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Why What You’re Doing Hasn’t Worked Yet…

Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a common question amongst my fellow self-help junkies that essentially boils down to this: I’ve read all the books, I’ve done the seminars, I’ve listened to all the podcasts… why haven’t I seen the changes happen in my life?  Let me tell you a quick story… The Young Man and the Master Carpenter There …

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Make Every Conversation Buzz with These Connection Tactics (part 3)

Reading Time: 2 minutes In part one of this series on provocative conversations we discussed mining small talk for conversational gold, in the second part we explored how to find topics with universal appeal, in this section we will get a bit more playful with some conversational games you can play to increase engagement… Technique the Third — Conversational …

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Make Every Conversation Buzz with These Connection Tactics (part 2)

Reading Time: 2 minutes   In part one of this 3-part series on creating meaningful and provocative conversations, we talked about what makes a meaningful conversation so meaningful. We also explored how to mine your small talk for conversational gold, using a values-exploration technique. In this section, we will discuss how you can create a shared connection when the …

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Make Every Conversation Buzz with These Connection Tactics (part 1)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Defend Your Conversations From Boredom We’ve all been in boring conversations. Those conversations that feel like a pair of smartphones talking to one another.  Maybe it’s new people without a lot of common ground, or maybe it is just very surface-level topics, but whatever the reason, you just can’t seem to make a genuine connection.  …

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Become a Badass at any Life Skill (10,000 hours NOT required)

Reading Time: 7 minutes 7 Steps To Go From Beginner To Competent Ever since the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell came out, the 10,000-hour rule has become a part of the common parlance. If you want to be world-class at something, you have to put in your 10,000 hours, right? But what if you don’t want to be world-class? …

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3 Practical Keys to Telling Stories That Connect

Reading Time: 7 minutes Telling Compelling Stories Isn’t Complicated — Here are 3 ways to tell a your story so that it connects. By now, we’ve all heard the advice that storytelling is pretty useful. Stories seem to function as some sort of social panacea. They help sell, they build leadership, they create romantic attraction, entertain, engage, and generally …

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