The Ohsome Inc Blog

Today’s exercise is aimed at getting you to think differently about your work environment.  We spend so much time at our desks and in our office that we often forget to really pay attention to anything in it.  Grab your digital camera or camera phone and take 3 photos of faces in inanimate objects around your work space.

We got nearly 2 feet of snow over the past 48 hrs and were consequently stuck indoors.  And then the power went out.  Without internet access or television to do the thinking for us, we began to use our imagination.  Before long, we were building a fort with couch cushions and blankets and sledding with our eight year old neighbors.  Your exercise today is to act like an 8 year old for one hour.  Use your imagination to reinvent the world around you.  Build a fort, rescue a princess, play dress up, but whatever you do don’t act like a responsible adult.

Our lives are ruled by rules.  “Walk” “Don’t Walk” “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service” “Dogs must be on a Leash” “No Alcoholic Beverages in Public Park” etc.  The interesting thing about rules is that the majority of them are created by someone else.  For the most part, we’re following someone else’s rules.  Pick one rule and change it.  What did you change it to? What could be the intended consequences of changing that rule? Why that rule as opposed to another?

This exercise is courtesy North Stafford High’s Advanced Sports & Entertainment Marketing class taught by Mr. Forder.  Your babysitting your sister’s 6-month old baby, who has a unique situation.  He has tourettes.  The day was going well until you took him to your favorite restaurant to grab a bit for lunch and he began cursing out the  brand new waitress who is now reduced to a puddle of tears.  People are staring.  How do you calm down the waitress enough so she’ll bring you the check so you can getting your unfortuanately offensive nephew home to stick a bottle in that foul mouth?

Today I’m speaking to Junior and Senior marketing students at a local High School.  I’m a little nervous – something about the smell of a adolescence gives me hives.  Going with that, let your mind wander back to your own high school days and list all the different smells your would have encountered in one day.

Share your smelly list with us and we’ll share it with everyone.  Email info(at)ohsomeinc(dot)com.

Great work takes risks.  You’ve just been granted the cloak of immortality for the next 24 hours at which point it’s powers will wear off (kinda like sunscreen).  Not wanting to waste an opportunity your race out your door to do….

Tell us what you would do with 24 hours of guaranteed immortality.

Send your risky behavior thoughts to info(at)ohsomeinc(dot)com and we’ll share ‘em!

Everyone loves a good disguise.  Well, at least I do.  Take a picture of yourself in the mirror and print it out.  Now use anything you want (except your computer) to disguise your identity in the photo.  This is your new alternate personality – embrace it and share it!

Send us your disguised self at info(at)ohsomeinc(dot)com and we’ll post it here!

You’ve been invited to a Holiday Party.  The other guests are:

• Britney Spears
• Thomas Edison
• Amy Sedaris
• Your Grandmother
• Jenna Jameson
• The entire cast of “Cats”
• Your high school class
• Your first love
• Your next potential client

They’ve asked each guest to bring a recycled gift starting with the letter “B” for a White Elephant Gift Exchange. Knowing that anyone in the room could end up with your gift, what do you bring?

Don’t forget to send us your gift and we’ll post them here!  Send them to info(at)ohsomeinc(dot)com with the subject “Day 15 Results” or something to that nature.