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26th November 2003 # Issue 139
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What a terribly dull affair, too, life must be for contented people!
~ Jerome K Jerome
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IN THIS DIGEST :
Moderator's Comment -
~ Gunjan
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CONTINUING DISCUSSIONS
Speaking Tip
~ from Tom Antion
IDEAS TO PONDER AND DISCUSS
Ambition - Should you be murdered for it?
NEW DISCUSSIONS
Interesting Articles
~ Gunjan
Throw away your diary !?
~ Gunjan
THIS WEEK'S HUMOR
THIS WEEK'S STRESS RELIEVER
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Moderator's Comments
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Dear LaughMates,
Can't spend much time chatting today. Got to work
on the quotes section of my site. It's growing by
leaps and bounds. Check for yourself -
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With no further ado here's I-Laugh # 139
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With best wishes
Gunjan
Who is too busy working
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===== CONTINUING DISCUSSIONS ========
===> Speaking Tip
ROOM BLACKOUTS by Tom Antion
If you want to make a spectacular impression on a low budget,
room blackouts are a great technique.
I use them in two ways. 1. If I want the audience to concentrate
on a recorded audio tape and 2. when I want an awesome closing.
Let's say I wanted the audience to listen to a recording of the
speech where John Fitzgerald Kennedy said "Ask not what your
country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Or
maybe the "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King would be
appropriate. I would gradually bring the lights down as I was
introducing the audio clips. I would either project a picture of
JFK, or MLK if I had the capability, or I would totally darken
the room (except for the red exit signs, or whatever lights are
mandatory for emergencies).
When you take away the visual clues (or distractions) the
audience has, you help them totally focus on the audio.
THIS CLOSING REALLY ROCKS
When I'm doing a rip roaring presentation that demands a
spectacular close, this is what I do. (Note: I DON'T do this if
I'm planning a table rush to buy my products.)
I hand out (usually you need helpers to do this quickly) some
sort of chemical glow product. I give the audience instructions
on what we're going to do. I tell the audience to stand up and I
get them all swaying back and forth in unison while they're
holding they glow sticks over their heads. Then I bring the
lights down and play some singalong song or Karoke song where I
have made up custom words for their group.
This is one heck of a closing! When the song is finished I say
"thank you for having me." The lights start to come up while
they
are applauding and I accidentally on purpose get a standing
ovation. hahahhaha
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==== THOUGHTS TO PONDER & DISCUSS =====
ON GETTING ON IN THE WORLD.
Everything comes too late in this world.
Good people say that it is quite right and proper that it should
be so, and that it proves ambition is wicked.
Bosh! Good people are altogether wrong. (They always are,
in my opinion. We never agree on any single point.) What would
the world do without ambitious people, I should like to know?
Why, it would be as flabby as a Norfolk dumpling. Ambitious
people are the leaven which raises it into wholesome bread.
Without ambitious people the world would never get up. They
are busybodies who are about early in the morning, hammering,
shouting, and rattling the fire-irons, and rendering it generally
impossible for the rest of the house to remain in bed.
Wrong to be ambitious, forsooth! The men wrong who, with bent
back and sweating brow, cut the smooth road over which humanity
marches forward from generation to generation! Men wrong for
using the talents that their Master has intrusted to them--for toiling
while others play!
Of course they are seeking their reward. Man is not given that
godlike unselfishness that thinks only of others' good. But in
working for themselves they are working for us all. We are so
bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each
blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. The
stream in struggling onward turns the mill-wheel; the coral insect,
fashioning its tiny cell, joins continents to one another; and the
ambitious man, building a pedestal for himself, leaves a monument
to posterity.
~ Jerome K Jerome
(in... The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow.)
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===> Interesting Articles
Hey Laughmates,
Last week we checked out how much sales you learnt in
kindergarten... This week let's check out how much
leadership and communication lessons you picked up
there ... ;)
Let's start with an extract from a post by Dale Emery
in the CTI group and then follow on to his article
via the link provided by him.
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I use Green Eggs and Ham as a case study in my "Resistance
as a Resource" workshops.
Sam-I-Am is certainly persistent. He seems to have only one
trick up his sleeve: change the context to (perhaps) make the
green eggs and ham more appealing.
He doesn't seem to be quite so good at listening. He barely
shows that he's hearing what the other guy is saying. Count how
many times the other guy says "no" before Sam-I-Am finally asks,
"You do not like green eggs and ham?" And though the guy
says
many times that the context isn't the problem -- "I would not eat
them anywhere! -- all Sam can think to do is continue to change
the context.
And what's the other guy's name, anyway? Sam-I-Am never
says it. Does he even know the guy's name?
Sam-I-Am never asks what the guy doesn't like about green eggs
and ham. Is it the greenness? Is he a vegetarian? Maybe he's
Jewish.
So Sam-I-Am is quite gifted at fiddling with the context, but
less talented with some of the other areas that affect how people
respond to requests and proposals, such as communication,
motivation, and relationship.
And notice what the guy says just before he tries the green eggs
and ham: "Sam, if you will let me be, I will try them, you will
see." Sam's sales tactic seems to be: annoy people to the point
where they will do anything you ask if only you will go away.
You could try that, but I don't recommend it.
I've been using Green Eggs and Ham as a case study since 1996,
and I'm still finding lessons in it. It's a lot of fun, and it's
easy for people to think of ways they can improve on Sam-I-Am's
performance. I've also used it as a case study in leadership:
http://www.dhemery.com/journal/archives/2003-06/famous_leadership_case_study.html
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Gunjan's Plea
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MLM salesmen ! Please read that !
Please read it with your coat !
Please read it in your boat !!
Read it till your brain starts to heat!
And then my friend, please repeat !!
Please read it till your brains do fry !
Now can you see why you make us cry ?
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===> Should you throw away your diary ?
Dear Laughmates,
I'm sure that all of you have heard of Steven Covey's
'7 Habits of Highly Effective people'. Even if you haven't
yet got a chance to read it I doubt any of you live in a
remote enough corner of the world to have not heard
of it. Unfortunately I've got two friends who are
absolutely infatuated by it and keep quoting it as if it
were The Bible or Catch 22 and I'm fed up. So imagine
my joy when recently I spotted a copy of
'7 Bad Habits of Highly Ineffective People' by Richard
MacDonald.
The very first habit he mentions is 'Throw away your
Diary' He defends his statement by saying ...
You may protest, "I need my diary, my mobile phone,
my planners, my palmtop, me personal organizer." Do you?
Do you really ? I doubt it. The Druids - and many other
ancient cultures - didn't have any of these things and managed
to retain all their lore, teachings, wisdom and knowledge in
their heads. How did they manage this ? Quite easily. They
evolved a simple rule - if it's important you'll remember it;
if it isn't then you don't need it.
What are your thoughts on this thought ? Are you a diary/
planner addict? Could you get by without your diary?
Waiting to hear your thoughts (so we can get a discussion
going !;)
Gunjan
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I love my Job, I love the Pay!
I love it more and more each day.
I love my Boss, he's the best!
I love his boss and all the rest.
I love my Office and its location -
I hate to have to go on vacation.
I love my furniture, drab and gray,
and the paper that piles up every day!
I love my chair in my padded cell!
There's nothing else I love so well.
I love to work among my peers -
I love their leers and jeers and sneers.
I love my computer and all its software,
I hug it often though it doesn't care...
I love each program and every file,
I try to understand once in a while!!
I'm happy to be here, I am I am,
I'm happy to give lots of taxes to my government.
I love this Work, I love these Chores.
I love the meetings with deadly bores.
I love my Job - I'll say it again -
I even love these friendly Men...
The men who've come to visit today,
In those lovely white coats to take me away!!
(Thanks Dianne)
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=========== This week's Stress Reliever? ==============
Take A Trip Into Space
http://spacewander.com/USA/english.html
(It's an amazing journey ! But you're supposed to
sit quietly and not run your mouse all around. If, like
me, you can't resist doing that, you might have to
see the presentation all over again ! ;)
(Thanks Dianne)
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