Please find a range of blogs below:
01 March 2020
It feels great to be chosen doesn't it?
Whether that's for the football team, the quiz team or a new job, the social approval massages the ego.
From the moment we're born, until we leave this mortal coil, someone chooses which school we go to, what college we attend, what job we get, when we're promoted, the list goes on.
So our lives can easily be reduced to one of being a follower.
Our inner voice, innate creativity and burning inspiration are often subdued by society's requirement to take orders, stay in line and maintain the status...
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16 February 2020
When a giraffe is born it falls more than six feet from its mother's womb on to the floor.
After checking that it's breathing normally the mother kicks the baby and sends it sprawling. In fact, the mother will keep kicking its new-born until it stands up and then, when it does eventually stand up, the mother will kick its new born again so it falls down. This seemingly cruel process is repeated for 10 - 15 minutes.
In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up very quickly in order to stay with the herd, where there is safety and not fall prey to lions,...
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02 February 2020
Sir Richard Branson shared this…
When asked what's the biggest thing that stops people from living their dream, Sir Richard Branson replied, "The fear of failure."
Yet this is a fear we're not born with.
We're actually only born with two fears, the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. All other fears are learned as we grow up.
Young children are happy because their minds haven't downloaded the file "what could go wrong." They're more awake to each moment than most...
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19 January 2020
The New Year has brought with it the usual celebrations so many forgotten resolutions!
Yet despite this surge in advice from the well-intentioned but unlearned people, when we look back at the end of 2020, it will be exactly the same as every other year in that,
some people will have done the work - spiritual, mental and physical - to make things happen, and got the results they wanted
some people will have watched things happen, and
some people will ask, "What the hell happened?"
In 2020, I hope that your words are believed, your potential is...
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05 January 2020
We talked to our friends, and they said, "No." We talked to our relatives, and they said, "Not interested."
Finding more new prospects to ruin isn’t the answer.
We don’t need more new people to ruin. We need to change what we say.
If our best prospects (family and friends) hated what we said, then strangers won’t like what we say any better.
· Buying 1,000 names of new prospects to ruin isn’t the...
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22 December 2019
No.
But we can control our actions.
This is why setting goals can be discouraging. We might be measuring our success by the actions of others.
Here is a better way to set our goals.
Set goals on our efforts, not on the outcome, because the outcome depends too much on other people’s lives.
For example, instead of having a goal of Closing a big deal every week, we can set a goal of talking to seven people each week. That is within our control.
And yes, goal-setting season is approaching. We can start practicing now.
Making our one...
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08 December 2019
In today’s world, we have to make doing business easy and user friendly for all.
Many years ago, we would take all day preparing for an evening meal, and would take 3 hours with the family enjoying the experience.
Now we hear the ping of the microwave 60 seconds from when we arrive in the house and we all scoff it down as a family in minutes, the winner is the microwave and instant food!
So how do we do business the tangerine way?
It is the secret key to winning more business at higher prices and less rejection...
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24 November 2019
Tip #1: Why your clients do business with you.
Our clients really don't know how to evaluate our expertise. Many times, they don't even know the right questions to ask us to fix their problems.
So how do they choose between competitors?
Trust.
It is not our presentation, our quality, or facts and proof. It is trust.
So if you want to win more clients, concentrate on building trust quickly.
Forget the fancy presentation. That is AFTER your client has made a decision to trust you or not.
Tip #2: "If you are going to be stupid, you got...
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12 November 2019
Hi, Bernie De Souza here,
There are four steps to successful parachuting.
#1. Put on parachute.
#2. Get into airplane.
#3. Jump out of airplane.
#4. Open parachute.
If we get these steps out of order, we die.
It is the same in business. When we meet a prospect, we must go through four steps. These four steps are called the "four core skills."
Out of the 15 skills I teach, these four core skills are the ones we will use every time we meet a prospect. These are the first skills we want to master.
Now, everyone reading this should already...
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27 October 2019
You already know this:
* Prospects don’t pay attention to us.
* Prospects don’t listen to us.
* Prospects desperately want to do anything but hear us out.
We are dead, unless we …
Grab and hold their attention!
How? Here are a few of the many ways:
* Use controversy.
* The trap.
* The challenge.
* Curiosity dread.
* Imagine the future.
* Choosing.
* Future feelings.
* Mind-reading.
* Making the present risky.
We can get our prospects to sit on the edge of their seats, waiting anxiously for our next words. And we can do...
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