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How to Write an Outsourcing Ad

photo credit: gruntzooki How to Write an Outsourcing Ad Writing an ad to find new staff and team members, can be a tricky thing if you haven’t done it before. In this post I’ll give you some key outlines that you can use as guides and also give you some example adds that I’ve used in the past to hire people. [...]

Building Your Team with Outsourcers

photo credit: kafka4prez Building Your Team with Outsourcers Often the fastest way to accelerate your impact and growth in your business is to grow the team. In this blog post on team building with outsourcers I want to go through some of the key things you need to think about when you planning on building [...]

The Battle Between Subjective versus Objective in Business

photo credit: RambergMediaImages In the past week I’ve had three separate occasions where I was coaching or consulting for someone and the whole issue of making decisions via subjective opinions versus objective facts came up in the conversation. I’m constantly amazed at the amount of a very smart and intelligent people who are making very [...]

Ted Williams, Trolls and Putting Yourself Out There

As I write this you may have seen the story of Ted Williams. He was a guy that over the past few days has gone from being homeless, living on the street and sleeping in some shrubs to being inundated with offers of work. Why? Because he has a great voice. Actually let me rephrase [...]

Enough with the 2011 predictions – Evaluating Opportunities

photo credit: futureatlas.com Enough with the 2011 predictions – Evaluating Opportunities For the past few days I have mostly stayed away from the internet, I gave my team time off for New Year and after finishing a beta version of cool new plugin we have been developing. Yesterday when I logged in to social media [...]

The Cost of Inaction

The Cost of Inaction The biggest cause of people not getting what they want in life doesn’t come from big dramatic failures. For most people its not that the business went bust because there was new competition or the I lost all my fortune because the stock market tanked. For most people the biggest killer [...]

Intelligence is Overrated

Intelligence often gets in the way. I remember a time when I was talking to a small business owner in Asia and asking him some questions about his business. He told me that he bought a certain product from his supplier at about 80 cents and then he sold it for $1.60. I congratulated him [...]

Trying Blindness with food?

photo credit: Eddie~S
I was recently in Zurich Switzerland and had the good fortune to be taken to The Blindekuh (Blind Cow) Restaurant.
The Blindekuh is a restaurant where everything inside the dinning room is totally pitch black. There is no light in there what so ever. Basically by walking into the dinning room you loose your sense of sight. You become blind. Totally.
At first myself and others at my table had the illusion that we could still see our own hands moving in front of our faces, even though we couldn’t see anything else. I put this to the test by getting a friend’s hand in front of my face (an inch away), only to find that I couldn’t see it at all. It had been a trick that my mind was playing on me by making me think I could see my hands.
The experience for me was amazing. After the few initial minutes of feeling wary and concern about where my hands were and if I was going to knock over my glass etc wore off, I began to relax in to the realization that I no longer had my sight to rely on.
Listening to people’s voices took on a whole new level of awareness. The tables are shared and seat 6-8 people, so our small group of three joined a table by another group of 3 Americans. During the whole lunch I never got to see these people at all, I only had the sense of sound and topics of our conversation from which to evaluate them.

The Obsession of Passion – What you gives you OCD will often give you your success

The Obsession of Passion – What you gives you OCD, will often give you your success.
People often ask me at my seminars, about how they find can find their true passion and often my answer is something along the lines ‘you will know it when you find it, so keep trying new things till you find it’.
While this may often seem a short and succinct reply to a truly in depth question, the simple fact is that most people don’t try many new activities once they become an adult.
Adam Savage is known to many of you as one of the presenters from the Myth-Busters show on the discovery channel. I am a fan of the show and the fundamental ways they test assumptions to see what actually is myth and what is plausible.

Mind Reading Technology: Cold Reading mind tricks from the future for now

The ultimate mind trick is to accurately read someone’s mind and know what they are thinking, with out any fancy card forces or magic tricks. This is often achieved by frauds and scam artists using a technique called ‘Cold Reading’. When I first learnt NLP I modeled cold reading from two sources and found it to be extremely effective at making people think that you could read their mind and tell their future.
At one party I went to I took out a normal deck of cards and used them as prop while I cold read all my girlfriend’s friends. Later in the night many people came up to me and professed that I had been the best fortune-teller they had ever met (this was in an Asian culture where people going to a fortune teller, was quite common).
For me I did it as fun exercise to check the ability that I had modeled and I deliberately set up an empowering future for all of the people I worked with, yet unfortunately many people use it, to claim to speak to the dead, talk of magic abilities and generally to get large sums of money out of people.
While we can read many of the things in peoples minds (such as they way they are thinking and style of their thinking), we are still unable to read their exact and precise thoughts. UNTIL NOW that is.
As science gets better and better at learning how our brains work we are starting to see some truly amazing milestones in the technology of brain scanning.