Karen Diane Jackson I waited over 30 years for my blessing and for God to hear my plea. And it was definitely worth the wait,even though I was in a horrible relationship he managed to turn my entire life around. I never gave up,or did I ever dream of the blessings he would bestow upon me. Feeling so blessed,I definitely learned to praise him in the storm. I stood in faith and it all worked out for the greater good.
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Debra Louise Walker Spear Amen, I have prayed many prayers for my oldest son, been back and forth in trouble with the law, he was homeless for a little while, my husband wasn't having it him coming back into our home, but you know a mother will never give up on our children. I ...See More
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Cory Fisher
Cory Fisher I've been struggling with this lately. I have to keep reminding myself that it's on His time frame and not on mine.
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Nanette Reyna
Nanette Reyna A few days ago Jesus answered a prayer from thirty years ago that I had well forgotten about. God loves his children and gives them the best in his time.
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Catherine Vanderford
Catherine Vanderford I have waited 40 years for a good man. Still haven’t found one. Just lying ,abusive, stealing cheats in my life. So I will stay single! I have always took care of myself . These days I choose ME !!!
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Lisa Carter
Lisa Carter If only I’d been reminded before taking things into my own hands. Feeling so stupid right now...Heavenly Father please forgive me!
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Loretta Fleury
Loretta Fleury I guess I am in the best company for I am waiting for God to show me the way to on. I am so lost without my tom. He took him home almost a year ago but I am still waiting to know what is my future without him. Say a prayer for me. Thank you.
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Josie Veronas
Josie Veronas Lord i need your holy miracle and the divine healing pls.heal my children 😭😭 they are my everything even u give me that illnes i receive it but pls.not my kids.Amen
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Denise Crymes
Denise Crymes Patience builds character!!! Keep trusting the Lord. He is faithful!!!
Keep a positive attitude while you wait & build your hope! We will never be ashamed when our faith is in God! My family has been restored after 16 years!!!! PTL!!!!
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Sue Murray
Sue Murray I was married in 1970 , was in a bad marriage from day one but continued to live with him , after 2 miscarriages and 1 baby girl passing of 2 months and 4 sons later praying every day for God to help m e get a better life , it happened after 16 yrs. Now im living for the lord and loving life . Amen
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Paula Hagan
Paula Hagan God will never desert those who love him. Our prayers may not be answered in the way we expect but always in a way that is better for us. Keep praying and trusting and you will have the answers. God bless all who are suffering in any way.
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Myra Desmond
Myra Desmond Amen. It's been a lot of years and I prayed for a lot of things now I'm praying for health for me and my family and friends I'm putting my life in the hands of God and I know he'll take care of me. I thank you for all you've done for me so far in the name of my Lord and Savior your son Jesus Christ.
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Leane Woods
Leane Woods Thank you Jesus I often tell myself God knows the perfect timing for my life. He know what’s best for his children.
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Gloretta Cain
Gloretta Cain Amen a blessing is a gift so you receive it when its Gods time to give it ...its not a must have its a reward 🙏 stay strong stay humble and greatful and faithful and your blessings will come. Trust in the lord he is the true provider.
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Helen Newman
Helen Newman I have been praying my entire life for a God-fearing loving, respectful kind hearted man to become my husband! I finally after many years prayed faithfully for this and last year GOD answered my prayers for me and my kids and my husband says answered ...See More
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Susan Head
Susan Head Lord Jesus I am praying I don't have to wait much longer for my daughter and grandchildren to have a better life and find true love
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Donna Hawkes Schaeffer
Donna Hawkes Schaeffer Waiting has been a major part of my life.
Almost like God has had me in a training program for waiting. I am really grateful for these lessons, as it has produced endurance, patience, and tolerance in my life. THANK YOU, FATHER....IN JESUS' NAME.
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Brenda Steele
Brenda Steele Thank you for posting this. In our society we have been programmed not to have patience. Everything is expected so quickly. Obey God's law and there will be redemption. Have faith, keep bowing your head in heartfelt prayer, allow the higher power to guide you through the seemly impossible...ask only for God's help in your search
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Merlyn Granados
Merlyn Granados I waited my blessing for 50 years..now i am 63 it was worth the wait..my kids are all grown up..with good paying job abroad..its definitely worth the wait.
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Jenny Jeffrey
Jenny Jeffrey Thank you lord for everything and blessings and listening to my prayers my son needs you now to sort his life out with work and financially and depression and anxiety please lord can you help help my son he needs you now in the name Jesus amen 🙏🏽 in the blood of Jesus amen 🙏🏽
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Blanca Espinoza
Blanca Espinoza Keep the Faith I have learned to praise him in the storm and I believe it will all work out in his timing...Amen Amen Amen 🙏
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Coleen Abalos
Coleen Abalos God im praying for my husband and to my kids,give me a perfect life.pls help my family peace of mine to each other..im waiting for your help jesus! Thanks god for being strong even its hard.
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Nhu Pham
Nhu Pham I believed God are walking with me through my life; when I'm struggling he's walk with me & you're hold my life in your hands...Thanks God 🙏
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Vicky Khotkar
Vicky Khotkar Lord you know what is my need today 😭😭😭please help me lord jesus thy word says those who call upon your name will😭😭😭😭not be ashamed 😭😭😭lord please do something for me 😭😭today
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Sue Ngit Ramos
Sue Ngit Ramos Lord you know what im praying for.im praying for my especial friend.help them to take all what troubles they are facing now.i know Lord you will help him coz your the one who knows him well.Amen
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Lorraine Mendoza
Lorraine Mendoza Karma is real, I ruined a relationship with a great guy,because I’m impatient & have anger issues. It’s almost a year. I still miss him & im trying to forgive myself but karma is real. 😥 I pray everyday. God help me 🙏🏼
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Ken Dotts
Ken Dotts So many times I should of left this earth. Yet here I am turning 67, sober, checking with my Lord if he has the right person. It is God's plan. Was talking to a co-worker today about people being put in the right place at the right time to fill Gods' will. Sit on edge of my bed everynight asking for the strength to continue his will for me.
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Any Shilon
Any Shilon oh ye.... I am already waiting for many many years... more than 30.... but I didn't lost hope. One day my dream will become true, my prayer will be answered. Here is the source of my power.
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Jenny Ritter
Jenny Ritter Victoria Epps I know it can be exhausting tiring tested when we have to wait but God has a reason and he didn’t leave you here by yourself and he doesn’t want misery for you he wants the best for you and sometimes we have to wait until the timing is perfect
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Shellie Vick
Shellie Vick I lost my husband after 48 years 2017 and I am asking God to put me back on the right direction because I took the wrong direction I don’t need to go through 2018 because I trust in God. Thank you Jesue for being my Heavenly Father and for our Salvation.This relationships is not working Father God I will wait on you. Amen
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Mila Cabalar DE Guzman
Mila Cabalar DE Guzman I know that god get a special gift for me in the right time I have faith in him just keep praying and ask for his guidance amen
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Edwin Toledo
Edwin Toledo Yes because I'm always in good company I believe he's always with me no matter what I do I feel his presence I love my lord... living is such a struggle we are always hustling we are always trying to get more I believe there is more to this I believe t...See More
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David Ward
David Ward God knows the end from the beginning, so he gives us what we need, when we need it...to give the most possible blessings, to the largest number of believers, for the longest possible time.
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Gilda Parreno
Gilda Parreno Oh , those were the people in the bible that inspired me to be still , calm and be at peace as God said so. God has its ways far far different from man. I have gained patience and peace just as Jesus would want us; focus on things pleasing him the mos...See More
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Amy Andrews
Amy Andrews Davianna Hudson ...
This is my Story and I have finally be Blessed all the way around... sure everyday isn’t perfect but they are far from what they were. Just keep your Faith in Him and all will happen when the time Is right!
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Joseph Duarte
Joseph Duarte I keep myself going forward in my becoming of manhood which began on my 21 bless god given year. Answering my prayer in my search of the One female friend who too was searching for the same state of going forward into her womanhood as me my manhood. Bo...See More
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Cindy Terry Hamlett
Cindy Terry Hamlett Jesus I ask you to put my daughter in your hand. You are what she is going through. Please take the desire of drugs away from her & keep her safe out there. I know you love her more than I do. I'm sorry for worrying so much cause I KNOW you will take care of her. Thank you for watching over my 4 g.daughters. I know you know what's best for all of us. In Jesus Name Amen.
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Tamara Bean-Jackson
Tamara Bean-Jackson I️ being praying every day and night that the Lord turn my son life around free him drugs and alcohol and know Lord has something better for him .I️ keep praying trusting and believing God Is bring him back to the person he created his child my child to be ..Keep positive attitude good faith keep on praying 🙏🏽 for a blessing
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Leilani Castillo Pinili
Leilani Castillo Pinili Yes amen I believe, thank you God! for making me stronger and courage to wait for the right time pursue and to finish my working contract soon. Lord you are great! you are all that we need amen!!
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Maria Teresa Moeller
Maria Teresa Moeller amen....all the waiting, God is processing us to be like HIm and to hv a position that will last for His glory and honor. God is good in bad and good times! Just hv faith, hope n love....
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Rosalee Cozart
Rosalee Cozart God turned my life around and gave me the best husband in the world i love him so much I'm talking about God and my husband
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Angela Christensen
Angela Christensen I had to wait for specific times before the Lord blessed me with my last 2 children. The Lord always knows the right time if we will accept his decisions for our lives and our well being. He never will lead us in a wrong path---He will make a way for...See More
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Gener Escudero
Gener Escudero I have waited 33years and still disappointed. I gave-up. I do not pray anymore for what i have been dreamed in my life because he don’t like me. I have to work and believe myself alone. Because ever since i am alone.
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Robert Lee Johnson Jr.
Robert Lee Johnson Jr. The race is not given to the Swift nor the battle to the strong but to he that endureth to the end the battle is not ours it's the Lord's greatest thing I ever learned was to let my peace be still amen thank you Jesus
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Michael Gerald Hulla
Michael Gerald Hulla Amen God has plans for us all he is with me and helping my mind heart body and soul understand the true value of me so I can help all those who are struggling with there hardships in life.
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Elizabeth Shelton
Elizabeth Shelton I know that I am on God's time not mine. Some times I have to slow down and remember He wrote my life's plan; He knew the beginning, the middle, and the home going......I can not change it. God bless you all that are on this journey with me. We have some work left to do.
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Janet Birchall
Janet Birchall As I am waiting I am learning more about how faithful He is. As my life changes He doesn't! The same God who led all the great saints of old is my God too. So no worries. He gave me life and I just hand it back to Him and wait!
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Annette Lopez
Annette Lopez God has something special for me he has answered my prayers I have a Lung disease that I have been struggling for the past 3 yrs that requires me to use Oxygen 24/7 and had to face many many trials in my Life. I have found my new partner that despite m...See More
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Wanda Daniels
Wanda Daniels There is always reasons for God making us wait! He does know what our future holds for us. I truly know how inpatient we are as Humans because I am one! We have our Faith in God but when everything is going so terrible wrong in our life we all have reason to just give up. So Hard to keep going on. Just when there seems to be nothing left to hold on to God Some how sends
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Elda Elijio
Elda Elijio Amen. I waited 18 years for my blessing that I wanted so badly. And when I finally received it, it definitely was worth the wait. I still wake up in the morning and be amazed and elated about it. Thank you God. And the best is yet to come.
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Frank Kern
December 27, 2017 at 11:13pm ·
If you want clients but nobody’s ever heard of you, here’s some good news:
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Apple pledges $350 billion investment in US economy over next five years
Posted yesterday by Ron Miller (@ron_miller)
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Apple is about to give the U.S. economy a huge boost in the form of a $350 billion five-year investment. As part of that, it will commit $55 billion this year alone and plans on adding 20,000 new jobs over that time frame. Following in the footsteps of Amazon, it also plans to add a new campus somewhere in the U.S. this year.
There is a lot of news here. Let’s start with the big-picture investment of $350 billion, which Apple says does not include ongoing tax payments, the tax revenues generated from employees’ wages or the sale of Apple products.
It will, however, involve taxes on repatriation of some of Apple’s cash reserves, which are currently in the $256 billion range. It anticipates $38 billion coming from repatriation taxes, but much of it will be capital expenditures on the part of the company.
For starters, there will be $30 billion, which will help fund a number of projects, including building the aforementioned new campus. The plan is for this to initially house technical support for customers. Apple says it will announce the location of this new facility later this year, with a plan to make the building run on 100 percent renewable energy sources.
But wait, it’s not done yet. It will also invest $10 billion of that money in new data centers in the U.S., adding to the seven already in operation or planned. There is a new one coming in Iowa and they broke ground on one in Reno just today, in addition to data centers already in operation in North Carolina, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. (This number includes co-location facilities not owned and operated by Apple.)
The company also plans to expand the advanced manufacturing fund it started last spring, from $1 billion to $5 billion. The idea is to bring advanced manufacturing jobs to the heartland and it is already funding projects in Kentucky and rural Texas.
Finally, Apple plans to expand its coding initiatives, helping students and teachers from K-12 and at community colleges across the country learn valuable coding skills.
While there is clearly a large public relations element to this announcement, the amount of money and investment involved from a private company here is just staggering, and should help create new jobs, stimulate local economies and help educate students for the next generation of jobs. Hard not to like that.
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Apple pledges $350 billion investment in US economy over next five years
Posted yesterday by Ron Miller (@ron_miller)
Next Story
Apple is about to give the U.S. economy a huge boost in the form of a $350 billion five-year investment. As part of that, it will commit $55 billion this year alone and plans on adding 20,000 new jobs over that time frame. Following in the footsteps of Amazon, it also plans to add a new campus somewhere in the U.S. this year.
There is a lot of news here. Let’s start with the big-picture investment of $350 billion, which Apple says does not include ongoing tax payments, the tax revenues generated from employees’ wages or the sale of Apple products.
It will, however, involve taxes on repatriation of some of Apple’s cash reserves, which are currently in the $256 billion range. It anticipates $38 billion coming from repatriation taxes, but much of it will be capital expenditures on the part of the company.
For starters, there will be $30 billion, which will help fund a number of projects, including building the aforementioned new campus. The plan is for this to initially house technical support for customers. Apple says it will announce the location of this new facility later this year, with a plan to make the building run on 100 percent renewable energy sources.
But wait, it’s not done yet. It will also invest $10 billion of that money in new data centers in the U.S., adding to the seven already in operation or planned. There is a new one coming in Iowa and they broke ground on one in Reno just today, in addition to data centers already in operation in North Carolina, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. (This number includes co-location facilities not owned and operated by Apple.)
The company also plans to expand the advanced manufacturing fund it started last spring, from $1 billion to $5 billion. The idea is to bring advanced manufacturing jobs to the heartland and it is already funding projects in Kentucky and rural Texas.
Finally, Apple plans to expand its coding initiatives, helping students and teachers from K-12 and at community colleges across the country learn valuable coding skills.
While there is clearly a large public relations element to this announcement, the amount of money and investment involved from a private company here is just staggering, and should help create new jobs, stimulate local economies and help educate students for the next generation of jobs. Hard not to like that.
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How to make 2018 the year that you get your BEST clients ever.
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Too many businesses are chasing unprofitable clients.
We’ve all done it. We’re not immune to it.
After looking at our results from 2017, it became very clear. Our #1 priority of 2018 needs to be focusing on our very best clients.
Doing this will help us: (1) stay laser-focused on “moving the needle” and (2) evaluate our clients/prospects to see which ones generate the biggest “bang for our buck” so that we can allocate the right dollars to the right initiatives.
If you read our blog from last week, you already know that the “High-Ticket Mindset” means focusing on your best clients. And using the “80/20 Rule” which says, more or less, for many of us 80% of your business/results/profits, comes from 20% of your customers. We’re taking this very seriously in 2018 and we urge you to do the same.
It might be the single thing that separates highly profitable businesses, from those who struggle to stay above the line.
Follow along here to make sure you don’t miss out on any of our content and training this month. We’ve got a lot of great stuff coming, including a free workshop series in February, that will focus entirely around growing your business in a very focused, systematic way, and allowing you the opportunity to land that next “whale” of a client.
Why?
Well we’ve realized something – it’s easier to take down a whale with a harpoon rather than casting a net.
With a net, we’re spending a lot of energy to cover a vast amount of space where we’ve assumed our “whale” of a client is. While we might generate some business casting our net and acquiring smaller clients; the time, money and resources it takes to service them…could hurt us in the long-run.
This again, doesn’t mean that you should trash low-ticket prospects, because we’ve seen first-hand how those can turn into huge high-ticket clients. Small fish turn into big fish. Our mission to impact as many people as possible isn’t changing, our approach is.
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We briefly touched on this in our blog last week (see here). But it comes down to three specific areas:
Optimize our online presence so we are attracting targeted, high-value prospects.
Clearly define our prospect profile so we know exactly who our very best clients are, where they can be found, and what makes them tick.
Optimize our messaging strategy, using warm, inviting messaging to generate a consistent stream of the RIGHT new leads and appointments.
Optimizing your online presence is a necessary component to attracting the right clients. If your ideal client looks you up online, and the presence they see doesn’t reflect a match… then they’ll be done. You don’t get a second chance very often. For us, we aim to position ourselves and our brand as the authority in lead generation and B2B marketing.
Clearly defining our prospects/clients is the next step. We need to know what a whale looks like (what a whale is, where they are, why they’re there and how they got there). Not that sharks aren’t huge, but we’re not hunting for sharks – we’re hunting whales. If we can’t clearly define what OUR whale looks like, then we aren’t whale hunting. We’re in the wrong business!
Optimizing your messaging strategy is the harpoon. We don’t want to hunt a whale with a net, we want to land that next big client with a guaranteed execution. We’ve developed a strategy that guarantees responses from targeted prospects, and we plan to double down on utilizing this approach.
These are 3 of the core principles , regardless of platform, that are necessary attracting our best clients.
Know who they are and what makes them tick.
Optimize our online presence and positioning, so when they look at us they say… “Wow, this person is speaking my language!”
Implement a strategic messaging strategy to move the prospect into a real world business conversation.
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Which of these habits is keeping you from being a great communicator?
By Julian Treasure on November 14, 2017 in Interviews
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Over the years, Julian Treasure has identified a set of common emotional drivers that suck the power out of communication. He calls these the four leeches. “Most people — me included! — have most, or all, of them in some form,” says Treasure. “I’m not suggesting they’re bad, wrong or to be condemned outright; the trick is to be conscious of them and not let them run the show.” Below, he explains the four leeches.
Leech #1: Looking good
We all like to look good. However, this basic human desire can often get in the way of our listening and our speaking. This tendency often evinces itself in two simple words: “I know.” But if I know everything, what can I learn? Absolutely nothing. A Zen proverb sums up this proposition nicely: “Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.”
It’s deflating to be around someone who is impossible to impress. Communication expert Trisha Bauman told me a story that illustrates this very well. She moved to Paris and thought she’d become inept at conveying her excitement at the sights she was encountering. Every time she extolled the beauty of a landmark, her new friends responded with a shrug. It took time for her to realize the issue was not with her; in that circle of people, if not in Paris, it was considered a loss of face to be seen to be impressed by anything. That’s all very well, but this behavior is a joy-kill. Joy is such a rare commodity in this world that it seems tragic to go around killing it.
A more subtle way of looking good that tarnishes communication is what I call “speechwriting.” As that irrelevant noise — you speaking — is going on in front of me, I am concentrating on composing my next brilliant monologue. This practice often produces the “anyway…” non-sequitur that ignores what was just said and moves the topic to a completely different place. It’s a trait that often afflicts people in power, even though it’s not a good style of leadership.
One step up from speechwriting is competitive speaking. This potent form of joy-killing is all about looking good. For example, let’s say I enthuse, “We’re so excited to be going to Greece on holiday this year.” The competitive speaker will jump in with, “Oh yes, I’ve been to Greece six times and I love it!” My feeling: deflation. My joy has been made to look second-rate.
Leech #2: Being right
If there is one thing we like more than looking good, it’s being right. When I am right and you are wrong, it makes me feel I am better than you. The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships. As the therapist and educator Harville Hendrix has said, “Do you want to be right, or do you want to be in a relationship? Because you can’t always have both. You can’t cuddle up and relax with ‘being right’ after a long day.”
The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen as we really are, as flawed human beings who are perfectly imperfect and full of contradictions and confusions. We yearn to feel justified and respected, and being right — or making others wrong — is the route we choose to achieve these desires because it sets us above other people.
Interrupting springs from the desire to be right. This might be result from speechwriting, but it often arises with no planning at all — simply from the desire to disagree, demand an answer, or make a point now, without waiting for the other person to finish. Interrupting is becoming more common in our impatient world, even in matters of life and death. One survey of physicians in the US and Canada found that patients were interrupted an average of 18 seconds into their opening statements; less than one-quarter were allowed to complete what they wanted to say.
Interrupting has two unfortunate consequences. We don’t hear what the other person says, which might be useful, enlightening or not what we expected. And it most likely damages the rest of the conversation by changing the dynamics — the interrupter is exercising their dominance — as well as the emotional context. The interrupted person may feel belittled and offended, giving rise to anger, resentment and the unwillingness to be open. While interrupting is not always wrong, it should never become a habit.
Leech #3: People pleasing
If someone is — or is perceived to be — driven by people-pleasing, it robs their speech of power. Honesty and authenticity are absent, and these are key foundations for strong communication. People pleasers might say yes when they mean no, or agree to going out when they’d much rather stay in. They may concur with opinions that they fundamentally disagree with in order to be liked. While we all have this desire to have other people like us, it’s a question of degree.
If you find yourself people-pleasing overmuch, take some time to think about your own values. Ask yourself: What do I stand for? What is important to me in life? What is not negotiable? Write down everything that comes to you. When you have your core values clear, it becomes much easier to stand in them and not be blown around by other people’s opinions or needs.
Leech #4: Fixing
Fixing is about trying to make it all right. “Don’t cry” or “Don’t be upset” is the fixer’s primary response to pain. Why is this a leech? Because sometimes people need to be upset and to express their grief, sadness, anger or other strong negative emotions.
Fixers think it’s not acceptable for others to be upset. It may derive from people-pleasing, or it may be that strong negative emotion is seen as something to be feared — either because they had too much of it in their family of origin or because of complete lack of experience of it, thanks to a family where emotional expression was unacceptable.
My aunt told me a story that illustrated how even well-intentioned fixing causes damage. When she was a little girl, her parents told her she was going to have a baby brother or sister. She was so excited, and the spare room was decorated as a nursery. Eventually, the day came and her parents went off to the hospital. She waited at home with a neighbor, but when her parents returned, they were alone. Nothing was ever said. She did eventually get two little brothers, and much, much later she learned her first brother had been stillborn — but she never forgot the confusion and loneliness she felt that day. Doubtless, my grandparents decided not to discuss it so as not to upset her. Still, the effect on her was that a bond was broken and she found it harder to trust people.
Fixing, whether by withholding like that or by distracting or obscuring with extravagant affection, denies people the feelings they need to feel. Not only that, but many fixers habitually deny themselves strong feelings. When communication is driven by the need to fix, it usually means there’s a hidden agenda at work — one that is all about the fixer’s needs, even though it may be disguised as love.
Some of these leeches may be minor or even non-existent for you. However, I’m willing to bet you can identify at least one that has affected — or is currently affecting — your opportunities in life. As you consider them and become more and more conscious of their existence in your speech, their power will be lessened. Simply shining the light of mindfulness on them should cause them to wither and shrink.
Author bio: Julian Treasure is a sound and communication expert who travels the world training people to listen better and create healthier sound. This piece was adapted for TED-Ed from this Ideas article, which was excerpted with permission from the new book How to Be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening by Julian Treasure. Published by Mango Books. © 2017 Julian Treasure. Art credit: Sacha Vega/iStock
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“Think of hard times like bad weather — they too will pass” and more essential life advice from elders
By Kate Torgovnick May on November 20, 2017 in Interviews
It’s hard to feel a sweeping sense of perspective when you’re stuck in traffic, or feeling buried by work, or overwhelmed by family demands. But those are exactly the moments when some words of wisdom from your elders — the people who’ve been there, like the ones below — can come in handy.
Each of the following insights comes from a conversation conducted during the Great Thanksgiving Listen, an annual initiative from TED Prize winner Dave Isay and his team at StoryCorps that asks people to interview an older family member or friend during the US holiday weekend. By participating, you could unlock new stories about your family or gain a different perspective on historical events, while ensuring your loved one’s story is preserved in the StoryCorps Archive at the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center. And you might just hear a piece of useful advice that will get you through a difficult moment. You can even create custom videos and sharable quote images from your interviews here.
If you’re an educator, get inspired by 5 creative storytelling projects led by teachers here, and learn more about how to participate in StoryCorps here.
Below, enjoy these insights from older Americans on the key ingredients for a good life, and get inspired to do your own interview for this year’s Great Thanksgiving Listen.
Think of hard times like bad weather — they too will pass.
Arden Fleming, 15, calls her grandmother Agneta Vulliet her “biggest role model.” Vulliet, the daughter of French immigrants, grew up in New York City, and she says she first learned about independence when she went to boarding school. Vulliet left school before graduation to get married, and ended up getting her high school degree at night school — while raising two kids. She studied art in college, where a professor was impressed with her determination and recommended her for a scholarship. Toward the end of their interview, recorded in October 2017 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Fleming asked her grandmother for advice.
“What I want you to know and keep in mind is that your 20s are very turbulent and that it does get better,” Vulliet says. “You want so much for yourself, you have such expectations, you have so many wishes to succeed, and there’s a lot of anxiety that goes with how all that will take shape. I never want you to get carried away with how hard it seems.” She adds, “Growing up is a lot like the weather. Every time you hit the big storms that seem like they’re going to snow you under, it will change and get better — and the sun will come out.”
Draw inspiration from all the people you meet.
Bill Janz traveled the world as a journalist, and wrote a column for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about ordinary people who’d shown remarkable courage. In a 2015 interview with his 14-year-old grandson, Jasper Kashou in Freedonia, Wisconsin, the now-retired Janz shared memorable stories from his days as a reporter — of almost falling off an elephant into tall grass where a tiger was hiding while in India, and of crawling on his belly to avoid sniper fire in Croatia during the Bosnian War.
But when Kashou asked him about the person who’d impacted him the most, Janz spoke of someone closer to home. “A boy named Eddy helped me see a little bit about what life is all about,” says Janz. Eddy was a 10-year-old he’d written about whose leg was amputated due to cancer. “No matter what happened to him, he never gave up,” he recalls. “I called Eddy once at home, and the phone rang and rang and rang. Finally, he picked up the phone. I said, ‘Eddy. I was just about to hang up. Where were you?’ And he said, ‘Bill, I was in another room. My crutches weren’t near, so I crawled to the phone.’” Janz often finds himself thinking about that conversation. “He was only a young man, but he was teaching an old man to never give up,” Janz said. “I sometimes tend to give up and go do something else, and [he helps me] remember not to do that.”
Love your work — for the salary and for the people.
Bennie Stewart, 80, got his first job at age 7 — he’d run errands for his neighbors and get paid in chicken eggs. In a 2015 interview with grandaughter Vanyce Grant, 17, in Chicago, he talked through his many jobs. Stewart chopped cotton for $3 a day in 115 degree heat; bused dishes; cleaned buildings as a janitor; sold insurance; and eventually found his passion as a social worker and, later, as a pastor.
Grant asked his grandfather about what led him to these different occupations. “I love talking to people,” Stewart says. “I’ve been told I have the gift of gab, so I can talk and I can grasp things real fast. I always took pride in being able to listen to instructions and pick them up quick.” What lessons did he learn from his work experience? “It taught me that I can have something of my own and provide for my family and get some of the things in life that I couldn’t,” he says.
These themes echo those in an interview that Torri Noakes, 16, recorded with her grandmother Evelyn Trouser, 59, in 2016 in Flint, Michigan. Trouser worked in auto factories, first on the line and then as a welder. “My advice to everybody in my family: learn to take care of yourself. Don’t depend on anyone to provide you with anything,” Trouser says. She refuted any notion that her jobs were dreary. “I used to love going to work,” she said. “It’s the people you’re with that makes a job fun or not. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the people you’re with that make things different.”
Find mentors who can guide you and challenge you.
Allen Ebert, 73, reminisced about his working days in an interview with grandson Isaiah Ebert, 15, also recorded in 2016 in Flint. Ebert first worked as a welder in an auto factory when he was young and said the experience helped him once he entered medical school. “If you understand how something works, when it breaks you know what to look for and how to fix it,” he said. “Even the body is mechanical.”
When Ebert spoke about his experiences as a doctor, he impressed one thing upon his grandson: look for mentors. “The stuff you’re doing right now in school, you’re learning from people who know something you don’t know. Continue that throughout your life,” he says.
To find mentors, you should look beyond your bosses and teachers. “Just develop relationships with people whom you can observe, even from a distance, and see how they accomplish things,” Ebert says. “The way I look at it: in life, we probably make 95 percent good decisions and about 5 percent messed-up decisions. A large part of our lives as adults is fixing the mess of those few wrong decisions, and you can minimize them by just having people in your life who will challenge you and make you think twice, who will say, ‘Well, that doesn’t sound right to me.’”
Make the most of less.
According to StoryCorps, many people use the Great Thanksgiving Listen as a time to ask about family recipes. Along with step-by-step instructions, they receive a slice of family history, as well as life advice.
Some of the stories highlight one of the secrets to a life well-lived: learning to make the most of what you have. Kiefer Inson, 28, talked to his grandmother Patricia Smith, 80, about her classic tuna noodle casserole made with canned tuna. “When I was 18, I was married and had a child and did not have an outside job, so I’d go to the library, bring home cookbooks, and try the recipes,” Smith says. “Back then, we were on a very limited budget. A pound of fish cost 69 cents, so I learned to cook a lot of things with that.” Jaxton Bloemhard, 16, interviewed his mother, Bethany Bloemhard, 38, about Ukranian pierogies. She told him how her own grandmother would make hundreds at a time. “She’d tell stories about how they kept the Ukranian people alive,” says Bethany Bloemhard. “The Ukrainians grew potatoes like nobody’s business, and as long as you had flour, water and some oil, you could make the dough.”
Other stories point to the need to keep trying until you succeed. June Maggard, 87, spoke to her granddaughter Emily Sprouse, 33, about the recipe book that she’s kept for 30 years. “People say they can’t make bread or biscuits, or anything really, but you just have to learn the feel,” Maggard says. “That comes by doing.”
Learn more about participating in the Great Thanksgiving Listen.
Featured art credit: Rémi Cans/TED-Ed, from the TED-Ed Lesson: “Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on earth.”
Author bio: Kate Torgovnick May is a writer. This piece was adapted for TED-Ed from this Ideas article.
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“Think of hard times like bad weather — they too will pass” and more essential life advice from elders
By Kate Torgovnick May on November 20, 2017 in Interviews
It’s hard to feel a sweeping sense of perspective when you’re stuck in traffic, or feeling buried by work, or overwhelmed by family demands. But those are exactly the moments when some words of wisdom from your elders — the people who’ve been there, like the ones below — can come in handy.
Each of the following insights comes from a conversation conducted during the Great Thanksgiving Listen, an annual initiative from TED Prize winner Dave Isay and his team at StoryCorps that asks people to interview an older family member or friend during the US holiday weekend. By participating, you could unlock new stories about your family or gain a different perspective on historical events, while ensuring your loved one’s story is preserved in the StoryCorps Archive at the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center. And you might just hear a piece of useful advice that will get you through a difficult moment. You can even create custom videos and sharable quote images from your interviews here.
If you’re an educator, get inspired by 5 creative storytelling projects led by teachers here, and learn more about how to participate in StoryCorps here.
Below, enjoy these insights from older Americans on the key ingredients for a good life, and get inspired to do your own interview for this year’s Great Thanksgiving Listen.
Think of hard times like bad weather — they too will pass.
Arden Fleming, 15, calls her grandmother Agneta Vulliet her “biggest role model.” Vulliet, the daughter of French immigrants, grew up in New York City, and she says she first learned about independence when she went to boarding school. Vulliet left school before graduation to get married, and ended up getting her high school degree at night school — while raising two kids. She studied art in college, where a professor was impressed with her determination and recommended her for a scholarship. Toward the end of their interview, recorded in October 2017 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Fleming asked her grandmother for advice.
“What I want you to know and keep in mind is that your 20s are very turbulent and that it does get better,” Vulliet says. “You want so much for yourself, you have such expectations, you have so many wishes to succeed, and there’s a lot of anxiety that goes with how all that will take shape. I never want you to get carried away with how hard it seems.” She adds, “Growing up is a lot like the weather. Every time you hit the big storms that seem like they’re going to snow you under, it will change and get better — and the sun will come out.”
Draw inspiration from all the people you meet.
Bill Janz traveled the world as a journalist, and wrote a column for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about ordinary people who’d shown remarkable courage. In a 2015 interview with his 14-year-old grandson, Jasper Kashou in Freedonia, Wisconsin, the now-retired Janz shared memorable stories from his days as a reporter — of almost falling off an elephant into tall grass where a tiger was hiding while in India, and of crawling on his belly to avoid sniper fire in Croatia during the Bosnian War.
But when Kashou asked him about the person who’d impacted him the most, Janz spoke of someone closer to home. “A boy named Eddy helped me see a little bit about what life is all about,” says Janz. Eddy was a 10-year-old he’d written about whose leg was amputated due to cancer. “No matter what happened to him, he never gave up,” he recalls. “I called Eddy once at home, and the phone rang and rang and rang. Finally, he picked up the phone. I said, ‘Eddy. I was just about to hang up. Where were you?’ And he said, ‘Bill, I was in another room. My crutches weren’t near, so I crawled to the phone.’” Janz often finds himself thinking about that conversation. “He was only a young man, but he was teaching an old man to never give up,” Janz said. “I sometimes tend to give up and go do something else, and [he helps me] remember not to do that.”
Love your work — for the salary and for the people.
Bennie Stewart, 80, got his first job at age 7 — he’d run errands for his neighbors and get paid in chicken eggs. In a 2015 interview with grandaughter Vanyce Grant, 17, in Chicago, he talked through his many jobs. Stewart chopped cotton for $3 a day in 115 degree heat; bused dishes; cleaned buildings as a janitor; sold insurance; and eventually found his passion as a social worker and, later, as a pastor.
Grant asked his grandfather about what led him to these different occupations. “I love talking to people,” Stewart says. “I’ve been told I have the gift of gab, so I can talk and I can grasp things real fast. I always took pride in being able to listen to instructions and pick them up quick.” What lessons did he learn from his work experience? “It taught me that I can have something of my own and provide for my family and get some of the things in life that I couldn’t,” he says.
These themes echo those in an interview that Torri Noakes, 16, recorded with her grandmother Evelyn Trouser, 59, in 2016 in Flint, Michigan. Trouser worked in auto factories, first on the line and then as a welder. “My advice to everybody in my family: learn to take care of yourself. Don’t depend on anyone to provide you with anything,” Trouser says. She refuted any notion that her jobs were dreary. “I used to love going to work,” she said. “It’s the people you’re with that makes a job fun or not. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the people you’re with that make things different.”
Find mentors who can guide you and challenge you.
Allen Ebert, 73, reminisced about his working days in an interview with grandson Isaiah Ebert, 15, also recorded in 2016 in Flint. Ebert first worked as a welder in an auto factory when he was young and said the experience helped him once he entered medical school. “If you understand how something works, when it breaks you know what to look for and how to fix it,” he said. “Even the body is mechanical.”
When Ebert spoke about his experiences as a doctor, he impressed one thing upon his grandson: look for mentors. “The stuff you’re doing right now in school, you’re learning from people who know something you don’t know. Continue that throughout your life,” he says.
To find mentors, you should look beyond your bosses and teachers. “Just develop relationships with people whom you can observe, even from a distance, and see how they accomplish things,” Ebert says. “The way I look at it: in life, we probably make 95 percent good decisions and about 5 percent messed-up decisions. A large part of our lives as adults is fixing the mess of those few wrong decisions, and you can minimize them by just having people in your life who will challenge you and make you think twice, who will say, ‘Well, that doesn’t sound right to me.’”
Make the most of less.
According to StoryCorps, many people use the Great Thanksgiving Listen as a time to ask about family recipes. Along with step-by-step instructions, they receive a slice of family history, as well as life advice.
Some of the stories highlight one of the secrets to a life well-lived: learning to make the most of what you have. Kiefer Inson, 28, talked to his grandmother Patricia Smith, 80, about her classic tuna noodle casserole made with canned tuna. “When I was 18, I was married and had a child and did not have an outside job, so I’d go to the library, bring home cookbooks, and try the recipes,” Smith says. “Back then, we were on a very limited budget. A pound of fish cost 69 cents, so I learned to cook a lot of things with that.” Jaxton Bloemhard, 16, interviewed his mother, Bethany Bloemhard, 38, about Ukranian pierogies. She told him how her own grandmother would make hundreds at a time. “She’d tell stories about how they kept the Ukranian people alive,” says Bethany Bloemhard. “The Ukrainians grew potatoes like nobody’s business, and as long as you had flour, water and some oil, you could make the dough.”
Other stories point to the need to keep trying until you succeed. June Maggard, 87, spoke to her granddaughter Emily Sprouse, 33, about the recipe book that she’s kept for 30 years. “People say they can’t make bread or biscuits, or anything really, but you just have to learn the feel,” Maggard says. “That comes by doing.”
Learn more about participating in the Great Thanksgiving Listen.
Featured art credit: Rémi Cans/TED-Ed, from the TED-Ed Lesson: “Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on earth.”
Author bio: Kate Torgovnick May is a writer. This piece was adapted for TED-Ed from this Ideas article.
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Russia: Blogger Who ‘Boasted’ About Crypto Wealth Beaten and Robbed For $425k
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Russia: Blogger Who ‘Boasted’ About Crypto Wealth Beaten and Robbed For $425k NEWS
A Russian cryptocurrency investor and blogger known online as Pavel Nyashin was attacked and robbed in his home in Leningrad Oblast the night of Jan. 14. The assailants stole funds worth 24 mln rubles ($425,000), according to local media.
Nyashin was tied and beaten while a group of masked assailants stole a safe containing cash and “essential documents.”
Nyashin, a self-made millionaire from cryptocurrency investing, had “boasted” about his wealth online and at meetings of well-known bloggers he attended, local media network NTV reports.
The crypto blogger told NTV in a video interview:
“They took the safe in the end, as they knew there was cash in the house. In it was a sum equivalent to 24 mln rubles, as well as a lot of essential documents.”
The 23-year-old Nyashin from St. Petersburg had previously made known about his successes online while advising on how to become rich from cryptocurrency, according to NTV, which ran an admonitory headline “Millionaire blogger beaten and robbed for boasting.” According to Russian-language cryptocurrency news outlet ForkLog, Nyashin is the founder of the YouTube channel on crypto trading that has almost 15,000 subscribers.
ForkLog also reported that the “bandits” destroyed all electronic equipment in Nyashin’s home and fled the scene in what appeared to be a Mercedes.
NTV adds that the assailants further removed a laptop he used to trade on exchanges. Nyashin himself has yet to find out if his accounts have been hacked and assess the full damage done.
A criminal case has been opened on the armed assault, NTV reports.
Other incidents
Cointelegraph previously reported on the fate of EXMO exchange CEO Pavel Lerner, who was kidnapped in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and only released on payment of a $1 mln ransom late last month.
Prior to that, Ukrainian security personnel allegedly tried to steal funds from Anatoly Kaplan, founder and CEO of ForkLog, in a raid of his place of residence, as well as of the ForkLog office, in Odessa.
