… Perhaps the most potent verbal tool is …

A compliment

Oh, the power thats available if you understand & use the ART of the compliment

How long does it take to change your mind?

Many believe that, as their world view is set & their belief systems are in place, it would take a well pondered, well articulated persuasively reasoned argument to make them even consider another point of view.

This isn’t always the case. It’s entirely possible to change your stance 180 degrees in a few seconds …

I hear it all the time ..

“Oh, yeh, well, it’s OK if you don’t have mortgage payments, school fees, car payments, kids and all that – if  my life wasn’t taken up with all that stuff, man, I’d be off & running”

Really? Would you?

When I was a kid, almost anything new that came along had my jaw open. Each new toy or even kitchen gadget had me saying waaaaaaaw, but I don’t see that today

Nothing surprises todays kids & that’s sad, don’t you think?

Is it possible for people to hold different (even opposing) viewpoints and all of them be right? The answer is YES, & today, I’m going to prove it …

Let me tell you the story about the Four Blind Men & The Elephant

Many years ago, in a land far far away (!) there were four blind men who all live in a monastary

I got some great feedback after writing about the four blind men & the elephant. The story proved you can experience something first hand & STILL be wrong not right, due to limited or skewed perspectives

I want to give you my second story about that same lesson about perspective. While I can’t claim to have come up with the blind men & the elephant story, this next one is 100% my own creation!

An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village …

… when a small boat with just one fisherman docked with his catch of several large yellow fin tuna. The America complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican replied only a little while

What does that mean, being ‘professional’?

Are brain surgeons professional? You bet!

So, would you want the brain Surgeon operating on you to …

• take a call whenever it came through?
• be distracted by someone that wanted to waste his time?
• not finish what had been started?
• leave it to another day?

No?  Then don’t do these things yourself

Ironically, the current banking crisis Started in Ireland …

A young man called Patrick bought a donkey from a farmer for £100

Are we better off for having more choice?

Is it true that more freedom = more choice, and more choice = more freedom?

Almost 40 years ago, in 1971, at the dawn of the Information age, the social scientist Herbert Simon wrote:

“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of it’s recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention”

100% spot on for what we see around us everyday, non?