1. Make Fewer Decisions - Step 2 to Making Decisions
December 12, 2007
Let’s not waste our time not making decisions when we are out there in the executive world.
What are some of the steps we can take in making great decisions?
We have all spent years and years teaching some of the most effective and successful executives on the planet how to make qual...
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2. Get On With It! Step 1 to Making Decisions
December 07, 2007
It is very simple. Time spent not making the important decision is time wasted. You have to make good decisions.
Have you ever been driving down the road behind someone who is indecisive? It is terrible; they wander up and down the road. They pull off to the side. They slow down. You know w...
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3. Extend Your Philanthropy Past Money
December 04, 2007
Do Not Burden Your Children with Unearned Wealth While you want to give your money away, you want to give it to people and causes that will truly benefit from it. Unearned wealth can be a tremendous burden and stunt the growth and spiritual development of those who receive it. Wealth is earned by c...
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4. Step Three to Changing Your Internal Representations - Close the Distances
November 16, 2007
Now that you have distanced yourself and learned how to edit images internally, it’s time close the distance to the image you fear to see how you did.
This should be done one step at a time.
First, move from the third to the second position. Go down from the blimp to the bleachers or...
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5. Step One to Changing Your Internal Representations - Image Editing
November 16, 2007
The next step in removing phobia is to edit our internal images and representations. In other words we are going to alter and change the way we see things.
While maintaining a state where we observe the observer (lots of distance from the object or event in question), we can edit and change ...
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6. Step One to Changing Your Internal Representations - Distancing
November 14, 2007
None of us sees the world as it truly is. Rather, we see the world on the screen of our mind’s eye, with many alterations and modifications.
Put simply, we edit. We choose to focus on one aspect of an experience and not another.
Our images may be still or moving, framed or panoramic,...
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7. What Is a Phobia? How Do You Remove a Phobia?
November 14, 2007
So what exactly is a phobia anyway?
A phobia can be defined as an irrational fear that causes us to experience a physiological revulsion to something that does not actually threaten us with serious harm.
Phobias occur when the brain links only pain and no pleasure to any object or ex...
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8. Use the Power of Ignorance-on-Fire
November 13, 2007
“Ignorance-on-fire” is what I call those people who for whatever reason (need for the opportunity; change in occupation; desire to travel, win a new car, or to get some other reward; respect for you; hoping to generate new results; or because that person is a true believer in the product) are on fir...
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9. More Ways to Make Deeper, More Sincere Friendships
November 10, 2007
Be Honest Sometimes we are afraid of hurting our friends’ feelings. We don’t tell them our honest feelings. We feel that we are protecting them. Think about it. Do you want your friends hiding their true feelings from you even if it may hurt? I have asked dozens of people...
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10. Make Deeper, More Sincere Friendships
November 07, 2007
Sincere Interest Show sincere interest in the other person. Care about what they care about.
Years ago in Japan I had a very close Japanese friend. As an American I was interested in how he defined friendship. So I asked him, “What does it mean to be a true friend in Japan?” He thought for...
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Author: Mark V. Hansen
