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Add You - Break Free
It is obvious that many people go to colleges, universities get their degrees and thought that life is going to be good and the future is going to be great. It is after struggling to find a job for months do they realise that it is not as straight forward as it seems. You might be a graduate from MIT or even Harvard but if you don't have a good resume, it will kill you.You have invested in yourself by spending tens of thousands of dollars to get your degree. Your whole life had been studying and learning to the point that you are ready to reap the rewards. What do you do then. Go to Google and grab a resume template. It sounds really idiotic but just wait a minute and ask yourself this question. Isn't everybody doing that too. Oh yes, you've j
Everyone needs to network: entrepreneurs, small business owners, job seekers! But does everyone maximize the benefits of networking? The purpose of networking is to build relationships so you will get leads from someone you know, or from someone who knows someone you know. When you attend a networking event the purpose is to meet business people from various industries to get exposure.What networking is not?Networking is not a numbers game; you need to focus on quality and not on quantity. Some people think that they had a successful event when they have collected 30, 40 or more business cards, but they are missing the real point. How many of these 30 or 40 people will you be able to follow-up? How many of these 30 or 40 will follow-u
Of course, I responded. It was more than a plea for help, it was a challenge.
So we got into some back and forth emails, questions and answers, clarifications and finally this firm suggestion from me.
"You absolutely must change your habitual way of doing things and thinking about things. Otherwise you are going to continue to get the same results.
"Philosophy, self-help books and all other educational material is ONLY GOOD IF IT IS APPLIED to the way you live your life. It does no good gathering dust on your bookshelf or even bouncing around in your head. It is the application that produces results, not the information."
"Ok. I am prepared to change. What should I do?" is what I get back from him.
So, I made a simple list of things to do every day. Maybe 1 hour's worth of extra activity. Likely less.
What I get back is amazing. First there is a list of reasons why half the things I suggest cannot be done by him. Then there are questions about why I think it necessary to do the other things on the list. He thinks that they are a waste of time. And, besides which, he certainly has no extra time in the day. He is already overworked and does not spend enough time with his wife.
Now, I already know from our previous emails what his days look like. He spends about half his evenings sitting on the couch with his wife, watching TV. So I write back and tell him his excuse about no time does not wash. He should take some of his TV time and start making his life work better. He replies that he is unwilling to give up any TV time because that is the only time he and his wife have together and he's not willing
On the Internet you don't have the benefit of face-to-face contact. So asking people to hand over their credit card is challenging to say the least. Even if you have loads of regularly traffic due to effective and consistent marketing it still won't do any good if you haven't properly developed your sales pitch.It's a good idea to prepare a list concerning the product you're advertising. List the features of your product in one column and then match it with a benefit gained from the matching feature. This list, as it implies, is called a "feature versus benefit" analysis of your product or service. Once you've got a good listing then try exchanging words from more dynamic words or phrases such as crucial, a must, big, bargain, effort
"You absolutely must change your habitual way of doing things and thinking about things. Otherwise you are going to continue to get the same results.
"Philosophy, self-help books and all other educational material is ONLY GOOD IF IT IS APPLIED to the way you live your life. It does no good gathering dust on your bookshelf or even bouncing around in your head. It is the application that produces results, not the information."
"Ok. I am prepared to change. What should I do?" is what I get back from him.
So, I made a simple list of things to do every day. Maybe 1 hour's worth of extra activity. Likely less.
What I get back is amazing. First there is a list of reasons why half the things I suggest cannot be done by him. Then there are questions about why I think it necessary to do the other things on the list. He thinks that they are a waste of time. And, besides which, he certainly has no extra time in the day. He is already overworked and does not spend enough time with his wife.
Now, I already know from our previous emails what his days look like. He spends about half his evenings sitting on the couch with his wife, watching TV. So I write back and tell him his excuse about no time does not wash. He should take some of his TV time and start making his life work better. He replies that he is unwilling to give up any TV time because that is the only time he and his wife have together and he's not willin
The PSP is a marvel of electronics engineering. Released by Sony, people soon realised that it had a greater attraction to it than simply being a portable games device. Gamers have been able to customize it for their own needs -- it can play games, be an emulator, a PDA -- you can even run the Linux operating system on it! But, perhaps best of all, you can get PSP video downloads and play movies on it.The PSP is a dedicated machine for playing video, it appears to have been a consideration by the programmers since the machine's inception on the drawing board. Sporting the largest screen for a handheld yet, it even features a widescreen 16:9 ratio so you can obtain psp video downloads and view them as they were originally intended to be seen.okshelf or even bouncing around in your head. It is the application that produces results, not the information."
"Ok. I am prepared to change. What should I do?" is what I get back from him.
So, I made a simple list of things to do every day. Maybe 1 hour's worth of extra activity. Likely less.
What I get back is amazing. First there is a list of reasons why half the things I suggest cannot be done by him. Then there are questions about why I think it necessary to do the other things on the list. He thinks that they are a waste of time. And, besides which, he certainly has no extra time in the day. He is already overworked and does not spend enough time with his wife.
Now, I already know from our previous emails what his days look like. He spends about half his evenings sitting on the couch with his wife, watching TV. So I write back and tell him his excuse about no time does not wash. He should take some of his TV time and start making his life work better. He replies that he is unwilling to give up any TV time because that is the only time he and his wife have together and he's not willin
As the number of personal computers has continued to grow, many more of us are using electronic communications to keep in touch with one another. Most of us use email every day, and quite a few of us use an instant messaging program. For those that enjoy instant messaging, emotion icons have become part of the whole experience. But do emotion icons really add anything to the experience? Many of us think so. Here are a few of the reasons so many of us like to use emotion icons.First, emoticons can express a great deal in very little space. Anyone who has ever looked at them, it's obvious that you can find one that will easily convey any type of emotion. This can be particularly helpful if you happen to be feeling quite a number of emotions at
Now, I already know from our previous emails what his days look like. He spends about half his evenings sitting on the couch with his wife, watching TV. So I write back and tell him his excuse about no time does not wash. He should take some of his TV time and start making his life work better. He replies that he is unwilling to give up any TV time because that is the only time he and his wife have together and he's not willin
Does your company need a sales turnaround? As we enter the new year, it's a great time for us to take a fresh look at our sales performance in our companies and take action to turn around those aspects that we're not satisfied with or which are lagging behind our expectations. Putting together a sales turnaround plan for your company can be done fairly quickly and fairly easily.The first thing is to pull together key opinion leaders in the company, not just from sales and marketing, but are from outside and other departments, such as finance, operations, product development, etc. and to ask yourself, "What is it that we can do to improve our sales? How can we rally the whole company around making those improvements? What are the easiest an
I am tempted to quit right then and there. I mean this guy either just does not get it or he is playing me along like some fish he has hooked. Maybe he's just another emotional vampire. I've seen enough of those over the years. Maybe if I was a psychotherapist, I'd look forward to dealing with this kind of nonsense, but...
So, I write back one last time. Maybe I can shock him...
"Ok. Here is how it is for you...
"You are a prisoner. You have built the walls that hold you captive yourself. You have locked the only door and you have quite plainly told me that you have thrown away the only key...your willingness to change.
"Even if I came and forced the door open, you'd refuse to leave your safe little jail.
"So quit pretending; quit crying for help. Until you decide to break free from your self-imposed chains, no book, no bell and no candle will help you."
This is what he replies with, "I knew that you were a fake. You only pretended to know the answers."
I relate this now because I think that each of us has some of my friend in us. We are habituated to feeling, thinking and acting in certain ways. We are not always pleased with the results we end up with, but we absolutely refuse to consider that what we are and what we do produces the results we are getting. We refuse to change and we blame the world for the way things are.
This is not a new theme. It bears repeati
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