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Most people make zero changes after reading books. Why?

Most people make zero changes after reading books. Why?

Interesting eh.

Yeah I’m reading this personal development book at the moment..

Sound familiar?

Your balloon and needle

I view making changes in your life as a needle inside a balloon. The balloon is your world and is fully inflated. Could be any colour, doesn’t matter. The wall of the balloon is the meniscus of your comfort zone. Trick is, for change, you need to puncture that wall, through…

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A brief bus tour of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

A brief bus tour of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

So on Easter Sunday I held my NLP practitioners Certificate aloft care of the remarkable Dr Richard Bolstad. Yay.

Eighteen days in a room with fellow compatriots, assistants, and the steady hand of Richard at the helm.

150 hrs of interactive training.

Wowee.

What’s it all about?

Well..in a nutshell:

If sh@t works, keep doing it

It sh@t works, it works. Don’t question the how or even the origin of…

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E mail: what sucks and what doesn't

E mail: what sucks and what doesn’t

E mail eh.

Great.

Lets get the sucks out of the way

Much of the time I’m not a great fan of our E mail friend. Here’s why:

it is a functional, written word medium

it is a zero energy medium

it is a zero empathy medium

you cannot learn anything about the other person(s) or recipients in the medium

you risk upsetting the other person from time to time. You cannot reason in and through the medium.

OK

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It's a numbers game, just like popcorn..

It’s a numbers game, just like popcorn..

Business is about numbers.

Not the P&L. Well, not chiefly.

The numbers are those who buy.

At some stage.

I see a new business, for example, like a big pan of popcorn. You fill the pan with kernels, then add a little heat. The heat is your sincere, value added touches to your qualified prospects.

Then you add a little more heat.

And a bit more.

And a bit more.

Then..

POP!

Someone buys. Hooray!

Tri…

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Whistle stop habits guide

Whistle stop habits guide

Habits?

We are all our habits. You know that, don’t you?

But prey how to change?

Mm..

Well, I’ve been in this space a while now, this is my take, in a short black kind of way:

Be brutally honest

With yourself, with your lifestyle choices, even with the folk you hang around with. Most people know what to do but they are not doing it, they kid themselves. It is very easy to do this. Some are…

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Your business is like mountain biking..Part II

Your business is like mountain biking..Part II

A year or so I wrote a blog about mountain biking and the parallels with your business. Search it out if you like.

Last weekend the ride that prompted this blog, the St James Walkway (near Hanmer Springs) I did again. But this time something was different.

It was harder.

Much harder.

Why?

Well, without going down excuse alley, I hadn’t put in ‘the hard yards’. Yes, the training. A mate of mine,…

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Busy? (oo which answer shall I give??..)

Busy? (oo which answer shall I give??..)

Busy?

Mm..

That ‘busy question’. Comes up so much today it is worth a capital B: Busy.

Mm..

Busy.

Deep irony

There is what I would call a deep-seated societal irony at play here, at least here in NZ. It lurks and lurches around but it is here, no doubt (to my way of thinking anyway) and most of the time it is a covert little animal. Bit of a weasel in truth, sneaky.

It’s effects are varied on…

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