tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34840679647025183402024-03-08T03:32:26.254+00:00Paul the CoachAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-11343433640973816172015-03-19T17:37:00.000+00:002015-03-19T17:37:19.239+00:00Coaches Are Only Human Too<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember a number of years ago hearing someone, I don’t remember who, say the following:</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You’ll often find people will criticise those personality traits they dislike in another as they are the personality traits they dislike in themselves.”</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And likewise those traits they admire in someone else are the ones they admire in themselves, all things in balance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was also reminded that all criticism is destructive. There are ways of giving feedback that criticises and leaves the recipient built up rather than put down, it's called the feedback sandwich, a future post will explain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn't until recently, well the last few years or so that this has really hit home what these meant when I experienced first hand a level of destructive behaviour I'd not experienced before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see I had this friend, who appeared judgemental about others, criticising others, regularly saying they were this or they were that and on it went, even people when they didn't really know the person were being criticised. They were very good at mind reading too, she said this because…….., he did this because they knew it would have this affect one me, I don’t like them because……….. I’ll cover these last few in another post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then it turned to me too. Pompous, idiot, unmotivated, lazy, uninspired, pedantic etc. etc. is it any wonder someone lives up to your expectations of them when they face an onslaught of criticism?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes I freely admit I can be pompous and pedantic, especially when the words I've used are changed to other words that change the meaning of something I've said, I’m sensing another post is on it’s way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was at this point that the phrase came back to me and it really hit home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see I understand the English language, and linguistics, however, to look for the meaning behind or in someone’s words is something that took me a very long time to grasp outside of my coaching and NLP work. Too long to save relationships and some friendships, and this has left me in a very reflective mode, a bit down and looking inwards to find out where I went wrong. So I delved into my shelf development file, that’s the shelf of self development books gathering dust rather than being read and absorbed and learnt from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On reading some of those books again it dawned on me; this person wasn't only saying those words about me, albeit I was was very unmotivated and uninspired by what was happening for me at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>They were actually saying it about themselves and they didn't know it.</em> How do you get through to someone who is closed off and blocks another's point of view as there is only their own?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had lost my way and lost sight of what was important to me, my values and my goals, I was too entrenched in fighting the good fight to prove I was none of those that I was being labelled, losing the fight, the battle and eventually the war (metaphorically speaking of course). I eventually proved them right because I didn't stay true to me, something that attracted them to me in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even us coaches have our down periods, you know, when things aren't going as we would like them to go or had visioned. Coaches are only human too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So please, keep your mind on your goals, hold yourself true to your values, and decide if a fight is worth having or simply walk away holding your head up and be the better person by not engaging in trench warfare as it felt I did, and still ended up on the losing side.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don’t know what your goals or true values are, your coach can always help you find them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coaches <u>do not tell you</u> what they are, they have the tools to help you find them for yourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a future post, I’ll share the invaluable resource I've just discovered that is enabling me to get back on track and be the person I was a few years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TTFN,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-51575149135884522382015-02-10T13:20:00.000+00:002015-03-03T10:21:05.199+00:00THE POWER OF WORDS: TRANSFORM YOUR VOCABULARY, TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Words have incredible power in our lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For one, they provide us with a vehicle for expressing and sharing our experiences with others. Most of us don’t realize, however, that the words you habitually choose also affect what you experience. Transformational Vocabulary is about <b>how you can take control of your habitual vocabulary to change the quality of your life</b>. Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary—the words you consistently use to describe the emotions of your life—you can instantly change how you think, feel and how you live. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What’s interesting is how two people can experience the exact same sensations differently in their bodies by virtue of the labels they put on the experience. For example, one person may feel “frustrated” while the other just feels “a little confused.” It amounts to a huge difference in the way we feel, and when we change the way we feel, we change the way we behave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>According to Compton’s Encyclopedia, the total number of words in the English language is around 750,000. Of that number, guess how many words we habitually use: 500 to 2,000 at the most, which represents only one half of one percent of the language. In Roget’s Thesaurus there are more than 3,000 words describing various emotions. Of those, there were 1,051 words for positive emotions and 2,286 for negative emotions; roughly twice as many negative words as positive words! Think of the implications.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consider this example: In a business meeting with two partners, the same event triggered a dramatically different response in each person. The CEO went into an absolute rage, whereas the second partner seemed to have no reaction at all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The enraged CEO believed that “rage” made him stronger and enabled him to deal with the situation. Rage was his way out of pain. Conversely, the partner who felt only “mildly annoyed” was acting on a belief that getting too upset would make him lose control of the situation, and that would mean too much pain. He wasn't disassociating; he honestly was not feeling the intense anger. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the essence of Transformational Vocabulary: <b>the words that we attach to our experience become our experience</b>, regardless of whether it’s objectively accurate or not. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore, if we want to change our lives and our destiny, we need to consciously choose the words we use to describe our emotional states. What would happen if, the next time you were in a situation that used to make you feel angry, instead you felt annoyed? Or if you used a word like “peeved” instead of “enraged” to describe your experience? Maybe instead of feeling “worried,” what if you used the words, “I’m a little concerned,” or “I need some clarification”? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conversely, if someone asks you how you’re doing, think of the difference between responses like “Oh, I’m okay, I guess” and “I’m feeling on top of the world!” The labels we put on our experience become our experience. Choose your words wisely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(The above is copied unedited from the Tony Robbins blog – because I couldn't have expressed it any better myself.)</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give it a try; what do you have to lose? </span><br />
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Tony's teachings have spread all over the world. If you really want to make 2015 YOUR year, get a coach!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-85178053046909758282014-08-28T22:54:00.001+01:002014-09-02T13:40:22.350+01:00What are you thinking is what you’ll attract<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How many times have you heard this? Do you believe it to be true?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha: was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How many times have you got out of bed in the morning and stubbed your toe for example and said to yourself “Oh brilliant, that’s how my day is gonna be is it?” and you dwelled on it, only for things throughout the day to seemingly go awry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this sounds unbelievable, you attracted it!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How about someone in your dim and distant past telling you that you would never amount to anything on a reasonably regular basis, how did that pan out? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first starting working my way up the career ladder, I had some of my colleagues (who I considered friends) telling me that I’d not talk to them now I was on the way up, this confused me as I was the same person, I just wasn’t satisfied doing the dull job with minimal cranial stimulation and low wages. I knew there was a more stretching role for me and I went for it every time opportunity knocked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It came true though, not through my actions but through theirs. Whenever I saw them I’d make conversation and be met by many with sneers about how I’d be lowering myself to talk to them, how ridiculous was that? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It took me many years to work out that it was their issue not mine. Their beliefs became their own self fulfilling promise. Many, in fact nearly all, of them 25 years later were still doing the same jobs. That is when I worked it out.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-22830215778734704272014-08-28T21:39:00.000+01:002014-08-28T22:51:55.407+01:00What motivates you?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know this is a typical coaches question, do you know the answer though? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I get a lot of people tell me that they're not motivated by money. And I’m in no doubt that this may be true for a great many people. I am going to say right now that I am motivated by money, from the perspective that if I don’t earn some, who is going to pay my bills? Who is going to pay my rent? Who is going to pay for the stuff my son needs?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for." - Robert Kiyosaki: author of <a href="http://amzn.to/1AYsewD">Rich Dad, Poor Dad</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, and I remember Pete the scrap metal merchant in Quadrophenia saying to the young mod Jim when he showed up at the scrap yard rather than working – “if you don’t work, you don’t get any money, and I like money” probably the most honest thing on celluloid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sense a challenge for you, next time you don’t consider yourself motivated by money, when Monday morning comes around, try staying at home, in fact do it for a week, when you don’t get paid for that week, how motivated will you be to go to work the following Monday? Is for the work you do or is it the reward you get following the work you’ve done?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now how about if you could do the work once, and get paid over and over for it? Wouldn’t that be more like it? Do the work once, and then spend time with your loved ones, go on holiday and when you return there is more in your bank account than when you left, does that appeal?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well that’s exactly what many people are discovering is possible, if you’d like to join them, chuck your email address and name in the form over to the right and you’ll be sent details of how this can be possible for people like you and me.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-50519775072264456172014-08-12T23:29:00.000+01:002014-08-12T23:29:40.627+01:00What goes on inside the mind?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was prompted to write this hearing the tragic news concerning the apparent suicide of actor and comedian Robin Williams.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On TV and at the movies, you and I saw a happy, successful actor and comedian, but what was his self talk?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would appear from the various media reports that he had been battling some personal demons. We never know what is going on inside someone's head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, each and every one of us has an internal voice. We all have self talk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our self talk can be the best thing since the proverbial sliced bread, it can aid us in times of self doubt, your internal voice is the one that says "go on do it, what harm can come of it!".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However there is the opposite, there is the voice of doom, the one that sabotages your confidence, saps you of your 'mojo', keeps you from achieving greatness, greatness in your terms no one else's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, when you lack confidence and the internal voice that gives you self talk fails to big you up, your own expectations drop and therefore when you don't achieve the things you want to, you confirm to yourself the self talk. Its a self fulfilling prophecy, and so is the alternative.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The alternative confident voice brings on self fulfilling thoughts, which leads to self fulfilling behaviours which can exceed your own expectations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sign up to the right of this post and in the series of gifts, you'll receive an ebook containing tips in overcoming self defeating behaviours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That just leaves me to sign off, nanoo nanoo!!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-990790885658080052014-08-05T13:00:00.000+01:002014-08-12T21:06:11.692+01:00What scares you? Do you have faith?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What scares you from taking that first step towards your
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is fear of success or fear of failure? Who are you doubting, yourself or those
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you have faith to keep taking the steps you need to to get where you want to be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've always tried to live for the moment, and in the moment, and it has cost me dear and I've not reached the goals I set myself. That also got me thinking; who is going to take care of me when I'm old and grey if I
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You? My friends who will also be old and grey?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, I'm at that time of life when my son soon won't be
"needing" me so much, he's planning to go off to university, he's learning
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It'll be me and my lovely partner who'll be here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I've resolved to review and reset my goals and go for
them, no one else will but me, and I'm doing it on faith, I don't know what's
round the corner, I don't know whether I'll get there, but I know that if I
don't simply take that step I'll never know and that is my biggest fear, not finding out whether I can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm very fortunate to have some very wise people around me,
I have a wise future father-in-law who has an equestrian background, and his
favourite saying regarding people in the equestrian world is that "some
people know a lot about horses and horse behaviour, but they don't know what
they don't know." how true is that about me and you? I don't know what I don't know, but I'm willing to find out what I don't know so I can reach my goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-44343158317850226792014-06-23T21:28:00.001+01:002014-08-05T11:44:48.311+01:00Dealing with Loathsome People - RobertRinger.comHere's an awesome article from Robert Ringer, I just love the pseudonym given.<br />
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I was talking to a friend (“Bill”) a few weeks ago, and in the course of our conversation he happened to mention something about the business troubles Dexter Windbag (pseudonym) had encountered in recent years. I had no idea the guy was still alive, and had no interest in hearing about his troubles.</div>
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Nevertheless, my friend proceeded to tell me how Windbag had been ousted as a director and spokesman for a multi-level marketing company for misstating his academic credentials. In Windbag’s official bio, which he used to rise to the top of the professional speaking world, he claimed to have both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. However, investigators apparently found that the school from which he claimed to have acquired his master’s degree had no record of him ever attending that school.</div>
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Further, the university from which he claimed to have a Ph.D. was unaccredited, and had closed down after only sixteen years of existence. Conveniently, the former president of the university claims that Windbag’s records have been lost, and Windbag himself says that he doesn't have a copy of his doctoral dissertation.</div>
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Why was my friend telling me all this? Because clear back in the 1970s, Bill, who also was a professional speaker, had called me one day and asked if I had heard what Dexter Windbag had said about me on his new audio album. I told him that not only had I not heard it, I didn't even know who Dexter Windbag was.</div>
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Whereupon Bill informed me that Windbag was a highly successful professional speaker with a squeaky clean image. His credentials were impeccable — former military officer, high-level education credentials, and lots of big-name endorsements.</div>
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Bill volunteered to send me the audio tape that contained Dexter Windbag’s remarks about me and my first book, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Winning Through Intimidation</i>. If it were today, I wouldn't even bother to listen to it, but at the time I was a newly minted bestselling author, and my curiosity/annoyance factor got the best of me — curious as to why a supposedly highly respected man, who made his living preaching about such qualities as virtue, character, morality, and integrity, would say anything negative about someone he had never even met.</div>
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When the tape arrived, I put it in my Sony cassette player and began listening to it. The first thing that surprised me was that Windbag, notwithstanding his reputation as a big-time professional speaker, was not even an average speaker. I clearly recall how surprised I was by that. (In a later article, I’ll address the phenomenon of how low-skilled, untalented people sometimes stumble into situations that lead to their becoming accidents of history. It’s a kind of randomness, and it occurs more often than most people realize.)</div>
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After listening to the tape for ten minutes or so, from out of nowhere — Bam! — Dexter Windbag, the epitome of virtuousness, suddenly blurted out my name and the title of my book. Even though Bill had told me about it, it still took me aback. It was a very long time ago, so I can’t recall Dexter Windbag’s exact words, but I sure remember the sum and substance of what he said, and here’s a close paraphrase: “Can you imagine someone writing a book with a title like <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Winning Through Intimidation</i>? What kind of person would promote the idea that the way to get ahead in life is to bully others?” (Again, this is a paraphrase; the quote marks are only for the purpose of setting it off.)</div>
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Obviously, Dexter hadn't read my book, but I had already gotten used to critics taking shots at me without even going to the trouble of actually reading my words. But this guy <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">wasn't </i>a critic. </div>
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He was a motivational speaker who had clearly succeeding in creating an image of his integrity being beyond reproach. Yet here he was, this paragon of virtue, using my good name and work to puff up his own image by feigning disgust and outrage. My first thought was, “Who in the hell is this self-righteous jerk?”</div>
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I would be inclined to say that it was just a matter of jealousy, but I think it was even worse than that. My theory is that people like this are so narcissistic that they will do anything to pump up their egos — whether it’s lying about their credentials or lying about a person they don’t know or a book they've never read.</div>
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Unfortunately, Dexter Windbag is not alone. There are a lot of self-important people in this world who not only will do anything to feed their narcissistic appetites, they also come to believe their own B.S. to such an extreme that they live in an alternate universe. I have a hunch I’m on pretty safe ground if I assume that you've known more than one Dexter Windbag in your time.</div>
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You might think that I’m smiling at his fall from grace, but I’m not. I've been around too long for things like this to surprise me. On the contrary, being the kind-hearted soul that I am, I have the utmost sympathy for people who are afflicted with serious diseases.</div>
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Specifically, in Dexter’s case, I’m talking about the dreaded ANEL Disease — ANEL being an acronym for <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">arrogance, narcissism, egomania</i>, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">lying</i>. ANEL-afflicted people are almost as dangerous as serial killers, because their self-love gives them the justification for resorting to anything that will further their insatiable appetites for self-aggrandizement.</div>
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David Ogilvy, “The Father of Advertising,” once gave the best advice I know of when it comes to handling people afflicted with ANEL Disease when he said (pardon my slight customization of his words), “When a man boasts about his integrity, or a woman about her virtue, avoid the former and cultivate the latter.”</div>
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Thoreau put it even more succinctly when he proclaimed, “There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”</div>
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And, finally, Ringer said: “Ignore annoying people, move on with your life, and leave it to nature to straighten everything out over the long term.”</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><u>Robert Ringer</u> is an American icon whose unique insights into life have helped millions of readers worldwide. He is also the author of two </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13px;">New York Times</em><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"> #1 bestselling books, both of which have been listed by </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13px;">The New York Times</em><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"> among the 15 best-selling motivational books of all time</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0Guildford Guildford51.233828 -0.578725tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-84664584046937001302014-06-15T22:41:00.002+01:002014-08-05T11:42:54.195+01:00Goal Setting - The BasicsDo you set goals?<br />
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See the previous posts from Zig Ziglar about goals, now it doesn't have to be that complicated it could be much more simplified and I'll be doing that in the posts coming soon.<br />
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PaulAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-17213035043019760252014-06-15T22:38:00.003+01:002014-08-05T11:42:37.812+01:00Zig Ziglar Setting Goals 3 of 3<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/su2UuP3aqZg" width="459"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-40215673917925483582014-06-15T22:38:00.001+01:002014-08-05T11:42:24.358+01:00Zig Ziglar Setting Goals 2 of 3<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kiQV0oTyd98" width="459"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3484067964702518340.post-35864296424132633202014-06-15T22:37:00.001+01:002014-08-05T11:42:09.286+01:00Goal Setting - Zig Ziglar Setting Goals 1 of 3<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Ae-VJ_lauCw" width="459"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04631873477609561246noreply@blogger.com0