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Summary What we think about people has an impact not just on how we personally perceive them, but also on their actual behaviour. There’s power when we believe in someone’s potential. Transcript Hello and welcome to episode 106 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we bring research to life in your leadership. This week we explore the power of belief in potential. What we think about people has an impact not just on how we personally perceive them, but also on their actual behaviour. It’s an example of selective attention bias with some expectancy bias thrown in for good measure. If you think that someone is lazy, you will notice everything that they do that appears lazy. You will also ignore anything they do that is energetic and active. So, over time, we just end up thinking that they’re more and more lazy. But, on top of that, we will also modify the way we work with that person. This in turn will lead to them acting in ways that appear even more lazy. We might give them less work to complete, so they end up having more spare time. They might become less engaged, and so seem more lazy. In short, the actions we take can make the other person end up being more lazy. A recent study demonstrated this impact in a college environment. Through some laboratory and field studies, the researchers discovered that a professor’s mindset about student learning had remarkable positive and negative impacts on those students. For example, when a professor had lower expectations that people could develop and grow, their students demonstrated lower class attendance, reduced engagement in class, less end of semester interest in the subject, they felt more like an impostor in the class, and they even delivered lower grades. So if a professor (who is effectively the leader of learning) thinks you’re not likely to learn, then you, in turn, will actually be less likely to learn. In contrast, if the leader thinks you have potential to learn and grow, you’re much more likely to learn and grow. In a work context, we often inherit a perspective about a person we lead. “This person is a trouble maker” or “this person doesn’t deliver”. The risk is that we perpetuate and multiply this perspective through our behaviour towards that person.  Here are five ways to challenge our thinking and demonstrate belief in others’ potential: Reset your expectations. Think about how you see others and give them another chance. Let’s expect that people can improve, grow and develop. State your positive expectations. It’s what you say that matters. If you think someone is fantastic but never say it, they may completely miss it. Challenge negative appraisals you might make. Is it more about you than them? What evidence might you have to the contrary? Challenge negative appraisals others make about people. If you hear others perpetuating negative beliefs about people, appropriately challenge them. Challenge negative appraisals others make about themselves. Sometimes people perpetuate their own limiting beliefs. Why wouldn’t others believe the person? Use the opportunity to challenge people who consistently run themselves down. As leaders, what we think about others matters. It shapes not only our perceptions, but also their behaviour. Think about ways you can demonstrate a greater belief in others’ potential.  Well that’s the end of this week’s episode. As always, the reference used is in the show notes. A quick reminder that our brand new Leading Through Change and Uncertainty online course is now available at Leadership Today On-Demand. It’s video based so you can go at your own pace and work through the content in any order. Just go to Leadership.Today website and follow the On-Demand link to find out more and to sign up for a free 30 day trial. We also offer a 25% discount for groups, so it’s a great option for your team and organisation. Take a look at Leadership Today On-Demand - it’s just like online fitness training for your leadership. Have a great week, and I look forward to speaking with you again next week. Reference Muenks, K., Canning, E. A., LaCosse, J., Green, D. J., Zirkel, S., Garcia, J. A., & Murphy, M. C. (2020). Does my professor think my ability can change? Students’ perceptions of their STEM professors’ mindset beliefs predict their psychological vulnerability, engagement, and performance in class. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(11), 2119–2144. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000763

#059 - In this episode, Julie is talking about publicity. Publicity is something that could really move the needle for your business especially for a product-based business like a subscription box. Tune in for some tips on how she got and leveraged publicity for Sparkle Hustle Grow. Subscription Box Bootcamp is going to be open for enrollment later this month, February 19th through the 22nd. You'll have an opportunity to save $300 on your enrollment. So make sure you get on the waitlist at SubscriptionBoxBootcamp.com and we are running a giveaway to give away one seat in Subscription Box Bootcamp. It is $1,500 value. Summary:What is publicity? (00:01:43)Why do you need publicity? (00:02:25)How to get publicity? (00:06:54)How to leverage publicity (00:12:57) Links:https://www.impactingmillions.com/JulieBCalendarhttps://www.sparklehustlegrow.comhttps://www.subscriptionboxbootcamp.com

Summary: What do you expect from the Babylonians? Mike and I talk through how to avoid getting wrapped around the axle by today’s news, and how to better digest current events.

Patreon Patron of the Week: Micah Manthei Winner will get 3 packs of Kaldheim Patreon Contest - What are your MtG new year’s resolutions?  New! We’re streaming with patrons most Thursdays now, so watch out for the message on slack to sign up to be eligible for that week.  Ryan - @greenegeek Zack - @z4ck38 Together - @commandersocial   Case - @case_vickers You can find us on Twitter https://store.mothershipatx.com SOCIALSHIP - free shipping on orders of $50 or more SOCIAL10 - 10% off in stock MTG singles https://discord.gg/MMXQJqf Thursday nights come play at mothership! Our LGS has setup an online store! @case_vickers @MothershipGames - 4:58 @scryfall - 5:35 @MTGMoo - 13:16 @schmandrewart - 21:38 @jfwong - 22:30 @WotC_Matt - 28:37 @MtgProphet - 42:01 Ep 79 Community Spotlight:  Disclaimer: So we’re talking about the new MtG set coming out on Feb 5th. This episode is only going to discuss cards previewed by Saturday Jan 9th and shown on scryfall at the time of recording. .  This week we have a special guest, Case Vickers, one of our patrons!  Case’s MtG origin story and discussion about his connection to the set Web - Fiction Kaldheim Fest video with Jimmy Wong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPuibfU7Xjc Main Topic - Kaldheim    New Mechanics   Foretell - During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile a card with foretell from your hand face down. You may cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost. Boast - Activated ability.a player can only activate the boast ability after the creature with the ability attacks and at most once each turn. Cards to discuss   White   Halvar, God of Battle / Sword of the Realm Valkyrie Harbinger Sigrid, God-Favored   Blue   Absorb Identity Alrund, God of the Cosmos / Hakka, Whispering Raven Reflections of Littjara   Black   Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire Elderfang Ritualist Goldspan Dragon Magda, Brazen Outlaw  Surtland Flinger Red   Green   Canopy Tactician Realmwalker  Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider   Multi-Color   Valki, God of Lies / Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter As you cascade, you check the front face’s mana cost to see when you hit a qualifying cmc. Once you do, you can cast either face of that card - Matt Tabak - @WotC_Matt https://twitter.com/WotC_Matt/status/1347319802356928512 Rampage of the Valkyries Esika, God of the Tree Koma, Cosmos Serpent   Artifacts   Pyre of Heroes   Lands    Pathways Snow Duals The World Tree Snow matters effects More Praetors What we want to see in the set Summary - What do you think of Kaldheim so far? Any cards you’re planning on including in your current decks? Keep it Social! Komiku - Battle of Pogs https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Zack Gets it Together Theme Consider becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/commandersocial You can check us out at commandersocial.com YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/CommanderSocial You can email us directly at cast@commandersocial.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/commandersocial On twitter @commandersocial twitch.tv/greenegeek Ryan individually @greenegeek Zack individually @z4ck38 Contact Info © Copyright 2020 Leaky Dinghy, LLC

Here’s the problem with most buyer personas: they’re too general to actually be useful to individuals on your marketing team. In this 11-minute audio version of our blog post, “Unlocking Great Content: How to Create a Content Marketing Persona,” Amanda Natividad, Head of Marketing for Growth Machine, walks you through creating a persona that works best for your content creation efforts. Show Notes: 2:03 - What You Need in a Content Marketing Persona 6:38 - Create Your Content Marketing Persona 10:05 - Summary: What are the steps in building your content marketing persona? Links: Buyer persona (0:37) Increase conversions (2:22) Zapier’s blog (3:17) Viewers vs. customers (5:57) Contact Growth Machine (11:07) Find us on Twitter: Amanda: @amandanat Growth Machine: @growthmachine__

#054 - After years of coaching new and aspiring subscription box business owners through Subscription Box Bootcamp, we found that most subscription business owners get to a certain point where they grow and grow but then all of a sudden they plateau. They get stuck at the same subscriber or revenue numbers for a couple of months in a row. It's normal. Most business owners go through this. And that's why we created this next level program to help you get over that plateau. It's called Sell More Boxes.In this episode, Julie officially launches Sell More Boxes and dishes out all the details about this new game-changing program. Summary:What is Sell More Boxes? (00:02:56)What to expect in Sell More Boxes? (00:04:08)Walk through of the 8-week plan (00:08:36)Links:Sell More BoxesSparkle Hustle GrowSubscription Box Bootcamp

Emotions we don't release get trapped in our bodies. Or as today's guest, Ruth Cummings, puts it "Our bodies are a trash can for all the emotions we didn't process". Tune in for Part 2 to learn how we can better manage the connection between emotions and disease.  Ruth Cummings  Ruth Cummings is the owner of Athletic Touch Therapeutic Massage, which she founded in 1995.    She has over 50,000 hours experience as a massage therapist working on all types of clients, ranging in age from infants to centenarians and everyone in-between.    Ruth has worked on professional athletes in the NFL, MLB, and UFC, as well as amateur athletes in college and elsewhere.   She specializes in chronic pain relief and injury rehabilitation, but her real passion is the treatment of emotional pain in teens and their parents.    Ruth has a BA in psychology and creative writing, is a natural therapeutic specialist, as well as a personal trainer.   She coaches soccer and tennis, and her coaching achievements include two high school state championships in soccer and one in tennis.    She is an effective communicator with teens, and offers personal coaching in positivity, anxiety control, and self-esteem.  Ruth is married with two teens and her family loves to travel.  Check out her blog or massage website.   Summary: What is Emotional Pain  - https://familyfitnesstravel.com/what-is-emotional-pain/  We feel physical pain after emotional intense situations in our lives that manifest into the physical pain we feel.  Our bodies hide painful, scary and stressful feelings to keep us safe and alive. The difference between emotional pain and non-emotional pain, is how chronic and stubborn it is.  Most of the time we are not even aware that we are stuffing emotions at the time of the intense situation, which makes it difficult to let things go that we didn’t even know we were holding onto.  We can hold emotions from our younger years all the way to a few minutes ago, and each can cause odd pain in our bodies that are logically hard to explain.  The mind and the body don’t always see eye to eye which makes unraveling these emotional pains challenging. Once we can get the mind and body to recognize the pain pattern in which they are spinning, the healing is much easier.  Awareness is the main ingredient in starting the healing process, then breath work, journaling, seeing a counselor are a few Self-Care suggestions to implement to start feeling better.    Heart Chakra  Location: The center of your chest, just above the heart.  Color: Green  Meaning: Love, Compassion  Blocks in our heart chakra can manifest in our physical health through heart problems, asthma, and weight issues. But blocks are often seen even more clearly through people’s actions.  People with heart chakra blocks often put others first, to their own detriment. It’s the middle of the seven chakras, so it bridges the gap between our upper and lower chakras, and it also represents our ability to love and connect to others. When out of alignment, it can make us feel lonely, insecure, and isolated.     Throat Chakra  Location: The throat.  Color: Blue  Meaning: Love, Communication  As one would expect, this chakra is connected to our ability to communicate verbally. Voice and throat problems as well as any problems with everything surrounding that area, such as the teeth, gums, and mouth, can indicate a blockage. Blocks or misalignment can also be seen through dominating conversations, gossiping, speaking without thinking, and having trouble speaking your mind. When in alignment, you will speak and listen with compassion and feel confident when you speak because you know you are being true to yourself with your words.    Deeper Dive Resources  Ruth’s ALL Humans Welcome Prayer Chain  https://familyfitnesstravel.ck.page/38470dc383    Ruth’s "In Touch with Kindness" weekly email with health, self-care and fun happy tips.   https://familyfitnesstravel.ck.page    Ruth’s Blog – Family Fitness Travel  https://familyfitnesstravel.com/about/    Ruth’s Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/Family-Fitness-Travel-101244591542431/    Ruth’s massage website:   www.athletictouch.com    Ruth’s Play & Self Care website:  www.familyfitnesstravel.com    Ruth’s FREE Newsletter with Weekly Tips:  https://familyfitnesstravel.ck.page    Links From Ruth:  19 Ideas to Release Stress & Emotions From Your Body  What is Emotional Pain?  Self-Care Basics: A Beginner's Guide  Dr. Lad's Pranayama (Breathing Exercises)  Root Chakra Healing Sound (one of my favorites...there are many)  Sacral Chakra Healing Sound  Heart Chakra Sounds:  https://youtu.be/qxLoVPZvtTY    Throat Chakra Sounds:  https://youtu.be/QJs4iCV-g6I    The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer  https://untetheredsoul.com/    Thich Nhat Hahn Foundation  https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/  Live It Challenge  https://organixx.com/live-it    Organixx on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/OrganixxSupplements    Organixx on Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/organixxliving/     

Emotions we don't release get trapped in our bodies. Or as today's guest, Ruth Cummings, puts it "Our bodies are a trash can for all the emotions we didn't process". Tune in for Part 2 to learn how we can better manage the connection between emotions and disease.  Ruth Cummings  Ruth Cummings is the owner of Athletic Touch Therapeutic Massage, which she founded in 1995.      She has over 50,000 hours experience as a massage therapist working on all types of clients, ranging in age from infants to centenarians and everyone in-between.      Ruth has worked on professional athletes in the NFL, MLB, and UFC, as well as amateur athletes in college and elsewhere.     She specializes in chronic pain relief and injury rehabilitation, but her real passion is the treatment of emotional pain in teens and their parents.      Ruth has a BA in psychology and creative writing, is a natural therapeutic specialist, as well as a personal trainer.     She coaches soccer and tennis, and her coaching achievements include two high school state championships in soccer and one in tennis.      She is an effective communicator with teens, and offers personal coaching in positivity, anxiety control, and self-esteem.  Ruth is married with two teens and her family loves to travel.  Check out her blog or massage website.     Summary: What is Emotional Pain  - https://familyfitnesstravel.com/what-is-emotional-pain/  We feel physical pain after emotional intense situations in our lives that manifest into the physical pain we feel.  Our bodies hide painful, scary and stressful feelings to keep us safe and alive. The difference between emotional pain and non-emotional pain, is how chronic and stubborn it is.  Most of the time we are not even aware that we are stuffing emotions at the time of the intense situation, which makes it difficult to let things go that we didn’t even know we were holding onto.  We can hold emotions from our younger years all the way to a few minutes ago, and each can cause odd pain in our bodies that are logically hard to explain.  The mind and the body don’t always see eye to eye which makes unraveling these emotional pains challenging. Once we can get the mind and body to recognize the pain pattern in which they are spinning, the healing is much easier.  Awareness is the main ingredient in starting the healing process, then breath work, journaling, seeing a counselor are a few Self-Care suggestions to implement to start feeling better.    Heart Chakra    Location: The center of your chest, just above the heart.  Color: Green  Meaning: Love, Compassion    Blocks in our heart chakra can manifest in our physical health through heart problems, asthma, and weight issues. But blocks are often seen even more clearly through people’s actions.  People with heart chakra blocks often put others first, to their own detriment. It’s the middle of the seven chakras, so it bridges the gap between our upper and lower chakras, and it also represents our ability to love and connect to others. When out of alignment, it can make us feel lonely, insecure, and isolated.     Throat Chakra    Location: The throat.  Color: Blue  Meaning: Love, Communication    As one would expect, this chakra is connected to our ability to communicate verbally. Voice and throat problems as well as any problems with everything surrounding that area, such as the teeth, gums, and mouth, can indicate a blockage. Blocks or misalignment can also be seen through dominating conversations, gossiping, speaking without thinking, and having trouble speaking your mind. When in alignment, you will speak and listen with compassion and feel confident when you speak because you know you are being true to yourself with your words.    Deeper Dive Resources  Ruth’s ALL Humans Welcome Prayer Chain  https://familyfitnesstravel.ck.page/38470dc383    Ruth’s "In Touch with Kindness" weekly email with health, self-care and fun happy tips.   https://familyfitnesstravel.ck.page    Ruth’s Blog – Family Fitness Travel  https://familyfitnesstravel.com/about/    Ruth’s Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/Family-Fitness-Travel-101244591542431/    Ruth’s massage website:   www.athletictouch.com    Ruth’s Play & Self Care website:  www.familyfitnesstravel.com    Ruth’s FREE Newsletter with Weekly Tips:  https://familyfitnesstravel.ck.page    Links From Ruth:  19 Ideas to Release Stress & Emotions From Your Body  What is Emotional Pain?  Self-Care Basics: A Beginner's Guide  Dr. Lad's Pranayama (Breathing Exercises)  Root Chakra Healing Sound (one of my favorites...there are many)  Sacral Chakra Healing Sound  Heart Chakra Sounds:  https://youtu.be/qxLoVPZvtTY    Throat Chakra Sounds:  https://youtu.be/QJs4iCV-g6I    The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer  https://untetheredsoul.com/    Thich Nhat Hahn Foundation  https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/  Live It Challenge  https://organixx.com/live-it    Organixx on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/OrganixxSupplements    Organixx on Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/organixxliving/     

#047 - Julie talks about a simple step you can implement in your subscriber flow to increase your average order value and it's called add-ons.Tune in for some tips on how to strategize add-ons to offload excess inventory, sell more products and increase your average cart value.Summary:What is add-on? (00:01:25)How add-ons impacted Sparkle Hustle Grow (00:02:26)What to sell as add-ons? (00:04:47)Things to consider when it comes to logistics (00:05:50)For more tips like this, make sure you are subscribed to our email list at SubscriptionBoxBootcamp.com. You will be notified when new episodes go live or when we have new resources dropping like the upcoming book called Subscription Box Basics: A 30-Day Plan to Get Your Box Idea Off the Ground.Links:Sparkle Hustle GrowCratejoySubscription Box Bootcamp

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Emotions we don't release get trapped in our bodies. Or as today's guest, Ruth Cummings, puts it "Our bodies are a trash can for all the emotions we didn't process". Tune in to learn how we can better manage the connection between emotions and disease.   Ruth Cummings Ruth Cummings is the owner of Athletic Touch Therapeutic Massage, which she founded in 1995.   She has over 50,000 hours experience as a massage therapist working on all types of clients, ranging in age from infants to centenarians and everyone in-between.   Ruth has worked on professional athletes in the NFL, MLB, and UFC, as well as amateur athletes in college and elsewhere. She specializes in chronic pain relief and injury rehabilitation, but her real passion is the treatment of emotional pain in teens and their parents.  Ruth has a BA in psychology and creative writing, is a natural therapeutic specialist, as well as a personal trainer. She coaches soccer and tennis, and her coaching achievements include two high school state championships in soccer and one in tennis.   She is an effective communicator with teens, and offers personal coaching in positivity, anxiety control, and self-esteem.  Ruth is married with two teens and her family loves to travel.  Check out her blog or massage website.    Summary: What is Emotional Pain​ - https://familyfitnesstravel.com/what-is-emotional-pain/ We feel physical pain after emotional intense situations in our lives that manifest into the physical pain we feel. Our bodies hide painful, scary and stressful feelings to keep us safe and alive. The difference between emotional pain and non-emotional pain, is how chronic and stubborn it is. Most of the time we are not even aware that we are stuffing emotions at the time of the intense situation, which makes it difficult to let things go that we didn’t even know we were holding onto. We can hold emotions from our younger years all the way to a few minutes ago, and each can cause odd pain in our bodies that are logically hard to explain. The mind and the body don’t always see eye to eye which makes unraveling these emotional pains challenging. Once we can get the mind and body to recognize the pain pattern in which they are spinning, the healing is much easier. Awareness is the main ingredient in starting the healing process, then breath work, journaling, seeing a counselor are a few Self-Care suggestions to implement to start feeling better.    Are you ready for the Organixx LIVE IT challenge?  Real quick, did you know that here at Organixx, we live by 5 core values?  Passionate about our Mission, Empowering You Organically Rigorously Honest and Trustworthy Team Players with Extreme Ownership Respectful Communication with a Balanced Ego Resourceful and Creative Growth  Our first Organixx Core Value is, we are Passionate about our Mission, Empowering YOU Organically. This doesn’t just apply to our customers, but to our team as well. We’ve just finished the second round of our Organixx LIVE IT challenge internally with just our team, and now we’re inviting you and the rest of the world, to join us for round three... for free.  What is the Organixx LIVE IT challenge?  Unlike a diet, Organixx Live It implies positive action.  A diet is restrictive; it requires a person to limit the things that they eat or drink in order to be successful. Organixx Live It is the opposite. It is unlimited and inspiring. Organixx Live It is a path to wellness that allows you to take action, participate in activities that bolster your health, improve your overall wellness, and inspire your continued journey to a long-term healthy lifestyle.  During our Live It activities, we will be challenging ourselves to improve our health and well-being and we will have a little fun at the same time, with chances to win some amazing prizes.   Deeper Dive Resources Ruth’s Blog – Family Fitness Travel https://familyfitnesstravel.com/about/  Ruth’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Family-Fitness-Travel-101244591542431/  Ruth’s massage website:  www.athletictouch.com Ruth’s Play & Self Care website: www.familyfitnesstravel.com Ruth’s FREE Newsletter with Weekly Tips: https://familyfitnesstravel.ck.page What Is Emotional Pain? https://familyfitnesstravel.com/what-is-emotional-pain/ Live It Challenge https://organixx.com/live-it Organixx on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OrganixxSupplements Organixx on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/organixxliving/    

Emotions we don't release get trapped in our bodies. Or as today's guest, Ruth Cummings, puts it "Our bodies are a trash can for all the emotions we didn't process". Tune in to learn how we can better manage the connection between emotions and disease. Ruth Cummings Ruth Cummings is the owner of Athletic Touch Therapeutic Massage, which she founded in 1995.   She has over 50,000 hours experience as a massage therapist working on all types of clients, ranging in age from infants to centenarians and everyone in-between.   Ruth has worked on professional athletes in the NFL, MLB, and UFC, as well as amateur athletes in college and elsewhere. She specializes in chronic pain relief and injury rehabilitation, but her real passion is the treatment of emotional pain in teens and their parents.   Ruth has a BA in psychology and creative writing, is a natural therapeutic specialist, as well as a personal trainer. She coaches soccer and tennis, and her coaching achievements include two high school state championships in soccer and one in tennis.   She is an effective communicator with teens, and offers personal coaching in positivity, anxiety control, and self-esteem.  Ruth is married with two teens and her family loves to travel.  Check out her blog or massage website.  Summary: What is Emotional Pain​ - https://familyfitnesstravel.com/what-is-emotional-pain/ We feel physical pain after emotional intense situations in our lives that manifest into the physical pain we feel. Our bodies hide painful, scary and stressful feelings to keep us safe and alive. The difference between emotional pain and non-emotional pain, is how chronic and stubborn it is. Most of the time we are not even aware that we are stuffing emotions at the time of the intense situation, which makes it difficult to let things go that we didn’t even know we were holding onto. We can hold emotions from our younger years all the way to a few minutes ago, and each can cause odd pain in our bodies that are logically hard to explain. The mind and the body don’t always see eye to eye which makes unraveling these emotional pains challenging. Once we can get the mind and body to recognize the pain pattern in which they are spinning, the healing is much easier. Awareness is the main ingredient in starting the healing process, then breath work, journaling, seeing a counselor are a few Self-Care suggestions to implement to start feeling better.  Are you ready for the Organixx LIVE IT challenge?  Real quick, did you know that here at Organixx, we live by 5 core values?  Passionate about our Mission, Empowering You Organically Rigorously Honest and Trustworthy Team Players with Extreme Ownership Respectful Communication with a Balanced Ego Resourceful and Creative Growth  Our first Organixx Core Value is, we are Passionate about our Mission, Empowering YOU Organically. This doesn’t just apply to our customers, but to our team as well. We’ve just finished the second round of our Organixx LIVE IT challenge internally with just our team, and now we’re inviting you and the rest of the world, to join us for round three... for free.  What is the Organixx LIVE IT challenge?  Unlike a diet, Organixx Live It implies positive action.  A diet is restrictive; it requires a person to limit the things that they eat or drink in order to be successful. Organixx Live It is the opposite. It is unlimited and inspiring. Organixx Live It is a path to wellness that allows you to take action, participate in activities that bolster your health, improve your overall wellness, and inspire your continued journey to a long-term healthy lifestyle.  During our Live It activities, we will be challenging ourselves to improve our health and well-being and we will have a little fun at the same time, with chances to win some amazing prizes.   Deeper Dive Resources Ruth’s Blog – Family Fitness Travel https://familyfitnesstravel.com/about/  Ruth’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Family-Fitness-Travel-101244591542431/ Ruth’s massage website:  www.athletictouch.com Ruth’s Play & Self Care website: www.familyfitnesstravel.com Ruth’s FREE Newsletter with Weekly Tips: https://familyfitnesstravel.ck.page What Is Emotional Pain? https://familyfitnesstravel.com/what-is-emotional-pain/ Live It Challenge https://organixx.com/live-it Organixx on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OrganixxSupplements Organixx on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/organixxliving/    

Summary: What is the ideal skill set, personality, and role for a client relations person? For some, this person is not a value add to the client, and merely manages communication. This can be a slippery slope. For others, there is no one dedicated to the client relationship. A healthy relationship is arguably the most important factor to success. And the skills and systems required to do this at scale are not easy to come by. Finding the right person for the role means not only the right experience, but also the right qualities and personality for the job. Can the person in this role lead with emotional intelligence and provide real value beyond just managing communication? Can they LEAD the client? What are some systems and processes to keep this on track? Finding a mutually beneficial balance and a relationship that is deeply rooted in trust sets you up for a long-term business relationship. This will not only benefit your clients, but also your team. Today we dissect all of this in our businesses.   Top 3  Curtain Pulls in this episode:  Your Client Success Manager has to be a genuine value add to your organization- not just a traffic cop for communication. They are able to add genuine value to your clients by challenging them and helping them think through challenges and stay on track for success.  Teaching clients leadership skills by example Your Client Success Manager must be a leader. It’s safe to assume that people don’t come with genuine (or natural) leadership skills.  Don’t create or allow ongoing toxicity. Part of your client success system should include awareness of how the relationships are impacting your internal team members. Be aware of burnout. Be aware of boundaries. Have guidelines for behavior and follow them and enforce them kindly. And ultimately if a client is hurting your team, you must remove that client.    For more tips, discussion, and behind the scenes: Follow us on Instagram @AgencyPodcast Join our closed Facebook community for agency leaders   About The Guys:  Bob Hutchins: Founder of BuzzPlant, a digital agency that he ran from from 2000 -2017. He is also the author of 3 books. More on Bob:  Bob on LinkedIn twitter.com/BobHutchins instagram.com/bwhutchins Bob on Facebook Brad Ayres: Founder of Anthem Republic, an award-winning ad agency. Brad’s knowledge has led some of the biggest brands in the world. Originally from Detroit, Brad is an OG in the ad agency world and has the wisdom and scars to prove it. Currently that knowledge is being applied to his boutique agency. More on Brad: Brad on LinkedIn Anthem Republic twitter.com/bradayres instagram.com/therealbradayres facebook.com/Bradayres Ken Ott: Co-Founder and Chief Growth Rebel of Metacake, an Ecommerce Growth Team for some of the world’s most influential brands with a mission to Grow Brands That Matter. Ken is also an author, speaker, and was nominated for an Emmy for his acting on the Metacake Youtube Channel (not really). More on Ken:  Ken on LinkedIn Metacake - An Ecommerce Growth Team Growth Rebel TV twitter.com/iamKenOtt instagram.com/iamKenOtt facebook.com/iamKenOtt   Show Notes: [2:41] Bob: “This morning I thought we could talk about client services- when I say client services, maybe client relationships, things like that.. In order to scale properly and grow, you really have to have a strong client services plan in place… and the right people that do nothing but focus on client services.”  [3:28] Ken: “You can be really good at something but still have a really difficult time making people happy with what you do.”  [4:20] Bob talks about how having the right people in place to manage those client relationships means you’re also able to continue building relationships within that organization.  [5:24] Brad: “I think it comes down to being intentional with your business, as far as what exactly are the internal processes to make sure that you do what you can do to make sure your client is successful.”  [6:33] Ken speaks about what Metacake has put into place and found successful for both the company and their clients.  The person that manages the relationships has to be a genuine value add as far as experience, knowledge, know how, to really gain the trust of the prospect and the client through that process.  Nobody likes to be sold to, so the salesperson role really can’t be just a salesperson, but a success-oriented role.  [8:20] Bob shares his experience being that person as a single-owner business- there was confusion sometimes from clients when he wasn’t around because he was the one leading that charge to bring them in. [9:06] Brad: “I’ve seen a lot of different approaches to client relationships and I see the account manager who comes in and sometimes they just don’t have the breadth of experience, so they literally can’t help their clients.”  [9:44] Ken: “For a lot of personalities, it frustrates them, because it slows them down.” He shares that in traditional larger agencies, there are a lot of those non-value added role that slow down processes.  [10:45] Brad: “What I’ve found is that they’re always going to seek the people that they know understand… that will for sure get it right… it also depends a lot on the age of the client as well.” Clients with more experience will expect to work with someone that can speak their language, experience-wise. They don’t want someone working with them that they have to drag along, and you also don’t want to wind up as a commodity that isn’t bringing any real value to the brand.  [12:07] Ken talks about the importance of leadership skills when it comes to working with clients. Not only having industry experience, but also experience leading things in general. This should be a prerequisite, being able to lead and having the experience and knowledge to do so.  Everyone that works with the client and leads them in any way also has their hands on the project in some way. This has helped to prevent having one single person who does all the communicating. [14:15] Bob asks: “Do you think you could find someone who doesn’t have the age and experience but still can be a really good client manager and can lead?” Short answer: Absolutely! [15:00] Brad speaks about people who work inside of your team- if they have a deep-rooted interest in the business and how it functions, they can be a great candidate for client management.  Sometimes your client will make you very very upset, and you have to have restraint, so it takes the right personality to deal with stress in a healthy way and also lead effectively. [15:38] Ken shares about finding the balance between being in relationship with your client while also detaching enough that you can maintain healthy boundaries and lead effectively. [16:19] Brad shares one of the core goals and values in his company, that they want to make every client feel like a superstar.  Being friendly can be okay in some ways, “but I think you also have to make sure to know that this is a business relationship, and if they’re not happy with your services they’re going to go someplace else.”  When your client always feels like they’re being served, when objectives are being met and goals are being reached, there is more forgiveness when you make a mistake.  [17:43] Ken asks “Are there boundaries that you draw in your own mind… so that you don’t get too emotionally invested?”[18:07] Bob responds that boundaries will be different for different personality types, and different clients will also impact the way you speak with them.  [20:05] Ken talks about how drawing those boundaries and keeping them up can be difficult, and client relationships “rarely continue forever.” Some client losses can feel like a really bad breakup! There’s a human side of business and a practical side, and you have to find a way to balance those and keep them in balance. [21:00] Brad talks about Anthem writing boundaries into contracts, and using them to bring that awareness back around if things get difficult. “In the end we try not to put too many roadblocks up…” [22:35] Brad continues, talking about how just going above and beyond with projects isn’t enough to build that trust and enter into the ideal client relationship, where you can help them by bringing ideas and strategies “to get over a hurdle,” THAT is where the real service is.  Reading between the lines of their words and hearing their frustrations, then providing solutions or alternatives for those frustrations is the sweet spot of client service and building client relationships.  If you can get someone in your Client Services role that can do that, that is attuned to that sort of conversation- you’re set up for success.  [24:50] Ken talks about Metacake’s push to launch more coaching type of engagements with clients. “You’re more helping them overcome challenges and problems, and helping them make decisions for themselves, giving feedback, your experience, that kind of thing.”  Often that coaching will include bringing awareness to opposing goals clients may have, or goals that pull in opposite directions. Having the strategic eye on these things takes a certain personality type. Breaking down OKR’s (Objectives and Key Results) forces you to have a really clear image of the objectives, then ties in the metrics and measurements for reaching that objective.  [27:57] Brad talks about working with clients who are not natural leaders, and being aware of that when developing a relationship with your client is very important.  [28:37] Bob asks The Guys for some practical tips for managing clients, and gives one example that he lives by. “Stop using words like ‘You guys should do this… you should. Why don’t we try this, Why don’t we try that,’” Get into the habit of saying “we” instead of “you” so that your client feels more like a partner and remembers that you’re on the same team.  [30:16] Brad agrees with Bob, and stresses the importance of making sure you’re still in the drivers seat and leading them effectively.  In emails with clients, he uses “Hey Team” to reinforce the team feeling Oftentimes, the lead on your end will become somewhat disenfranchised with the client, leading to feelings of frustration and impediments in communication.  [31:53] Bob: “The reality is that you’re either the savior or the scapegoat. Sometimes you’re both, depending on the day… How do you navigate that?” [32:26] Brad suggests having a couple of different personality types in the client communication, so that there is someone there who is more operations driven and is keeping everyone on track. So the other team member is freed up to manage the relationship more effectively.  [33:40] Ken talks about team makeup, what he calls positive tension between personality types. “If everyone just serves the client, no matter what, you’re going to go out of business. Metacake has a project strategist who is the client hero, the client proponent and goals advocate. Then there is an operations project manager, who is in charge of keeping the client relationship really strong and whose primary worries don’t include budget and/or timeline. When the team discusses a specific issue or email from the client, there are two opposite pulls as those two roles discuss options. That creates a positive tension that yields great results! Tip 2: Everyone on the team that speaks to clients should be adding value, and be able to state what that value is from Metacake’s perspective.  [36:31] Bob brings the conversation back around to the current state of the world. With the typical “wining and dining” clients to win their contracts GONE, what is the equivalent of that today? [37:05] Ken talks about his experience at a dinner with a very wealthy prospective client. He handed over his business card and the prospect immediately assumed their rates were high because of the feeling and look of the business card. So even in that experience, the situation was misleading and started things off on a non-value added note.  [39:56] Bob talks about how in some situations it wouldn’t be appropriate to bring up likes/dislikes of the clients. But if you’re going to invest in and do work for this client, do some research about them, what they like and are interested in. And keep those details in the back of your mind so that if an opportunity to strengthen that relationship comes up later on, you can act on it.  [40:35] Ken says that the goal is to create genuine interest and show that you really care, and do that in as many ways as you feel is appropriate. But “the intention and the discipline behind this is easy not to do.”  [41:15] Bob “I think that’s a good emotional intelligence piece” and working on knowing how to bring about those connections is a skill that takes time and intention to hone.  [42:05] Brad talks about hitting a sweet spot with a client in the relationship, when they start to pour back into you and lift you up to other prospective clients.  [43:02] Bob asks for some other tips from The Guys, any processes they have in place to evaluate the client relationships at the 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year mark.  [43:50] Ken speaks sending out questionnaires and incentivizing them with Amazon gift cards, etc. Often that doesn’t work and so Metacake has the client in and films them answering a series of questions about the brand and working with Metacake as a client. This is content creation at its best!  Asking the clients questions about how they’ve increased their brand awareness and achieved their goals with Metacake is powerful, and can be very inspiring to other brands and businesses who are looking to do the same thing. [45:00] Bob talks about his company having open house type Christmas parties where client can briefly stop by and hang out. Sending gifts of food during the Holidays is great, but also think about New Years gifts, or Christmas in July.  [48:35] Ken, when talking about whether to include a client feature in your newsletter or something similar. “If we’re going to talk about a client, it’s gotta be giving them benefit and highlighting them. Here’s what they’re doing, it’s really great, they’ve got a great product, oh by the way we work with them and it was fun.”  [50:45] Brad mentions the difficulty of managing the relationship between the client and the person working directly with them. Having the emotional intelligence to know whether the role should be changed, or the management should be tweaked in some way.  [51:50] Ken talks about Metacake having Daily Stand Up meetings where those issues can be discussed with the team and have more objective input. This helps to combat that communication fatigue that can come with burnout, etc.  You have to assume that people aren’t great leaders, you have to assume that there is coaching and teaching involved in the client management process.  [53:30] Brad talks about past experiences of having client managers who leave every meeting in tears- measure personality types, measure emotional health at the given moment and swap people out as necessary!  [54:32] Ken says that at Metacake they’ve worked with “wolves” on the client side who are bullies and really have a negative impact on team health. It’s your job as the owner to step into that and make the tough decisions, have the tough conversations.  [55:31] Bob wraps up this episode, saying that in order to grow and scale you HAVE to invest in the client management/ client relationship side of things effectively. 

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Summary: What if I were to tell you that thoughts are things that can literally, when properly utilized, transform into gold? In this episode, Benjamin shares the story of Napoleon Hill and his famous book, Think and Grow Rich, along with the 6 Steps to turn Desires into Gold. “No one was created to be […] The post UYG 018 : 6 Steps to Turn Desires into Gold appeared first on Heralds of Life.

Summary What a great character we have on the show this week. Dave Luehr’s story is a truly inspirational one. He had it all with a million-dollar business and then he lost it. For many years later he was disempowered by a fear of failure, but eventually he understood how to use failure to his advantage. Nowadays he travels around the world inspiring small business owners to achieve their full potential. See some of Dave’s top tips below: ** Don’t lose the 5 year-old child in you. Fear of failure can be totally disempowering. (8:00-8:30) ** You cannot be successful without fear. You have to be willing to get out there and fail brilliantly! (17:15 - 17:45) ** Meditation is simply an awareness of what is going on in your mind. You don’t have to be spiritual about it - it can simply be used as a way to make your mind more efficient. (21:00 - 21:00) ** The secret to success is really no secret. It’s simply a matter of taking small bold steps each day towards your vision of success. (24:30 - 25:00) ** Make sure you have a "north star”. There needs to be a big vision to spur you on every day (32:05 - 32:20) ** If you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong room. Make sure you surround yourself with people who can inspire you. (43:20 - 43:30) In this episode of Business Brain Food you will learn: ** How a school dropout can turn into a serial entrepreneur ** The other meaning of WTF ** How to reframe failure ** How meditation can make you feel more aware in the moment ** The power of criticism and feedback ** The “Walmart effect” explained ** How to find a Mastermind group Resources mentioned in this episode: ** If you’re a business coach, business adviser or would like to become one, go to: https://maxmyprofit.com.au/business-exceleration.html ** Dave’s company website: http://www.elitebodyshopsolutions.com ** Dave’s YouTube channel of motivational messages is here ** All previous BBF episodes & show notes can be found at http://www.businessbrainfood.com.au ** Join the Business Brain Food Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BusinessBrainFood/ ** Twitter: https://twitter.com/bfewtrell Call to action: In case you didn’t get it the first or the second time: don’t be ruled by fear! Just look what happened to Dave’s life when he learnt how to reframe it. Also, if you are enjoying these Business Brain Food podcasts, then make sure to share them via social media sites or email the links to family and friends. A lot of time and effort goes into producing each of these podcasts with the goal in mind of the more people we can inspire about business the better. You can help us do just that! Until next time, have a profitable day! Cheers, Ben Fewtrell 02 8808 5500

Summary What is the purpose of sin, and why is it allowed? Why does Hell exist? When people go to Hell, do they stay there forever, and is there any way of getting them out? Em and Jesse take a look at the Medieval personification of God’s love and how several major female mystics tackled … Continue reading "Episode 7: Love and Hell"

Summary: What is a Vision Board, how do you make one, and why do I need it? Benjamin Boekweg explains in detail what a vision board is and why it helps the brain focus, what the complication are, and what can stop you. Arnold Schwartzenegger – https://youtu.be/h0ABOGyELN0 Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and […] The post UYG 005 : Vision Boards appeared first on Heralds of Life.

Season 2 Episode 3: Summary: What is the one thing you should do to prepare to be a wife? Listen to the entire episode to get this one small step that will help you. Take a picture of you doing this one thing and tag me on IG. Contact Info: Instagram: @BootyCallToBride Facebook: Booty Call To Bride Follow the podcast on Instagram: @BootyCallToBride Follow Michelle’s Youtube Channel: https://m.youtube.com/c/MichelleTillman --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Summary: What started as an idea in 2012 to bring balance to a bustling work life in New York City, Kameron McCullough, asked his friends to bring a bottle of Hennessy and a food item to his home for a gathering. Hundreds of people came and HennyPalooza was born. Since then, Kameron has launched his agency TNTH and has successfully partnered with Jay Z's Roc Nation & D’usse Cognac to form D’usse Palooza. D’usse Palooza is now 16 City internationally touring event sensation. Hear how this talented TNTH team mastered culture, marketing and sales while building community. He was also recently featured in the New York Times right after his BIG arena event at Barclays in New York City. We had this conversation over the summer during his birthday. I hope you enjoy learning from the formidable Kameron McCullough and get motivated! ------ The In Between Series is a live conversation series presented by Gild Creative Group that brings together unique founders and leaders across the beauty, fashion, tech, and hospitality industries to share their journeys of entrepreneurship. We are dedicated to lifting the veil on successful black creative entrepreneurs. We get deep about dollars, personal and professional challenges and their glow up to learn and affirm our own path. Interested in sponsorship?: info@gildcreativegroup.com Gild Creative Group is a boutique marketing services firm. Our mission is to serve people, products and platforms that elevate our well-being and innovate culture using communication initiatives. Please click to view capabilities. Social: @gildcreativegroup | @tiffany_hardin ------ Lastly.... here's a word from our partners. These incredible orgs are pushing professionals to the forefront of excellence: MiMConnect- Are you a marketing, creative, or advertising professional of color? Join MiMConnect for access to jobs, local events, and a nationwide digital community to find the coworkers you’ve always wanted here. Bright Ventures Leadership Accelerator - Actualize your vision. Celebrate your creativity. Grow with your community. The Bright Ventures Leadership Accelerator (BVLA) is a leadership development program for founders of seed stage companies. We are building an equitable economy — one that represents the interests and value of all within it. Learn More Production Credits: Ricardo - Live Sound Engineer ( originally recorded in front of a live audience) Jordan Schiff - Additional Recoding, Mixing & Editing and Music Production --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tiffany-hardin/support

Title: Radical Dependence Text: Luke 23:26-43 Summary: What is humility? Humility is often a confusing term, used in different ways in different contexts. Oftentimes humility is seen as a general lowering of self-regard. But does this fully describe the humility of God himself, through Jesus Christ? Augustine, one of the most influential early church fathers on western theology, would say no, it is not incorrect, but it is incomplete. Augustine considered humility the single most important virtue of the Christian faith, and through his perspective, this sermon explores the possibility that humility is actually much more foundational - it is, at its root, radical dependence on God.

This first episode of Power Couples by Design introduces the concept and the heart behind this podcast. To help married couples build a Thriving Marriage and Prosperous Business.  Yes, you can have it all. A loving relationship with your spouse and a growing and profitable business.  We will define what a Power Couple is in our books and discuss the common issues that hinder couples from building a strong marriage and business at the same time.  Communication and conflict resolution are the top 2 things couples in business face. So, we’ll discuss what we’ve learned over the years to have healthy communication and prevent or resolve conflict in a way that strengthens our relationship not tear it apart. Summary: What is a Power Couple? What can you expect over the coming episodes  Communication and conflict resolution Margin of time and money How did we get here Kay Lee’s background Robert’s background What we’ve learned about communication and conflict resolution How it affects marriage and business

Summary:What was Jesus positon on the tradition of the Elders? Did Jesus believe any doctrine or word of man that was higher in Jesus' mind than the word of God?Scripture:Matthew 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.Transcript:And now, admonition.In Matthew Chapter 15 and in verse two the Pharisees asked this question, why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread? This is one of those passages where we identify very clearly in the scripture that Jesus perspective about the tradition of the elders was very different than his perspective about the law of God. Because Jesus will correct their understanding and position on the tradition of the elders. They would hold and value the tradition of the elders, but they would ignore the commands of God. There is no tradition. There is no word. There is no doctrine of men that should ever stand higher in our minds and in our lives than the word of God. We need to be careful to put God's word where it belongs first in our lives.

Summary:What will we be like in heaven? What will I look like in Heaven? This answer might surprise you! Consider what the Apostle John said he knew about Heaven.Scripture:1 John 3:2-3Transcript:And now, Admonition.Can I tell you what my favorite passage in all of scripture is? I hope your answer is yes, 'cause I'm going to tell you anyway. First John Chapter Three Verse Two: Beloved, now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when he is revealed, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is.This old apostle reaching the end of his life, writing to the church he had served for most of his life, writes to them and says, I don't know... I don't know what w e will be like in eternity, but I know this, we will be like him. Are you ready to go there? I hope you are today. If not, I hope you'll get ready today. Get ready to go be like Christ.

Summary - What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! James 2:14-19

In this episode of It's A Mimic! the panel of Dungeon Masters takes a look at the three different styles of campaign styles: Railroads, Sandboxes, and Funhouses. They cover the main Pros and Cons for each style, from both the DM and Player perspective, and look at how player agency plays a part in each. SUMMARY: What happened to Terry?! Where'd this new guy come from? Why does Dan sound so happy? Let us know in the comments! On-Air Shoutout: @questchests Available On: iTunes | Spotify | Podbean | YouTube Don’t forget to Like/Follow/Subscribe/Whatever when you listen! Social: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Email: info@itsamimic.comIntro/Outro Music by: Cory WiebeLogo by: Kate Skidmore   This post or video contains affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission for purchases made through our links.

It's time to embrace the villainous nature of the parties' nemesis in this episode of the It's A Mimic! podcast, as the panel of Dungeon Masters look into what makes a memorable Big, Bad, Evil Guy. With a strong emphasis on "The Root of the Thing" and villain psychology, each of the DM's discusses their own techniques for making bad guys truly bad. SUMMARY: What are the villain stereotypes to be avoided? What makes a villain memorable? What are some "Dos and Don'ts" for creating nemeses? When should you reveal your BBEG and his or her motivations? Which of the Dungeon Masters is a fool for not liking Batman? All of these questions and more will be answered in this episode! Brought to you by: WILDBOT3D.COM Your online home for 3D printed table top gaming accessories and terrain.   On-Air Shoutout: @the.zombie.knight Current Gear: Microphone (USA) - https://amzn.to/2WWuCsz  Microphone (CAN) - https://amzn.to/2WTZ69G Available On: iTunes | Spotify | Podbean | YouTube Don’t forget to Like/Follow/Subscribe/Whatever when you listen! Social: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Email: info@itsamimic.com Intro/Outro Music by: Cory Wiebe Shout Out Music by: Isaac Callender Logo by: Kate Skidmore This post or video contains affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission for purchases made through our links.

SUMMARY: What does it mean to have “Saving Faith” in Christ? SCRIPTURE: Psalm 119:25-31 LEARN THE FAITH: Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 91 MAIN RESOURCE: Westminster Confession Of Faith Ch. 14: “Saving Faith PRAYER/ MEDITATION: Scripture based Guided Meditation and Prayer using the A.C.T.S. method Contact Me: Leave me a Voice message!! Click here: https://anchor.fm/al-washburn/message --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/al-washburn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/al-washburn/support

SUMMARY: * What is Original Sin? What does it cause, and why is it an important Doctrine? Check out my awesome #TopicalTuesday Podcast to find out! SCRIPTURE: * Psalm 73 (ESV) * Genesis 3:16-24 (ESV) * Ephesians 2:1-10 (ESV) LEARN THE FAITH: * Westminster Shorter Catechism Questions 17 & 18 MAIN RESOURCE: * “What is the Biblical Evidence for Original Sin?” ( https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-is-the-biblical-evidence-for-original-sin ) PRAYER: * Adapted from the Book Of Common Worship Contact Me: * Leave me a Voice Message on Anchor https://anchor.fm/al-washburn --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/al-washburn/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/al-washburn/support

“The Eagle’s Eye”: Class 3 John Chapters 5-6 1. “Believe!” ‘pisteuo’ - 100 God: 14:1; God as the one who sent Jesus: 12:44; What the Old Testament says: 2:22; 5:46-47; Jesus as the one sent by God: 6:29; Jesus’ name: 2:23; Jesus himself: 3:18; 4:39; 10:42; 12:42, etc.; Jesus as the son of man: 9:35-38; Jesus’s miracles: 10:38; Jesus as the Messiah:11:27; 20:3; What Jesus says: 8.45-46; 14:11; The fact that Jesus is in the Father and that the Father is in Jesus: 14:10; 7:21 Faith as ‘allegiance’ John 3.36; 8.31-32 Mental affirmation Professed fealty Enacted loyalty 2. Digging Deeper: John 5.1-15 Bethesda’s pool and 5 Colonnades up Luke’s geography32 _________________ __ cities 9 __________________ __  mistakes 3. “It is I”: John 6.16-21 From mountaintop experiences to storms of doubt Power or presence? Summary “What has stood out to you from tonight?” Read John 7-8 between now and Sunday Discuss what you’re learning and your questions with your spouse/friends. Ask God to reveal what aspect of Jesus he would like you to focus on through this series. Thank you for listening to this podcast. You can find more episodes in our feed. Our web site is http://www.tvcoc.org.    Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community.    Do you have a question about the Bible or the Christian faith? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send us your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: tvcochrist@gmail.com.   Thanks again for listening. Have a super day.   God bless,   Malcolm Reading, tvcoc, Thames Valley churches of Christ, ICOC, Tim Dannatt, Malcolm Cox, ICCM, Lower Earley, Southampton, Winchester, High Wycombe, Oxford, Banbury, Deepcut, Frimley, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Amesbury, Sunday School, Reading University, Youth Ministry, Bracknell, Bracknell Leisure Centre, Shevvy Dannatt, Mark Abril, Rachel Abril, Churches of Christ, Christian churches near me, tv coc, International church, churches close to me, Thames Valley, Thames Valley location, Thames Valley church of Christ, the Thames Valley, kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God, Gospel of John, allegiance, archaeology, Galilee, Capernaum, belief, Bethesda, Jerusalem, Gospel of Luke

  “The Eagle’s Eye”: Class 2 John Chapter 3 1. Two ‘Books’ Prologue 01. Book of ___________ 02. Book of ____________ Epilogue 2. Seven Signs (semeia) Miraculous signs (semeia) Scripture Notable feature Area of power Changing water into wine 2:1-11     Healing official’s son 4:46-54     Healing the lame man 5:1-15     Feeding the multitude 6:1-15     Walking on water 6:16-21     Healing the blind man 9:1-41     Raising Lazarus 11:1-44     3. Jesus’ Humanity Grief: 11:33-35 Tiredness: 4:6 Anguish: 12:27; 13:21 Irritation: 2:4; 6:26; 7:6-8; 8:25 Suspicion: 2:24-25 4. New Life: 3.1-21 “The new birth and new life require new family, and only the church can provide that.” DaSilva, Introduction to the New Testament, 447 “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:19–22 NIV11) 5. Jesus is the Hero: 3.22-36 Celebrate _________________________ . Refuse to entertain __________________. ____________________ the best of others. Pray to discern the___________________. Soberly___________________ and concern yourself fully with that. Summary “What has stood out to you from tonight?” Read John 4 between now and Sunday Discuss what you’re learning and your questions with your spouse/friends. Ask God to reveal what aspect of Jesus he would like you to focus on through this series. “He must become greater; I must become less.” (John 3:30 NIV11)   Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community.   Do you have a question about the Bible or the Christian faith? Is it theological, technical, practical? Send us your questions or suggestions. Here’s the email: tvcochrist@gmail.com.   Thanks again for listening. Have a super day.   God bless,   Malcolm   Reading, tvcoc, Thames Valley churches of Christ, ICOC, Tim Dannatt, Malcolm Cox, ICCM, Lower Earley, Southampton, Winchester, High Wycombe, Oxford, Banbury, Deepcut, Frimley, Basingstoke, Salisbury, Amesbury, Sunday School, Reading University, Youth Ministry, Bracknell, Bracknell Leisure Centre, Shevvy Dannatt, Mark Abril, Rachel Abril, Churches of Christ, Christian churches near me, tv coc, International church, churches close to me, Thames Valley, Thames Valley location, Thames Valley church of Christ, the Thames Valley, Gospel of John,  Epistle to the Ephesians, Nicodemus, John the Baptist, humility, new life

Welcome to Finance and Fury   Welcome to the new year, depending on when you listen it may be new year’s eve or the new year  Hope you are in for a good night, or not recovering from one. Starting off with a question; looking back on the year, are you in a better or worse financial position? If not, never fear because today’s episode we will look at how to be in a better financial position (and what that really means) this time next year, and importantly how to implement some action plans to make sure you’re always moving forward. Plus I will share with you my goals and the process on how I came to them Help to illustrate my strategy, to help you put yours together and implement them   What are your financial goals for this year? Or new year resolutions? Maybe you haven’t thought about them yet. By the end of this episode you should be able to think of at least 3 and something to put in place Financial goals are related to ‘what you need money for’. Most will be related to other goals you have Short term goals, this could be saving for a deposit on a home, getting out of debt, or saving for a holiday Long term goals, these are mainly around financial independence, or things that take a long time to achieve like a passive income.   My Goals for 2019: Revolve around my longer-term goals Equation: Achieve many short-term goals to achieve the larger long-term goals. Which is from the underlying purpose. If you need help, some of the archived episodes from the “self-made millennial” podcast are worth listening to. Like how to come up with purposes and goals in further detail. My Long-term goal: it’s all around the concept of freedom, being able to do what I enjoy, and that’s helping people to become financially independent My short-term goals do shift over time as I learn of new ways to achieve the long-term goals Putting together courses, doing podcasts, advising, it’s all really what I enjoy doing What limits this? Resources, really there are 2 forms of resources time and money, and money can buy time Staff: You could pay someone to work full time while you do something else. E.g. $60k = 1,920 hours back to you Frees up more time for development: making webtools, calculators, etc which all cost a decent amount to get up A lot of my long term goals revolve around this one question: what can I do to improve other people’s lives and also be financially independent. A by-product of this is reaching passive income needs. When 100% of your income is self-generated, you have the resources to achieve this goal, and detract from the first goal My financial goals went on pause for 18 months whilst setting up the business Starting from no income, so no staff, to a few staff, getting a premise, my own license. This all takes money.   My process For me a financial goal isn’t set unless it has a yes answer to the following: Will it put me in a better financial position? What does ‘better’ look like? It varies depending on the goals Simple measurements depending on your goal Will it move you closer to your individual goals? For my shorter term goals, will it help my team to expand to start achieving more. Will it help me get more done. Will it move you closer to your financial independence target? Target: Wealth to generate Income: E.g. $100k in passive income, you’ll need $2m today. Which is $2.9m in 15 years’ time. If you are new to all of this, have a listen to previous episodes on how to work this out. This can be found on the podcast show notes. Will it close the gap (every year)? There are categories which most goals fall into which are either: Building wealth: Investments and businesses Increasing income: Salary, investments, and business Break down further, like reducing taxes, reducing debts, etc. to increase income   My financial goals for this year Personal: Be financially independent by 40 (same goal as when I was 20) – Smaller goals for the year Contributing to Super: around $10,000. I haven’t been able to for a while, with starting the business up. As cashflow went into expanding company. Didn’t want to go into debt so I funded the business from savings and business cashflow Hitting investment targets each month, which is similar reason to super I didn’t draw much out of the company Increase monthly investments by $1,000. So a total of $1,500 pm, on top of the reinvestment of my existing investments Podcast/Course: Not so much of financial goals Have a second course done by the middle of the year Podcast: Keep pumping out 3 eps a week Get a few calculators I’ve built into webtools as a site resource These are a quick summary of my goals. What are your financial goals? Not many people stick to new year’s goals. There can be too many, normally people think this is good to have a lot of goals, however: It’s hard to go from 0 to 100 overnight, it’s a lack of inertia. Something continues in its existing state (rest or in motion) unless it is changed by an external force Example: say you get 10 goals down now, and they are all new things Invest in shares, reduce my tax, buy a property, generate $50k of income in 5 years from investments, etc. Where do you start? And how? Most of these will be using resources at the sacrifice of another. Information overload sets in and you go back to your old ways pretty quickly. It is safe, familiar and easy If you are just starting out pick 3 goals for the year maximum. Are they short term or part of longer term goal? How much do you need? By when? How are you going to do it? Put it down for each goal that you have, the answers to those 3 questions. E.g. Save for a holiday: I need $5k in 12 months, so I’ll save $416pm How to start? Starting small, and picking one thing. What is one financial behaviour you would change? Or what is the most important goal? Future: This is where goals come back into it. What you want to achieve needs to be defined. Plus, is the goal going to help achieve this? With the one goal, breaking it down in the simple SMART terms. SMART – or What is it? How do we measure it? and why? g. Previous Example: How will you save $416pm? Enough already? Or cut spending/increase income? Plus consider if this will this hurt another goal?   Got your goal: Looking at implementing it   How do you motivate yourself to invest? Finding motivation is a rubbish concept as a place to start What people search for is a moment of inspiration to get the ball rolling, but, It never comes. It’s because motivation comes from a positive feedback loop. You do something good, dopamine is released in the brain, you then want to do this again Think about it, you don’t need to find the motivation to indulge in anything. Because your brain is wired to give positive feedback when you do these things you already like. Part of the problem as bad things compound as well. Small action = dopamine = want to do larger actions. Motivation is a lie, there will always be something better to spend your money on than your future security and financial independence. Like things that achieve instant gratification Implement it and adjust along the way. Over time (30 – 90 days depending on the goal) it will become a habit. Then implement the next goal on the list How do you improve? One small thing at a time. That is the process of improvement. Financial habits are built through the positive feedback of cue, action, and reward. These decisions years ago have improved my position now. That is the relationship with good habits. Keep improving you slowly over time. Pareto distribution or 80/20 rule. 20% who have 80%, they have been able to grow good habits, that have compounding effects It is as simple as investing and waiting. $20k today would be $80k in 14 years at 10% What is one thing that you can do to better the future self? Starting sooner rather than later allows you to do a negotiation with your future. Think of it as time travelling.   Summary: What are your three financial goals? How much, by when, and how will you get it done? Will your actions help achieve the goal? What strategies do you need to implement?   Thanks for listening everyone! I hope this episode helped break down some steps Feel free to ask any questions. If you have a question, someone else probably does as well. Feel free to let me know if you have follow up questions over on the contact page on the website here.   Episodes to check out! What is financial independence? From puzzle to map Trusting yourself and learning the basics What does your retirement look like, and why?  

YOU’RE DROWNING! #171: Daily Mentoring with Trevor Crane on GreatnessQuest.com SUMMARY What would you do if you approached a drowning person? In any life-saving situation, be it the swimming pool or ocean or wherever, NUMBER ONE: you have to take control of the situation. The drowning person is in a sheer panic, and you need to break their pattern by doing WHATEVER IT TAKES… and often-times, that means smacking them right in the face. And if you don’t? They’ll bring you down with them. How about you? In your life, where are you flailing about like a drowning person? My suggestion? Give yourself a sharp, “smack in the face,” and break that pattern! GET THE APP: Text: TREVOR To: 36260 #greatnessquest #trevorcrane #unstoppable #idealbusiness #ideallife

WHAT DO POOR PEOPLE BUY, THAT RICH PEOPLE AVOID? (They avoid it like The Plague!...) #157: Daily Mentoring with Trevor Crane on GreatnessQuest.com SUMMARY What do poor people buy that rich people avoid like the plague? Poor people buy LIABILITIES. Rich people buy ASSETS. To learn how you can get more ASSETS, so you can have more cool stuff, and more freedom - take notes about this show! GET THE APP: Text: TREVOR To: 36260 #greatnessquest #trevorcrane #unstoppable #idealbusiness #ideallife

WHAT’S YOUR ORIGIN STORY? #145: Daily Mentoring with Trevor Crane on GreatnessQuest.com SUMMARY What are the defining moments of your life that shifted and GUIDED you? That helped to FORM you? That CREATED you? Once you understand the things that shaped you, you can CREATE BY DESIGN, new pivotal moments and experiences that you can do to create a new future. Powerful events transform who you are, so you can become the NEXT BEST YOU… the next level superhero, you are becoming. That said, “What’s your origin story?” GET THE APP: Text: TREVOR To: 36260 #greatnessquest #trevorcrane #unstoppable #idealbusiness #ideallife

THE BIGGEST LIE #144: Daily Mentoring with Trevor Crane on GreatnessQuest.com SUMMARY What is the biggest lie you are currently telling yourself? And, don’t just dismiss this question. You ARE lying to yourself. The question is WHAT IS THE LIE? Whatever your current is, it's probably different from the lies you were telling yourself a year ago. And it will be different a year from now. TRUTH IS: There are these lies that we tell ourselves, every day. What are yours? GET THE APP: Text: TREVOR To: 36260 #greatnessquest #trevorcrane #unstoppable #idealbusiness #ideallife

EPISODE 61- Recorded: August 13, 2018  Hey everyone! Thanks for catching us on our 61st episode! Join the conversation as we discuss the new changes coming to Year 2, Destiny 2.  You can find Mondo, your host, as Roadzter on Playstation and Roadztergaming on Instagram and Twitter; Luis as Galarce17; Justin as Snoke; and You can also find Betty on Playstation and PC as Callmebettyzeo. INSTAGRAM/TWITTER: @HUNGJURYNETWORK JURY INSTRUCTIONS! DESTINY 2 GIVEAWAY! We are giving away a copy of Destiny 2 for PC including the EXPANSION PASS! Yep. Thats correct! If you recommended a game, you are already in the running to win the giveaway! BUT if you didnt, you are still good to go! The giveaway HAS BEEN EXTENDED until July! So make sure to get your entries in! Summary: What are we giving away: Destiny 2 + Y1 Expansion Pass for PC! [ONLY PC] How do you enter: Follow our Instagram for further instructions! We will be posting on how to enter through there! Instagram: @hungjurynetwork Unfortunately, I know many of you listen to this podcast on iTunes but there is no for sure way to keep track of the comments as sometimes comments won’t post. I’d rather you guys not waste your time doing that. For those of you who are new to the show, thank you for joining up and make sure to keep coming back! Join the Jury by following us on Twitter and liking our Facebook page by searching Hung Jury Gaming Podcast!And don’t forget that you can also listen to us on iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Podbean and other affiliate podcast services by simply searching for Hung Jury Gaming Podcast.            

Summary: What is the Swamp hiding? This latest revelation by Republicans looking into Spygate offers us some tantalizing clues. In this episode I address the growing efforts by the Swamp to sweep the scandal under the rug.    News Picks: This Victor Davis Hanson piece addresses the limitless rage of the Left directed at President Trump.   This Chuck Ross piece discusses the questionable sourcing of the dirty dossier.   This Byron York piece addresses some questionable redactions in the FISA application.   What is going on in New York with the governor?   Escaping New York’s high taxes may be more difficult than you thought.   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved.

EPISODE 60- Recorded: June 28, 2018  Hey everyone! Thanks for catching us on our 60th episode! Join the conversation as we discuss Fortnite changes, PUBG, Sony's press release on cross-play, and much more! You can find Mondo, your host, as Roadzter on Playstation and Roadztergaming on Instagram and Twitter; Luis as Galarce17; Justin as Snoke; and You can also find Betty on Playstation and PC as Callmebettyzeo. INSTAGRAM/TWITTER: @HUNGJURYNETWORK JURY INSTRUCTIONS! DESTINY 2 GIVEAWAY! We are giving away a copy of Destiny 2 for PC including the EXPANSION PASS! Yep. Thats correct! If you recommended a game, you are already in the running to win the giveaway! BUT if you didnt, you are still good to go! The giveaway HAS BEEN EXTENDED until July! So make sure to get your entries in! Summary: What are we giving away: Destiny 2 + Y1 Expansion Pass for PC! [ONLY PC] How do you enter: Follow our Instagram for further instructions! We will be posting on how to enter through there! Instagram: @hungjurynetwork Unfortunately, I know many of you listen to this podcast on iTunes but there is no for sure way to keep track of the comments as sometimes comments won’t post. I’d rather you guys not waste your time doing that. For those of you who are new to the show, thank you for joining up and make sure to keep coming back! Join the Jury by following us on Twitter and liking our Facebook page by searching Hung Jury Gaming Podcast!And don’t forget that you can also listen to us on iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Podbean and other affiliate podcast services by simply searching for Hung Jury Gaming Podcast.  

EPISODE 59- Recorded: June 20, 2018  Hey everyone! Thanks for catching us on our 59th episode! Join the conversation as we discuss Sony's embargo on cross-play and cross-progression, Fortnite and how Epic may have an excellent formula for free-to-play titles.  You can find Mondo, your host, as Roadzter on Playstation and Roadztergaming on Instagram and Twitter; Luis as Galarce17; Justin as Snoke; and You can also find Betty on Playstation and PC as Callmebettyzeo. JURY INSTRUCTIONS! DESTINY 2 GIVEAWAY! We are giving away a copy of Destiny 2 for PC including the EXPANSION PASS! Yep. Thats correct! If you recommended a game, you are already in the running to win the giveaway! BUT if you didnt, you are still good to go! The giveaway will end June 30th! Summary: What are we giving away: Destiny 2 + Y1 Expansion Pass for PC! [ONLY PC] How do you enter: Follow our Instagram for further instructions! We will be posting on how to enter through there! Instagram: @hungjurynetwork Unfortunately, I know many of you listen to this podcast on iTunes but there is no for sure way to keep track of the comments as sometimes comments won’t post. I’d rather you guys not waste your time doing that. For those of you who are new to the show, thank you for joining up and make sure to keep coming back!

What Is This Episode: 89 Air Date: 05/18/18 Duration:301:04 Size: 293mb Summary: * What will replace the Podtrash chatroom? Join our Discord! * Do we need a Podtrash People’s Court to solve conflicts? * Woman takes a dump at Tim Horton’s and throws it at the employees! * Who was Tim Horton? Wush knows because […] The post Episode 89 – ShitGrabFling appeared first on Podtrash.

KNOWING IT vs. LIVING ITEpisode #22: Daily Mentoring with Trevor Crane on GreatnessQuest.com SUMMARY: What's your JOB? DECIDE >DISCOVER >DECLARE >DOCUMENT >DEMONSTRATE > DEMAND & DELIVER (Damn! I know. That's a bunch of "D" words.) But stay with me... Today, I want to focus on "DISCOVER." Your job EVERY DAY... Is now to... DISCOVER. There are many ways to do this. The one I will share here will help you LEARN. And then "LIVE" what you learn. And "MAKE A DIFFERENCE" with this new found wisdom. And "CHANGE THE WORLD" (and yourself) Again, our job EVERY DAY is to... DISCOVER. GET THE APP: Text: TREVOR To: 36260#greatnessquest #trevorcrane #unstoppable #idealbusiness #ideallife

Christmas Through The Eyes Of Mary & Joseph Luke 1:26-38 Christmas Series 1. Christmas through the eyes of Mary 2. Christmas through the eyes of Joesph - Matthew 1:18-25 3. Summary - What do we learn from this story?

Summary What do chemical engineering and the culinary arts have in common? The answer is Mrs. Dornbergs Culinary Experience in Highland, Indiana. Cheryl Dornberg takes her Chemical Engineering background and applies it to cooking at her culinary school. She says that food is a big science experiment, and she wants you to come learn with […]

Join Dr. Michele on the Body Wisdom Podcast as she interviews Dr. Glenn Livingston, psychologist, entrepreneur, and author, discussing hot to stop binge eating.   Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. is a veteran psychologist and was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. You may have seen his previous work, theories, and research in major periodicals like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun Times, The Indiana Star Ledger, The NY Daily News, American Demographics, or many other major media outlets. You may also have heard him on ABC, WGN, CBS radio, or UPN TV.   Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to offer overweight and/or food obsessed individuals, Dr. Livingston spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his own patients AND a self-funded research program with more than 40,000 participants. Most important, however, was his own personal journey out of obesity and food prison to a normal, healthy weight and a much more lighthearted relationship with food.   Summary: What’s your personal story with binge eating and why did you choose to focus on it professionally? Why is binge eating and overeating so rampant in our culture today? Is binge eating really a disease?  Are people who do it defective in their characters? Is it really possible to stop without years of complex, deep diving therapy and treatment?

Join Dr. Michele for Season 2, Episode 2 of the Body Wisdom Podcast as she interviews guest Rebecca Coomes of The Healthy Gut, discussing how to thrive with a chronic illness and how to beat SIBO. Rebecca Coomes is an author, entrepreneur, passionate foodie and intrepid traveler. She transformed her health after a lifetime of chronic illness, and today guides others on their own path to wellness. She is the founder of The Healthy Gut, a platform where people can learn about gut health and how it is important for a healthy mind and body. She coaches SIBO patients on how to live well with SIBO through her SIBO Coaching Program. Rebecca is the author of the world’s first cookbooks for people treating Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), and is the host of the The Healthy Gut podcast and SIBO Cooking Show. Summary: What was your healing journey like? Rebecca’s story includes being born a premie, raised on formula with multiple rounds of antibiotics as a baby. As a child, she had problems with immunity. She developed severe PMS, cystic acne, food sensitivities, endometriosis, and IBS. 2. What are the symptoms of SIBO? Any of the following can be symptoms of SIBO: pain, bloating, constipation and/or diarrhea, growing list of food sensitivities, gas, brain fog, joint pain, skin issues, iron or B12 deficiency, respiratory symptoms, mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, restless leg syndrome, endometriosis, diabetes, IBD (Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis), celiac disease, thyroid disease, acne, rosacea. 3. How did you get diagnosed? Her Naturopathic Doctor said “I believe you.” She was diagnosed with a positive SIBO breath test. Although SIBO is not commonly known to many doctors and people in general, it is estimated that 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 Americans have SIBO; that is approximately 100 million Americans. 60% of patients that suffer from IBS have SIBO also. 2/3 of patients with chronic illness have SIBO. 4.  How did you treat it? Rebecca was treated successfully with herbal antibiotics. There are 3 treatments for SIBO that work: Rx antibiotics, herbal antibiotics, and diet alone (The Elemental Diet). Dr. Michele was treated successfully with The Elemental Diet. 5. What tips would you give to someone who thinks they may have SIBO? Anyone who suspects they may have SIBO can take the quiz on Dr. Narala’s website: sibotest.com Find a Naturopathic Doctor who knows how to treat SIBO. 6. How important is having a “healthy gut team” in your healing and treatment? Build a dream team! Your dream team can include a Naturopathic Doctor, a Personal Trainer, a Nutritionist, and a Mindset Coach.      7. What inspired you to write the cookbooks? The cookbooks are based on the Bi-Phasic Diet. All of the recipes are 100% gluten-free.

113 Communicating with Impact - Patrick Donadio URL: http://www.julieannsullivan.com/patrick-donadio/   Summary What are the most important skills you can develop to help you succeed in business and in life? While many skills are vital for success, today’s guest will help you see the importance of one skill that makes everything else easier: communication. Patrick Donadio is not only an expert communicator, he is also a kind and generous person who loves to help others become more successful. On today’s episode, he will show you why it’s important to develop superhuman communication skills. You’ll learn the benefits of developing these skills, the science behind good communication, and practical steps to start becoming a better communicator. This is one skill you can’t live without, so prepare to learn and begin making a bigger impact today. Patrick’s bio: Since 1986, Patrick J. Donadio, MBA, has carefully taken his decades of experience and crafted a results-based process for “Communicating with IMPACT.” He has guided C-suite executives, leaders and their organizations with powerful presentations and one-on-one business communications coaching to help them improve communications, presentations, increase profits, deepen relationships, enhance credibility and boost performance—in less time.Patrick has empowered audiences nationally and internationally and has appeared on the same programs with such renowned speakers as: Earvin “Magic” Johnson, LA Lakers point guard; Joan Lunden, former “Good Morning America” host; and comedian Jeff Foxworthy, just to name a few.As an educator, he has taught communications at the University of Notre Dame, The Weatherhead School of Management, The Ohio State University, and The John Glenn College of Public Affairs.   You’ll discover: Why Patrick believes everyone can develop superhuman communication skills. The benefits of developing better communication skills. What Patrick learned about communication from his Italian grandparents who didn’t speak much English. The importance of understanding the science behind good communication. Steps to start becoming a better communicator.   6 principles to help you communication with IMPACT: I – IntentionM – MessageP – PersonA – ActivateC – ClarifyT – Transform   Interview Links & Other Resources PatrickDonadio.com Communicating with Impact by Patrick Donadio Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn Follow Patrick on Twitter Mere Mortals Unite on C-Suite Radio iTunes - Subscribe, Rate and Review

“Do a call to action. Something powerful that would make them see more so that you now have the remaining 2,000 characters to expand upon who you are, what you do, and most importantly, how you can help people. You really want to focus on what’s in it for them.” For the final installment of the Get Known series, we have Viveka von Rosen. Viveka is co-founder and CVO (Chief Visibility Officer) of Vengreso. Known internationally as the “LinkedIn Expert”, she is author of the best-selling “LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day” and “LinkedIn: 101 Ways to Rock Your Personal Brand!” As a contributing “expert” to LinkedIn’s official Sales and Marketing blogs and their “Sophisticated Marketer’s” Guides, she is often called on to contribute to publications like Fast Company, Forbes, Money, Entrepreneur, The Social Media Examiner, etc. Viveka takes the LinkedIn experience she has perfected over the past 10+ years and transforms it into engaging and informational training (having provided over 100K+ people) with the tools and strategies they need to succeed on LinkedIn. There’s no doubt that you’ll be in for a treat when you hit the play button below. LinkedIn for Solopreneurs, Coaches, and Consultants It would be similar, but I’d start with a personal profile. The company page could come later, it’s not such a big deal. You have to understand, with a big company nurturing, maintaining the company page is relatively easy. You put your social media marketing person on it or your community manager on it. When you’re solo, you’re having to do everything – sales, marketing, service offers, product offers, all of your social media. Again, why I went with Vengreso. The plate is so heavy, so with my solopreneurs, I would start them off on their personal profile. We talk about a company page if they actually need one, but we start with a personal profile, and what’s similar for both sides, of course, you can create a template. I always do with my clients because they might hire someone later on. But what we want to cover specifically is that background image which yours is so great. It’s got the building, your book on it. LinkedIn keeps changing – drives me insane – LinkedIn keeps changing the background image template. So it’s an ongoing process, but that background image which really helps with branding for my solopreneurs and entrepreneur. I recommend putting an email address or phone number on there so they’re more easily contactable. Some people don’t want to be that contactable, but for them, it’s important. And that way, people can reach out to them even if they’re not connected yet, and it usually shows up in the mobile app too, so that’s the key. And I tell them to, if they can, create unique contact information – a Google Voice number, or linkedin@yourcompany.com. That way you can actually track where your leads are coming from, because LinkedIn doesn’t really have any metrics or analytics left worth mentioning in their free account. How to structure a good profile Headline The next feature would be that professional headline. So many people title it Company or if they’re self-employed, they’re self-employed and that’s just – you know, you have such an opportunity to do a super mini elevator speech, but 120 and – I’ll show you a ninja trick in just a second if you need more characters. But 120 characters that describes who you are, what you doing, who you serve. So again, going back to what we talked about is knowing who your ideal buyer is, of your product or service. If you don’t and you try to be everything to everyone, it loses efficacy. The more niche you can be, the more converting your LinkedIn profile will be, period. Now, if you can’t fit who you are, what you’re doing, who you serve in 120 characters or less, and I learned this one from Brynne by the way, if you do it in mobile, you have up to 200 characters. Summary What’s next is the summary section. A lot of people skip this or they just pull in their about me from their company. Again, huge waste of opportunity. Now with the new user interface, only the first two lines show. People have to click on “See More”, so you have to do something in that first two lines that makes them want to “Read More” and click on “See More”. What do you do? It is not formatted and it is ugly and you can’t add special characters and emojis, but just know that it’s going to be one bunched up mess. Nonetheless, in that one bunched up mess of about 200 characters, do a call to action. Something powerful that would make them see more, so that you now have the remaining 2,000 characters to expand upon who you are, what you do, and most importantly, how you can help people. You really want to focus on what’s in it for them. Experience You can put your list of features underneath in your experience section. If you want to let people know all the things that you offer and all that kind of stuff, you can put that in your experience section, but that summary is really to hit home. What are the benefits? Hit home – what are your ideal clients’ point of pain and how do you solve that? You can put in a tiny two or three sentence testimonial from a client that people might recognize where you have solved their issues. Again, just keep your audience in mind.   Mentions Connect with Viveka on LinkedIn Visit https://vengreso.com/ https://www.rev.com/    

111 Meet 5 New People Every Day - Robert Galinsky URL: http://www.julieannsullivan.com/robert-galinsky/   Summary What does it take to become a true success? Money? Fame? Possessions? While those things are valuable, our guest today reminds us that we can never be truly successful or satisfied without one key thing: meaningful relationships. Robert Galinsky has the unique superpower of meeting new people. He creates the situations and uses those connections to help others reach their potential. In our interview, Robert reveals many different strategies for meeting people. He also explains why we should be bold in asking for help, but not discouraged when the answer is sometimes “no.” Perseverance is key. Robert’s insight on relationships are earned through experience. His lessons on connecting will lift you to a higher level of success in your life. Robert’s bio: Robert Galinsky is an author, speaking coach, and writer living in New York City. He is involved with TEDx teen, helping teenagers express their ideas to the world. He is also a playwright and the author of Coffee Crazy: 140 AHA! Coffee Moments from the Conference Room, to the Cafe, to the Kitchen. You’ll discover: What it means to have “people power.” The benefits of meeting new people. Why it’s important to feel honored (and not bothered) when someone asks you for a favor. How Robert uses a coffee meeting to connect with new people. Why perseverance is so important in asking for favors. Actionable steps to meet new people every day. Why you should go out and meet people when you don’t feel like it. What’s coming up for Robert.   Interview Links & Other Resources Coffee Crazy by Robert Galinsky Follow Robert on Twitter Connect with Robert on Facebook Connect with Robert on LinkedIn Life Lessons Through Literacy for Incarcerated Teens Robert’s articles on The Fresh ToastMere Mortals Unite on C-Suite Radio iTunes - Subscribe, Rate and Review

105 Creating a Culture of Trust - TiER1 URL:  http://www.julieannsullivan.com/creating-trust/ Summary What is the measure of a great company? Is it profits? Size? The number of worldwide locations? While all of those can be significant, one measure of a great company is the level of trust within the organization. Today I’m speaking with Greg Harmeyer, CEO of TiER1 Performance. TiER1 is an award-winning business that works with organizations on their strategic evolution, talent development, and change. In other words, they’re all about creating value. I first heard about TiER1’s innovative ideas as Lead Judge for the Engaging Pittsburgh awards. I also had the opportunity to hear one of their trainers speak on a subject that is vital in my speaking business as well: strategic change. On this episode, you’ll hear Greg’s innovative ideas for taking your organization to the next level by creating a culture of trust and engagement. Greg’s bio: Now in his 15th year of business, Greg leads TiER1 Performance in crafting and delivering engaging, people-centered business solutions that help great companies achieve lasting results. TiER1 is a high-touch boutique consulting firm working to improve the performance of organizations through the performance of people to build a better world. A one-stop-shop for performance, TiER1 combines the talents of creative, technology, communications, learning, change management, and project management consultants to design and deliver innovative, people-centric solutions. The company’s clients include Procter & Gamble, FedEx, PPG, Macy's, Harley Davidson, Delta Airlines and over 200 other marquee organizations.   You’ll discover: How Greg increases employee engagement at TiER1. The first step to building trust within your organization. The benefits of having an employee-owned company. Why “work-life balance” is an oxymoron. The processes Greg uses to build trust and connectivity in the company. The benefits of developing a culture of trust and openness. Greg’s advice for those starting a new business. Why companies should view employees as clients.   Interview Links & Other Resources TiER1Performance.comFollow TiER1 on Twitter Businesses That Care on C-Suite Radio iTunes - Subscribe, Rate and Review

SUMMARY: What does it mean to reconcile with yourself, with the country in which you fought, with your former enemies, and with your Creator? TEASER — Bob Peragallo: Reconciliation is when two people resolve their differences and they actually begin to work together. INTRO — Kent C. Williamson: The word “reconciliation” seems antiquated in this […]

090 Be More, Do More, Have More, The Power of Significance - Tom Ziglar URL:  http://www.julieannsullivan.com/ziglar-on-significance/   Summary What does it mean to create significance? How can I make a greater impact on others? How are my habits related to my personal and professional achievement? Those are questions every success-oriented person should be asking, and our guest today will help you find the answers. I’m excited to introduce you to Tom Ziglar, son of the late Zig Ziglar, one of the world’s top motivational speakers for decades. Tom is CEO of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and travels the world speaking to billion-dollar companies, small business owners, and at prestigious academic institutions. In our interview, Tom reveals the secrets that have helped him become so successful. You’ll learn why you must be before you can do, why you must do before you can have, and what the ultimate goal of your success should be (hint: it’s to help others). Grab pen and paper, your phone or tablet, because you’ll want to take notes on the practical strategies Tom shares for success.   Tom’s Bio: For over two decades, Tom has served as CEO of the family business. He joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation in 1987, learning every aspect of the business as he climbed from working in the warehouse, to sales, to seminar promotion, to sales management, and then on to leadership. Tom has had the privilege of speaking around the world to billion-dollar companies, small business owners, and at prestigious academic institutions like Cambridge and Harvard. He excels at speaking on leadership, business, and performance. Tom’s mission in life is simple: To help you become significant by equipping you to help others be, do, and have more than they thought possible.   You’ll discover: Why Tom describes his superpower as being an “intellectual engineer,” and how you can harness that power as well. The fastest way to success. Key wisdom from Zig Ziglar on why habits are like termites: “Hurricanes and tornadoes get all the publicity, but termites do more damage and they take such little bitty bites.” Why you’ve got to be before you can do, and do before you can have. Why lottery winners tend to squander all their money. The reason why you should get out of bed immediately instead of sleeping in. How to re-train your brain to look for the good by keeping a gratitude list. The power of a 2-minute self-talk exercise twice a day … it will change your life! The three C’s of prosperity: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate   Tom’s 5:00 a.m., 45-minute routine that has laid the foundation for his success: I imagine two chairs--one for me, and one for God. I ask Him three questions: Do you know my circumstance? Are you big enough to handle it? What’s the plan? I study the Bible. I write down four goals I’m working on that day. I write the names of the people I will encounter that day, and create a mental model of how my time with them will go. Even if things go differently, I am better prepared to handle it. Then I get to work on my #1 priority for the day.   Interview Links & Other Resources Ziglar.com Free Self-Talk Cards Follow Tom on Twitter Connect with Tom on LinkedIn Connect with Tom on Facebook The Ziglar Show Podcast Two Chairs by Bob Beaudine Mere Mortals Unite on C-Suite Radio iTunes - Subscribe, Rate and Review

Summary: “What problems do you want to solve? What do you love doing? Who do you want to be around?”… This week we’re fortunate enough to sit down with Talent Partner at Drive Capital, Robert Hatta – Robert holds experiences from some of the most successful startups (or at least what once were) in the …

In this NCTalks podcast, Alice Weatherston speaks to Lance McCracken, Professor of Behavioral Medicine at King’s College London (UK), about the use of psychological therapies in pain management. In Part 1, Lance outlines the role psychological therapies in chronic pain management and the general attitudes and approaches to such therapies across the medical community. Summary - What are your current research focuses? - What role do psychological therapies play in dealing with chronic pain in patients? - Can psychological interventions be utilized in conjunction with conventional pain medicines such as opioids, or are these mutually exclusive? - Is there reticence towards the use of psychological treatments for pain in the medical community? If so, why is this? - Can psychological treatments be applied to all pain conditions or are some more suited?

Summary What does Scarface have to do with Legal Tech Sales? Today on this special Darwin episode, we talk about legal tech sale strategies using the protagonist of Scarface and Scarface quotes! We talk about strategies for making legal tech sales, then getting VC’s and raising money, and finally earning respect. Tune in for the latest news about the burgeoning legal tech business! For the latest topics, trends and tech in the legal industry, subscribe to Evolve Law Podcast: A Catalyst for Legal Innovation. Listen as legal experts and leaders share insights about the legal industry. For more information, questions, or suggestions about our podcast feel free to email us at info@evolvelawnow.com!   Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:26 Money, Power, and Respect 01:40 Scarface & Legal Tech 02:45 Making Legal Tech Sales 03:57 The Six Reasons Legal Tech Companies Should Immediately Start Selling 06:56 VC's and Raising Money 09:55 Earning Respect 10:45 Encouragement for Legal Tech Entrepreneurs 10:56 Outro

Who's Doug Hitchcock? And in a world full of goal-setting exercises, why does Doug's system stand out? Find out why most goal-setting goes hopelessly off the mark and Doug's plan works almost like magic year after year. Find out not just how to set goals, but how to create a stop-doing list (yes, that's a goal too). And finally, learn why most goals are designed for failure because they lack a simple benchmarking system. Find out how we've made almost impossible dreams come true with this goal-setting system. http://www.psychotactics.com/goal-setting-successfully/ ------------------------------- In this episode Sean talks about Part 1: Why most goal-setting goes hopelessly off the mark Part 2: How to set goals, but how to create a successful stop-doing list Part 3: Learn why most goals are designed for failure because they lack a simple benchmarking system Right click here and ‘save as’ to download this episode to your computer. Useful Resources Chaos Planning: How ‘Irregular’ Folks Get Things Done Learning: How To Retain 90% Of Everything You Learn 5000bc: How to get started on your goal setting ------------------------------- The Transcript “This transcript hasn’t been checked for typos, so you may well find some. If you do, let us know and we’ll be sure to fix them.” This is the Three-Month Vacation. I’m Sean D’Souza. Doug Hitchcock was my first real mentor and he had been bankrupt thrive. When I first moved to Auckland in the year 2000, I didn’t really know anyone. I was starting up a new business, I was starting up a new life. I joined a networking group and within that networking group I asked for a mentor. Well, no one in the networking group was willing to be a mentor, but someone did put me in touch with Doug. The only problem with Doug was he had been bankrupt thrive. Now, when I say he was bankrupt thrice, it doesn’t mean he was still bankrupt. He just pulled himself out of the hole three times in his life and there he was, at about 70 plus, and he was my first mentor. Before he starts to talk to me about anything, he asks me, “Do you do goal setting?” I’m like, “Yeah, I have goals,” and he goes, “No. Do you have goals on paper?” I said, “No.” He says, “We have to start there. We have to start with goals on paper.” That’s how I started doing goal setting, all the way back in the year 2000. Almost immediately, I got all the goal setting wrong. You ask, how can you get goal setting wrong? After all, you’re just putting goals down on a sheet of paper. How can you get something like that wrong? You can’t write the wrong goals, but you can write too many goals. That’s exactly what I did. I sat down with that sheet of paper and I wrote down all my work goals, my personal goals, and I had an enormous list. That’s when Doug came back into the scene, and he said, “Pick three.” I said, “I could pick five.” He goes, “No, no, no. Pick three.” I picked three goals in my work and three goals from my personal life. You know what? By the end of the year, I’d achieved those goals. Ever since, I have been sitting down and working out these goals based on Doug’s method. Doug may have lost his business thrice in a row, but he knew what he was talking about. Most of us just wander through life expecting things to happen. When they happen, we say they happen for a reason, but they don’t happen for a reason. They happen, and we assign a reason to it. In this episode, I’m going to cover three topics. The first is the three part planning. Then we’ll go the other way. We’re create a stop doing list. Finally, we’ll look at benchmarks and see how we’ve done in the year. Let’s start off with the first one, which is the three part planning. Does the San Fernando earthquake ring any bells in your memory? Most people haven’t ever heard of this earthquake, and yet it was one of the deadliest earthquakes in US history. It collapsed entire hospitals, it killed 64 people, it injured over two and a half thousand. When the damage was assessed, it had cost millions of dollars, and yet it could have been the disaster that eclipsed all other US disasters. That’s because the earthquake almost caused the entire Van Norman Reservoir to collapse. The dam held, and yet, if it had collapsed, the resulting rush of water would have taken the lives of more people than the Pearl Harbor Attack, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 9/11 and 1900 Galveston Hurricane combined. In barely 12 seconds, the top section of the dam had disintegrated and yet, the surrounding areas were extremely lucky. The reservoir was only half full that day. The aftershocks of the earthquake continued to cause parts of the dam to break apart. A few feet of free board was the only thing that stopped a total collapse. This total collapse is what many of us come close to experiencing as we try to clamber up the ladder of success. We try to do too many things and we don’t seem to go anywhere. In effect, this is like water cascading down a dam. There’s too many things and we have no control over it. What’s going to stop it? The only thing that seems to stop anything is some kind of focus and goal setting is focus. The way we go about our goal setting is the way Doug showed me. The first category of goal setting is what we want to achieve at work. The second set comprises of our personal goals. The third, this is the most critical of all, what we’re going to learn. Should we start off with the first one, which is our work goals? Well, that’s not the way we do it as Psychotactics. The way we work at Psychotactics is we look at our personal goals. Our own lives are far more important than work. What we do is we sit down, and first, we plan vacations. As you know, we take three months off. We’ve been doing this since 2004. We started our business at the end of 2002. Yet by 2004, we had decided we were going to take three months off. The thing is that your vacations also need planning. Our vacations are broken up into big breaks, small breaks, and weekends. Now the big breaks are the month long vacations, and then the small breaks are in between that. We’re go away for a couple of days somewhere, and that’s our small break. I’m saying weekends, because before I wouldn’t take weekends off. I’d be working on the weekend at least for a few hours on Saturday morning and a few hours on Sunday morning, and I don’t do that any more. Now that’s almost written in stone. It’s very hard for me to get to work on weekends. I’ll slide sometimes, but it’s very hard. The most critical thing to do is to work out the long breaks. When are we going to have those, and then the shorter breaks. That comprises that whole vacation concept, but you also have to have other personal goals. Maybe I want to learn how to cook Mexican dishes, or maybe I want to learn how to take better photographs. Now, these are personal projects. They’re not not pseudo work projects. They’re things that, at the end of the year, I go, “Wow, that’s what I’ve achieved. That’s how much I progressed.” That’s how you start off with personal goals. You plan your breaks. You plan what you want to do personally. Once you’re done with that, then you go to your work goals. We have a lot of work goals, we have the article writing workshop coming up, we’ve got the 50 words workshop, which is, how do you start up an article. We’ve got a whole bunch of things, because we’ve got products, we’ve got courses, we’ve got workshops. All of this has to sit nicely between, so that we work for 12 weeks and then we go on a break. We’ve decided that we’re not having any workshops next year. We’ve had a lot of workshops this year, no workshops next year. Now, this leaves us the chance to focus on the courses and the products. Now my brain is like that dam, there’s always water rushing over. I want to do a million projects, but then I have to choose. The article writing course is one of the things that I want to do for sure. I want to do a version 2.0 of it. The cartoon bank, I’ve been putting that off for a long time. That’s definitely something I want to do. Then I’ll pick a third one. Do I stop at three? No, but I make sure that I get these three down. The three that I’m going to do, they go down on paper. Some other projects will come up, a lot of stuff that I might not expect, and yet I’ll get all of this done, but these three, they’ll get done. Those three vacations, they will get done. Then we get to the third part, which is learning. What am I going to learn this next year? Maybe I’ll learn a software, or maybe I’ll learn how to use audio better. The point is, I have to write it down, because once I write it down, then I’m going to figure out where I have to go and what I have to do to make sure that learning happens. This is not just learning like reading some books or doing something minor like that. This is big chunks of learning, so that by the the end of the year, I know I’ve reached that point. When it comes to planning, the first thing that we’re always doing is we’re looking at these three elements, which is work, vacation, and learning. If we have to do other sub projects, we’ll do it, but these nine things get done. Year after year after year. This is what Doug taught me, he gave me this ability to focus. I consider myself to be unfocused, I consider myself to want to do everything and anything. That was the gift of Doug. In the year 2008, we had a program, it was a year long program. You probably heard of it. It was called a Psychotactics Protégé program. We would teach clients how to write articles, how to create info products, public relations. Lots of things along the way in that year. As you’d expect, it was reasonably profitable. 15 students paid $10,000, and so that was $150,000 that we would have in the bank before the year started. In 2009, we pulled the plug on the Protégé system. Why would we do that? We started it in 2006, it was full, in 2007 it was full, in 2008 it was full, in 2009 there was a waiting list. We decided not to go ahead with it. We decided it was going to go on our stop doing list. We were going to walk away from $150,000, just like that. Yes, some clients were unhappy, because they wanted to be on the next Protégé program. They had seen the testimonials, they had seen the results. They knew that it was good enough to sign up for. They knew that $10,000 was a very small investment, for a year long advancement. On our part, we realized that we had to walk away from $150,000 that we were getting on cue, every December. This is what’s called a stop doing list. We’ve used this stop doing list in our own lives. When we left India, and got to Auckland, it wasn’t like we were leaving something desperate. We were leaving something that was really good. I was drawing tattoos all day, going bowling in the afternoon, having long lunches, Renuka’s company was doing really well. They were picking up all expenses, and the only thing we really had to pay for was food but, at that point in time, we decided we had to make a break. We had to stop doing something so that we could do something different. We don’t know whether that different is better, but at that point we have to stop it, so that we can explore what is coming up ahead. There are two things that you put on your stop doing list. One, something that is working exceedingly well. The second thing, something that’s doing really badly. Or something that’s getting in your way. Now, the first one doesn’t make any sense. If something is doing exceedingly well, why would you stop it? Well, the point is that if you continue to do something, then you can’t do something else. You don’t know how good that something is until you stop doing it and then you go on to do something else. Last night, I was reading The New Yorker, and The New Yorker is one of my favorite magazines. There’s James Surowiecki saying exactly the same thing. He’s saying that Time Warner should sell HBO. HBO has now 120 million subscribers globally. It has earned over 2 billion dollars in profits last year. It’s stand alone streaming service has got over a million new subscribers since last spring. What does the article recommend? It recommends that they get rid of it, they sell it, they get the best price for it at this point of time, when they’re doing so well. What if it doubles in its value? That’s the answer we’ll never know, but the article went on. It talked about ESPN and how in 2014 it was worth 50 billion dollars. Disney owned it, they should have sold it, they could have banked the money. They could have focused on something else, but no, they kept it. ESPN is still doing well, it’s still the dominant player, but you can see that it’s not exactly where it was in 2014. The Protégé program was doing really well for us, clients were with us for the whole year. They would then join 5000 BC, we’d get to meet them. It was a lot of fun, and it generated a sizable revenue and we walked away from it. It enabled us to do other stuff that we would not have been able to do. When you say stop doing list, it’s not just the bad stuff that you have to stop doing. Sometimes you have to stop doing the things that are very critical, like next year we’re not doing workshops. Workshops are very critical to our business, but we’re not going to do the workshops. Instead, we’ll do online courses. Instead, we’ll do something else. We’ll create that space for ourselves, even though the workshops are doing really well. The other side of the stop doing list is stuff that’s driving you crazy. You know it’s driving you crazy, but you’re not stopping it. For instance, in September of this year, we started rebuilding the Psychotactic site. Now, there are dozens of pages on the Psychotactic site and I want to fiddle around with every single one of them, and do things that are interesting, different. The problem is that there are other projects, like for instance the storytelling workshop. Of course, vacations that get in the way. The point is that, at some point, you have to say, okay, I really want to do this, but I’m not going to do this. I’m going to put it off until later. This is procrastination, but it is part of a stop doing list. You can’t do everything in the same time. Last year, this time, we had the same dilemma when we were going to do the podcasts. I wanted to write some books for Amazon, and I wanted to do the podcast. Every day, we would go for a walk, and it would run me crazy. I didn’t know where to start, when to start, what to do first. I had to sit down and go, okay, what am I going to stop? I just dumped the Amazon books and started on the podcast. Now we’re on podcast number 70, and it’s not even been 52 weeks. It shows you how that stop doing list can help you focus and get stuff out of the way. Sometimes you have to procrastinate to get that point. Now the stop doing list is not restricted to work alone. You can take it into your personal life as well. For instance, I used to get my hair cut by a hairdresser, and I was dissatisfied for a very long time. You come back in, you grumble, and my wife, Renuka, she said, “Okay, stop grumbling. Go and find another hairdresser.” I ran into Shay, now Shay was cutting my hair so well, it was amazing. I wasn’t the only one who thought that was amazing. Usually, I was on a waiting list at a barber shop. I would get there, and there were two people in front of me, waiting for Shay. While a few of the barbers just stood around, doing absolutely nothing because no one was interested. Then, one day, involuntarily, Shay went onto my stop doing list. Kimmy was around and Shay wasn’t and so Kimmy cut my hair. She was better than Shay. I thought, “Oh my goodness. I should have done this a long time ago.” Then Kimmy got transferred to another branch, and now there’s Francis. You’ve heard about Francis in other podcasts. Now Francis is my top guy. There you go, even in something as mundane as cutting hair, there is a stop doing list. You have to push yourself a bit, and at other times you have to pull back and go, “No, we’re not going to do that.” The stop doing list is for good times, as well as for pressurized times. You have to decide, I’m going to stop doing it, I’m going to move onto the next thing. This takes us to the third part of planning, which is benchmarks. Now what are benchmarks? Often when we set out to do a project, say we’re going to do that website. What we don’t do is we don’t write down all the elements that are involved in doing that website because a website can go on forever, can’t it? It expands exponentially. When you are saying, I am going to write books for Amazon. Well, how many books are you going to write? How many pages are the books going to be? What’s the time frame? Where are you going to get the cartoons from? Who’s going to do all the layout? Having this kind of benchmark in mind makes a big difference. When we plan for something, for instance if I’m planning for the article writing course, which is version 2.0. I’m going to have to sit down and work out what I’m going to have to do. When I’m doing the stock cartoons, I’m going to have to sit down and work out what kind of stock cartoons, how many. It’s perfectly fine to write a top level goal. You should do that, you should say, “Okay, I’m going to do the website,” but then you have to get granular. The granular bit tells you, have I reached my destination. Otherwise, people don’t get to their goals, and that’s why they’re struggling, because there’s no clarity. Usually, you’re going to get the clarity when you have only three things to do, but even so, if you don’t have benchmarks you’ll never know when you’re reaching your goal or if you’re going to reach your goal. That brings us to the end of this episode. Summary What did we cover? We looked at three sets of goal setting, and that is your personal goal setting, your work goal setting, and your learning goal setting. Instead of having 700 of them, you just have three things that you want to achieve in the year. Three major things that you want to achieve in the year. Logically, you start with the work, but don’t handle the work. Just go to the breaks. Organize your breaks first, because you get reinvigorated and you come back and then you can do better work. First, fix the breaks and then go to the work, then go the learning. That takes care of the first set. The second thing that you want to do is you want to make sure that you have a stop doing list. Sometimes, things are working, they’re going your way, and they still have to be dropped. That’s what we did with the Protégé program, that’s what we did with our move to New Zealand, and a lot of good things have become better, because we’ve decided to move along. Sometimes, you’re just confused because you have too many things to do, and procrastinate. Go ahead. I mean, I know this about planning, not procrastination, but procrastination is a form of planning, when you have too much to do. Finally, have the benchmarks. Make your goals a little more detailed so that you know when you’re hitting those benchmarks. Plan it in a little more detail. That’s how you’ll reach your goal. This is what goal setting is about. It’s very simple. People make it more complicated than it needs to be. What’s the one thing that you can do today? Very simple. Work, vacation, and learning. Get your paper out, get your pen, and start writing. Three goals. You can start off with seven, or ten, but whittle it down to three. Oh, and make sure you write it down. When you write it down, things happen. It’s like magic when you write it down. Keep it in your head, it’s not as powerful. Write it down, it happens. If one of your goals is to join 5000 BC this year. That’s 5000 BC, our membership site. You’ll find that it’s quite a nice place to be. It’s a very warm and friendly place. It would be great to see you there. It also gives you the opportunity to be first in line for any of the online courses that we’re having. That might not seem like a big deal until you see how cool the online courses are at Psychotactics. It’s not just another information dump, you actually get the skill. If you set out to be a cartoonist, you become a cartoonist. If you set out to be a writer, you become a writer. It’s not just information that you’re getting, it’s all very practical. Being a member of 5000 BC gives you that little edge to get in there before everybody else. You have to read The Brain Audit, however. You can get that at psychotactics.com/brainaudit or on amazon. Com. If you’ve read The Brain Audit and you would like a special collector’s edition, then email us at Psychoanalytical. We’ll give you instruction on how to get the special collector’s edition. That’s it from me at Psychotactics and the Three Month Vacation. Bye for now. One of the biggest reasons why we struggle with our learning is because we run into resistance. Resistance is often just seen as a form of laziness, but that is not true at all. There are hidden forces causing us all to resist doing what we really should do. This slows us down considerably. Find out how to work with resistance, instead of fighting it all the time. Click here to get the free report on ‘How To Win The Resistance Game’. http://www.psychotactics.com/free/resistance-game/

Summary What exactly is big data? Dan Ariely, author and professor at Duke University, says big data is like teenage sex. No one knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they’re doing it. In reality, big data is a term for a data set so large and complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate. Today our host Jules Miller talks about the type of data that the law industry handles, what an appropriate term for it might be, and what type of companies are actually handling big data. For the latest topics, trends and tech in the legal industry, subscribe to Evolve Law Podcast: A Catalyst for Legal Innovation. Listen as legal experts and leaders share insights about the legal industry. For more information, questions, or suggestions about our podcast feel free to email us at info@evolvelawnow.com!   Show Notes 00:00 Intro 00:19 Big Data in the Legal Industry 00:25 What Big Data Actually Means 02:44 Big Data for Law (is a Misnomer) 03:38 An Example of Data Tracking in Law 04:25 Medium Data 04:58 Outro

Native Opinion Episode 30 “Decisions Have Consequences” Hello From Dave and Mike Reach our show: hosts@nativeopinion.com Twitter: @nativeopinion Facebook.com/nativeopinion Leave us voice mail via speak pipe app or on our website   NATIVE  NEWS SEGMENTS   ARTICLE 1:  FORMER VICE CHAIR OF TULALIP TRIBES DEBORAH PARKER NAMED TO DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION’S PLATFORM COMMITTEE BY MARK TRAHANT / CURRENTS / 24 MAY 2016 nativenewsonline.net First the news. Then the context. The news is that Deborah Parker has been named to the Democratic National Convention’s Platform Committee. That’s both remarkable and important. She was appointed by Bernie Sanders. As Nicole Willis posted on Facebook: “I am beyond pleased that American Indian and Alaska Native issues are such a high priority for this campaign– so much that one of our platform spots has gone to Deborah Parker!” (Willis is the National Tribal Outreach Director for the Sanders’ campaign.)   Summary: What does this mean for Indian country? Well, it could mean good things for Indian country IF everyone follows through, and people are not paying lip service to win the Native vote. Ms. Parker is respected, knowledgeable and a forward-looking individual when it comes to Native concerns. Here are some of her accomplishments.    Ms. Parker, a former vice chairman of the Tulalip Tribes in Washington, was an early supporter of Sanders. Parker has much to offer any platform committee. First, she understands and can communicate the relationship between tribes and the federal government and what might be possible in terms of improvement. Second, Parker was a critical voice in the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act. She adds expertise and credibility   Article 2:    Tribal leaders call for return of remains, sacred items before auction By Emily Zentner | Cronkite News Tuesday, May 24, 2016  cronkitenews.azpbs.org/   Native Americans protest planned auction in France of sacred objects and human remains By Peggy McGlone May 24 washingtonpost.com   Summary: What are people thinking? Wait! I know! It USED to belong to Indians. They don’t exist any longer. WRONG! We do still exist. It is a common practice for non-Natives to sell articles that used to belong to their ancestors. I am not surprised they have no respect for the ancestors of Natives. Many cultures (European cultures come to mind), have no respect for other cultures, especially Native American culture(s).  As, Mr. Bradley Marshall of the Hoopa Valley Tribal Council states, he called the auction “deplorable” and said “items are living beings that belong to their communities. When we create objects we are in prayer, and a spirit goes into them,” he said. “They are part of our families.”   Title:  State Department report slams Clinton email use By Ryan Browne and Evan Perez, CNN Updated 6:23 PM ET, Wed May 25, 2016 cnn.com   A State Department Inspector General report said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to follow the rules or inform key department staff regarding her use of a private email server, according to a copy of the report obtained by CNN on Wednesday.   Summary:   Hillary Clinton failed to follow State Department rules involving her email servers. I am not surprised she failed to follow the rules. Positions of power sometimes lead to the assumption of “the rules don’t apply to me.” Clinton has failed to disclose that minor detail about her not following the Department rules. I am not sure she is not the only person to not follow the Department email rules, but she IS the only one running for the office of the President of the United States. I believe that is a detail she should have cleared up before deciding to run for office, again, and a problem that should disqualify her from running.   Title: Hillary Clinton fired for lies, unethical behavior   Dan Calabrese June 13, 2013, at 10:14am westernjournalism.com   Summary:     The article, although a reprint, warrants discussion. Why? Because it helps to substantiate, Clinton’s track record of not telling the truth. Here are a couple of quotes from one of her former supervisors, Jerry Zeifman, a now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, and a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee.    “Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.” Why? “Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”   Title:   Michelle Obama to SFIS grads: ‘Our world needs you’ By Robert Nott The New Mexican 27 May, 2016 Updated 3 hours ago Source:   m.santafenewmexican.com/   Summary:   The First Lady was the keynote speaker at the Santa Fe Indian School in Northern New Mexico. I was able to attend that event, via a live podcast. The First Lady was, as always a down to earth speaker who was able to relate to her audience. Mrs. Obama received a gracious welcome as only Indian country can provide. Her comments were well-received by those who attended the ceremony of the graduating class of 2016. Congratulations to all of the Santa Fe Indian School, graduating class of 2016! To use a phrase the First Lady stated; “Our world needs you.”        

Episode 002 Mere Mortal? Super Power? URL:   http://www.julieannsullivan.com/mere-mortal-super-power/ Summary What is Mere Mortals Unite all about? Julie Ann discusses what this show's intention is and defines who's a mere mortal. Super Powers are those we are born with, but have forgotten about, don't know exist or have allowed someone else to take away. We are discussing simple solutions that create big results. It may take some work, but it's worth it.

SUMMARY: What an accomplishment! Episode 50 was a Milestone Marker for me when I first started out. I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do, or how I was going to do it, but I wanted to give myself enough time to figure it out. Episode 50 was my stretch goal. Do whatever it took to get there and then see if it was worth it. This special episode we take a look back at the first 50 episodes. So many topics, so many great guests. So glad I pushed myself to do this! I hope you enjoy! IN THIS PARTICULAR EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Hopefully, you will learn how much I have come to really enjoy Change Your POV Podcast. I would love to learn more about what you want to hear about in the next 50 episodes. Leave me a voicemail by going here, and let me know which episode you liked the most, and what you want to hear in the future. -OR- Leave a comment below and let me know!! Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining me this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see in this post. Also, please leave an honest review on iTunes for The Change Your POV Podcast! Ratings and reviews are super helpful and greatly appreciated as it helps me expose this show to a wider audience – plus, I read each and every one of them! And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates…see you next time! LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE NOW: Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer

Storytelling has a lot of guidelines and rules. Yet, some of the critical elements slip under the radar. You don't realise storytelling elements and secrets that are hiding in plain sight. And storytellers can't always explain what they're doing?and so these elements of storytelling get left out. And yet, they're incredibly powerful. Like for instance, the concept of "anticipation" before the "problem". It's nowhere to be found? Unless of course you listen to this episode on how to tell riveting stories. Welcome to Goldilocks land! http://www.psychotactics.com/three-elements-storytelling/ --------- In this episode Sean talks about how to create stories that are very powerful. Part 1: How the ‘The Wall’ changes the pace of a story Part 2: The power in using the ’The Reconnect’ Part 3: Why anticipation is so critical in storytelling Earlier Recording: Right click and ‘save as’ to download this episode Re-Release: Right click and ‘save as’ to download this episode Useful Resources and Links The Brain Audit: How to introduce your product in a language the customer understands Read or listen to: How to double your writing speed Special Bonus: How to design the pricing grid for your product --------- This is The 3 Month Vacation, and I’m Sean D’Souza. I was about 2 years old when I first had a bout of convulsions. It didn’t start up as convulsions. I was standing there on the balcony, looking out on the road, and then I fell off the stool that I was standing on. As the story goes, I ran to my mother. She noticed that I was having convulsions, and she panicked. Now, panic would be the wrong word to use because what she did next was bundled me in her arms and ran with me to the hospital. To put you in the frame of mind of what India was when I was growing up, there were no phones or most people didn’t have phones. They didn’t have cars. You probably had a scooter if you were well off. That’s just how things were back then. What she had to do was run a distance of 2 kilometers, maybe 3 kilometers to get to the nearest hospital. When she got to the hospital, they wouldn’t admit me because I had meningitis and the hospital was not in the position to deal with cases of meningitis. Somehow, she managed to get them to admit me. At that point in time, they asked for the mother. Now, my mother was very young at that point in time and they assumed that she was somehow the sister. They said, “No. No. No. You have to get the mother.” This is very odd in India because people tend to get married very early in India and yet they were insisting that they had to have the mother before they could go ahead with anything. There I was, not doing so well and the hospital authorities wouldn’t go ahead without dealing with the mother. Now, she convinced them but once they admitted me, there was one more problem. The doctor wasn’t so sure that I would survive the meningitis. He told my parents, and by that point, my father was there as well. He said, “I have to tell you this. Your son will either die or he’ll go mad.” What you just heard was the story of my youth. The question is, why did you keep listening? Why did the story work? What is it that caused you to pay attention and not move away from the story? In today’s episode, we’re going to cover storytelling elements: How to Avoid Boring Articles? The core of avoiding boring articles is to be able to tell stories, but stories are useful for presentations. They’re useful for books. They’re useful for webinars. They’re useful for pretty much everything. What happens is most of us load up our information with facts and figures, and those are very tiring but stories, they encapsulate everything. We’re going to learn how to create stories that are very powerful. The 3 things we’re going to cover today are one, the wall; second, the reconnect; and third, the anticipation. Part 1: The Wall Let’s start off with the first one which is the wall. Every afternoon, every weekday, I go through the same routine. I pick up my niece from school. She’s now 11, that’s Marsha. We speak about stuff in the car. We do multiplication tables. Recently, we’ve been doing storytelling. I usually when I asked her, “Tell me of story about what happened in the weekend.” She goes, “Nothing.” Then I say, “What happened in class?” She goes, “Nothing.” This is the interesting part. You think that there’s nothing happening in your life, but there is a lot happening all the time. Then, we have to zero in onto one little thing and make it interesting, just about anything becomes interesting in the way you dealt it. I said, “Tell me about your piano class on Saturday.” Her little face brightens up and the smile comes on, and she goes, “I didn’t practice before going to piano class on Saturday. Then when I got to the piano class, I was really afraid because I thought I would the play the piece really badly. But as it appears, I played quite well. In fact, I played it so well that the piano teacher said, ‘I’m going to put you on a more advanced piece.’ Of course, once she gave me the advanced piece, I couldn’t play it. She said, ‘No. No. No. No. No. You’re playing it in the wrong key.’ I should try to play in the right key, but it didn’t worked.” The piano teacher gave her another chance. Of course, she was not playing the piece well, so they went back to the old piece, which is what she had practice. Marsha was quite happily playing her old piece, but playing it by ear, not reading the notes. Happy as a luck when she looked at the corner of the room and there was her mother. According to Marsha, her mother was glaring at her because Marsha hadn’t improved and she was back to square one. How could the day have been worse for Marsha? Now, that was a really short story. Why would you hook in to the story? The reason the story works is because there were these little blips along the way, what we call the wall. What is the wall? The wall is … Think of it as like a heart monitor. The heart monitor, when it’s absolutely flat, will go “Beeeep.” There is no sound. Then when the heart is beating, it will “Dub dub, dub dub, dub dub.” There is this little spike that jumps in every now and then, and that creates a wall. That creates that fact that you know that your heart is actually working. This is what happens in storytelling. Most people tell a story in a very boring fashion. The reason why they tell that is because there story would just go from one end to the other without the spikes. What were the spikes in Marsha’s story? The first spike was the fact that she was afraid she hadn’t practiced. That got your attention. Then she went on to a new problem, which is that she had to go there to the class and then play a new piece. Then when she couldn’t play that new piece, she ran into a whole bunch of problems. She was thrown back to the old piece, which was a good thing, at least, to Marsha’s eyes but bad thing in the mother’s eyes, which is why the mother was glaring at her from the corner of the room. Then as Marsha finished the story, she says, “How could the day get worse?” This is a perfect, little story just told from one end to the other with all of these little blips, these little blips, the other wall. The other wall that you have to climb across so you can get into the alley and there’s a wall there and you have to climb over that wall to get to the other side. This is what creates interest. The wall can be an obstacle. It can be something funny. It can be something unusual. As long as it changes the pace of the story, it becomes the wall because you now have to get over that wall onto the other side before the story can continue. More stories don’t run that way. For instance, if we look at Marsha’s story, we could say, “We went to piano class. On the way, I almost slipped in a banana peel, but then I recovered because I wasn’t feeling so well. Anyway, I got to the class and I played my piece. Then, I played the second piece.” You can see where the story is going, but at one point in time, when she slipped in the banana peel, you got that spike in your head. Even though you might not have thought about it at the time, there was that spike and you see the spike everywhere. What’s more important is the spike has been with you right since you heard your first story being read to you as a kid. If you look at something like Red Riding Hood, it’s a very simple story. The girl goes to her grandmother’s house and she’s got this bag of goodies that her mother has packed for the grandmother. What happens along the way? Red Riding Hood runs into the wolf. Before that, there was no problem at all. The forest was not that intimidating. She got flowers along the way. Then, along came the wolf. The wolf creates the spike in the story. Now, this is a wall that she has to get over. She has to solve that problem. If you look at all the stories that you heard or have told your kids, you will find a consistency in this wall, this obstacle, which means that we have to create stories with these spikes, with these obstacles. Then, we have to climb over these obstacles or rather take the reader or the listener across the obstacle and then to the other side. Here’s what I do with Marsha. I make her sit down with a sheet of paper. Then I get her to draw a line across. At the starting point, she has, say, maybe she’s going to piano class. The ending point is whatever happens at the end. In between, I get her to draw little dots or little spikes, whatever you want to call them, and she has to put in those obstacles. As soon as she puts in those obstacles, we fill in the rest later. The point is once you identify those obstacles, you are able to turn out far better stories because now what you’ve done is you have created that bounce, you have created an obstacle, you have created a wall, and of course, people have to then go over it. When I started out this podcast, I started out with a story about meningitis. I didn’t spend time explaining to you how I was looking out of the window. I went straight into the bounce, straight into the wall. I had convulsions. I fell down. I then had to run to my mother. You have been thrown right in the middle of this bounce. Of course, the bounce didn’t stop until we got to the hospital because now you’re thinking, “Okay, things are going to get okay.” Then, we have another wall. They won’t admit me to the hospital. Then, we get over that wall. Now, they were asking for the mother because they don’t believe that my mother was the mother, that they thought that she was the sister. Then, when all of those problems have been resolved, the doctor says the chances are not good. What we have of these bounces all along the way, these walls all along the way, and you have to cross over, get over these walls to create a great story. This is just the first element of storytelling. Part 2: The Reconnect The second one is the concept called the reconnect. What is the reconnect? Right at the end of the previous section, which is when I was talking about the wall, I went right back to the story of meningitis. Immediately, your brain went from wherever it was right back to that original story. This is what storytellers use very effectively. They use the reconnect. They connect back to something they told you a while ago. It’s very powerful because that creates a bounce of its own. It takes you from where you are to where you used to be. If you’re to watch the movie Star Wars, there is this concept called the force. It’s used the force. Luke used the force. How many times does the word force show up in Star Wars? Apparently, more than 16 times. There you are in the cinema or watching the movie on a DVD or maybe on your computer, but you run into this concept of the force. Every time that reference to the force shows up and you don’t really notice it, but it just shows up, it takes you back to wherever you originally heard it or saw it. Why is this reconnection so cool? The first thing is that often, it makes you feel very intelligent. The story is set up in a way that you know what is coming. When it does arrive, it makes you feel extremely intelligent. That’s what storytelling is about. It’s about making the reader feel a lot happier or a lot sadder, that they use to feel. You can feel that happiness or sadness as I edge into the meningitis story. You know what is coming next. You know how that story ended. It makes you feel very intelligent. It makes the reader or the listener feel very intelligent. The second thing it does is it creates bounce. It bounces you back to wherever you were, and that creates that spike. It’s doing a dual job, but it does one more thing. It closes a loop. You can start off a story, and then knot in the story. Noticek what happened with my story. I can close that loop. I told you that the doctor said I would die or go mad. The loop wasn’t closed. What you can do is if you’re reconnecting at some point, you can close that loop. It’s very trendy to keep the loop open, but it drives people crazy. This morning, I was on my walk and I was listening to an audio book about the brain. This author was talking about how he was at a David Attenborough conference. He was sitting there with someone else. They were having a discussion. Then he went into the discussion. About 20 minutes later, I’m going, “What did David Attenborough had to do with it?” He never closed that loop, and he will never close that loop. It will leave that gap in my brain, and that’s not a good thing. You want to create that disconnect, but then you want to reconnect later, you want to close that loop. That is the power of the reconnect. Part 3: The Anticipation With that, we go to the third part, where we talk about anticipation and why it’s so critical in storytelling. We were doing our workshop in Campbell, California around the year 2006. One of the participants stood up. She was going to tell her story. She told us that her mother was very, very beautiful. She also told us that her sister was a lot like her mother. She then went on to tell us how her father would take photographs, but photographs of the mother and the sister. Notice how we haven’t completed that story. We haven’t really told you what comes next, but the anticipation is killing because you know what comes next. This is the beauty of anticipation. You create anticipation knowing fully well that you’re not leaving any gaps, but that the client, the listener, your reader is filling in the story, that 10%. This is what Anil Dharker told me when I was growing up and I was just starting out in my cartooning career. Anil was the editor of a newspaper called Mid-day. I was drawing cartoons for that newspaper. One day, he came up to me and he says, “Sean, you’re giving too much away. You need to get the customer, the reader to anticipate that 10%. You’re giving away 90% of the story, but you are getting them to anticipate the 10% because readers and listeners and clients are very intelligent. What you should do is leave out the bits. Don’t give the entire story.” Now, when you think about the advice you’re getting here on this podcast, you think, “Wait a second, you just said not to leave out gaps.” Yes, you don’t leave out the gaps. You reconnect, but you don’t tell the entire story upfront either. We’re taking the example, you got the story about the meningitis. You’ve got the story about how I got admitted to hospital. What happened next, you don’t know the rest to that story. That gap hasn’t been closed and yet you’re intelligent enough to figure out that there was an ending and how that ending shows up, that we’ll find out. The reason why we have anticipation is because it creates suspense, it creates unknowing suspense. When you say the boy got on the bus, he would never get off. What you’re doing is you’re going into the brain of the customer and they can see something bad unfolding. When I told you about that father that never took photographs of one of the daughters, you could see that insecurity building up. You could see that loneliness, that detachment. No one had to explain that you, but you can do this very simply by saying, “I woke up expecting it to be a great day.” Within those few words, you have already created anticipation. The reader knows, the listener knows that it’s not going to be a great day. How is it going to unfold? These are the lines that you have to put in your speech, in your presentation, in your writing because when you put in these lines, they create that pause, they create that white space, they create that breathing space. It allows the reader to anticipate what’s going to happen next. How is it going to twist and turn? Into Marsha’s story, where she talks about just how she went to piano class, she could say, “I thought it was going to be a very bad day.” Immediately, your mind goes [whizzing 00:19:00] forward to, “Wait, she said bad day but she didn’t sound like it was going to be a bad day. Did it turn out to be a bad day or not?” When she got to the piano class and she was able to play, now you’re relaxing. Then she puts in the other spike, and she goes, “I played that piece really well.” That created another problem for me. You notice what’s happening, the anticipation is setting you up for that spike, the problem that comes next. For us, the anticipation, then the problem. The anticipation, then the problem. Really this is what you have to do when you’re writing great stories. You have to get the reader in the framework, in that frame of mind so that they know that there is something going to change, something I was about to open the drawer when or I walked down the garden, expecting it to be a completely miserable day. It had been raining all morning. You know, even though you don’t know the story is going to unfold, you know that there is going to be a change. You’re creating anticipation. You’re creating that space for the reader and the listener to fill in the gaps in the head. That makes them again feel very intelligent. It also sets it up for that spike that we talked about in the first section. Summary What we’ve covered in today’s podcast has been 3 things. The first thing has been the wall. The wall creates those spikes. It creates that drama. It creates all of those blips that cause you to pay attention to the story. The second thing we looked at was the reconnect. How we start of something at the beginning; then somewhere in the middle, we connect; and then, we connect at the end, and there are these connections all over. If you listen to Episode #54, you can hear all of these connects. Go back to Episode #54 and you can see all these reconnects, walls, and anticipation. Of course, that takes us to anticipation, which is that moment that tells you that something is going to change. It creates the suspense. It’s very, very powerful in storytelling. It’s this breathing space, this quiet just before the storm. What’s the one thing that you can do today? The one thing that you can do today is go back to Episode #54 and listen to that episode because I listened to it just a few days ago. It has all of the stuff. Most of the podcast have it, but I just listened to Episode #54, so I know it’s there, so go back and listen to it. You will see that the wall, the reconnect and the anticipation is there. You’ll get a much better idea because you’ll be able to know in advance when that’s showing up. I had mentioned that we were going to do some workshops in Nashville, Tennessee and in Amsterdam, which is in the Netherlands. We are still looking for a venue. If you know some venues, let us know. In the meantime, if you would like to sign up for a storytelling workshop, then just email me at sean@psychotactics.com. We will send you more details. It’s still work in progress. As you know, we still haven’t found venue, which is the first step. If you know something, let us know. Storytelling is incredibly important. A lot of us leave out storytelling. We give facts and figures. This is why most books and presentation and webinars are so boring. The reason why you find the Brain Audit so interesting is the number of stories and analogies and examples, and then go back and read your copy of the Brain Audit or go to www.psychotactics.com/brainaudit and buy a copy, and you will see how critical it is to have these stories and how it reminds you of what you learned weeks, months, years after you learned it. In the end, statistics don’t sell. The story, the emotion that’s built in within that story, and a story well told is what sells a product or a service. You go for this year and the years to come must be to tell better stories, not to give more information. That brings us to the end of this episode. If you’re in 5000bc and you’re a member, then, please go in and ask questions about storytelling and I’ll be more than happy to answer your questions. If you haven’t joined 5000bc, then get your copy of the Brain Audit first, read the stories and then join 5000bc. You know how I started this episode with the doctor saying that I would die or go mad. I didn’t die. That’s me, Sean D’Souza from The 3 Month Vacation saying bye for now. Bye-bye. Still reading? When we try to tell stories, we get stuck. When we try to learn a new skill, we get stuck. So, how do you dramatically increase your rate of learning without getting stuck? Find out here—Accelerated Learning: How To Incredibly Speed Up Your Skill Acquisition: Episode 52 http://www.psychotactics.com/accelerated-learning-skill/

Who's Doug Hitchcock? And in a world full of goal-setting exercises, why does Doug's system stand out? Find out why most goal-setting goes hopelessly off the mark and Doug's plan works almost like magic year after year. Find out not just how to set goals, but how to create a stop-doing list (yes, that's a goal too). And finally, learn why most goals are designed for failure because they lack a simple benchmarking system. Find out how we've made almost impossible dreams come true with this goal-setting system. http://www.psychotactics.com/goal-setting-successfully/ ------------------------------- In this episode Sean talks about Part 1:  Why most goal-setting goes hopelessly off the mark Part 2: How to set goals, but how to create a successful stop-doing list Part 3: Learn why most goals are designed for failure because they lack a simple benchmarking system Right click here and ‘save as’ to download this episode to your computer. Useful Resources Chaos Planning: How ‘Irregular’ Folks Get Things Done Learning: How To Retain 90% Of Everything You Learn 5000bc: How to get started on your goal setting ------------------------------- The  Transcript “This transcript hasn’t been checked for typos, so you may well find some. If you do, let us know and we’ll be sure to fix them.” This is the Three-Month Vacation. I’m Sean D’Souza. Doug Hitchcock was my first real mentor and he had been bankrupt thrive. When I first moved to Auckland in the year 2000, I didn’t really know anyone. I was starting up a new business, I was starting up a new life. I joined a networking group and within that networking group I asked for a mentor. Well, no one in the networking group was willing to be a mentor, but someone did put me in touch with Doug. The only problem with Doug was he had been bankrupt thrive. Now, when I say he was bankrupt thrice, it doesn’t mean he was still bankrupt. He just pulled himself out of the hole three times in his life and there he was, at about 70 plus, and he was my first mentor. Before he starts to talk to me about anything, he asks me, “Do you do goal setting?” I’m like, “Yeah, I have goals,” and he goes, “No. Do you have goals on paper?” I said, “No.” He says, “We have to start there. We have to start with goals on paper.” That’s how I started doing goal setting, all the way back in the year 2000. Almost immediately, I got all the goal setting wrong. You ask, how can you get goal setting wrong? After all, you’re just putting goals down on a sheet of paper. How can you get something like that wrong? You can’t write the wrong goals, but you can write too many goals. That’s exactly what I did. I sat down with that sheet of paper and I wrote down all my work goals, my personal goals, and I had an enormous list. That’s when Doug came back into the scene, and he said, “Pick three.” I said, “I could pick five.” He goes, “No, no, no. Pick three.” I picked three goals in my work and three goals from my personal life. You know what? By the end of the year, I’d achieved those goals. Ever since, I have been sitting down and working out these goals based on Doug’s method. Doug may have lost his business thrice in a row, but he knew what he was talking about. Most of us just wander through life expecting things to happen. When they happen, we say they happen for a reason, but they don’t happen for a reason. They happen, and we assign a reason to it. In this episode, I’m going to cover three topics. The first is the three part planning. Then we’ll go the other way. We’re create a stop doing list. Finally, we’ll look at benchmarks and see how we’ve done in the year. Let’s start off with the first one, which is the three part planning. Does the San Fernando earthquake ring any bells in your memory? Most people haven’t ever heard of this earthquake, and yet it was one of the deadliest earthquakes in US history. It collapsed entire hospitals, it killed 64 people, it injured over two and a half thousand. When the damage was assessed, it had cost millions of dollars, and yet it could have been the disaster that eclipsed all other US disasters. That’s because the earthquake almost caused the entire Van Norman Reservoir to collapse. The dam held, and yet, if it had collapsed, the resulting rush of water would have taken the lives of more people than the Pearl Harbor Attack, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 9/11 and 1900 Galveston Hurricane combined. In barely 12 seconds, the top section of the dam had disintegrated and yet, the surrounding areas were extremely lucky. The reservoir was only half full that day. The aftershocks of the earthquake continued to cause parts of the dam to break apart. A few feet of free board was the only thing that stopped a total collapse. This total collapse is what many of us come close to experiencing as we try to clamber up the ladder of success. We try to do too many things and we don’t seem to go anywhere. In effect, this is like water cascading down a dam. There’s too many things and we have no control over it. What’s going to stop it? The only thing that seems to stop anything is some kind of focus and goal setting is focus. The way we go about our goal setting is the way Doug showed me. The first category of goal setting is what we want to achieve at work. The second set comprises of our personal goals. The third, this is the most critical of all, what we’re going to learn. Should we start off with the first one, which is our work goals? Well, that’s not the way we do it as Psychotactics. The way we work at Psychotactics is we look at our personal goals. Our own lives are far more important than work. What we do is we sit down, and first, we plan vacations. As you know, we take three months off. We’ve been doing this since 2004. We started our business at the end of 2002. Yet by 2004, we had decided we were going to take three months off. The thing is that your vacations also need planning. Our vacations are broken up into big breaks, small breaks, and weekends. Now the big breaks are the month long vacations, and then the small breaks are in between that. We’re go away for a couple of days somewhere, and that’s our small break. I’m saying weekends, because before I wouldn’t take weekends off. I’d be working on the weekend at least for a few hours on Saturday morning and a few hours on Sunday morning, and I don’t do that any more. Now that’s almost written in stone. It’s very hard for me to get to work on weekends. I’ll slide sometimes, but it’s very hard. The most critical thing to do is to work out the long breaks. When are we going to have those, and then the shorter breaks. That comprises that whole vacation concept, but you also have to have other personal goals. Maybe I want to learn how to cook Mexican dishes, or maybe I want to learn how to take better photographs. Now, these are personal projects. They’re not not pseudo work projects. They’re things that, at the end of the year, I go, “Wow, that’s what I’ve achieved. That’s how much I progressed.” That’s how you start off with personal goals. You plan your breaks. You plan what you want to do personally. Once you’re done with that, then you go to your work goals. We have a lot of work goals, we have the article writing workshop coming up, we’ve got the 50 words workshop, which is, how do you start up an article. We’ve got a whole bunch of things, because we’ve got products, we’ve got courses, we’ve got workshops. All of this has to sit nicely between, so that we work for 12 weeks and then we go on a break. We’ve decided that we’re not having any workshops next year. We’ve had a lot of workshops this year, no workshops next year. Now, this leaves us the chance to focus on the courses and the products. Now my brain is like that dam, there’s always water rushing over. I want to do a million projects, but then I have to choose. The article writing course is one of the things that I want to do for sure. I want to do a version 2.0 of it. The cartoon bank, I’ve been putting that off for a long time. That’s definitely something I want to do. Then I’ll pick a third one. Do I stop at three? No, but I make sure that I get these three down. The three that I’m going to do, they go down on paper. Some other projects will come up, a lot of stuff that I might not expect, and yet I’ll get all of this done, but these three, they’ll get done. Those three vacations, they will get done. Then we get to the third part, which is learning. What am I going to learn this next year? Maybe I’ll learn a software, or maybe I’ll learn how to use audio better. The point is, I have to write it down, because once I write it down, then I’m going to figure out where I have to go and what I have to do to make sure that learning happens. This is not just learning like reading some books or doing something minor like that. This is big chunks of learning, so that by the the end of the year, I know I’ve reached that point. When it comes to planning, the first thing that we’re always doing is we’re looking at these three elements, which is work, vacation, and learning. If we have to do other sub projects, we’ll do it, but these nine things get done. Year after year after year. This is what Doug taught me, he gave me this ability to focus. I consider myself to be unfocused, I consider myself to want to do everything and anything. That was the gift of Doug. In the year 2008, we had a program, it was a year long program. You probably heard of it. It was called a Psychotactics Protégé program. We would teach clients how to write articles, how to create info products, public relations. Lots of things along the way in that year. As you’d expect, it was reasonably profitable. 15 students paid $10,000, and so that was $150,000 that we would have in the bank before the year started. In 2009, we pulled the plug on the Protégé system. Why would we do that? We started it in 2006, it was full, in 2007 it was full, in 2008 it was full, in 2009 there was a waiting list. We decided not to go ahead with it. We decided it was going to go on our stop doing list. We were going to walk away from $150,000, just like that. Yes, some clients were unhappy, because they wanted to be on the next Protégé program. They had seen the testimonials, they had seen the results. They knew that it was good enough to sign up for. They knew that $10,000 was a very small investment, for a year long advancement. On our part, we realized that we had to walk away from $150,000 that we were getting on cue, every December. This is what’s called a stop doing list. We’ve used this stop doing list in our own lives. When we left India, and got to Auckland, it wasn’t like we were leaving something desperate. We were leaving something that was really good. I was drawing tattoos all day, going bowling in the afternoon, having long lunches, Renuka’s company was doing really well. They were picking up all expenses, and the only thing we really had to pay for was food but, at that point in time, we decided we had to make a break. We had to stop doing something so that we could do something different. We don’t know whether that different is better, but at that point we have to stop it, so that we can explore what is coming up ahead. There are two things that you put on your stop doing list. One, something that is working exceedingly well. The second thing, something that’s doing really badly. Or something that’s getting in your way. Now, the first one doesn’t make any sense. If something is doing exceedingly well, why would you stop it? Well, the point is that if you continue to do something, then you can’t do something else. You don’t know how good that something is until you stop doing it and then you go on to do something else. Last night, I was reading The New Yorker, and The New Yorker is one of my favorite magazines. There’s James Surowiecki saying exactly the same thing. He’s saying that Time Warner should sell HBO. HBO has now 120 million subscribers globally. It has earned over 2 billion dollars in profits last year. It’s stand alone streaming service has got over a million new subscribers since last spring. What does the article recommend? It recommends that they get rid of it, they sell it, they get the best price for it at this point of time, when they’re doing so well. What if it doubles in its value? That’s the answer we’ll never know, but the article went on. It talked about ESPN and how in 2014 it was worth 50 billion dollars. Disney owned it, they should have sold it, they could have banked the money. They could have focused on something else, but no, they kept it. ESPN is still doing well, it’s still the dominant player, but you can see that it’s not exactly where it was in 2014. The Protégé program was doing really well for us, clients were with us for the whole year. They would then join 5000 BC, we’d get to meet them. It was a lot of fun, and it generated a sizable revenue and we walked away from it. It enabled us to do other stuff that we would not have been able to do. When you say stop doing list, it’s not just the bad stuff that you have to stop doing. Sometimes you have to stop doing the things that are very critical, like next year we’re not doing workshops. Workshops are very critical to our business, but we’re not going to do the workshops. Instead, we’ll do online courses. Instead, we’ll do something else. We’ll create that space for ourselves, even though the workshops are doing really well. The other side of the stop doing list is stuff that’s driving you crazy. You know it’s driving you crazy, but you’re not stopping it. For instance, in September of this year, we started rebuilding the Psychotactic site. Now, there are dozens of pages on the Psychotactic site and I want to fiddle around with every single one of them, and do things that are interesting, different. The problem is that there are other projects, like for instance the storytelling workshop. Of course, vacations that get in the way. The point is that, at some point, you have to say, okay, I really want to do this, but I’m not going to do this. I’m going to put it off until later. This is procrastination, but it is part of a stop doing list. You can’t do everything in the same time. Last year, this time, we had the same dilemma when we were going to do the podcasts. I wanted to write some books for Amazon, and I wanted to do the podcast. Every day, we would go for a walk, and it would run me crazy. I didn’t know where to start, when to start, what to do first. I had to sit down and go, okay, what am I going to stop? I just dumped the Amazon books and started on the podcast. Now we’re on podcast number 70, and it’s not even been 52 weeks. It shows you how that stop doing list can help you focus and get stuff out of the way. Sometimes you have to procrastinate to get that point. Now the stop doing list is not restricted to work alone. You can take it into your personal life as well. For instance, I used to get my hair cut by a hairdresser, and I was dissatisfied for a very long time. You come back in, you grumble, and my wife, Renuka, she said, “Okay, stop grumbling. Go and find another hairdresser.” I ran into Shay, now Shay was cutting my hair so well, it was amazing. I wasn’t the only one who thought that was amazing. Usually, I was on a waiting list at a barber shop. I would get there, and there were two people in front of me, waiting for Shay. While a few of the barbers just stood around, doing absolutely nothing because no one was interested. Then, one day, involuntarily, Shay went onto my stop doing list. Kimmy was around and Shay wasn’t and so Kimmy cut my hair. She was better than Shay. I thought, “Oh my goodness. I should have done this a long time ago.” Then Kimmy got transferred to another branch, and now there’s Francis. You’ve heard about Francis in other podcasts. Now Francis is my top guy. There you go, even in something as mundane as cutting hair, there is a stop doing list. You have to push yourself a bit, and at other times you have to pull back and go, “No, we’re not going to do that.” The stop doing list is for good times, as well as for pressurized times. You have to decide, I’m going to stop doing it, I’m going to move onto the next thing. This takes us to the third part of planning, which is benchmarks. Now what are benchmarks? Often when we set out to do a project, say we’re going to do that website. What we don’t do is we don’t write down all the elements that are involved in doing that website because a website can go on forever, can’t it? It expands exponentially. When you are saying, I am going to write books for Amazon. Well, how many books are you going to write? How many pages are the books going to be? What’s the time frame? Where are you going to get the cartoons from? Who’s going to do all the layout? Having this kind of benchmark in mind makes a big difference. When we plan for something, for instance if I’m planning for the article writing course, which is version 2.0. I’m going to have to sit down and work out what I’m going to have to do. When I’m doing the stock cartoons, I’m going to have to sit down and work out what kind of stock cartoons, how many. It’s perfectly fine to write a top level goal. You should do that, you should say, “Okay, I’m going to do the website,” but then you have to get granular. The granular bit tells you, have I reached my destination. Otherwise, people don’t get to their goals, and that’s why they’re struggling, because there’s no clarity. Usually, you’re going to get the clarity when you have only three things to do, but even so, if you don’t have benchmarks you’ll never know when you’re reaching your goal or if you’re going to reach your goal. That brings us to the end of this episode. Summary What did we cover? We looked at three sets of goal setting, and that is your personal goal setting, your work goal setting, and your learning goal setting. Instead of having 700 of them, you just have three things that you want to achieve in the year. Three major things that you want to achieve in the year. Logically, you start with the work, but don’t handle the work. Just go to the breaks. Organize your breaks first, because you get reinvigorated and you come back and then you can do better work. First, fix the breaks and then go to the work, then go the learning. That takes care of the first set. The second thing that you want to do is you want to make sure that you have a stop doing list. Sometimes, things are working, they’re going your way, and they still have to be dropped. That’s what we did with the Protégé program, that’s what we did with our move to New Zealand, and a lot of good things have become better, because we’ve decided to move along. Sometimes, you’re just confused because you have too many things to do, and procrastinate. Go ahead. I mean, I know this about planning, not procrastination, but procrastination is a form of planning, when you have too much to do. Finally, have the benchmarks. Make your goals a little more detailed so that you know when you’re hitting those benchmarks. Plan it in a little more detail. That’s how you’ll reach your goal. This is what goal setting is about. It’s very simple. People make it more complicated than it needs to be. What’s the one thing that you can do today? Very simple. Work, vacation, and learning. Get your paper out, get your pen, and start writing. Three goals. You can start off with seven, or ten, but whittle it down to three. Oh, and make sure you write it down. When you write it down, things happen. It’s like magic when you write it down. Keep it in your head, it’s not as powerful. Write it down, it happens. If one of your goals is to join 5000 BC this year. That’s 5000 BC, our membership site. You’ll find that it’s quite a nice place to be. It’s a very warm and friendly place. It would be great to see you there. It also gives you the opportunity to be first in line for any of the online courses that we’re having. That might not seem like a big deal until you see how cool the online courses are at Psychotactics. It’s not just another information dump, you actually get the skill. If you set out to be a cartoonist, you become a cartoonist. If you set out to be a writer, you become a writer. It’s not just information that you’re getting, it’s all very practical. Being a member of 5000 BC gives you that little edge to get in there before everybody else. You have to read The Brain Audit, however. You can get that at psychotactics.com/brainaudit or on amazon. Com. If you’ve read The Brain Audit and you would like a special collector’s edition, then email us at Psychoanalytical. 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Storytelling has a lot of guidelines and rules. Yet, some of the critical elements slip under the radar. You don't realise storytelling elements and secrets that are hiding in plain sight. And storytellers can't always explain what they're doing?and so these elements of storytelling get left out. And yet, they're incredibly powerful. Like for instance, the concept of "anticipation" before the "problem". It's nowhere to be found? Unless of course you listen to this episode on how to tell riveting stories. Welcome to Goldilocks land!  -------------------- Resources To access this audio + transcript: http://www.psychotactics.com/56 Email me at: sean@psychotactics.com  Twitter/Facebook: seandsouza Magic? Yes, magic: http://www.psychotactics.com/magic -------------------- In this episode Sean talks about how to create stories that are very powerful. Part 1: How the ‘The Wall’ changes the pace of a story Part 2: The power in using the ’The Reconnect’ Part 3: Why anticipation is so critical in storytelling Right click here and ‘save as’ to download this episode to your computer.   Useful Resources and Links The Brain Audit: How to introduce your product in a language the customer understands Read or listen to: How to double your writing speed Special Bonus: How to design the pricing grid for your product ----------------------------- The Transcript This is The 3 Month Vacation, and I’m Sean D’Souza. I was about 2 years old when I first had a bout of convulsions. It didn’t start up as convulsions. I was standing there on the balcony, looking out on the road, and then I fell off the stool that I was standing on. As the story goes, I ran to my mother. She noticed that I was having convulsions, and she panicked. Now, panic would be the wrong word to use because what she did next was bundled me in her arms and ran with me to the hospital. To put you in the frame of mind of what India was when I was growing up, there were no phones or most people didn’t have phones. They didn’t have cars. You probably had a scooter if you were well off. That’s just how things were back then. What she had to do was run a distance of 2 kilometers, maybe 3 kilometers to get to the nearest hospital. When she got to the hospital, they wouldn’t admit me because I had meningitis and the hospital was not in the position to deal with cases of meningitis. Somehow, she managed to get them to admit me. At that point in time, they asked for the mother. Now, my mother was very young at that point in time and they assumed that she was somehow the sister. They said, “No. No. No. You have to get the mother.” This is very odd in India because people tend to get married very early in India and yet they were insisting that they had to have the mother before they could go ahead with anything. There I was, not doing so well and the hospital authorities wouldn’t go ahead without dealing with the mother. Now, she convinced them but once they admitted me, there was one more problem. The doctor wasn’t so sure that I would survive the meningitis. He told my parents, and by that point, my father was there as well. He said, “I have to tell you this. Your son will either die or he’ll go mad.” What you just heard was the story of my youth. The question is, why did you keep listening? Why did the story work? What is it that caused you to pay attention and not move away from the story? In today’s episode, we’re going to cover storytelling elements: How to Avoid Boring Articles? The core of avoiding boring articles is to be able to tell stories, but stories are useful for presentations. They’re useful for books. They’re useful for webinars. They’re useful for pretty much everything. What happens is most of us load up our information with facts and figures, and those are very tiring but stories, they encapsulate everything. We’re going to learn how to create stories that are very powerful. The 3 things we’re going to cover today are one, the wall; second, the reconnect; and third, the anticipation. Part 1: The Wall Let’s start off with the first one which is the wall. Every afternoon, every weekday, I go through the same routine. I pick up my niece from school. She’s now 11, that’s Marsha. We speak about stuff in the car. We do multiplication tables. Recently, we’ve been doing storytelling. I usually when I asked her, “Tell me of story about what happened in the weekend.” She goes, “Nothing.” Then I say, “What happened in class?” She goes, “Nothing.” This is the interesting part. You think that there’s nothing happening in your life, but there is a lot happening all the time. Then, we have to zero in onto one little thing and make it interesting, just about anything becomes interesting in the way you dealt it. I said, “Tell me about your piano class on Saturday.” Her little face brightens up and the smile comes on, and she goes, “I didn’t practice before going to piano class on Saturday. Then when I got to the piano class, I was really afraid because I thought I would the play the piece really badly. But as it appears, I played quite well. In fact, I played it so well that the piano teacher said, ‘I’m going to put you on a more advanced piece.’ Of course, once she gave me the advanced piece, I couldn’t play it. She said, ‘No. No. No. No. No. You’re playing it in the wrong key.’ I should try to play in the right key, but it didn’t worked.” The piano teacher gave her another chance. Of course, she was not playing the piece well, so they went back to the old piece, which is what she had practice. Marsha was quite happily playing her old piece, but playing it by ear, not reading the notes. Happy as a luck when she looked at the corner of the room and there was her mother. According to Marsha, her mother was glaring at her because Marsha hadn’t improved and she was back to square one. How could the day have been worse for Marsha? Now, that was a really short story. Why would you hook in to the story? The reason the story works is because there were these little blips along the way, what we call the wall. What is the wall? The wall is … Think of it as like a heart monitor. The heart monitor, when it’s absolutely flat, will go “Beeeep.” There is no sound. Then when the heart is beating, it will “Dub dub, dub dub, dub dub.” There is this little spike that jumps in every now and then, and that creates a wall. That creates that fact that you know that your heart is actually working. This is what happens in storytelling. Most people tell a story in a very boring fashion. The reason why they tell that is because there story would just go from one end to the other without the spikes. What were the spikes in Marsha’s story? The first spike was the fact that she was afraid she hadn’t practiced. That got your attention. Then she went on to a new problem, which is that she had to go there to the class and then play a new piece. Then when she couldn’t play that new piece, she ran into a whole bunch of problems. She was thrown back to the old piece, which was a good thing, at least, to Marsha’s eyes but bad thing in the mother’s eyes, which is why the mother was glaring at her from the corner of the room. Then as Marsha finished the story, she says, “How could the day get worse?” This is a perfect, little story just told from one end to the other with all of these little blips, these little blips, the other wall. The other wall that you have to climb across so you can get into the alley and there’s a wall there and you have to climb over that wall to get to the other side. This is what creates interest. The wall can be an obstacle. It can be something funny. It can be something unusual. As long as it changes the pace of the story, it becomes the wall because you now have to get over that wall onto the other side before the story can continue. More stories don’t run that way. For instance, if we look at Marsha’s story, we could say, “We went to piano class. On the way, I almost slipped in a banana peel, but then I recovered because I wasn’t feeling so well. Anyway, I got to the class and I played my piece. Then, I played the second piece.” You can see where the story is going, but at one point in time, when she slipped in the banana peel, you got that spike in your head. Even though you might not have thought about it at the time, there was that spike and you see the spike everywhere. What’s more important is the spike has been with you right since you heard your first story being read to you as a kid. If you look at something like Red Riding Hood, it’s a very simple story. The girl goes to her grandmother’s house and she’s got this bag of goodies that her mother has packed for the grandmother. What happens along the way? Red Riding Hood runs into the wolf. Before that, there was no problem at all. The forest was not that intimidating. She got flowers along the way. Then, along came the wolf. The wolf creates the spike in the story. Now, this is a wall that she has to get over. She has to solve that problem. If you look at all the stories that you heard or have told your kids, you will find a consistency in this wall, this obstacle, which means that we have to create stories with these spikes, with these obstacles. Then, we have to climb over these obstacles or rather take the reader or the listener across the obstacle and then to the other side. Here’s what I do with Marsha. I make her sit down with a sheet of paper. Then I get her to draw a line across. At the starting point, she has, say, maybe she’s going to piano class. The ending point is whatever happens at the end. In between, I get her to draw little dots or little spikes, whatever you want to call them, and she has to put in those obstacles. As soon as she puts in those obstacles, we fill in the rest later. The point is once you identify those obstacles, you are able to turn out far better stories because now what you’ve done is you have created that bounce, you have created an obstacle, you have created a wall, and of course, people have to then go over it. When I started out this podcast, I started out with a story about meningitis. I didn’t spend time explaining to you how I was looking out of the window. I went straight into the bounce, straight into the wall. I had convulsions. I fell down. I then had to run to my mother. You have been thrown right in the middle of this bounce. Of course, the bounce didn’t stop until we got to the hospital because now you’re thinking, “Okay, things are going to get okay.” Then, we have another wall. They won’t admit me to the hospital. Then, we get over that wall. Now, they were asking for the mother because they don’t believe that my mother was the mother, that they thought that she was the sister. Then, when all of those problems have been resolved, the doctor says the chances are not good. What we have of these bounces all along the way, these walls all along the way, and you have to cross over, get over these walls to create a great story. This is just the first element of storytelling. Part 2: The Reconnect The second one is the concept called the reconnect. What is the reconnect? Right at the end of the previous section, which is when I was talking about the wall, I went right back to the story of meningitis. Immediately, your brain went from wherever it was right back to that original story. This is what storytellers use very effectively. They use the reconnect. They connect back to something they told you a while ago. It’s very powerful because that creates a bounce of its own. It takes you from where you are to where you used to be. If you’re to watch the movie Star Wars, there is this concept called the force. It’s used the force. Luke used the force. How many times does the word force show up in Star Wars? Apparently, more than 16 times. There you are in the cinema or watching the movie on a DVD or maybe on your computer, but you run into this concept of the force. Every time that reference to the force shows up and you don’t really notice it, but it just shows up, it takes you back to wherever you originally heard it or saw it. Why is this reconnection so cool? The first thing is that often, it makes you feel very intelligent. The story is set up in a way that you know what is coming. When it does arrive, it makes you feel extremely intelligent. That’s what storytelling is about. It’s about making the reader feel a lot happier or a lot sadder, that they use to feel. You can feel that happiness or sadness as I edge into the meningitis story. You know what is coming next. You know how that story ended. It makes you feel very intelligent. It makes the reader or the listener feel very intelligent. The second thing it does is it creates bounce. It bounces you back to wherever you were, and that creates that spike. It’s doing a dual job, but it does one more thing. It closes a loop. You can start off a story, and then knot in the story. Noticek what happened with my story. I can close that loop. I told you that the doctor said I would die or go mad. The loop wasn’t closed. What you can do is if you’re reconnecting at some point, you can close that loop. It’s very trendy to keep the loop open, but it drives people crazy. This morning, I was on my walk and I was listening to an audio book about the brain. This author was talking about how he was at a David Attenborough conference. He was sitting there with someone else. They were having a discussion. Then he went into the discussion. About 20 minutes later, I’m going, “What did David Attenborough had to do with it?” He never closed that loop, and he will never close that loop. It will leave that gap in my brain, and that’s not a good thing. You want to create that disconnect, but then you want to reconnect later, you want to close that loop. That is the power of the reconnect. Part 3: The Anticipation With that, we go to the third part, where we talk about anticipation and why it’s so critical in storytelling. We were doing our workshop in Campbell, California around the year 2006. One of the participants stood up. She was going to tell her story. She told us that her mother was very, very beautiful. She also told us that her sister was a lot like her mother. She then went on to tell us how her father would take photographs, but photographs of the mother and the sister. Notice how we haven’t completed that story. We haven’t really told you what comes next, but the anticipation is killing because you know what comes next. This is the beauty of anticipation. You create anticipation knowing fully well that you’re not leaving any gaps, but that the client, the listener, your reader is filling in the story, that 10%. This is what Anil Dharker told me when I was growing up and I was just starting out in my cartooning career. Anil was the editor of a newspaper called Mid-day. I was drawing cartoons for that newspaper. One day, he came up to me and he says, “Sean, you’re giving too much away. You need to get the customer, the reader to anticipate that 10%. You’re giving away 90% of the story, but you are getting them to anticipate the 10% because readers and listeners and clients are very intelligent. What you should do is leave out the bits. Don’t give the entire story.” Now, when you think about the advice you’re getting here on this podcast, you think, “Wait a second, you just said not to leave out gaps.” Yes, you don’t leave out the gaps. You reconnect, but you don’t tell the entire story upfront either. We’re taking the example, you got the story about the meningitis. You’ve got the story about how I got admitted to hospital. What happened next, you don’t know the rest to that story. That gap hasn’t been closed and yet you’re intelligent enough to figure out that there was an ending and how that ending shows up, that we’ll find out. The reason why we have anticipation is because it creates suspense, it creates unknowing suspense. When you say the boy got on the bus, he would never get off. What you’re doing is you’re going into the brain of the customer and they can see something bad unfolding. When I told you about that father that never took photographs of one of the daughters, you could see that insecurity building up. You could see that loneliness, that detachment. No one had to explain that you, but you can do this very simply by saying, “I woke up expecting it to be a great day.” Within those few words, you have already created anticipation. The reader knows, the listener knows that it’s not going to be a great day. How is it going to unfold? These are the lines that you have to put in your speech, in your presentation, in your writing because when you put in these lines, they create that pause, they create that white space, they create that breathing space. It allows the reader to anticipate what’s going to happen next. How is it going to twist and turn? Into Marsha’s story, where she talks about just how she went to piano class, she could say, “I thought it was going to be a very bad day.” Immediately, your mind goes [whizzing 00:19:00] forward to, “Wait, she said bad day but she didn’t sound like it was going to be a bad day. Did it turn out to be a bad day or not?” When she got to the piano class and she was able to play, now you’re relaxing. Then she puts in the other spike, and she goes, “I played that piece really well.” That created another problem for me. You notice what’s happening, the anticipation is setting you up for that spike, the problem that comes next. For us, the anticipation, then the problem. The anticipation, then the problem. Really this is what you have to do when you’re writing great stories. You have to get the reader in the framework, in that frame of mind so that they know that there is something going to change, something I was about to open the drawer when or I walked down the garden, expecting it to be a completely miserable day. It had been raining all morning. You know, even though you don’t know the story is going to unfold, you know that there is going to be a change. You’re creating anticipation. You’re creating that space for the reader and the listener to fill in the gaps in the head. That makes them again feel very intelligent. It also sets it up for that spike that we talked about in the first section. Summary What we’ve covered in today’s podcast has been 3 things. The first thing has been the wall. The wall creates those spikes. It creates that drama. It creates all of those blips that cause you to pay attention to the story. The second thing we looked at was the reconnect. How we start of something at the beginning; then somewhere in the middle, we connect; and then, we connect at the end, and there are these connections all over. If you listen to Episode #54, you can hear all of these connects. Go back to Episode #54 and you can see all these reconnects, walls, and anticipation. Of course, that takes us to anticipation, which is that moment that tells you that something is going to change. It creates the suspense. It’s very, very powerful in storytelling. It’s this breathing space, this quiet just before the storm. What’s the one thing that you can do today? The one thing that you can do today is go back to Episode #54 and listen to that episode because I listened to it just a few days ago. It has all of the stuff. Most of the podcast have it, but I just listened to Episode #54, so I know it’s there, so go back and listen to it. You will see that the wall, the reconnect and the anticipation is there. You’ll get a much better idea because you’ll be able to know in advance when that’s showing up. I had mentioned that we were going to do some workshops in Nashville, Tennessee and in Amsterdam, which is in the Netherlands. We are still looking for a venue. If you know some venues, let us know. In the meantime, if you would like to sign up for a storytelling workshop, then just email me at sean@psychotactics.com. We will send you more details. It’s still work in progress. As you know, we still haven’t found venue, which is the first step. If you know something, let us know. Storytelling is incredibly important. A lot of us leave out storytelling. We give facts and figures. This is why most books and presentation and webinars are so boring. The reason why you find the Brain Audit so interesting is the number of stories and analogies and examples, and then go back and read your copy of the Brain Audit or go to www.psychotactics.com/brainaudit and buy a copy, and you will see how critical it is to have these stories and how it reminds you of what you learned weeks, months, years after you learned it. In the end, statistics don’t sell. The story, the emotion that’s built in within that story, and a story well told is what sells a product or a service. You go for this year and the years to come must be to tell better stories, not to give more information. That brings us to the end of this episode. If you’re in 5000bc and you’re a member, then, please go in and ask questions about storytelling and I’ll be more than happy to answer your questions. If you haven’t joined 5000bc, then get your copy of the Brain Audit first, read the stories and then join 5000bc. You know how I started this episode with the doctor saying that I would die or go mad. I didn’t die. That’s me, Sean D’Souza from The 3 Month Vacation saying bye for now. Bye-bye. Still reading? When we try to tell stories, we get stuck. When we try to learn a new skill, we get stuck. So, how do you dramatically increase your rate of learning without getting stuck? Find out here—Accelerated Learning: How To Incredibly Speed Up Your Skill Acquisition: Episode 52

Appreciative Leadership, Appreciative Selling, How to Stand Out and Create Value for Others with John Ruhlin on Growth to Freedom with Dan Kuschell You can also get the Growth to Freedom Gift Package at: http://www.growthtofreedom.com/gift Enjoy the show on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/growth-to-freedom-clarity/id981989798?mt=2   ========= SUMMARY ========= What would happen in your career, business, and relationships if you had a strategy to generate deeper bonds, connections, sales, and raving fans who refer you to others? Expert John Ruhlin is an adviser, writer, and philanthropist. He's the founder of The Ruhlin Group and creator of Appreciative Selling and Appreciative Leadership and will share methods and strategies to stand out, get attention, create more sales, and referrals. Discover things like: What is Appreciative Leadership - and how can it help you advance your career and business; How to Stand Out by Providing a Unique Experience through gratitude and appreciation; The mindset of gratitude and appreciation - and how it reflects in everything you do; What can you do today to experience rapid breakthroughs? What is it that keeps you from getting the results you really want? The strategy John learned from his mentor Paul that transformed his business career: "... If I take care of the family, everything else takes care of itself"... and how this can help you get more clients, sales, referrals, and open doors to reach influencers; Why to make yourself more 'referable' and steps you can take today whether you're just starting, or a seasoned vet looking to exponentially grow; The Power of building your future focused on culture and relationship capital (versus transactional models) - this simple idea differentiates you so you're not competing on price; How to Position yourself top of mind by getting people to like and trust you; Who You should give to and how much is the appropriate amount to give - these insights will save you years of frustration and 'giving' to the wrong people; The difference between givers, takers, and matchers (from Adam Grant: Give and Take); How John Ruhlin created a five star experience for Cameron Herold, co-founder of 1800GotJunk, by bringing 'Brooks Brothers' to him - this story will show you the power of resourcefulness, anticipating needs, and how thinking differently will get you referred over and over again; The measuring tool for relationship capital John learned from his buddy Joey: "...the artifact of the relationship. Our relationship matters, here's what it means..." What you can learn from Kings: giving something to that person to represent the value of the relationship; Why you can't shortcut a relationship with a bribe; The difference between a bribe and a gift (and how to distinguish the too) And much, much more...   John Ruhlin can help you build and stimulate your culture, relationships, and growth with simple, practical solutions. John Ruhlin is an expert at Appreciative Leadership and has worked with clients like the Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins, Orlando Magic, Shell Corporation, Chevron and thought leaders like Darren Hardy, Tom Searcy, John Maxwell, and the list goes on and on to help create more sales, referrals, and memorable relationships. He's the co-founder of the Ruhlin Group. He's the co-owner of Bubble Banks, a company that is a charitable organization, generating millions of dollars for incredible causes all over the world. Contact John at: http://www.RuhlinGroup.com or on twitter @ruhlin Get access to the full show here at: http://www.growthtofreedom.com/12 Get more clarity, capabilities, and confidence and join us for a new show at http://www.growthtofreedom.com   =================== ABOUT DAN KUSCHELL: =================== Dan Kuschell is a success driven business growth strategist, a media contributor, and thought leader. He helps entrepreneurs, leaders, and business owners grow and scale their companies 10x by driving the flow of elegant ideas, execution, and team-culture for greater clarity, confidence, and direction. Dan has been recognized worldwide for creating results with his resources, books, and strategies. Meet Dan at http://www.DanKuschell.com Get more access to Dan's wisdom here: http://www.youtube.com/ChampionVision Watch/Listen to the show: http://www.growthtofreedom.com Tweet us at: https://twitter.com/dan_kuschell Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/dankuschellpage LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dankuschell Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dankuschell Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dankuschell  

Rapid Growth Breakthroughs and The Power of the 5 M’s: Mindset, Model, Marketing, Management and Mentoring | Interview with Jimmy Harding on Growth to Freedom with Dan Kuschell You can also get the Growth to Freedom Gift Package at: http://www.growthtofreedom.com/gift Enjoy the show on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/growth-to-freedom-clarity/id981989798?mt=2   ========= SUMMARY ========= What can you do today to experience rapid breakthroughs? What is it that keeps you from getting the results you really want? In today’s show, expert Jimmy Harding, serial entrepreneur, adviser, and best selling author of Social E-Commerce gives you a glimpse to understand how you can achieve rapid breakthroughs for greater freedom and simplicity.   Discover things like: The Power of the 5 “M’s”: Mindset, Model, Marketing, Management, and Mentoring Why the Story you tell yourself can make or break you – and what to do to create a story that powers your success; Mindset Strategy: “If you have one foot in the past, and one foot in the future, there’s no way to move forward to where you really want to go…” Tony Robbin’s 3-S Model and how to use it for your growth: 1 – State 2 – Story 3- Strategy; The 3 Step Formula for getting started – 1 – Identify the key market for your product/service; 2 – Identify your ideal client; 3 – Focus on the stressor you eliminate; How to Simplify the process of creating your ‘Vision” with one question: “What do you want?” Why it’s easier to grow a company with talent… “You can’t multiply 0’s… so find a 7, 8, 9, or 10… and you’ll save time and energy…” How to tap into your Genius – “… seeing what others don’t…” The #1 Marketing Strategy to Use to Disrupt, Innovate, and Exponentially Grow: Education Based Marketing; Getting clear on the difference in tactical, technical, and principle based models and why principle based focus will always win; The number 1 factor to multiply your results: “Be prepared…” And much, much more…   Jimmy Harding is uniquely qualified to help you get your next rapid breakthrough in business or leadership! Contact Jimmy by going to: http://www.jimmyharding.com or http://www.gamechangermasterminds.com Get access to the full show here at: http://www.growthtofreedom.com/10 Get more clarity, capabilities, and confidence and join us for a new show at http://www.growthtofreedom.com   =================== ABOUT DAN KUSCHELL: =================== Dan Kuschell is a success driven business growth strategist, a media contributor, and thought leader. He helps entrepreneurs, leaders, and business owners grow and scale their companies 10x by driving the flow of elegant ideas, execution, and team-culture for greater clarity, confidence, and direction. Dan has been recognized worldwide for creating results with his resources, books, and strategies. Meet Dan at http://www.DanKuschell.com Get more access to Dan's wisdom here: http://www.youtube.com/ChampionVision Watch/Listen to the show: http://www.growthtofreedom.com Tweet us at: https://twitter.com/dan_kuschell Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/dankuschellpage LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dankuschell Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dankuschell Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dankuschell  

How to Recalibrate, Recalculate, and Transform your Business and Personal Financial Blueprint! The FIT Financial Formula Part 2: Dr. Cristy Lopez | Phil Mutrie and the Expert Formula | Growth to Freedom with Dan Kuschell You can also get the Growth to Freedom Gift Package at: http://www.growthtofreedom.com/gift Download the show on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/growth-to-freedom-clarity/id981989798?mt=2 SUMMARY: What is it that successful people do to attract, keep, and grow their finances? Did you know there are EMOTIONAL reasons why some people are good with finances and others are not? The FIT Financial Formula (Part 2) helps you understand your beliefs around finances, wealth, and success, and what you can do to recalibrate, recalculate, and transform your business and personal finance blueprint! Dr. Cristy Lopez has over 20+ years as a psychologist, a guest expert on Dr. Phil, the show Downsized, and worked with thousands of clients – and is uniquely qualified to share the strategies, insights, and wisdom to get the edge for greater clarity, confidence, and direction around money… how to make it, keep it, grow it, spend it, and leave it.   Discover things like: Why you make financial decisions like you do - it's programming and ________________; The Money Factor and how it stresses people out more than raising children and sex; The link and triggers that cause people to repeat the same habits with money over and over again; Financial Illiteracy is the biggest disease in this country and what you can do about it starting today; How to reprogram your financial blueprint in 3 easy steps; Uncover the false beliefs by doing the exercise - Evidence for, Evidence against, and then the transformation that can set you free; Most people wait 7 years of building habits, patterns, rituals, and emotional distress around money before they seek out help. It doesn't have to work this way. You can transform your money habits and as the ancient Chinese Proverb says: "Dig a well before your thirsty" by understanding the underlying beliefs, limiting beliefs, and then reset to have new one's installed for greater freedom and growth; Why knowledge is NOT enough when it comes to money habits- you must master your emotions around money; The power of childhood IMPRINTS: Dan reveals 2 examples from his childhood (being on food stamps as a kid and watching his dad and family get threatened by a gang where they threatened to blow up their house) and how that type of imprint can have a lasting impact, unless you apply what Dr Cristy Lopez shares with you; How you can shift your emotions and actions and be more productive, capable, and competent to achieve greater personal freedom and growth; An exercise to utilize the past for greater breakthroughs and freedom; And much, much more…   Dr. Cristy Lopez can help you transform your life, career, marriage, and relationships. Whether you’re a busy executive or in a career transition, she will show you how to build your success from the inside out. Contact Dr Lopez by going to http://www.cristylopezphd.com or contact her office at 602-323-7824. PLUS – Phil Mutrie of PhileMutrieNetwork.com joins us to share his biggest breakthroughs: the experts freedom formula, the big mistake he made in the beginning of his business that led him to earning about $15.46 in 6 months, having invested 1,000 hours, and ready to quit; What he would do differently and what this means for you... Get access to the full show here at: http://www.growthtofreedom.com/9 Get more clarity, capabilities, and confidence and join us for a new show at http://www.growthtofreedom.com   =================== ABOUT DAN KUSCHELL: =================== Dan Kuschell is a success driven business growth strategist, a media contributor, and thought leader. He helps entrepreneurs, leaders, and business owners grow and scale their companies 10x by driving the flow of elegant ideas, execution, and team-culture for greater clarity, confidence, and direction. Dan has been recognized worldwide for creating results with his resources, books, and strategies. Meet Dan at http://www.DanKuschell.com Get more access to Dan's wisdom here: http://www.youtube.com/ChampionVision Watch/Listen to the show: http://www.growthtofreedom.com Tweet us at: https://twitter.com/dan_kuschell Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/dankuschellpage LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dankuschell Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dankuschell Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dankuschell  

On today’s show, you’ll discover The FIT Financial Formula: Dr. Cristy Lopez, Winning the Money Game, and the Pitch at Palace on Growth to Freedom with Dan Kuschell You can also get the Growth to Freedom Gift Package at: http://www.growthtofreedom.com/gift ========= SUMMARY ========= What is it that successful people do to create wealth? Answer: They are utilizing the FIT Financial Formula whether they know it or not. Dr. Cristy Lopez has over 20+ years as a psychologist, a guest expert on Dr. Phil, the show Downsized, and worked with thousands of clients – and is uniquely qualified to share the strategies, insights, and wisdom to get the edge for greater clarity, confidence, and direction around money… how to make it, keep it, grow it, spend it, and leave it.   Discover things like: * What is The FIT Financial Formula – and how you can use this simple framework to create lasting financial security; * What to do if you have made mistakes and experienced setbacks around money – and how to reset your financial thermostat to move beyond your limiting beliefs to greater abundance; * The top myths and lies around money – and why they may be subconsciously holding you back from your fullest potential; * The difference between money, capital, and assets – and why getting clarity on them will provide you a new outlook on providing value and transforming your financial future; * The 2 Question Survey that will uncover your hidden subconscious beliefs around money – and how to recalibrate for maximum growth; * How to make more Money and create wealth: ____________ Creation, _________________ and developing a rare and invaluable skillset for greater earning potential; * The two MUST-HAVE skills that provides you greater financial freedom regardless of the industry or field you’re in; * What to do if you haven’t had great role models with money; * The “WHACK-A-MOLE” Principle Dr. Lopez has uncovered in the pursuit of wealth, happiness, and more – and the replacement you must implement for greater growth, freedom, and abundance; * The Concept of Generational Wealth – and what to do if you’re “Generational Wealth Thermostat” needs a reboot; (HINT: less than 5% of the population realizes the positive side of Generational Wealth, and there is hope for you IF you adapt your Model; * The Financial FIT Tracker Process will easily and almost effortlessly provide you clarity to determine your thoughts, habits, practices, and rituals (and will show you your strengths and weaknesses in less than 7 days); * The 10-10-3-7-70 Financial Management Model to greater freedom and wealth; * and much, much more…   Dr. Cristy Lopez can help you transform your life, career, marriage, and relationships. Whether you’re a busy executive or in a career transition, she will show you how to build your success from the inside out. Contact Dr Lopez by going to http://www.cristylopezphd.com or contact her office at 602-323-7824. 602-323-7824. PLUS – we hinted at accessing NEWS you can USE. One of the hot topics this week was direct from the Pitch at the Palace with the Duke of York. Being able to sell yourself is one of the greatest skills you can learn. Here in the states, we can see it on “The Shark Tank”, however at the Pitch at the Palace, the Duke of York was there to watch, listen, learn, and judge some of the top entrepreneurs in the UK. What can you learn from this? Here’s a simple formula: Address a common BIG PROBLEM that creates agreement; Make a BIG Promise (that you are on a mission to deliver). Provide your BIG focus/vision and how it solves a greater problem. If you want to build a billion dollar company, solve a $10 billion dollar problem. Speak about your vision of how you see the problem and how what you have will solve the problem. Next, show and explain why you are committed to solve this problem – and how it relates/impacts them. Show the competitive advantage of why this is different than anyone else who may be pursuing a similar mission or purpose. Get commitments and be direct in your action steps and request;   A sample version of how you can lead in could be: Do you know how (fill in the blank with the BIG problem)…? Or Have you ever been (fill in the blank with the big problem)? What we do is (fill in the blank with your BIG PROMISE) We are THE CHOICE because… (Share a compelling story. The best businesses like Apple, Starbucks, etc…) are built on great stories. Stories Sell and facts tell_. Give specific Action steps (Be clear on what you want from the presentation: What we’re looking for is and here’s what it’s going to be used for, and here’s why it can work for you); Study the process for Ted Talks or access information on Genius Network and the 10 Minute Talk ™ Process at: http://www.GeniusNetworkMastermind.com Get more clarity, capabilities, and confidence and join us for a new show at http://www.growthtofreedom.com   =================== ABOUT DAN KUSCHELL: =================== Dan Kuschell is a success driven business growth strategist, a media contributor, and thought leader. He helps entrepreneurs, leaders, and business owners grow and scale their companies 10x by driving the flow of elegant ideas, execution, and team-culture for greater clarity, confidence, and direction. Dan has been recognized worldwide for creating results with his resources, books, and strategies. Meet Dan at http://www.DanKuschell.com Get more access to Dan's wisdom here: http://www.youtube.com/ChampionVision Watch/Listen to the show: http://www.growthtofreedom.com Tweet us at: https://twitter.com/dan_kuschell Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/dankuschellpage LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dankuschell Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dankuschell Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dankuschell  

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.” Mt. 16.24 Summary What if the cross wasn’t just for Jesus? What if Jesus in his death was really showing us how to live?  Our history demonstrates that the challenges and opportunities we face as a people will […]

Summary:What the mid-1990's debate about the so-called "clipper chip" can teach us about our contemporary debates concerning NSA surveillance of the Internet and the Web.This episode was originally written as a piece on Medium, entitled The NSA Tried This Before, What The 90s Debate Over The Clipper Chip Can Teach Us About Digital Privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.