Podcasts about Jack Nicholas

Join Fergus Mainland, Camilla Hadland-Horrocks, Tom Morgan, and Ed Evans for the only preview you'll need for this weekend's Boat Race. Will Cambridge continue to built their light blue dynasty or will 2025 be the year that Oxford paint the Thames dark blue?We also hear from Oxford's Tom Mackintosh, Cambridge's George Bourne as well as a whole host of athletes from the Cambridge Women's Blue Boat including; Jack Nicholas, Claire Collins, Carys Earl, Gemma King, Annie Wertheimer, and Samantha Morton.This episode is sponsored by Filippi Boats.Filippi are one of the most instantly recognisable rowing boat brands in the world. Since inception in 1980, they've carried crews to over 400 medals at World Championship and Olympic level and have a network of dealers across the globe. They pride themselves on an ability to custom-create shells of the highest specification, suitable for Olympic champions and novice athletes. Today, the running of the boatyard is undertaken by David Filippi; the yard employs 60 technicians and produces just over 1100 boats each year which supply Federations worldwide.Visit https://www.filippiboats.com/ to learn about what they can do for you.Send us a text

Robert Pattinson DCU BATMAN Again? James Gunn DEBUNKS Mr. Freeze! are the main DCU topics tonight with plenty of DCU news and my review of The Penguin Episode 2. SHOW TIMELINE: 0:00 - Opening 2:49 - Intro 11:16 - Ana De Armas in Ballerina 13:59 - My Two Superhero Personalities 16:08 - Batman Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 18:25 - Absolute Batman Concept Art 20:21 - Twilight of the Gods Cosplay 21:27 - Megalopolis Scene 25:00 - Two Years Since Deadpool and Wolverine Announcement 27:09 - Minecraft Movie Clip 29:39 - Aubrey Plaza on Megalopolis 31:10 - Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Oscars Hosts? 32:19 - DC and Marvel Lose Superhero Trademark 34:46 - Henry Cavill DCU Batman 36:57 - Deleted Dark Knight Scene 38:57 - Zachary Levi Endorses Donald Trump 41:49 - Jack Nicholas's Son on Smile 2 Poster 42:51 - Wesley Snipes Responds to Kris Kristofferson Death 45:06 - Deathstroke and Bane Movie Secret Six? 48:20 - James Gunn Friend Tweet 52:50 - David Corenswet on Podcast 58:03 - Josh Brolin on Green Lantern 59:45 - Robert Pattinson DCU BATMAN Again? 1:04:10 - James Gunn DEBUNKS Mr. Freeze 1:06:37 - James Gunn Debunks Writing Comicbook 1:08:17 - Fans Get Mad at Jim Lee 1:13:12 - The Penguin Episode 2 Review 1:17:25 - Megalopolis Box Office Flop 1:20:02 - NOSFERATU New Trailer Reaction 1:25:53 - Questions

S5E3: Sean BW Parker  Description: In this episode, Some Stutter, Luh! welcomes Sean BW Parker, a British writer, artist, musician, and academic specializing in cultural theory and justice reform to discuss his recently published book, "Compelling Speech: The Stammering Enigma." Sean shares his personal experience with stammering, highlighting the challenges he faced and the various therapies he underwent over the years. Sean expresses his pride in the unique aspects of his personality that come with stammering and he believes in a kind of natural fluency in which there is no need to hammer the stammer!   Notes: Following his 2013 Ted Talk on stammering and creativity, Sean BW Parker was inspired to write his autobiography on the subject, titled "Compelling Speech: The Stammering Enigma”.  Using a fun language in this book, Sean tracks the social and cultural-political context of communication differences through the cultural lens. Sean discusses the origins of his stammer, attributing it to a mix of genetic factors, upbringing, and personal experiences. Pointing to his personal journey with stammering, he reflects on the interplay between nature and nurture. Defining natural fluency as the ease of communication, Sean suggests that if one can stammer easily, it can be considered a form of fluency. Through the concept of "Stammering Pride," he explores how confidence and directness can, at times, reduce stammering. Sean believes in the multifaceted nature of people who stammer and encourages individuals not to limit themselves based on their speech impediment. Discussing reviews of his book, he particularly values feedback from Jack Nicholas and Joann Williams, appreciating reviews that acknowledge the complexity and interest in his writing rather than providing simplistic praise. Finally, Sean emphasizes the importance of embracing the present moment, minimizing expectations, and the value of thinking less. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/somestutterluh/message

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We finally were able to get Jimmy on the podcast! The Big Tex Ordnance crew talks with Jim about his path to long range competition, Youtuber, and the Goon Life.  "“Bruiser and Alex set a really solid foundation for me. And so I always talk, I think about golf cuz I, I used to play golf as well. I may still play a little bit, but Jack Nicholas talks about how the best thing that ever happened to him was his dad took him to get a golf lesson from a golf pro.And all he emphasized was the fundamentals. And he gave him a solid base. So he never had to unlearn anything bad, he just had to learn how to keep doing the good things right. And for me, I was lucky enough to learn from Joe out there and then from Alex and those two things, it's a good it was a solid foundation, right?So like the house we've been building on that has been solid since then. And, learning from Joe and then learning from Alex. It, I don't know. It, it sparked something in me and it made me geek out. And I think the reason I bring up golf is because for me it's like the same mental game of golf is long range.So the way that we think about, like in golf, we work from the green back, so it's this is where the pin is and this is where it's out on the green. And so how do I work my way back from there to, to make the shots, to get there? So for me it's like looking at long ranges is very, it's the same type of challenge. "Check out his channel here  @JimsGoonLife  Check out Average Joes here- https://jimsgoonlife.com/averagejoesCheck out what we have at https://www.btogear.com/This promotes our new weekly update on Youtube and the blog.

This week I had the honour of sitting down with a former PGA pro, Randy Erskine who competed and played along side some of the greats like Arnold Palmer, Lee Travino & Jack Nicholas. From playing in the Houston open with Arnold Palmer, and hearing  the crowds roar, to learning to be your best friend on the golf course and above all shooting your age, 64 at 64. Randy Erskine shares the highs and lows of a professional golf career as well as what it was like to not only play for the University of Michigan but be inducted into their hall of fall. With more detail to come, here we go with episode #144 of the athletes podcast.Episode Breakdown:00:00-01:58 Intro01:58-03:14 Starting Golf03:14- 04:21 Time on the Range04:21- 06:47 Career at Michigan06:47- 08:51 Oakland Hills08:51- 09:28 US Open09:28-10:22 Lee Travino10:22- 11:11 Bunker Play11:11- 11:45 Driving the Ball11:45- 13:13 Profit on Tour13:13- 14:04 Tournaments14:04- 14:46 Inclusivity of Golf14:46- 16:04 Charlie Woods Future 16:04-16:52 Best Friend on the course16:52- 18:01 Favourite Round of Golf18:01-18:55 University to Professional Golf18:55- 19:34  Shooting His age19:34- 20:08 Community of Golf20:08- 20:26 Augusta National 20:26- 21:09 Rudy21:09-22:07 Muscle Memory22:07- 24:24 Accomplishments24:24- 25:19 Pursuing the sports25:19- 26:26 Shooting 64 at 6426:26- 27:32 Andy Williams Open27:32- 28:07Weather Factors28:07-29:05 Competitive Edge29:05- 30:02 Playing with Arnold Palmer30:02-32:05 LIV Tour32:05-34:06 Sponsors34:06-35:10 Advice for the Next Gen35:10- 36:00 OutroEnjoy!

This podcasts covers how I caddied and partied really really hard with a guy named Carl in the 1988 PGA Championship in my hometown of Edmond Oklahoma. Which lead to me meeting his childhood friend Paul Azinger who at the time was the number one golfer on earth and playing two practice rounds with him before the tournament. We then head to New Orleans for a Super Bowl and have a great time in the Big Easy with my new friend and have a close encounter with Jerry Rice, Brett Farve, the police and drive a really fast motor home and not in that order. We also throw in a couple of stories about how I met Pete Dye and how he helped me design a golf course from his private helicopter. All big fun in the mantra of Hunter S.  

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Where Did Procedure Based Maintenance Come From with Jack Nicholas We’re excited to have Jack Nicholas with us. He started as a naval officer before becoming a senior service engineer and reserve naval officer. He’s founded companies, authored books, and helped with driving forward maintenance and reliability programs, predictive maintenance, and the other aspects that […] The post 246 – Where Did Procedure Based Maintenance Come From with Jack Nicholas appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

It's our Halloween special, and all the games Gabby didn't prepare. Boofer's 1969 F100. Gabby's energetic fields & powerful forces. Guitar feelings... or lack of. Jay Cutler, Jack Nicholas & Donald Trump. Another NBA Bubble? What's My Bank Roll? A look into winning & losing bets made in the past couple of days, NCAAF, NFL, KBO, MLS. Free picks & leans for NFL Week 8, ATS. Wyze.com, where I found my $20 security camera. Links SUBSCRIBE to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, everywhere! FOLLOW us on Twitter @CWFLPodcast for info on upcoming events, like any Facebook LIVE or meet-ups. JOIN our Facebook Group @CWFLPodcast to dicuss topics of the podcast with other listeners CONNECT with us on Reddit /r/CWFLpodcast/ and earn easy karma WANNA BET? Take advantage of our Promo Code: CWFL, over at MyBookie.ag VISIT cwfl.mxnbwl.com for all the links you need, in one simple location > The BEST way to support us is to share out podcast with friends, family, or anyone who may be interested, this helps spread the word. Merch! Can't Win for Losing T-Shirts available on Etsy!! Music [Intro] Got Funk by Kevin MacLeod https://filmmusic.io/song/3819-got-funk/ [Mailbag] Monkeys Spinning Monkeys by Kevin MacLeod https://filmmusic.io/song/4071-monkeys-spinning-monkeys [Outro] Afronaut by Otis Galloway https://filmmusic.io/song/5119-afronaut/ License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Richard Moore originally worked 60 hour weeks in the city of London before deciding to build his own businesses and help others do the same. After building companies from the trenches up by taking ownership of sales teams, coaching leadership roles and consulting with multi hundred million pound organizations, Richard created his own company to help others get massive traction as they launched their businesses.                      As he did this, Richard invested in many of the companies he helped to create and shared with the world his views on business through the weekly live Q&A’s he runs online, to speaking gigs in front of business owners in his space and his weekly blog. Richard also created products such as the Monetize You Course, the Basics of Sales course and direct mentoring of established businesses using his 16+ years of experience in the space. Questions Could you maybe just share with us just a little bit about how it is that your journey went? Maybe talk about one or two experiences that you had that has brought you to where you are today, where you are king of sales on LinkedIn. Let's say you're not accustomed to selling in a digital space and this is something that you're going to have to take on now, what kind of mindset shift you need to have in place to ensure that you are successful at selling in a digital space? And so, what are your thoughts as a sales person getting to know your clients before you actually interface with them, like doing your research? Could you give us one or two virtual selling strategies that maybe that were not used as much before, or even if a new one, maybe through innovation or new design, people are actually selling differently in a virtual space? Could you share with us what's one online resource, tool, website, or app that you absolutely can't live without in your business? Could you share with us maybe one or two books that have had the biggest impact on you? What's the one thing that's going on in your life right now that you are really excited about - either something that you're working on to develop yourself or your people? Where can listeners find you online? During times of adversity or challenge, do you have a quote or a saying that you’ll tend to revert to this quote or this saying to kind of carry you through, keep your focus, kind of just get you back on that track to achieve whatever it is that you're working on? Highlights Richard’s Journey Richard shared that there's only been a couple of particularly interesting moments that have made him the person he is or taken him in the direction he has been given. And it’s interesting because he thinks the person who set him on the particular rails to be this kind of person was his mother to start with. And she was very much the person who drove himself, his two sisters, to be as best as they could at whatever they did. And she very, very much was behind them as a motivator and he really appreciated that.   It’s interesting, when he went to university and both his degrees are in history and kind of the first real big pivot point into the world. When he was 21, 22, he wanted to stay on and do his Ph.D. and basically become an academic, write books, become a lecturer. And it's interesting because coaching and teaching was always there in a way.   But basically, he didn't get funding for the Ph.D. so he had to get a job because he couldn't get any more bank loans. So, he had to go and get a job. And his mother said, “You're not going to come home.” And she didn’t say in a nice way, but was really good, “So, you’re not coming home, you’re going to fend for yourself now, come on. So you’re out of University, go and find a way.”   So, he slept on his sister’s sofa the two weeks and he went for a job interview and he took literally that first job, which was cold calling and selling internet marketing back in 2002. So it's like 17 ½ years now. So was a very difficult time selling internet marketing because people were like, “Are you serious?” Back then people were spending lots of money in print ads, in magazines, they weren't really doing so much of what we see today. So this is pre Facebook, this is pre LinkedIn, this is pre a lot of stuff and so it was very new and he’s thrilled he started there.   And his mom, if she drove one thing into him was that you really can't quit because it's hard. And so that was really good, he learnt that from her. They never had any money, she couldn't drive, she was a single mom with three children and she never complained. She just focused on making it happen and so he’s really pleased, he’s very lucky in a way that he has that from her.   And so, he learned very early on that if you just cold call managing directors and CEO’s and try and sell them stuff, they don't really like it much. So, you have to learn a way to be a bit more elegant about it. And so, by having the phone put down on me a lot, he started to learn like the basics that he really needed to be half decent at it. But then if you jump ahead a good 10 years or so of corporate work in the city, ultimately he was at a headhunting company, as their sales director, and he really had a kind of tough moment like this was 2012 or so on.   The really big pivot point for him was that he was doing well at his job, it wasn't like he was kind of he'd had enough or anything like that, he was doing very well. But he had a very bad year. His grandmother who he was very close to passed away, his first daughter was born and was born without an oesophagus, so she went straight to surgery. She spent the whole of her first year almost dying a lot and having loads of surgery and that’s 3 months after she was born. So he was commuting to London from the hospital. His mother then died, she'd had 2 years of cancer. So, it's been a tremendously difficult time. And when you have that kind of adversity, you end up going through it and you just have to.   But it was the following year where he really kind of imploded because it kind of hits you when you've gone through it. So, a huge amount of difficult times and he had very understanding boss, he was a family man as well, he understood that he had a lot on his plate. But basically, he hit this point and his wonderful wife said, “You know what you need to do? You need to understand you don't have to work in this kind of job. There's one thing you can do is sell, which means, you know you're going to be all right. Go and start something else.”   And so, he started his own business and so many people were like, “It's irresponsible, you have a child and a wife not working, what are you doing?" And he was like, “But I've got this. I know there's one thing I can do is at least make money.” And he started two taekwondo academies actually, but he also did a bit of consulting as well, just something different. And since then, honestly, it's been his therapy, growing the business from there and helping others grow theirs.   And then, 2 ½ years ago, LinkedIn has really jump forward in terms of being a serious player for doing business online. And he’s really, really enjoying not just what he does, but who he is now. It's been an interesting route, always around, like driving yourself in the right way, coaching and teaching. But it's been really interesting milestones that have pushed him in particular directions. And as you probably experience from other guests, when you have those moments of adversity, perversely, really great things can come of them eventually.   Me: I totally agree. So, Richard, you shared a lot about your experience on adversity and some of the challenges that have clearly made you stronger, has propelled you to achieve great things, things that a lot of people around you would have not seen the potential, they are trying to be very practical, think they're giving you good advice, but they're actually not giving you good advice.   And we're in a time now globally where we have to be doing a lot of things differently. And, of course, there's a new coined term, the new normal. What kind of mindset shift do business owners, I think at the end of the day; we're all sellers, regardless of what role you play in your organization, because at some point you have to be operating in a selling role.   What Kind of Mindset Shift to Selling Should We Be Embracing Richard stated that this is such a good question. And he did learn back in 2008 in the recession then. They're very lucky that they have a CEO who he remembered addressed all of them. And it was very much when he started learning about the right kind of mindset, he said, “The majority of businesses now will go into scarcity. They're going to hibernate, they'll tighten their belts, they will freeze everything. This is the time when you push yourself.” Recession is a time when you grow more because that's when you can land grab when you really need to push yourself.   And he said, “So, for many, there is no substitution for volume.” And what that means is there's no substitution for just grind. And it's still funny because there's a lot of people who haven't been through a hard recession that was a big one. Arguably, we're about to hit an even bigger one. And what's interesting is that you get some people saying, “Oh, man, it's really tough out there.” It's like, yes, it's meant to be. This will be the biggest recession since 1930. So it'll be hard.   And if you ask about mindset, what matters is that you understand that you have to have huge empathy for what the person you want to speak to and work with is going through right now, and everyone is equipped to be able to do that. So we all are able, if we dare to stop for a minute, think what would someone else be thinking about right now? They're probably thinking to themselves, “I'm worried because I don't know if my business can survive. And in addition to that, I don't want to probably spend too much; I need to make sure I’m making the right decisions.”   So, there’s a bit of fear in terms of executing on buying things. So if we are in a selling kind of role, or we need to appeal to people to buy our thing, we need to be way more aware that people need to absolutely feel they're going to get great returns. So waffling on about how our product works and things like that is far less effective than sharing the top wins for someone. He may have mentioned in the previous time they spoke, but the four top wins are that you help them look good, so you improve their visibility, help their ego, whatever variation that you want, you help them make money, you saved them money or, and, or the other one is that you save them time or giving them convenience, such as, you are the outsourced solution to a problem.   Some or one of those particular wins is so essential to convey because that's what they really need to know, “Am I going to say time? Am I going to need to hold this person's hand? Has Richard got this? When I give him the money, is he going to do what he needs to do? And so I can crack on knowing that that particular problem is solved.” So that's one key part of it. But when you also need to be really clear on is that in 2020, we're all tremendously used to being sold to. No one likes to be sold to that's never changed, but the way you sell should never come across as desperate of course. But the way you sell now has to be in tune with the way in which people want to be approached, sending someone a direct message on LinkedIn thinking you're giving them in inverted commas “great value” because you invite them to your webinar because you know it's free.   And they want that, is missing the point completely. No one has time; they’re not interested unless they warmed up enough. And you have to spend more time with people showing that you're trustworthy and authentic rather than just trying to gain them. So unless you're doing very high volume sales, in which case you probably should be thinking about automation through adverts and so on, you really should be working manually.   Now is the time to appreciate that there's great automation tools out there, but understand that what buyers want, if they're going to buy, is this feeling that they're being looked after more than ever before. So, building true relationships where there's a real level of genuine curiosity in them and an interest in building a relationship first is something that we all know would work, but so many companies don't want to do it because it feels like it's taking too long.   But the truth is, it is a shorter term way to make more money for your business and get more satisfied customers because even though each transaction takes a bit longer, you're not getting the phone slammed down on you, the door slammed in your face or people not even responding to the direct messages, take your time, engage with people on a human level first because people buy people is this cliché. But really, it goes deeper, it's people buy people they want to buy from, or people buy people that they like or who are like them.   So you need to show that you are open and approachable, you need to show that you resonate with them, and that you care enough to want to hear them out. That's what makes someone want to buy from you, not how good your proposition is and that is where everyone can sell, because we are all capable of that kind of empathy. This isn't about manipulative sales tricks that you would learn from a book, those days are passed because we all see right through it. And if you wouldn't respond to a message or a phone call like that, then why on earth would someone else, that's much more about feel and it's about being really human and we all do it so well in real life with friends and meeting new people. And that's just what we have to do in the sales space as well.   Me: I like that. So, basically you're saying you have to take time to get to know people. And you mentioned that at the end of the day, yes, it might take longer. The sales cycle might take longer, but in the long term it will actually save you because now, you actually have a client who is more likely to be loyal, which will definitely impact your customer experience and your customer lifetime cycle.   Richard also stated that he can speak in authority on this because he did it for years. You will be more fulfilled too, because it's far better to speak with 8 or 10 people across a couple of weeks and get closed deals in a fulfilling way for both sides where they don't feel pressure, but actually wants to buy as opposed to smashing your way through hundreds of phone calls and possibly get a similar number of sales, but ones that don't feel great. They feel like a number, now is the time for real organic process because nothing beats having a happy customer that lasts, it's no good getting a deal if they're then going to leave because they didn't feel like they were loved or looked after. You want someone pumping their fist in the air, thanking you that you're selling them something and that genuinely comes from you looking at the relationship first and the product that you're selling them as purely a device through which they can consume you more.   Me: Brilliant. So Richard, I was having a conversation with a client recently and one of the things that we're talking about is actually doing research on your customers, just to get an idea of who they are, what they're about, what they like, what kind of associations they're attached to, what are their preferences, that way when you go in as a sales person, whether you're the business owner, you're the sales rep or you're the marketing person, you have a better understanding of the individual with whom you're speaking to. Is it that they're a family person? Is it that they have kids? Is it that they have a sick child or they have a parent who they're taking care of.   How You Should Approach Selling Richard shared that it's a great question. Firstly, the short answer is yes, you should. And the reason why is because most people selling can't be bothered because there's volume. There are so many people you could contact. There's this feeling of this everlasting front of leads, so you might as well just keep going who cares if it doesn't work, you will find a yes eventually, actually is far more fulfilling, but far more effective to say, well, “If all of this information is public and online anyway, why wouldn't I make use of it?” But more importantly, you're going to get some feel like you actually have paid attention and that you're interested in, it's back to this thing of you just get people feeling like your well-meaning and that you care.   And there's a saying he has always had which is, “You shouldn't just research the company, you should research the person.” Because what you're really showing is that you understanding them on a deeper level and that will affect what how you interact with people and so on. And if you look at the sales, he tends to make that with people who have found him online, that maybe looked at some of the content and so on. And so, he can see what they're about and he can have a sense of who they were. There's a call he did just before this, which was the sales call and the guy he knew has spent time around the content he has, Richard is aware of what he does. So when they go into the call, it's already warmed up any kind of awkwardness or trying to understand who the person is, is gone.   They can really get on with it as though they're already kind of friends or connected. And he really thinks that short circuits the scary bit or the awkward bit and you have a really fulfilling relationship. But one thing you can do is obviously researching the person helps you show that you have spent time showing an interest in them. And that allows the barriers to go down a bit, but you can actually go a step further.   And if you researched where there might be a mutual connection. So for instance, if he was approaching you and you didn't know each other at all, but you had a mutual connection, then that would actually lubricate the whole process so well because by proxy you kind of know each other. And an example he uses a lot of is if you and him sat next to each other at a wedding, then the first thing they'd say, of course is, “So how do you know the bride or groom?” And you'd say, “Oh, I work with the bride.” and he’d be like, “Oh, cool. I went to university with them. Or I know them, they live on our street” or something. You would get on like a house on fire because you have the commonality even though you know nothing about each other.   So, when he was selling in corporate, he was always looking, where's that point of connection. And in fact, Yanique and Richard connected through their mutual friend, Paul Brunson. So there's the perfect example, “Hey Richard, I know you're connected to Paul.” and it's like, “Well, I think Paul's a good guy. So if you are friends with him too, then it means that you must be good enough.” Because he's validated for you for him. So that's so powerful because that's essentially saying we're all part of the same tribe in a way. And it hacks away so quickly at any kind of fears or anxieties people have and you end up with often a cold prospect being quite welcoming.   Me: Excellent. So, research is important, but to take it a step further, if you could find one person that you are maybe connected through, it kind of breaks that down, that initial interaction down.   Richard agreed but verify as well, because as you can imagine, when you look at like LinkedIn or Facebook, there'll be 500 mutual connections and you will have a lot of connections these days. So, it's a case of saying, well, let me look at perhaps some of your content and who's showing up a couple of times and are you speaking to them? It looks like you're close enough or have you done a collaboration with them like that, that's a better way of verifying it. Because not every connection is of course, someone  that they might not even remember they're connected to.   Me: And it goes back into research as well because you have to take time to sit down and kind of scroll through their posts, look who is commenting and look at the responses that they're giving to each person. Because somebody posts that I look at on LinkedIn, I see people comment, you can tell the comments that the person actually sat down and gave intentional thought to responding to that particular person versus a copy and paste kind of comment where all of the comments that are on the post, they're responding in the same way to each person's comment and it's not specific to an individual. So then, in your mind, you're like, do they really know this person? Or are they just responding in a general way? It doesn't seem very personalized.   Richard shared that the truth is if you've got a community, if you've got a bunch of friends, you may well be commenting really great posts, purely because you've got no time, but you're just showing, you know what, “I'm here for you and I'm supporting you as a friend.” But when you would both know that normally you would write more. It's the people who write paragraphs just to be validated you're doing great content, but also who are like, “Hey, I'm going to stop and show up properly here.”   And he’s finding this is valuable and never before is there such a wonderful lead generation opportunity as when you get people stopping by or even sticking around and like getting into orbit around you over time because they love the content you produce and sharing like really spending time, you are their Netflix in a way and that is really powerful.   And it's a very done well, good content that's related to the ecosystem within which your proposition sits is really powerful at attracting people who find it fascinating and they warm themselves up just by virtue of the fact that they're checking out. But if you can stimulate proper conversation through content as an example, it's a wonderful way to kind of really accelerate that first part of a relationship.   Me: So, as it relates to virtual selling strategies, so if you are face to face, some of the selling strategies that you would probably use would include, I imagine probably taking your prospect out for lunch or maybe visiting, if they're having a promotion or a campaign at their organization, you would support it.   Virtual Selling Strategies Richard Recommends to be used in the “New Normal” Richard shared that there's quite a few new, interesting tools. One thing that you can definitely take from the offline world is that people actually aren't necessarily interested in the pitch at the start; they're interested in if you're a good guy or a good woman. And if you're fun to hang out with and there's longer play, but he feels a really good tool is just to hang out with their content and if you do that enough, then they start to convert, like be an interesting person, have some banter and good jokes in that. And it's very practical to be social because that warms people up, it also shows the network effect, it shows people online, a wider network, “Hey, there’s this person who seems quite good fun” that's very attractive because humans revere someone who's confident and social, so something to think about.   There's also some really great tools right now, one of his favourites at the moment is on LinkedIn is a reasonably recent feature, which is polls. And a lot of people would like just doing, what do you prefer? Chips or bacon or something like that, which is silly, it's just to drive engagement. But we really can do is ask questions where the voting options relate to the problems that you can solve for people. So, if someone's says, like putting their hand up and saying, “Yeah, I have a problem with this particular issue.”   What you've got there is someone stepping forward and saying, I have a problem here. And the nice thing about the polls is completely anonymous except to the author of the poll itself. So, it allows you to go in and say, I've got 350 people who have voted, 207 have voted on this particular option that directly relates to what I help them with and now because they came, they stepped forward, they basically have validated or this sense of you being able to engage with them and ask something.   And so, because you've earned the right to speak to them purely because they've voted on your poll, you can simply send a message and say, “Hey, Yanique, thank you so much for voting in the poll.” If there’s a second connection, he'd add, how are you and take it from there or their first connection, or after a couple of messages with the second connection, he would then add, “Thank you so much for voting in the poll. Why do you think you're finding that particular thing, such a challenge?”   And he does that to all of these people, why would he do that to cold people who've never heard of him when he can get people to step forward in a nice little simple way and say, I actually have this problem because now you've got context, now you're completely within your rights to say, “Why is this a problem for you?” And getting them to open up because why would they not want to answer that when they've just said on your very post that they have an issue and the conversion's crazy off that, it's a really wonderful organic way of doing it.   And most people are like, “Yeah, absolutely. I have this problem. And we're talking about it because I just put my hand up and said I have an issue.” So for him, that's a huge win, it’s a massive thing people can be doing. And you just got to think to yourself, what's going to get people to not have to think too hard and simply like, say, “Oh, that's an easy poll, just click on the one, that’s the answer.” And it's simplicity. Just keep it simple question and simple answers and they will want to show up and answer it. And his wonderful way of starting a sales process he has found.   App, Website or Tool that Richard Absolutely Can’t Live Without in His Business When asked about an online resource that he cannot live without in his business, Richard shared that this is going to make him feel really old or sound really old and he’s not, it just works so well. It's actually Google Drive. You would think he would probably say some kind of high tech app or something. Sure he has used Trello and Zapier and things like that are really cool and Zapier is amazing for automation. And he would add before he goes into drive and why he uses it.   But he would add something like Stripe is amazing too, it's as good as a tool to kind of put all of your customers and invoicing that's a piece of cake from it. But Google Drive is brilliant because it’s got a team and anyone around the world, at any given time can log in and see what's going on. They can all access stuff together. His clients can access their own folder; see the content they're building with them. They can edit and add to it and it’s the transparency is amazing and he really, really liked that.   But what he will add to this because the question is about apps and things like that, or things that might help with productivity perhaps, don't ever discount the value of a really reliable person. So, like, a VA or someone who's assisting you, they are like Gold. So, if you can find someone who is reliable, so shout out to Mona who works on his newsletter every week. She's a phenomenal person who is there every day when he needs her and that in itself; she in itself is way more productive than any app could be.   Books That Have Had the Greatest Impact on Richard When asked about books that have had the biggest impact, Richard stated that that's a great question. Everyone's going to expect him to say business books now he suppose. And he’s going to say three, actually. So if everyone wants a reading list of absolute must reads one by a guy called Mark McCormack who founded IMGs like a sports agency who looked after like Jack Nicholas, the golfer, and people like that. He wrote a book called What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive, he loves this book. He (Mark) actually went to Harvard, but he was a superstar in business. And what he's showing in this book is all the soft stuff. So what shaking a hand really should look like? What it's meant when someone's got no time, how to close the deal, or what are the nuances of communication really meaning? all that soft stuff is absolutely amazing in that book, he really loves it.   Another one by Douglas Atkin is The Culting of Brands: Turn Your Customers into True Believers. This guy's a genius. What he's done is, it's like science and research, behind cults. It's funny because his intro’s like, “Hear me out here, just give me a chance.” And he's like, it's the science and the practical and mechanics about around cults and branding side by side. So, what he's done is work very hard to remove all of the negative connotations and biases around cults and look at why, because for right or for wrong, they are able to attract a lot of people. And the myth is that cults, for instance, are about a bunch of losers getting together. It's quite the opposite. You have to have socially, very bright people doing certain things very well in order to get kind of the ball rolling and arguably the root of the success of the major religions out there is in these practical ways in which they kind of started as something of a cult, then ended up being these great worldwide religions, but he applies it then to how you build your brand and your tribe.   And it's phenomenal, very relevant books. He'd really recommend that as well. He can definitely go on all night. He would say the closest person to his philosophy on selling or like neurological selling and understanding with empathy, how people would buy is Oren Klaff. So, he's just released a new book called Flip The Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea is Their Idea, but he's original one called Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal is amazing on understanding the dynamics between buyers and sellers. Really great stuff. The audible is awesome.   The most important book anyone should read is not a business book. It's by a stoic philosopher called Seneca, he dip into it at least once a month; it's been his favourite book for 6 or 7 years now. His book called On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas). So Seneca wrote thousands of years ago, and it is tiny, it's like this little pamphlet, it's 90 pages or something. And what it does in such a short space of time, honestly, you put it down after a few pages going like, “Wow, it's blowing my mind.” That book, single handedly really gave him this sense of perspective on time and what we really don't have and about being intentional and meaningful with it. And you got to understand, he read that a few years after his mother died at 60. So she was just about to hit retirement.   She worked so hard and then it was taken from her. So when you combine that, like the tragedy of her first granddaughter, first granddaughter by his sister just being born, his just being born as well and that was all gone. It really reinforces it, but just not in that book, it doesn't talk about it in like a misty eyed, emotional sense. It's really hard hitting about how people view their time. And interestingly against how they view their money, people hoard their money, they are that tight with their money as though there's a finite amount and you can always go and get more, but they're very liberal with their time. And in the words of Seneca as though they're immortal and just talking about it now, it gets him pumped.   Especially as a father now, he has two children. He turns 40 in 10 weeks time. So, that’s in October, but that's another milestone, it really drives home, do great things, make the most of it and, you know, but make sure you’re intentional with every moment as well, including being spontaneous, being intentional about wanting to do that as well. So, he couldn't recommend it more as you've probably sensed.   Me: I love spontaneity. I think life is very short. We're here for a very short space of time, the people that we connect with, I don't think it's by chance. I think it is very much intentional, the people who we meet and the people who we're connected to. And I think it's important for us to really try to just really get to know the people who you're talking to. Don't just let it be, as you said about a sale or because you're trying to capitalize on them or you're trying to steal something from them, but just really have meaningful conversations with people.   Richard agreed and shared that it's no kind of legacy when you're done. It's no kind of legacy to have all of these people buy from you, but none of them will remember you.   Richard was asked when his birthday is, and he shared that it’s the 8th of October. So, it's weird. It's like end of an era. I loved being in his twenties. He learned to be a grownup in his thirties. He is really pleased to be arriving at this age. Very, very happy with everything he has around him. He thinks mostly because he kind of built it all himself and designed it himself, he’s very pleased with that. So, he’s excited about the decade ahead, he knows it's just a number, but you can't help seeing something of a milestone.   What Richard is Really Excited About Now! Richard shared that he don't want to be too promotional, so, he'll just say that the big flagship product at the moment he’s working on is his LinkedIn program and he’s helping a lot of business owners do some really wonderful things, and it's so lovely when you have this community of people you work with every week and he knew he wanted to do that because he coaches one on one a lot. And he also has his courses online where people buy them and they watch them and it's very kind that they do, but he wanted something where it's a combination of the two. So, group coaching specifically on how to convert and sell in an elegant way through LinkedIn. And it's just so nice to be there and it's not just a nice get together, it's practical to these people. There's one the other day saying, “I just got two new clients this week.” that's changing him.   And these people saying that is really making a difference is huge. But one of the other things he has been doing as well, which is completely far removed from what you'd expect is for the past two and a half to three months now, he has been getting up at 5:00 am every morning and doing yoga and then focusing on building his day in a really strong, structured way and getting early nights, exercising loads. And it's been such a game changer. So, that's personally, if someone said to him a year ago, he'll be doing yoga and getting up 5:00 am in the morning, but honestly, it's really changed. So, rather than going to bed at like 1:00 am, 2:00 am in the morning, getting out of bed at 7:30 am, 8:00 am and feeling tired, he has pulled those 3 hours back, lights out by 11:00 pm, getting up at 5:00 am and the productivity and also the clarity in his mind and is huge.   And he’s really thrilled, he has been doing that. He always thought he was an evening person or a night person, a lot of people feel they are because it's quiet back then, but shifting to a morning person, and by the way, it's not DNA, we can all do it. The difference between night and morning is yes, both are quiet, but in the morning you have a full battery of willpower that you can use against any distractions. So, within the first 2 hours every morning, he gets so much done because he has all of that energy to avoid looking at notifications on his phone. So, he doesn't look at his phone until like 10:00 in the morning and he blasts the work. And it's lovely because when his girls come down at like 7:50 in the morning for breakfast, he have blasted so much of his day, he urges people to try it out, it's so fulfilling, you feel really strong with it and present rather than this zombie, who's like burning the midnight oil. So, yoga is cool, he’s really impressed with himself with what he can do now, it's nice to get the stretch back and all that kind of things.   Where Can We Find Richard Online Richard shared listeners can find him at – LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.cn/in/richardjamesmoore/             Website – www.therichardmoore.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the.richard.moore/   Quote or Saying that During Times of Adversity Richard Uses When asked about a saying or quote then he tends to revert to in times of adversity, Richard shared that there's one he was told he has to bring up, there is a CEO of the last employed job he had, he was like a self-made millionaire and he really paid attention to him. And for all his faults, he also taught him a lot. And one of the things he always said was, “No one will stop you, but no one will help you.” And what's interesting about that is, is that, yes, people will support you and stand by you and things like that.   But you can't rely, it sounds really negative but if you look at it in the right way, it's almost like a call for you to not rely on people to do things for you, be the responsible person. No one will stop you doing that and you are in control of the influence over whatever outcome you really want.   He will add to that his own kind of quote that he used to say to himself, especially when things were really hard, he still uses it now but he really uses it whenever there's something new or difficult or challenging. And he'd simply say, “I can handle this.” And it would ground him and would make him think to previous instances of doing something similar and allow him to say to myself, remember how I did this before, I can handle this. And if you look back, no matter how old you are, look back at all the things you've done, there's almost nothing you weren't able to overcome, you did so much hard stuff.   So now, there's not really anything he can't handle. It might be ugly, but the truth is, he knows he can do it so he can handle this, is something of an affirmation that you should be saying, especially in those harder moments, and say it with conviction, you tend to believe it. And that's that voice, your own voice, the most persuasive voice you know on your shoulder, cheering you on. 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Craig Willett: Sitting at my desk a few days following the car accident, I called out to my office manager, “Help! I can’t move my arms or legs. Call Carol, have her come take me to the hospital.” I’ll always remember this day. This is Craig Willett, the Biz Sherpa. I remember that day because it allowed me to hit the reset button in my life and provided a great opportunity for me to pursue something. I’ve gained a lot of satisfaction, fulfillment, and many rewards from the decisions I made following that car accident. Most recently, we have experienced a pandemic in our country, and many of us have had the opportunity to try to sit down and figure out what we’re going to do differently when we’re able to get back to work. Now, whether you believe this pandemic was essential or not, or whether your business was considered essential or not, or whether the shutdown and reaction was necessary, we each had an opportunity to reflect on how we’re going to be better. I look at it like a computer, sometimes hitting the reset button. You need to be careful that you don’t do it too often, but there’s times to make adjustments. In Macworld one time I read that resetting a device can clear problems out that cause it to get stuck in a loop, appear sluggish or otherwise impaired performance. Now you may feel that things are going along fine in your business before the pandemic, or you may feel that you’re stuck in a loop or that you are sluggish or that your performance was impaired, that you weren’t achieving to the levels that you would like. Many of my business owner friends took time during the pandemic to reflect on their lives, to reprioritize some things. I like what Newt Gingrich said during the pandemic, when he invited all Americans by saying, “Americans should be encouraged right now to start thinking about the next four or five years. What do you want to be doing? What do you want to achieve with your life? What have you learned from this experience that can lead to a more productive and fruitful life?” I’d like to spend today’s episode talking about hitting the reset button and how that can lead to a more fruitful and productive life. Sometimes we don’t need to completely start over again. Other times we do. At times, we just seem to lose the rhythm. Recently I watched one of the only live sporting events that’s been broadcast during the pandemic. And that was match 2 between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. They each had a football player as their companion golfer in Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. It was an interesting match. I was all excited to finally watch some live sporting event only to see that quickly Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady fell three strokes behind in the first four holes to Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning. As they were down three strokes, I could see that Tom Brady was really struggling with his golf game. Phil was playing okay. And you know how you can watch people when they perform and notice that they’re not doing well. And we’ve all experienced this in our lives. When they walk with their head hanging down, their shoulders sagging and not very much pep in their step. Anyway, Tom Brady was hitting onto a par five and he was on his fourth shot, still hadn’t been on the green yet when one of the color announcers Charles Barkley said to him that he should… He kind of got into his head. Charles Barkley was really razzing Tom Brady, and you could tell it kind of miffed Tom. You could tell Tom reached deep down inside and took the next shot from over 150 yards out. It hit the green, spun in, and went into the cup for birdie. Now this turned the game around. From there, the match became closer. No, Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson didn’t win as you know, if you had watched it, but it made it a much more interesting tournament because they only lost by one hole. This to me is an example of sometimes getting a rhythm or having a chance to reach down mid game and hitting the reset button. Back to us business owners, as you sat back and looked at your life during the pandemic and your business, if you found yourself stuck, how did you see yourself resetting your game? How do you see yourself adjusting your rhythm and resetting your mental focus in the middle of your game? For me, it’s looking at business ownership as freedom. It’s pretty simple. One of the great benefits of being a business owner is that you have freedom to do what you want, but more importantly, freedom to do what you enjoy well enough to bring satisfaction and fulfillment along with the financial rewards of doing it well. This shutdown, I spent time volunteering to help fellow business owners figure out how to get PPP loans. Now, for me, the last time we had a major financial crisis, I was in the throes of it because it costs me over 80% of my net worth and forced me to shut down my business over three years, as I felt the impact from the bank failures in our country. That will be more for episode number two. But today I’d like to focus on an opportunity I had to kind of reset my game and change my career and trajectory in life dramatically. During my early days of owning a CPA business, I still remember that day very well. I woke up on a Saturday morning. I had a leadership meeting that I was going to teach and train young men and young women, future leaders, leadership skills. When I finished that seminar, I went home to find Carol there with our three sons kind of wrestling with them. They were a little bit out of control and she was pregnant with our fourth child. And I could tell that she needed a little bit of a break. So I took our two oldest, Paul and Mike, tossed them into the car and took them to McDonald’s. I thought, “McDonald’s has a play land. Let them kind of get rambunctious there rather than tear apart our nice clean house.” As we were going there, I stopped at a light only to look in the rear view mirror and see a car who didn’t stop quite fast enough in the snow and slid into the back of our car. It dented the back of our car, but more importantly, it gave me a bit of whiplash. Paul and Mike were fine. That was on a Saturday morning. Come Monday morning, I went to the doctor feeling a stiff neck and he gave me one of those big cowl- like collars to where to kind of give me some neck support. I kind of felt like a fool. I thought, how am I going to sit in interviews of my tax clients wearing this big ugly brace around my neck? So anyway, I decided that I would wear it, but it got uncomfortable. I took it off. A few days later, I found myself sitting at the desk, calling out to my office manager saying, “Help! Call Carol. I can’t use my arms and legs. I need her to take me to the hospital now.” As I went to the hospital, had an MRI only to find out that they found some compression fractures, and whatever swelling was causing me not to be able to move my arms and legs had subsided. They sent me down to the therapy pool in the hospital and had me start walking on an underwater treadmill. As I sat there, walking on the underwater treadmill, I started thinking, “Well, what can I do? If I’m going to have this much pain sitting down or having impact on my back from this accident, how am I going to continue for the next 30 years meeting with my tax clients and small business clients feeling this excruciating pain?” As I was reflecting on that, my mind was caught back to a time as a teenager when I saw myself standing in the middle of a dirt lot, looking at a building being built, it was being framed, and I was wearing a shirt and tie and I had a hard hat on, but I knew I wasn’t a general contractor. That picture of me was always so emblazoned upon my mind, but I could never define what it was. My father was a real estate broker. I grew up around the kitchen table, learning real estate, the jargon and language of real estate. I had received my real estate sales license when I was 17 in the state of Maryland. My dad taught the class at the community college at night. He had a decent size residential brokerage firm, but I don’t think to that point in my life when I had that image, that I knew what a real estate developer was. In fact, it wasn’t until I graduated from college, received my master’s degree, worked for an international accounting firm where I met real estate developers, and then when I set up my own firm did I meet real estate developers. In fact, I had a great number of them as clients. As I sat there that day, seeing that picture, I thought, what am I doing stuck behind a desk? If this is really what in my mind’s eye I saw myself doing, how can I get there? As I move forward, doing my best to get through that tax season, I got a phone call from a college friend. He said to me, “Craig, I just lost an investor for this property I’m supposed to buy. And I was wondering if you have X number of dollars.” And I laughed. And I said, “Well, how do you think I have that much money?” “Well, I was just visiting you and your family and you have a really nice house. I thought maybe you’d have that much money.” And I said, “Well, I don’t have that much money free to be able to buy that property with you. But why don’t you fax over,” telling you how long ago this was, right? “Fax over to me, to my home fax, where I can sit there and look at what you’re talking about?” I went home that night. I studied it. A few days later when I was back in the office, a client called and they said, “Craig, we’ve been trying to do some real estate investment. We have Y number of dollars from this trust. And we haven’t been doing very well. Do you happen to know something that might be able to help us?” And I said, “As a matter of fact, I think I do.” I jumped in my car, went to their offices, sat down and explained to them the financial opportunity that might be a potential for them. They liked the concept. We bought plane tickets and flew to where my college friend was and I introduced them. We went and looked at the potential project property and then went to lunch. Over lunch, they struck a deal. We flew back to our hometown, and while we were on the plane, I was sitting between them right in the middle seat between my two clients. And they both turned to me and they said, “Craig, all right, now we’ve got this opportunity to develop this. This is how much money we have, but we don’t have enough to do the development. Can you help us get a bank loan? We know that you’ve helped start a bank and are on the board of a bank.” And I said, “Well, that bank’s in another state than this property. So we’ll have to go somewhere else. But I do have contacts.” “If you can get us a bank loan, we’ll let you in as a one-third partner without having to contribute any money.” I thought, what a great opportunity. “All right, I’ll do it.” So I arranged for the loan and I’ll tell you more about that someday. But the important part today is that I was able to see in my mind’s eye what I did as what I could see myself doing at a rather young age, but I didn’t have the definition well enough ingrained into my mind, nor did I have the maturity or the economic exposure to what a real estate developer is or what a real estate developer does. But as a CPA, which I never really wanted to do, and that’s for another day, was never my dream, but it gave me the tools to learn and to get clients because of my real estate background and experience. Having learned the jargon at the kitchen table with my father, I was able to watch the inner workings as a CPA and see what they did well and see what didn’t go so well. And I was able to use that and leverage that to my benefit, to be able to say, “Hey, I think I can do this.” And when the opportunity came, my eyes were wide open because of the vision that I had. So let me share with you an idea I have about hitting the reset button. Many times we have opportunities that come to us, but we don’t see them because we’re too busy stuck in the loop. I got knocked out of my loop based on a car accident and some time to have to reflect on where I was really headed. I have an exercise I’d like to recommend to you. You can do it in about a half an hour. And then over the course of the next five business days spend about 15 minutes at the end of each day and evaluate. What I’d like you to do is go do something that you enjoy first. So maybe this will take a little bit more than a half an hour, but if you like to golf, go play nine holes of golf. If you like to play tennis or a ball, go play tennis or pickleball. If you like to bowl, go do that. In fact, by the way, a great friend of mine, when I was early in my career said to me, he goes, “Craig, what’s your hobby?” And I said, “I don’t have a hobby. I’m just busy. I’ve got a family. I’m trying to get my CPA firm going.” And he said to me, he goes, “Craig, you’re going to burn out. You’re going to burn out if you don’t have a hobby.” And I turned to him and I said, “Kent, what are your hobbies?” He says, “I bowl in a league and I also golf.” And so I ended up taking up a number of hobbies and I’ll share some of those with you over the course of various podcasts, but some of mine are equestrian activities and golf, and I love to swim. Anyway, we can talk about that another time. So what I’d like you to do is go find something that you enjoy doing. Maybe it’s playing a video game. I don’t know. Do that for about a half an hour, clear your mind, from the pressures of business, the news cycle that you’re trapped in. And then I want you to go get a nice drink of whatever you like and go find a quiet place if it’s outside, or if it’s in a quiet corner in your home, or if you’re on vacation in your hotel room, I’d like you to sit down with a pad of paper, and I’d like you to just make a list, just wildly make a list of all the dreams you had as a child. It may take you a while to go back into your mind, but look for those images that you saw in your mind’s eye of what you thought you might be doing or might would like to enjoy. Then when you’re done with that, turn the paper over. And on the other side, I want you to make a list of everything that you’re passionate about today that drives you, that gives you excitement, that brings you satisfaction. What I’d like you to do when that’s done is sit and compare the two lists and look for commonalities. See where those visions and see where those passions intersect and where those passions and vision intersect, you’re going to find things that combine energy and vision that will give you motivation to be more successful. Once you figure out what those are, and there might be one, or there might be two, there might be five. I would doubt it. But if you find one or two commonalities, what I’d like you to do next is to set an objective for the next week each day when you go to work to spend 80% of your time at that intersection. So let’s say for instance, right now you go to work and you find that there’s some taxes due, and the bank needs in an accounting report to renew your loan. And you spend all your time trying to clean up the accounting records or get some documents to your tax accountant, and you get frustrated and you spend a whole day doing that, versus maybe you really enjoy selling and interacting with your customers or training your sales force. Spend your time doing what you do best. Let those other things go for that day or two. And try to look back and see that you spend 80% of your time in that. Now you may find it may take you the whole week, all five days that you may start at 20% and then go to 40 and then 60, and then 80%. the key is to hit 80% and then to sustain that for several days. When you do that, look at the difference that it makes. But I want you to sit down at the end of each day and kind of write some notes to yourself. Here’s what I did. And here’s how I felt about it. Here’s some things that I left aside that I think dragged me down or bogged me down or caused me to get stuck in the loop or cause me not to function well. And then once you’ve been able to document that, I want you to know that that’s the beginning of your reset. Jack Nicholas used to say that he practiced each shot in his mind before he took it. So I want you then to figure out if you’re only at 20% after one of the days, figure out how you can get to 40 or 60 or 80% the next day. It’s going to take some envisioning. Let me give you an example. When I was in high school, I took an advanced placement English class and I laugh about this. And the reason I’m laughing about it is because I never got advanced placement credits for any of this. My friends were taking those classes. So I took them with them. I was dumb enough to take advanced placement history, English, and some math classes, but not test out for when I went to college. How crazy, right? But anyway, I remember our first advanced placement English test that was coming up, and I was never really good at English. And so the teacher said, “Look, what I want you to do is go home and study. Do whatever you do to study, study. And then when you’re done studying, turn off the lights in the room and sit back in a comfortable place and close your eyes. And close your eyes and I want you to envision yourself walking into class tomorrow, opening up the exam, writing the essays that you envision or that answer the questions that you envisioned that are there. And then turning in the exam. Then spend another couple of minutes and imagine yourself coming back into class when the exam is graded. And I would like you to imagine when you get your exam back, looking at the exam and seeing what your score is, what your grade is.” And I thought to myself, “Well, that does sound kind of crazy, but you know what? If it helps me not study so long and there’s some secret to this, I’m going to try it. It’s a shortcut, right? A trick.” I did what he asked me to do. And I actually did fairly well on the exam. I don’t remember my grade, but it certainly wasn’t a C or a D or an E. So for me, it was good. But anyway, he taught me something to be able to create in my mind a situation where I can perform well. That’s what I suggest to do to do the reset button. Just like Tom Brady in the golf tournament, he was able to kind of take Charles Barkley’s ribbing, close his eyes, be a little bit frustrated, but then I think he could envision himself hitting a better shot. And boy, was it a great shot? And so that’s the objective here is to be able to do just that. Now enough about analogies on golf. Even though I am talking about golf with a football player involved, I do want to stick with football for a minute. And it just so happens to be I want to stick with Tom Brady. Often in life, you might have a passion for a certain aspect of your business and whatever that is, right? A quarterback doesn’t make a good lineman. A quarterback doesn’t necessarily make a good kicker. A quarterback doesn’t necessarily make a good receiver. But you might be a great business owner, but also have a passion for sales. But you don’t do well in doing accounting work, or you may do well in the finance aspect of your business and terrible at sales, but you don’t have a good sales person in your business. So you find yourself spending your time doing that. So what I’d like you to consider is this, and it’s a statistic about Tom Brady that makes me reflect. Tom Brady has an NFL record for the most wins in a game when he has passed over 50 times. His winning percentage is 19 to 9. Peyton Manning on the other hand is 4 and 13. So you may ask yourself, “Well, Peyton, Manning’s a great quarterback.” Yes he is. And so is Tom Brady. Why did Peyton Manning only win four of the games that he threw over 50 passes? And Tom Brady wins 19. Here is what I suggest is the answer. I think that sometimes things work really well for us, and we need to learn what they are. Some teams in football have a balanced approach to running and passing. And so they don’t need to throw over 50 times and can win many games. And you could be a great quarterback with a great record not throwing over 50 passes in the game. But when quarterbacks start throwing more than 50 passes in the game, the reason they have a losing record is because it’s not their top game. They’re desperate. They’re behind. They’re trying to throw those Hail Marys to come from behind. And I would suggest that sometimes we get desperate in business. And what I don’t want us as business owners to do as we come out of this pandemic is to get desperate and start throwing Hail Mary’s thinking we’re going to do something great, and we actually ended up getting ourselves in a bit more trouble. So I want you to think about that balance of what you do well, and I think that reset exercise I gave you should lead you to doing more of what you enjoy because doing what you like is freedom, but liking what you do is happiness. And at the end of the day, is it really the financial rewards that make us happy? I think they provide some means, but next week, we’re going to talk about that. How to gain true happiness in what we do. So I appreciate you being with me today. This has been a great opportunity for me to share with you some small experience in my life. And you know what? I chose the Biz Sherpa as the name of this podcast because I’m not here to teach. I’m here to help you carry your load to the top of your game. This is about you. I would hope that you would take a few minutes and then realize that this is a rookie starting out in my very first episode, but that you would subscribe to this so that you get notification for episode two that will be out in two weeks, and that you also would share it with business owner, friends of yours who are also coming out of this pandemic and give them the opportunity to hit the reset button. If this helps you, I would like you to rate, honestly, for me, of course I would like five stars, but I prefer honesty as well. And your feedback and your input on our Facebook page, the bizsherpa.co, also on Instagram bizsherpa.co, and on Twitter bizsherpa.co. We would certainly welcome any feedback or questions that you may have. Now, also, this podcast is about you. I want you to understand that. I do not have any advertisers. I’m not seeking any or any sponsors. This is my opportunity to give back and to inspire. What I would like is for you to be able to share this with as many people as you can so that it can make a difference in their lives and help me achieve that dream. So I don’t have to spend all my whole budget for this on advertising to try to get the reach that I need. I hope that this has been productive for you. I look forward to joining you again next week. And because this is so much about you, I look forward to hearing stories of how you reset your life, reset your business during this pandemic, because I’m looking for those to interview on my podcast, and I’m not looking to interview famous businesses and famous people. My life has been about 700 small business clients as a CPA. My whole life has been about small business, and I think it is the heartbeat and the backbone and the engine of the American economy. You may not believe it when you read the headlines every day and the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. But believe it. You are the backbone of that economy. I honor you. And for this reason, I focus my resources and time to helping you get to the top of your game. This is Craig Willett, the Biz Sherpa. Speaker 2: Be sure to go to our website to access the resources related to this episode at www.bizsherpa.co. If you enjoyed this show, tell your friends about us and be sure to rate our podcast. 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In this episode, we’re joined by Conor Moore aka Conor Sketches! Conor has had a meteoric rise over the past couple of years working with the likes of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicholas. He has carved out his own niche market through impersonating some of the biggest golf stars in the world and you ... The post Impersonating The Best with Conor Moore aka Conor Sketches appeared first on Me And My Golf.

In this episode, we dive into the Jack Nicholas classic The Shining.

What's up America, here is the new new fresh shit you've been waiting for. Up top let me just say, we almost exclusivly talk about Dark Souls 3 on this episode. If you haven't played the game and are intending to, just listen to the news and turn it off. If you want to hear us beat by beat talk about the entire game press on, we realize this is a very niche episode but it had to be done. Aside from that we also speak about: Mortal Kombat 11, Jack Nicholas, Jack Nicholson, Old Terminators, Old Snake (kind of), M.U.G.E.N, I read a couple of fantastic listener emails, we say the name of three semi contemporary anime and also at least one ancient one. I also use the Snake Eater theme for some transition music which I'm pumped about it. Light that bonfire you little tiny baby ashen ones.

Asset Condition Monitoring with Jack Nicholas Asset condition monitoring can be defined the process to determine the health status of the equipment using high-tech tools, predict future status based on the deficiencies found, and return health to normal before complete loss of function. That way you can plan the maintenance of the equipment at your […] The post 154-Asset Condition Monitoring with Jack Nicholas appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Making an Episode of Business Jazz audio • Business Jazz - writing show notes • What's next? • Jack Nicholas story on Business Jazz podcast • Even more coming • Value of a seasoned person on Business Jazz podcast • The End is neigh • No more sharing Business Jazz • The last few words about Business Jazz Podcast for now

A raw, unscripted, free-wheeling, wide-ranging and eclectic chat about "How to be genuinely attractive in business today". For people in business. "Business" means you've a job, own a commercial enterprise, profit & not-for-profit - you work at anything (including housework). ___________________ Weekly podcast by Roger Overall & Paul O'Mahony from Show&Tell Communications (HQ in Cork Ireland, trading in Ireland & UK) - available here, in iTunes and other places. This episode begins with MISTAKES. - The key point is to recover well. Story No 1 is about Jack Nicholas (golfer) as told by Bob Rotella (golf coach) in one of his books. - FORGET YOUR MISTAKES - after learning from them seems to be the message. Paul: "I do not know what direction this podcast will go". Roger: "Is that because of your experience?" Story No 2: Heart Surgeon in USA at 93 years of age. "How old will I be when I stop working for money?" says Roger These guys work today : Ridley Scott (born 1937, English film director & producer. Warren Buffet (born 1930, American business magnate, investor, & philanthropist, serves as chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway - Wiki) Stan Lee (born 1922, American comic-book writer, editor, film executive producer, and publisher - Wiki)) Walt Disney Inc Floyd Norman ((born June 22, 1935) is an American animator, writer, and comic book artist - Wiki) "People who retain experienced people make the business attractive" says Roger. The Internet Age: Have the rules about how to do business changed? And if so, how much have they changed? How recently did a business have to think about cashflow? Example of Egyptian Pyramids. Story No 3: Jane Boyd's father (in Canada) drove miles to build relationships. "Automated relationships" Story No 4: Instagram Adverts. The "Free" Economy. Communications spoiled. Frequency makes the experience unattractive -say Roger. Interrupting. Annoying. How can we make our ads desired? How can we make our ads relevant? Story No 5: Amazon interruptions. Get me Ad-blocker ... Story No 6: Waiter's job is to interrupt - Lourdes Story

Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas There has always been room for improvement when it comes to reliability and future holds a few surprise to take the predictive maintenance practices to a new level. That new level is prescriptive maintenance. That word is going to be more common in the next few years in the […] The post 89 – Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

While gaming may be the prime draw as the reason people visit Las Vegas, I have been golfing there on just about every trip I have taken. And I have seen the growth of that industry increase dramatically. Listen to Jim Stanfill the General Manager of Bear's Best Golf Course talk about the his amazing track designed by the famous Jack Nicholas, and the state of golf in LV today.

Have you ever had a dream so big, so audacious, you had no idea in the world how to achieve it, but it wouldn't leave you alone, even a decade or two later, it was always there in the back of your mind; you just wish you had your chance. Well if so, then do we have the show for you! Today we'll be talking with James Swanwick, Former ESPN Anchor and Celebrity Journalist. We'll talk about how he went from a copy boy in Australia, to a celebrity Hollywood Journalist, and how he bluffed his way into television, skipping all the rungs of the ladder, and landing himself his first TV spot as an ESPN anchor. We'll talk about how he got there, what he learned, what we can all learn from his successes, and why we should never take no for an answer. That plus we'll talk about his struggles with alcohol as a social drinker and the 30 day challenge which transformed his life. That and why all roads lead to Bristol Connecutt, how to go bunjee jumping for free, why you want to suck in your gut before hanging with Jennifer Anniston, and why shaving your beard, just may be the best decision in the world. Questions and Notes Include: How his voice sounded on the ‘news' at age 10. How he used The Secret and The Power of Positive Thinking worked to make his thoughts into reality How James got started in media How James got to work in the UK and London as a base to explore the world. The importance of 3 words – KEEP, MOVING, FORWARD. How to keep yourself from being a deer in headlights Why any action is better than no action How to avoid paralysis by analysis How James became a master questioner – and what questions he asked. How to create a master plan to keep moving forward James's whiteboard brainstorming technique The power of the pen and writing something down Why James likes to give himself ‘impossible deadlines' How did James become a celebrity journalist How fear motivated James How he interviewed Jack Nicholas, Arnold Schwarzenhegger, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Anniston, Brad Pit and Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Jon Bon Jovi,  How James began transitioning to TV hosting. How the Law of Attraction was pulling him toward his lifelong dream How he built his own media company to go from a six digit income toward millions What happened when the economy collapsed. What James's plan was to get a job hosting SportsCenter on ESPN. How the interview fell apart, but James hung in there. How to move forward – and why the most growth comes from pushing through the fear The importance of habits and how to work with them. How new friends come into your life when you're vibrating at a higher frequency Why it's so important who you surround yourself with. Why your acquaintances are the most important people in your network James's morning manifestation routine Books' he's reading now: Leaving the Enchanted Forest by Stephanie Covington and Leanna Beckett How James is working to attract an amazing romantic relationship in his life and the obstacles which are hitting him Reading Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler For people skills always read: Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazi For books that he speed reads he'll write the three main or most important things in the back of the book. For Oprah's book What I know For Sure, he wrote “never say a bad word about anyone” Also reading Winning with People by Jon Maxwell, and Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill .   If go to his website will send his notes to him in a PDF. If drinking alcohol and think you're drinking too much visit his 30 day no alcohol challenge. How your skin and face look young when you stop alcohol. Learn How to Achieve Your Dreams Using James's Secrets to His Success & His Keep Moving Forward Philosophy - James Shares His Success Strategies, Morning Routine, & Powerful Law of Attraction Brainstorming Techniques! Motivation | Inspiration | Spirituality | Business | Career | Law of Attraction | Motivational | Self-Help For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com

On yet another very special episode of Hellovision! the boys are joined by friend of the show Russell Seyfert, who drops by to chat cable movies, Nona F. Mecklenberg, and Saw. He also asks a question that has befuddled the world's greatest minds for centuries: what is exactly is an Ashley Tisdale? While discussing Conan's first guests we all learn that Casey harbors a secret love for Jack Nicholas and the cast of the Fat Albert: The Movie. Patton Oswalt's new show comes up for discussion and the prognosis is not good. In the second half they discuss, argue, and ridicule an absurd and misguided list of 100 favorite TV moments printed by EGG magazine in the halcyon days of 1991. Deciding that the list is incomplete, they add some moments of their own including the first moonlanding, snookie getting punched, and the premiere of Arli$$.