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Re: 5 Reasons Why Having a Job is Better Than Having a Business

Sidney Ford — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:29:34 -0000

And yet you apparently don't even exist. Go figure....

Re: Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned from Mr. Rogers

Sandra — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:05:51 -0000

Mr. Rogers will always be to me now what he was 15 years ago, my best friend, a true person I could always count on. Rest In Peace Mr. Rogers.

Re: Debunking Crap: Einstein Never Failed Math

Mubuku — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:12:24 -0000

Though "you're English is great!", "your English" would have been greater.

Re: How Your Education is Preventing Me From Getting Rich

Lele — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:25:29 -0000

You missed the point. While it is true that a higher education is more conducive to higher salaries as an employee, it says nothing about the self-employed and entrepreneurs. No current college teaches you the art of the entrepreneurship or the art of money-making, only the School of Hard Knocks works, apparently. Of course smart people won't eschew studying key material. And let's not talk about the debt you could incur to finance your degree. How do I know? Even if I'm not an entrepreneur yet, I'm a college drop-out and have worked elbow to elbow with graduates, being paid like them. Cheers.

Re: Review of Who Moved my Cheese

YW Purnomosidhi — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:38:43 -0000

I like this book. It's fun way to learn how to deal with change.

Re: “Interview” with Eckhart Tolle

thevillageatheist — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:51:55 -0000

Thanks for the quotes - I'll have to steal a few for my website

Check out Eckhart Tolle vs. Jack Handey:

https://sites.google.com/a/...

Re: Review of Who Moved my Cheese

As It Is — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:50:55 -0000

I'm a change management specialist, but I was still given this book by one of my employers (everyone got one). Absolute crap and a waste of 10 seconds of my life, as I tossed it after page one.

Re: Debunking Crap: Einstein Never Failed Math

J. — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:58:40 -0000

Guess what: Even if you ARE a math genius it will probably not make you a new Einstein by far...
Point I'm making is Einstein was so unique it is meaningless to set your own standards that high. It won't do you any good. Plus, there were millions of other factors that also contributed to Einstein's success, some of them having nothing to do with his intellect, but even social or environmental circumstances so... what's the point in trying to be Einstein? Try to be good at what YOU do well instead.

Re: Inspirational Anthony Robbins Quotes That Make Us Say “Huh?”

Joe Nasr — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:14:03 -0000

...and this is how he came across this knowledge, my dear "sexybabe"!

I care less of what he's going through, or what his approach to being a success is, or who he really is behind that camera, because you are right!!! I don't know the guy! but what i'm picking up from him is much more than the knowledge I'm trying to gather from an entire group of successful men that i know and meet on daily basis

Dear "Papoose1324"... consider reading what Tony Robbins had to say about Commitments and Approaches... you might learn a thing or a two.

Re: Review of Tony Robbins’ Awaken the Giant Within

Thomas Jay — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:35:51 -0000

I know this post is relatively old, but I still wanted to add my '2 cents'. Diane, your commandments actually mirror some of the things Tony talks about in his books/seminars. It all comes down to personal preference. Of course there are people out there who no matter what, will jump from motivational item to motivational item, looking for the quick fix. They will ALWAYS be that way until something actually clicks - which will probably not happen when reading a book - it will probably happen at their lowest of lows, when change is truly necessary. I tend to live by "take the good, leave the bad". Even if you thought 99% of his material is shit, use the 1% you liked to help you. If that leads you in a positive direction even for a short amount of time, then the author/speaker has at least created a small ripple that will hopefully lead to big waves in the pond of life. Also.... keep an open mind. If you came into this conversation with the predetermined attitude that motivational speakers are all about taking your money and running or that their material is 'fluff', then you have done yourself a tremendous injustice and you have done nothing but create a self fulfilling prophecy.

Re: Penn and Teller are Full of Bullshit

wakinghour — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:38:55 -0000

I love their show too, but their show also about Tai Chi was pretty lame. It was at that point that I said they are kinda bullshit too. They picked some McDojo woman who learned Tai Chi from some YMCA club or something out of nowhere. In fact, none of her education or abilities can be verified. In China, there are exact things you have to learn to really qualify as even knowing anything - just like any other professional skill. And, much of the effects of these practices are peer reviewed at major Chinese universities. The problem is martial arts in the U.S. is full of bullshit. It was a good target but they did very little research.

Re: Review of Tony Robbins’ Awaken the Giant Within

runwithtruth — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:00:38 -0000

I appreciated the synopsis.

Thanks to Tony's material I tried the using his NLP (Ooops :-) cat got out of the bag), "NAC" to quit smoking one night. I sat on the roof of my house and literally smoked a full pack of cigarettes until I was so dizzy I almost fell off the edge while trying to climb down....so I could go to the bathroom and relieve my gag reflexes!

There I was gagging and feeling extremely sick. I thought I was cured. Massive feeling of pain linked to the little white fellers and holding back the faint feeling to fill my mouth with the unsettling in my stomach.

I felt so good about Tony's advice that I had to wake my wife up to tell her I had conditioned myself to feel sick at the thought of another cigarette. She was ecstatic! Yea...until two days later when I picked up the next pack. Then I had the massive disappointment of my wife, my kids, and my own self condemning feelings to live with. I continued to smoke for the next 14 years.

I eventually did quit smoking, but it had absolutely nothing to do with "awakening the giant within". In fact, it had everything to do with "killing the giant within" and dying to my self gratifying sinful nature.

This being said....

I can't help but wonder if Tony would have felt massive amounts of pain if I would have fallen off the roof that night and died due to the stupidity I exercised after listening to his tapes? Or what if, of course this would be assuming my wife knew I was influenced by Tony's subtle programming, she decided to sue him for my blind gullibility?

Who are the real suckers of the self-help industry? Is it the consumers? Or is it the predators peddling their snake oil sucking the very life out of their victims? Sometimes it's hard to tell...isn't it?

For those who may try to reply to this because you gobble the cool-aid of the self-help teachers: Why do you continue to feed on their candy apple messages? Surely it can't be good for you. It's insane! And you know the definition of insanity right??? Yah! Sure you do:-)

P.S. I may not have all that Tony has in this life, but I do have contentment, a beautiful wife of more than 25 years, and plenty of purpose to live without doling out any more of my hard earned dough to the help-them-selfers. And no, I'm not financially poor! I am blessed.

Re: The Ease of My New Mac is Bumming Me Out

CameronBenz — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 04:20:02 -0000

Sounds like such sweet suffering to me. lol

Re: My 5 Days as a Vegan

Katie — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:04:16 -0000

This is the funniest thing I've read in ages!! *LOL*

Re: 5 Reasons Why Having a Job is Better Than Having a Business

Guest — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:07:06 -0000

I don't know what people think. I have a good reason that always business is good than a job. As we all know very well that the main father of all types of jobs is business. If there is no business in the market then nothing will be
the value of a job. First of all if you will see from the starting point of
view then you can examine that every person is doing a business either direct or indirect relate to a business. Doing job is a way of doing business
indirectly and doing business is a way to go ahead directly, but both depends on a person’s interest and the support, money and the minding ability the one have. Don't think that which is better than what, only thing that we have a good satisfaction in which.

And the final end of both the work is to make money, satisfaction and which is directly connected with the aims of a person’s future.

Nothing will be helpful to your until unless you will be helpful to yourself.

In my final opinion I will say that a good job can give you a maximum income of 5 hundred thousand per month but a good and successful business can give you a minimum income of 50 hundred thousand per month.

I have more talks to discuss with you but now I want a response for this.

..
Tapas Malhotra

Re: Penn and Teller are Full of Bullshit

array528 — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:08:19 -0000

You're a fucking idiot...

Re: Review of Who Moved my Cheese

Honeyboo — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:23:37 -0000

We don't necessarily need change we just need transformation of who we are into a better us.

Re: Why Affirmations Don’t Work

Paul — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:10:59 -0000

Thanks Carlon. After reading through these comments I now believe what I have always suspected: only dumb believe self affirmations work.

Re: Debunking Crap: The Rocky Story is BS

nick — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:05:16 -0000

were is your proof. if you dont show the proof the other story is true not yours

Re: 6 Reasons Why the Law of Attraction May Not Be Working for You

Tristen Blackwell — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:24:05 -0000

Fantastic post. I had been told to read "The Secret" as I kept whining about not achieving what I wanted despite working hard for it (I still do, by the way). I didn't know what the book was about, neither was I aware of the fact that it was a self-help book. I once saw it at Waterstone's and had a quick read because I was curious. I could not believe that it actually advised people to wish away without necessarily doing anything to get the desired results. It seemed to ignore the fact that there are circumstances one just cannot control, otherwise we would all be happy and successful as human beings tend to wish away and naturally "visualise" things quite often.

Thanks for a good laugh, I am glad I am not the only person who dislikes the Law of Attraction.

Re: Inspirational Anthony Robbins Quotes That Make Us Say “Huh?”

Jane — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:47:37 -0000

Aha! Now what I want out of life is to keep living. To the shops!

Problem solved.

Re: Review of Who Moved my Cheese

RJS — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:49:21 -0000

I just got this book from my boss today, instead of talking to me about the change I need to make in the small office and why I do not deserve more vaction time after 7 years - I am given a book to read. Must be my attitude

Re: Review of Who Moved my Cheese

CMA21 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:08:01 -0000

Sad that you think intelligence entails all that negativity and drama..if you don't like it that's your opinion, say so and then be quiet if you have nothing else of importance to say.

Re: Review of Tony Robbins’ Awaken the Giant Within

Eric Daniels — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:17:30 -0000

I hear you, Carlon. I found myself skimming lots of the portions of Robbins telling about himself, too. Some of it could have been cut out and some of it could have been replaced telling about experiences of someone else. There's a fine line between showing you indeed have your own experiences and thoughts on the matter and going too far ending up being self-aggrandizing.

I like the parts about thinking of your own identity(what would it be like on the ID -card?), values and personal rules.

What really struck a chord for me was the section about handling emotions. Look closer how you really feel, realize it does work for you, think of possible messages it may be giving, recall how you've handled it right in the past, see how you're going to handle it in the future and take some form of action, however small. We could make fun of that as well(thinking of it, aything can be made to look ridiculous). Me it still has helped on many occasions to calm back down istead of being all choked up with unpleasant sensations. Often I've noticed feeling a lot lighter already when thinking of possible messages an unpleasant feeling might be telling me.

Of course, not to neglect the other side of the matter, what other books on identity formation would you recommend more to your followers(and anyone reading your blog regularly)?

Re: 7 Secrets of Success from Donald Trump

Eric Daniels — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:00:11 -0000

Modeling is just one piece, just like being hard-working is. There are many things to master to be successful. It's that people want a magic cure.