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What is the Answer to 99 Out of 100 Questions?

What is the Answer to 99 Out of 100 Questions?

I finally decided watch the movie Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz. If you are some of the few who have yet to see that movie – A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jaded lover. Besides being a great movie, Tom [...]

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Influence Someone by Creating a New Reality

Influence Someone by Creating a New Reality

Convincing someone is a prestige art that requires powerful persuasive communication. Your thoughts mainly consist of your beliefs, emotions, and concepts. How you present yourself to others determines whether or not they listen or do what you tell them to do.  This occurs within the first minute of

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Versatility – Become Irresistibly Persuasive

Versatility – Become Irresistibly Persuasive

It’s not about you, it’s about the person in front of you. I always take these words to heart because it means to give your focus and attention to someone else.  Have you ever spoke to someone you didn’t know and just didn’t click? It’s not their fault, it’s yours. That is if you consider [...]

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Do You Have a Friend Who is a Loser? Get Rid of Em!

Do You Have a Friend Who is a Loser? Get Rid of Em!

It is easy for me to say that most people surround themselves with losers.   If you want to become successful, rich, or happy, you should do whatever it takes to grow, right?  As human beings, we must grow, because like a business, if we don’t grow, we die.  I don’t mean literally die, but I [...]

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More of the Same Gives You More of the Same

More of the Same Gives You More of the Same

Almost anyone who’s been in some type of sales has heard of or used Albert Einstein’s quote: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”   So where do you stand as far as what Einstein said?  Well you’re definitely on the right track by choosing to [...]

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32 Questions: 20 Empowering & 12, Not so Much

32 Questions: 20 Empowering & 12, Not so Much

Persuasive Communication doesn’t only refer to how you communicate with others, it also refers to how you communicate to your self. To change the results you get, you start by taking control of how your mind thinks. This is done by asking yourself the right questions. Changing you Has there ever been a time when [...]

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You Forget 80% of What You Learn Every Day!

You Forget 80% of What You Learn Every Day!

There are many people out there who spend hours on end every single day learning and feeding their mind with immeasurable amounts knowledge.  It truly is amazing to see that so many people have an interest in taking themselves to the next level.  Unfortunately, even though the intention is constructive, there lies a undetected negative [...]

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Size Matters, Small is the New Big

Size Matters, Small is the New Big

In NASA, the smallest miscalculation can cause a fatal disaster. Being a slight degree off, 1/100 of inch, can lead a space shuttle in a completely different direction. The power of small is a phrase I use that means the smallest adjustment can make an enormous of change. This is obviously the negative side of [...]

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What do Hitler and Obama Have in Common?

What do Hitler and Obama Have in Common?

Subconscious persuasion is surprisingly very commonly used with some of the world’s biggest leaders.  During Hitler’s reign of terror, millions of people were persuaded into believing something evil and wrong was good and right.  Currently, Obama is persuading millions of people that he will “change” America forever and take us to the next level. Both [...]

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Do You Practice What You Preach?

Do You Practice What You Preach?

Have you ever told someone to do something that you would never do yourself? Gandhi hasn’t: A woman once came to Gandhi and asked him to please tell her son to give up eating sugar. Gandhi asked the woman to bring the boy back in a week. Exactly one week later the woman returned, and [...]

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Courage. Do You Have it or Do You Want it?

Courage. Do You Have it or Do You Want it?

Have you ever seen the movie the Pursuit of Happyness?  Don’t worry, if you haven’t, this won’t spoil it.  Will Smith’s character, Chris Gardner comes across a well dressed man who drives a Ferrari.  Chris becomes flabbergasted with excitement and curiosity and decides to ask asks the man what he does for a living.  The [...]

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Why Make Mistakes, Learn From Someone Else’s Experiences

Why Make Mistakes, Learn From Someone Else’s Experiences

Almost everyone I know has told me a story about how they lost a lot of money and regret some of the decisions they have made in the past.  I used to think like this all the time before I became consciously aware of what it does.  Regretting decisions we’ve made in the past is [...]

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Work Hard, Don’t Play Hard Just Yet…

Work Hard, Don’t Play Hard Just Yet…

Most people are weary and unsure of what will happen to our economy. Sometimes the stock markets soar high and other times they plummet low. Everything seems to be boarder line chaotic.  Does America really have it that bad? “…Short answer yes with an if, long answer no with a but…” I love the cliché [...]

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Do You Have Mad Learning Skills?

Do You Have Mad Learning Skills?

Everyone wants to be good at something. That something could be the skills to play basketball, it could be skills to sell, or even the skills to sing. Whatever that something is, learning any skill is a process. The Process of learning: Subconscious Incompetence This is the stage the first stage in the process of [...]

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Go to the Next Level Like an Airplane

Go to the Next Level Like an Airplane

When an airplane takes off from the ground to cruise mode, it exerts more energy then the entire flight. By energy, I mean that the engines work a lot harder then when the plane is leveled off in the sky or landing. When you start a business or a skill set you wish to master, [...]

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