Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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Frank vs Matt is a concept Andre Chaperon came up with to help demonstrate the two camps or categories (or models) that us marketers operate within.
Although Frank and Matt are not real ‘flesh and blood’ people per se — their traits are absolutely real and based on real people.
You’re currently one of them. Continue reading “Are you a Frank or a Matt? In business, in life…”
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Turning things around… creating a turning pointI have a potential turning point for how I teach and what I teach… I saw it yesterday.
It’s a potential turning point, because I am not sure I can do it. After all I would be teaching something I did not learn myself. So I don’t even know if it is teachable. But at least now I understand what is going on. Why the results are sporadic.
I’ll explain later, after the story… but let’s start with a story, OK? Continue reading “When you learn a new word, it opens the world for you”
I am on a quest to catch up to the culture
I came to this country in 1985. In all of my 38 years here I watched TV on a TV set maybe 10 hours total… Probably less.
So I haven’t been part of the ‘culture’. And being part of the culture is essential if you want to be in people’s world.
Everything is culturally defined. Love, sadness, tragedy, compassion, etc. Culturally defined. Continue reading “The worst of the 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People”
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What brings something out of the invisible? So you can see it. So you can stop it if it doesn’t work. Or have more of it if it does…
I have started to watch movies again, on Amazon Prime. Not Netflix? Not Netflix.
Anyway, yesterday I watched two Jesse Stone movies with Tom Selleck. Continue reading “What brings something out of the invisible?”
Just from this morning’s ‘crop’…
I woke up with the alarm. At 4 am… Then I fell back to sleep. I said: ‘oops, it is late!‘ and the whole world was now witness to me being a slacker whose word you can’t count on.
I made myself a cup of Tetley’s British Blend tea.
I am testing not using sweetener. My body is covered in hives…
Continue reading “What you call things matter more than you know”
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We are in the midst of the Drink your food challenge.I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know what will happen… what spiritual, what intellectual, what personality issues will be driven up.
Here is what I am getting: people find themselves in the GAP. The gap between who they think they are, and who they are proven to be by the challenge.
This article from 2018 will shed a lot of light on what’s going on. Continue reading “We all have multiple personalities… One is delusional”
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What is different between the driver and a passenger of a car?
Now, you could say that their actions, but you would be both right and wrong…
The real difference is between the language they use.
The driver calls the shot… While the passenger goes wherever the driver takes them… and at best they can grovel.
I’d like to, I want to, I need to, I should. I will. Continue reading “What is different between the driver and a passenger?”
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Water becomes vapor. A species becomes sentient. A person becomes a Man.
But the ‘gurus’ say: you are already god. You are already perfect.
Why? To stop you from becoming. To stop you from putting in the effort to actually become someone you can love.
The language is to blame… And, of course, the crab bucket. Continue reading “Becoming. A change of state through increase…”
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I am re-reading the book Chop Wood Carry Water.
It’s a 3-hour read at my slow reading speed.
It is a veritable storehouse of all ‘mind bugs’…
You can use the book as a coach… by the way.
So let’s say you are bummed out. Discouraged. Down on yourself. ‘I am never going to succeed!’ says the little voice. Continue reading “People, language, conspire to keep you off the path”
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Success doesn’t teach anything. Failure does…
But only if learning is welcome. Failure is deemed both wrong and unnecessary by today’s man.
Let’s look first what is the meaning of success and what is the meaning of failure, so we have the same picture of what we are looking at. Continue reading “Success doesn’t teach anything. Failure does…”
