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Category Archives: Personal

A Hypnotic Roommate Ad

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Over a year ago, I posted an ad to Craigslist for a roommate.
I think we got a couple of inquiries and only one person came over to look at it. We ended up renting to a brother of one of [...]

Is this true?

I don’t know where this came from but it’s pretty hypnotic:

Click on the video to send it to your friends or make your own.

Volunteering and profiles

Sorry I let it go almost 2 weeks without posting. I had a birthday weekend and my major volunteer effort - Toastmasters - started a new year.
I’ve got a club and a district officer role this time around and it all came down at the same time. When I told one of our new club [...]

Trying NLP out in a Speech

Over the weekend I got to announce the Toastmasters District Fall Conference since I’m chairing it.
I only had a few hours until I was to make the announcement (due to procrastination on my part) and most of that time was already accounted for in other events.
I decided to throw some patterns in there anyway just [...]

Knowing and Doing

In planning for an upcoming Toastmasters conference, I’ve met a number of NLP trainers.
The idea was to get speakers who could deliver some real value to our members. I know NLP can do that.
After listening to 3 different NLP trainers, only one seemed suitable for our conference. It turns out he happened to be a [...]

All the Jobs I’ve Had

This post doesn’t pertain to NLP or marketing per se.
I was preparing for a speech I gave at my Toastmasters meeting yesterday. I started to make a list of all the jobs or businesses I’ve had that I’ve been compensated for one way or another.
Since this list is so long, I’ll bold the ones that [...]

Books that Changed Your Life

Yesterday, Ryan Healy wrote a post on 12 books that changed his life and encouraged others to do the same. It was an interesting exercise to go back and try to figure out which books actually caused me to live my life differently. I figured if a book only gave me different thoughts, that wasn’t [...]

Death of the layman

I’ve been reading a bunch of different articles about authority and decentralized responsibility lately.
In case you’re wondering, none of the following links are affiliate links.
Mark Joyner recently published a report entitled, Rise of the Author which is about how you’re automatically an expert if you publish a hard copy book and how you ought to [...]

Your Personal Motivation Video

Check out this post on the Warrior Forum:
From $0 to $500K in 2007… Step by step
There’s some solid use of NLP patterns in creating your own motivation in that post. After all, some of the best work you’ll ever do with NLP will be on yourself.

Check this out

I don’t have a good reason for not mentioning it before. It didn’t occur to me I suppose. Better late than never…
http://bitesize-marketing-nlp.com/2008/01/10/nlp-copywriting-magician-speaks-out/