Weekend Plans A few years ago me and some friends were trying to figure out what to do for the weekend. It was Friday, and were at work. We decided to play softball. We each thought of two other people we could recruit, giving us a total of 18. We decided to meet the next […]
Think Your Way Out
Gym Buddy There’s a guy that I talked to the gym that’s a personal trainer. I usually see them sometimes when I’m working out and I talk to him sometimes. I’m always interested in his strategy for getting new clients. He says when it comes to being a personal trainer the strategy to get […]
Retreat To The Power Within
Dive Bar There’s this bar nearby my house. A dive bar, kind of a community dive bar. I go there because not because I drink but because it’s a very relaxing place to hang out and talk about things that only are allowed to be talked about inside of your local community dive bar. […]
The Human Condition
Economics Book I was reading this interesting book on economics recently. I like to read books on economics, I have for several years. I’ve read probably 15 to 20 of them. This one was pretty interesting because it was about economics from a standpoint of ancient human history and how our ancient instincts are […]
Paradox Of Frustration
Embrace Your Anger Nobody likes frustration. We do everything we can to avoid frustration. Lots of advertisements are specifically allude that if we buy the product, our frustrations will be a thing of the past. In fact, one of the most common copywriting techniques is to pace the frustration of your target, expand it, and […]
Talisman
How To Create A Magic Talisman It’s common in many movies for the hero to have some type of magic object that helps him or her kill the bad guy. Harry Potter had his wand, Luke and all the other Jedi’s have their light saber, Lancelot had the sword from the stone. In this post […]
Where Does The Motivation Go?
It’s pretty common to get all fired up for something, get started, and then have your motivation just fizzle out. In fact, many don’t have much of a problem choosing goals, and figuring how to get started, it’s that initial force of motivation tends to wane over time. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in […]
Daily Steps To A Life Filled With Greatness And Unlimited Abundance
It’s been said that inch by inch, life’s a cinch. But yard by yard, life is hard. What does that mean? If you have a big goal, it’s a lot easier to make very small, very easy consistent daily steps than start off with a huge amount of willpower and determination. Understanding your own “motivational […]
What Motivates You?
When you think about doing something, from where do you get more motivation? Are you motivated internally or externally? Internally, by your own criteria, and how you’ll judge yourself, or externally, based on the criteria of others and how they’ll judge you? For most of us, we’re a mix of both. Which is better? It […]
Pain or Pleasure?
One thing that’s essential when selling anything to anybody, or persuading anybody to do anything, is understanding what’s important to them. Sure, if you walk up to every single person on the street and try to sell them a slicer dicer, you might get one or two sales out of a hundred. But you’ll also […]