Bud Bilanchi of KMM sister blog Career SuperStar is having a contest. I believe it's something that everyone would be interested in because it's just good common sense to seek out new information from every possible source. Bud is an excellent source and one well worth seeking out.
The contest is simple: Visit his site and give him examples of the use of "Good Applied Common Sense". He's looking for times where you've used common sense and it has produced positive results. If your example is one of the top 3, you win a prize of free hour of his common sense coaching time, a $500 value, on one of three subjects: leadership, entrepreneurship, or
Check it out, I'm sure you will find it interesting!
I guess it's a good idea to come up with my own common sense example so let's see....
A number of years ago, ok over 20, I was put on some medication. This stuff and I did not get a long at all. It caused me to have vivid hallucinations. Part of me knew what I was experiencing wasn't real but a part truly believed. My partner would freak out and try to calm me down with no success. So back I go to the doctor with the expectation of getting a different medication. First he tells me that there has never been any documentation of hallucinations as a side effect (there was, I've since researched it) and secondly, all I needed was a higher dosage. Now we've been trained to listen to doctors. They know stuff that we haven't a clue about and I was almost ready to agree with him. Then my "common sense" kicked in. I had a small child and there was NO WAY I was going to risk her well being, muchless my own, on his "opinion" of what was best for me. I knew my body and I knew how I was reacting to the medication. I wasn't wrong to want something different, he was wrong for not listening to me and for not believing in the validity of my complaint. So I "applied" my "common sense" and changed doctors. I think back now at how young I was and how easy it would have been to just believe in the doctor's expertise. I'm glad that I chose to listen to myself instead.
Check out Bud's site and share your "applied common sense" examples. Everyone's got a few examples and we'd all love to read about them.
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