I am not joking, I really need a new computer. I mean really really! My laptop has been giving me shit for the last while, and I have had enough! I have a world-changing project to run and I need equipment I can rely on.
So, you may have heard about My Right Arm, the campaign I came up with to help me live without spending money. Well, I have been keeping a space for the person who was going to organise me a Macbook one day…but I no longer have the luxury of waiting for a Mac…I NEED A NEW COMPUTER YESTERDAY!!!!!
So, if you want your brand tatoo’ed on My Right Arm…for life…all you have to do is buy me this computer.
It is on special from AureusTech, the business run by my friend Dreyer Smit. He recently sponsored me an external hard drive so I am still trying to return the favour for that one
A few years ago, synchronicity had its way with me and placed me in a workshop that changed my life.
I was having a drink with an old friend, Joey da Silva, that I had just reconnected with on Facebook. A woman sitting alone at the table next to us overheard me telling Joey about all my wonderful ideas and plans that I had to change the world. She interrupted me and said “Excuse me, I usually don’t interrupt people, but you need to be a Consciousness Coach.” “What’s a Consciousness Coach?” I replied.
She went on to tell me about a training program that she had just begun, that had inspired her and made a massive impact on her life. She said she felt compelled to tell me about it, like she saw something in me. She told me to call the creator of the program, Marc Steinberg, and get myself on the course.
Well, when something like that happens you take action right? So I called Marc Steinberg the next day. He put me onto a member of his team, Joerg Nawrocki, who enrolled me on the first course.
Master I – The Awareness Process changed my life as well…the lady was right! After the first course I decided to complete the full training program to become a coach and the rest, as they say, is history.
Talk about a Critical Moment.
When CCA (Consciousness Coaching Academy) found out about my experiment, they were incredibly supportive. And when they heard about the MY RIGHT ARM campaign, they asked how they could support me. We decided that the best way was to give some of those life changing courses that I can trade with my friends.
So you could get to have the same experience I had!
In this video myself and my friends Sue Roy and Mash Mashologu discuss the benefits of the course in more detail.
So, would you like to give yourself that experience?
All you need to do is offer me your unique value in exchange for the course. This is not something you can buy or a physical thing that you give me. I want you and your passion, you and your skill, you and what you do best.
Right now I’m preparing for my 1 year anniversary where I have committed to take this project to the next level and begin making money to give away.
To do this I need to tell a better story, reach more people, and leverage the story for money. If you can help me to do that (in any way) I’d like to hear from you.
I need help with my website, shooting and editing videos, advertising and marketing campaigns, PR, and anything that can help me make a lot of money to give away.
Just as I was beginning to worry about who the next sponsor of My Right Arm was going to be, something awesome & synchronistic happened. Something that resulted in me being given this camera!
sexy isn't she?
What happened?
Well, I was invited for dinner by my friend Sally Wellbeloved on Monday night. You may remember Sally, she is the lady who took the photo on my home page.
Anyway, I hadn’t seen her in a while so I was updating her on my adventures. She hadn’t heard about my giving My Right Arm to live without spending, so I was telling her about how the campaign worked and she asked me what I wanted for the next tattoo.
I told her that what I really needed was a quality compact camera to help me document my journey and more importantly to give exposure to the people that support me.
She told me that she knew someone called Arthur who sold cameras and suggested I get in touch with him. So she sent him and email that night telling him about what I’m up to. Arthur replied the next day saying that he was interested, I called him a bit later and on that call he agreed to give me the camera.
Not wanting to get too excited I asked him to send me an email confirming his decision and he had this to say:
Hi Adin ,
Very nice to chat to you abut this exciting marketing opportunity.
I can confirm that ISO100 will be sponsoring you with a Canon EOS SLR camera. I will be handing over the unit early April if that is in order. I am awaiting new stock to arrive.
ISO100 is very excited about this and I think having our logo on you will drive our brand. We are planning on taking on the big boys in SA and offer competitive pricing.
Please find my Logo and also a link to my site www.iso100.co.za
Regards
Arthur van Zyl
So, I am very proud to announce that ISO100 is the 5th sponsor of My Right Arm and that the following logo will be inked into the history books very soon. You know that by history books I mean my arm don’t you?
this is gonna look great on My Right Arm!
To get hold of ISO100 to see what deals they have for you, here are the contact details:
Physical Address:
32 Prestwick Road
908 Quyside
Green Point Telephone:
+27(0)21 427 2777
Email:
sales@iso100.co.za www.iso100.co.za
So thanks Arthur, thanks Sally! My ability to tell this story will be greatly improved now!
That means I have secured the first 5 sponsors who will get tattood on my arm…I wonder who’s going to be next…
So far, 2010 has been pretty damn good to me. There have been ups and downs but definitely more ups than downs…touch wood (what a weird thing to say, I wonder where touch wood comes from)
WARNING! This is a bit of a long update, I won’t be offended if you don’t read all of it. If you are interested, please read on
Anyway, I have a few exciting projects this year. Some have launched already and some are launching very soon.
MY RIGHT ARM
MY RIGHT ARM launched at the beginning of the year and is my answer to the question “What are you willing to do to live without spending money?” Quite literally, I am giving MY RIGHT ARM, are at least advertising space on MY RIGHT ARM to friends of mine with businesses.
I am creating 25 extremely unique advertising opportunities on MY RIGHT ARM for brands who would like to support me in my quest to live with out spending money. If your product or service can help me live well, or do the things that I need to do, get in touch with me, you could be next to have your logo tattooed on MY RIGHT ARM.
Don't you think your logo would look good tattooed on My Right Arm?
Coming soon is 555 T-SHIRTS, my first social enterprise project. What I mean by social enterprise is that it is a project that runs like a business, designed to make money to be given away. It’s high time, I got cracking on my goal of giving away R555 555 555.55 – I got a long way to go still!
I am developing a unique business model that allows friends of mine who believe in my crazy goal to partner up with me by contributing their ideas, skills and resources.
All partners will be sharing in 50% of turnover generated by this project, the other 50% will be giving to charity.
My first 2 partners are Jonathan Kapelus and Lourens van Dyk.
This is just the nutshell version of 555 T-SHIRTS…stay tuned for more info.
Please note that from now on I will be looking for more and more partners to launch more and more businesses.
If you would like to test this unique 50/50 model with me PLEASE GET IN TOUCH WITH ME! It’s a great opportunity to make some money and make a difference at the same time
THE ENLIGHTENED MANIFESTORS CLUB
Then, starting this Saturday is the first of a series of public talks that I will be giving at THE ENLIGHTENED MANIFESTOR’S CLUB (E=mc3). Remember Calvin Dorman, of Calvinbusiness.co.za, my friend who agreed to buy me petrol for the rest of my 5 year experiment? The deal that we struck was that I will give a talk per month at Calvin’s business networking and goal setting club, E=mc3.
Calving and I at Mugg & Bean sealing the petrol for speaking deal
E=mc3 is a weekly event with me as a guest speaker once a month, cool hey? The subject of my first talk is POSSIBILITY. I hope you will be able to make it. There will be a Facebook event up shortly.
Right, this is actually an area where you can help me.
I have been agonising about what to talk about. Maybe it is just nerves because I have only done a handful of talks. I rather think it has to do with the fact that I see myself more of a conversationalist than a speaker. I am not so comfortable with the idea of me standing in front of people just telling them my story.
So, I have decided to build my talk around questions, questions from you guys. I guess, if I am responding to questions it will feel more authentic to me. So please, can you submit your question or questions ASAP, I would like to include them.
Please note, I will be recording all my talks so you will be able to see me answer your question, cool hey?
Here is an example of the kinds of questions you might want to ask. These have been submitted Michelle Chamroo:
-What inspired you to go without money for five years?
-Do you have a plan for sustaining this lifestyle?
-How do you envisage meeting your aims, and have your aims/objectives changed since you started?
-Has your experience of being a life coach assisted you?
-Are you happy? : )
Awesome, thanks guys.
I do have much more to share but I think this is good for now, I promise to be more in touch from now on.
Not only did I get the first 3 logos tattoo’ed on My Right Arm that day, I was also able to provide for my family who has done way too much taking care of me.
Thanks to my new coaching client, Jo Clegg, who is ‘paying’ for her sessions with meals from her catering business… How cool is that?
Some people get famous in traditional ways like being really good at something. Like being a great artist, singer, musician, actor or sports star.
Some people get famous for doing something really great for the world. Like Nelson Mandela, Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King or Albert Einstein.
Other people get famous for doing stuff on TV in reality shows. These people sometimes don’t even have to be good at what they do, and can become famous for the sake of being famous. I’m talking about people like Paris Hilton (vomit), the Kardashians (more vomit), Ozzie Osbourne’’s kids, that slag Heidi Montag from Laguna Beach or that loser who didn’t even win Survivor, Jonny Fair Play from Survivor.
Then there are people who get famous doing interesting, meaningful, creative, random or even scandalous stuff online. This seems to be the latest trend.
Have you heard about the guy who traded One Red Paper Clip for a house? Kyle MacDonald started with one red paper clip and over a series of 14 trades from 2005 to 2006 had a house. This story inspired my friend Telana Simpson to do something similar with One Matchstick. She is trading for offices though, not a house.
What about the movie Julie and Julia…heard about that? It’s about a woman called Julie Powell who in 2002 wrote a blog about cooking Julia Child recipes for a year. Just been made into a movie with Meryl Streep as Julia and Amy Adams as Julie…which is nice.
Matt Harding is a guy who got famous for dancing around the world, badly. His site Where the Hell is Matt features plenty videos of him dancing badly in various parts of the world. People just loved the videos and they spread virally, big time.
According to TechCult’s Top 100 Web Celebrities a lot of people have become famous on the web for various reasons. At 100 is Alex Tew, who came up with a clever way to pay for college. His Million Dollar Homepage project is genius! He sold pixels on his homepage and made more than enough money to pay his tuition!
At the top of that same list is Tila Tequila, a stripper…oops I mean video star, who made a million friends on Myspace then ended up having her own reality show. It was a bisexual version of those lank-people-living-in-a-mansion-competing-to-date-one-person-type-shows called A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. (quality viewing)
Why am I telling you all this?
Well, I have come up with a way to make My Right Arm the most famous arm in the world. It is also a genius way of living for 5 years without spending money. On the 5th of May 2009 I gave up using money, and have been successful in surviving since then. Problem is I am tired of just surviving…I want to thrive like everyone else.
To live without money I need to find creative ways to add value to people who will give me things or do stuff for me. Everything is an exchange right? I’ve learned that exposure is very valuable and that a unique sponsorship opportunity may the most valuable thing that I can trade with people.
People have been asking me what am I willing to do to live without money, and the answer is I’m willing to give My Right Arm…literally. Instead of selling pixels, I am trading space on My Right Arm. That’s right, I am giving branding opportunities to 25 people’s businesses or give me their product or service for free or buy me something I really need.
I have just started this campaign, but here are some videos I’ve got so far:
If you are reading this on Facebook, please watch this video on Youtube
If you are reading this on Facebook, please watch this video on Youtube
Now if you go and tell all your friends about this crazy idea of mine, then I can become a web celebrity too and it won’t be too long until there is My Right Arm, the movie. All that’s left is to answer the question…
For the last couple of weeks I have talking about a campaign that I am launching called My Right Arm. If you have been paying attention to some of my tweets and updates, I should have had the first tattoo already but sometimes things take longer than anticipated.
What would you give me to get your business on My Right Arm?
When I met with Fabian & Daniel from Young Guns, the peeps who are sponsoring my tattoos, they said I should come in on the 4th. I naively thought that meant I would be getting inked that day. I guess I should have paid more attention to Miami Ink and remembered that a little preparation has to go into getting tattoos. I put myself through a whole bunch of unnecessary anxiety for nothing cos all we did that day was to find a film strip image that Daniel could model my tattoo on. Gareth and I went to the internet cafe found one that worked, and then I left it with them.They said they would call me when they were ready for me…YAY…more anxiety!
Anyway, the waiting is over. I got a call from Fabian yesterday asking me if I could come in on Monday. So, it’s official…the wait is over. I am getting inked on Monday the 11th of January 2010.
This is the deal, I’ve asked Daniel to design a film strip with 25 frames that will wrap around my arm. Each of the 25 frames is a unique branding opportunity for my friends who support me on my mission. 25 brands will get to play this game with me in 2010 – 3 tattoos in January then 2 per month thereafter. I already have the first 4 tattoos lined up so if you want in you better get in touch soon!
Still confused? Watch this video:
If you are reading this as a note on Facebook you will need to click on the following links to watch this video
You may think that blogging everyday is an easy thing to promise, but let me assure you, for me it’s huge. In fact, it is such a big thing for me that I broke my promise on day 2 already. Nice going Adin!
Many people give up on a goal altogether when they don’t stick to it perfectly, but I’m not going to do that. I know how important blogging is to the success of my mission so I am persevering, no matter what!
It’s weird, isn’t it? Living for 5 years without spending money doesn’t scare me but blogging does! I’m not sure what’s so scary about blogging but it just is. Maybe scary is too strong a word. Maybe it is just that blogging (or writing in general) doesn’t come naturally to me, well not yet any way. I’m hoping that as I do it more regularly it will get easier.
I guess some things comes naturally to people, and some things don’t. Maybe writing will never come easy to but I am sure I can better, with practice. I flippen hope so, let’s see what happens
I am much more comfortable talking than writing. I’m hoping when my Flip video camera arrives my blogging experience will change drastically. I reckon I will find it much easier to capture memorable moments as they happen on camera and just upload the videos. I’ve done a few videos with my blackberry and with other people’s cameras and I found it quite easy to do. With a little editing practice too I am sure I can put out some pretty cool videos in the not too distant future.
I would like to say thanks to my friend Steve Jones who bought me the Flip camera. Steve has been telling me for a while to do videos and I promise to do his gift justice. Oh, he also takes the 4th spot on My Right Arm for his contribution to my experiment…thanks Steve.
Still don’t know what My Right Arm is…well I better get onto blogging about that shouldn’t I? In the meantime, check out this video.
I am feeling better already, sharing feels good, thanks for listening LOL, sounds like I am in a support group or something – “Hi my name is Adin and I suck at blogging!”
Cool, I got this one in before midnight so it counts, I BLOGGED TODAY!!!!!
I guess, you’ll hear from me sooner rather than later.
Much love
Adin
P.S.
Steve Jones is the creator of A Simple Guide to Making a Difference and a real good guy!
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