Releasing YOU Today: A Conversation With Deeone Higgs [Part 2]

If it works out that I’m doing this for a living, which is somewhat a goal of mine, I hope that I don’t become an overly anal retentive type blogger. I will strive for nothing more than to keep my sunny side up personality.But you asked about what I think is the funniest thing I’ve come across on RMT, didn’t you? I got sidetracked a bit, sorry about that.

Since I am constantly writing on such serious topics that often don’t have any humor in them whatsoever, I try to curve some of my own personality into them and make lightly of a lot of the things I write about. It might be dry humor or not really funny to some people, but I try to throw in little things that I would say in my normal every day to day life.

Take my post “Stay in your Lane, Boo”. I could have very well left it at “Stay in your lane”, but anybody that knows me personally know that I can be… a bit colorful when it comes to what I call people. I mean nothing by it, it’s simply the way that I am and how I speak normally.

A couple of my other favorite “pet names”, I’m sure you’ve seen them in my tweets or statuses; are “Chica”, “Bud”, “Mate”, “Whoady”, “Comrade”, the list goes on… anything really that gives me a personality online I’ll try it. If someone gets offended by it, I would hope they would tell me. I’m a big boy. All I mean by that is, I’m not to proud that I won’t apologize.

If you were to meet me in public, you’d more than likely see that I have the same BIG personality that I portray online. I love to have fun. I love people. I also love to make people feel the emotion of happiness.

I try to lace most of my life lessons with humor as well. And I encourage humor in my comments. Laughter is such an important part to the Release; there’s actually a part in my About Page that reads:

“I love to smile and laugh, and I think its an important element to release oneself from the seriousness of life. So you should look to crack a smile – and bust a gut at some point upon your visit here as well.

Why even include that in a blog that focuses on letting go and release? It’s just really good to laugh! That’s why. If you can’t laugh at life… then there’s another reason to click that white “X”(in the right hand corner of your screen).”

My About Page is spurring with my personality, or at least that’s what I was going for.

J: I love that you take your real life personality and fuse into the online world. Not many people do that…at least from what I read. For whatever reason, people struggle to make the connection between their real self and their blog. That’s why the fact that you are yourself and you don’t hide behind your blog (so to speak) is so refreshing; you put yourself out there.

Great quality to have. No fear.

Honestly, if you didn’t include the “boo” part at the end of your post title it wouldn’t be as strong as it is. So glad you kept that. When I read the title I had to laugh, which is great of course! (laughter) Other bloggers (including myself) should take note. Creativity wins.

Getting back to mindset talk.

As you know, I talk a lot about the entrepreneurial mindset and how people can fuse those key ingredients into their lives to aid in accomplishing what they want in life.

I have to ask you because with your unique experiences I feel that you will know exactly how it benefits a person. In your opinion, what does the entrepreneurial mindset mean to you?

D: Here’s the thing I keep in mind when it comes to the entrepreneurial mindset, and it’s probably too simple actually.

We all have skills that we bring to the table that no one else does in the world does. They might can do it similar to us, better than us, or not as good as we do it, but they simply cannot do what YOU are able to do like YOU are able to do it. That’s our gift… it’s our uniqueness. Bank on that! It’s there for a reason, I always say.

What I find to work for me and I’m sure it works for other’s, is in knowing who I am, my weaknesses, my strengths, my likes, and dislikes; zoning in on those key attributes and allowing them to come through my online presence.

I know what motivates me, I know what it takes to inspire myself, and I also know that in order to be notice in the online world one must surely standout and shine. Where a lot of people fall off the tracks it seems to me is trying to do it like someone else is doing it. Nothing is more boring to me than conformity. I despise someone telling me that I remind them of so and so. That BITES! Everything I do I try to do it original.

In person, one of the things people know about me is that I love colorful socks. Yes, something as simple as socks; it gives me the feeling that I’m doing something no one else has done. There is no exceptions to how loud or how bright they are; if it matches my gear that I’m rocking, then I’m rocking those socks.

Same thing stands for me in the blogosphere, I tend to zone in on that one thing that I can offer that makes people say, “Hmmm, that’s different.” Now, I’m sure some would argue that how I go about blogging or branding myself isn’t the way that they would go about doing it. If they were to tell me that, I’d simply say to myself, “YES!!”

I think as an entrepreneurial you have to know what you can bring to the table that can’t nobody else bring; then ROCK the heck out of it!

I’m learning that everything we do… or think we can’t do lies in our minds. Take the knowledge that someone else is offering and put your own spin on it.

Stay tuned for part 3 next week! Until then, leave me your thoughts about the conversation in the comments below.