of scaffolding on East 4th Street, thanks to the Fourth Arts Block. Most recently, Clear Channel Outdoor has contributed three prominent NYC Billboards and 75 Taxi Tops worth of image display space to A CLOSER NY as part of its Local Spirit campaign for the May-October 2009 season.

GOAL: Sherry is seeking a $25,000 sponsor by July 17th, 2009, when the taxi tops are scheduled to go into production.

HELP WANTED:
• Ideas for the constituencies she should be pursuing or specific leads to potential sponsors.
• Suggestions on getting past the gatekeepers and gaining the attention of the decision makers of each of those constituencies.
• Constructive feedback on her project and presentation, and any support or suggestions.

Here's what Sherry, and her partner on the project Sarah Connerly, are presenting as the benefits of sponsorship:

• Logo exposure with "support for A CLOSER NY" phrasing prominently placed on 150 Taxi Top faces carrying project imagery during NYC’s prime Fall season (8 full weeks in September/October 2009). Retail for this ad space: $64,000
• 46 Million eyeball impressions
• Tax-deductible contribution
• Substantial demonstration that your brand is one that supports NYC community spirit!
• $2,400+ large-scale, signed, gifted work of art from the A CLOSER NY collection, along with a plaque stating your participation, to hang together in your place of business (optional)
• Increased web traffic: Your linked logo is placed on the Sponsors page of ACLOSERNY.com, one of our main project pages. You grow with us as the project expands.
• A Newsletter introduction to the project’s subscriber base
• Our Gratitude for believing in this project and helping it expand

Who can help? Again, here's what they're looking for:

• Ideas for the constituencies she should be pursuing or specific leads to potential sponsors.
• Suggestions on getting past the gatekeepers and gaining the attention of the decision makers of each of those constituencies.
• Constructive feedback on her project and presentation, and any support or suggestions.

If you'd like to be spotlighted in a future HELP WANTED, sign up at Greenlight Community if you're not already and then message my managing editor, Sara Grace.

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Here's Marci's piece on Who's Got Your Back.

But here's also a link to another of her pieces, one that brewed up some controversy about the concept of "fake it till you make it" - the traditional definition, not the very specific one I use in Who's Got Your Back to talk about behavioral change.

So: Is it inauthentic to amend your business card or email signature to reflect a line of business you hope to be but aren't currently engaged in, assuming you know you've got the chops?

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