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The Forgotten Strategy To Learn Skills Insanely Fast, Build a World-Class Network and Engineer Your Own Job Opening TheFeelGoodLifestyle.com. On October 20th, 2011 I entered my email address in the sign-up box below one of the posts on this site… That was the first domino to fall. A sequence of events followed that I still have a hard time believing… It didn’t take long to become a HUGE fan of Phil Drolet and this site. I couldn’t get enough. When ever I needed a surge of inspiration I’d come here.

One day I found a message in my inbox that would change everything for me. I shot and edited a video application. “Mike! One interview later I found myself on the team. In June of 2012 I began a yearlong apprenticeship with Phil. I’m now having conversations with people who were “internet famous” to me. In June, I flew out to Boulder, Colorado to accept my dream job. This apprenticeship allowed me to learn skills rapid-fire, explode my network with quality connections, and engineer my own job opening. But here’s the thing: I’m not special. This isn’t a post about theory.

Let this be your first domino. Stop Checking The Boxes 1. 2. 1. 2. Comfort Zone Challenge | The Wellbeing Revolution. This is going to be funny, awesome and exciting. One of the best things that you can do to grow as a person and live an extraordinary life is push your comfort zone. Your growth as a person and your willingness to do the things that make you feel scared are highly positively correlated. You cannot and will not progress to where you want to go if you stay in your comfort zone. Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If you want better results and more from life, you’ve got to start pushing yourself. Fear stops us from doing many things that are guaranteed to allow us to be better people and create extraordinary results. It wasn’t long ago that i was scared to talk in public, call people in a higher position than me – did you check out the 62 Extraordinary People Reveal How They Found The Courage To Follow Their Dreams? Feel awkward, feel weird, feel scared. Comfort Zone Crusher - Expand your Comfort Zone in a fun way! 31 Ways To Fail In Life from Napoleon Hill | ThisInspired.Me. How to Be a Good Speaker: 13 Steps. Edit Article Edited by Blizzerand, Lucky7, Flickety, Jack Herrick and 23 others Being a good speaker requires planning, clarity of thought and a well constructed beginning, middle and end to your speech.

It is important to avoid creating confusion or leaving your listeners feeling that you have wasted their time. Read below the jump for a proper set of instructions on learning how to be a good speaker. Ad Steps 1Make eye contact. 13Watch some videos of great speakers: Martin Luther King, John F. Tips Avoid monotony. Warnings The worst speaker is the bore. Jedi Mind Tricks: 17 Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People. Want to know how to persuade people online and get what you want? The power of influence is usually all that separates the successful from everyone else. These are some tactics, discovered through psychological research, that you have probably not yet heard about, but have the potential to increase your persuasive abilities. I’m not going to cover reciprocity, scarcity or social proof and all those widely known persuasion principles.

You already know all about those (in case you don’t, stop everything and read this book by Cialdini). Related: How Nike’s Making Persuasive Product Pages 1. How to persuade skeptics: Be confident, talk fast The best way to persuade audiences that are not inclined to agree with you, is to talk fast. Want to boost persuasive power? Don Moore from Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Behavioral Decision Research has published research showing that confidence even trumps past accuracy in earning the trust of others. People naturally associate confidence with expertise. 2. Personal Development for Smart People - Steve Pavlina. To-done. Personal Development for Smart People - Steve Pavlina. Motivation Resources Help You Excel Achieve Your Dreams. 25 Acts of Body Language to Avoid. Our body language exhibits far more information about how we feel than it is possible to articulate verbally.

All of the physical gestures we make are subconsciously interpreted by others. This can work for or against us depending on the kind of body language we use. Some gestures project a very positive message, while others do nothing but set a negative tone. Most people are totally oblivious to their own body language, so the discipline of controlling these gestures can be quite challenging.

Most of them are reflexive in nature, automatically matching up to what our minds are thinking at any given moment. Nevertheless, with the right information and a little practice, we can train ourselves to overcome most of our negative body language habits. Practice avoiding these 25 negative gestures: “ I speak two languages, Body and English. ” — Mae West Holding Objects in Front of Your Body – a coffee cup, notebook, hand bag, etc.

Want to know powerful, dominant, confident body language postures? Top 10: Conversation Etiquette Mistakes. Photo: *clairity* We’re all capable of the occasional social blunder. Of course, some of us seem more prone to it than others, but even the savviest people aren’t impervious to such gaffes. And no scenario is richer with these potential faux pas than the everyday conversation, in which you can say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, and occasionally spit on others when trying to pronounce nouns with German etymology. No worries. We’ve all had our moments with conversation etiquette mistakes. But just because these conversation etiquette mistakes happen across the board doesn’t mean they can’t be avoided.

All it takes is good judgment, a little maturity and a look at the most common conversation mistakes. No.10 – Changing the topic to suit your own interests Everyone has their own conversation topics of choice — work, office gossip or early 20th century smelting techniques. No.9 – Checking your phone No.8 – Not knowing your audience Know your audience. No.7 – One-upmanship No.5 – Cursing. How to Win Friends and Influence People. Six Ways To Make People Like You Become genuinely interested in other people.Smile. Remember that a man's name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in the English language. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Talk in terms of the other man's interest. Make people feel important, and do it sincerely. Twelve Ways Of Winning People To Your Way Of Thinking The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Nine Ways To Change People Without Giving Offense Or Arousing Resentment Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Fourteen Rules For Making Your Home Life Easier Don't nag. Notes Criticism is futile because it puts a man on the defensive, and usually makes him strive to justify himself. When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important. Almost Everybody Wants... Health and the preservation of life. “Every man is my superior in some way. Raised Rent.