{"id":84,"date":"2006-06-01T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2006-06-01T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T20:53:21","slug":"dont-make-it-about-you-make-it-about-your-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/01\/dont-make-it-about-you-make-it-about-your-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t make it about you. make it about your Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, i do a lil improv on the side with <a title=\"Bats Improv\" href=\"http:\/\/www.improv.org\">Bats Improv in San Francisco<\/a>. After taking the last year off, I recently returned to the stage and am still shaking off the rust. One of the things pointed out to me was that I was &#8220;gagging&#8221; a lot, meaning I&#8217;m doing things on stage just to get a laugh instead of working within the context of the scene. It reminded me of something mentioned in a class. &#8220;<em>If you work to make your scene partners look good, the rest will take care of itself.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to impart the same message in the context of Sigma. Over the past year, I&#8217;ve been exposed to the ugly side of an international organization with all the back room deals and political nonsense. I had been naive to think that I could contribute in an international capacity and not be affected by the political maneuvering. As I&#8217;ve shifted my focus to the regional and local levels, I find myself content to be the guy behind the scenes supporting the direction of those leading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s this thought about making my Brothers look good, that I&#8217;m leaving you with today. I&#8217;m slowly getting into the loop for Bro. Forbes efforts at planning the 2007 Western Regional Conference. I&#8217;m approaching it in supporting <em>his <\/em>vison and making sure <em>he<\/em> gets all the accolades for a successful regional conference. This isn&#8217;t about me getting props or working my way up the political landscape or planting seeds for getting into an office later down the road. <strong>It&#8217;s about making my Brother look good<\/strong>. I challenge you to do the same. Blue Phi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, i do a lil improv on the side with Bats Improv in San Francisco. After taking the last year off, I recently returned to the stage and am still shaking off the rust. One of the things pointed out to me was that I was &#8220;gagging&#8221; a lot, &#8230; <a title=\"don&#8217;t make it about you. make it about your Brother\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/01\/dont-make-it-about-you-make-it-about-your-brother\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">don&#8217;t make it about you. make it about your Brother<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}