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Issue 369, Nov. 27, 2009 Did you know that most of the items in the SpeakStrong bookstore are available in ten-packs for a significant discount? They make a great gift for your employees and associates - and an affordable one. Another great gift idea is the NIA dance DVD sets. I offer them on my SpeakStronginLove.com site. With winter closing in on us, these dance workout DVDs provide a fun way to get our bodies - and our spirits - moving. I don't just practice NIA for the exercise - I do it for the joy of it. So visit my stores and get both your communication and bodies moving. Because "money is visceral": Seven Stages of Money Maturity Webinar series How's your relationship to money these days? Stay tuned - Kelly Graham of Graham Wealth Consulting and I are conspiring to create a webinar series starting January 7th designed to enhance your relationship to money. It will be based on the book: The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life ...and sometimes awareness lags behind language. SpeakStrong helps the two match. Read more and comment. I was yang to his yinI got in a lively discussion with First Gentleman Dan Mulhern about giving. Here is what he posted on Twitter about it. "My mom's generosity provoked a fascinating yin-yang on giving and tough, constructive love." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PowerPhrase: What upside suggestions do you have? Someone in a forum I belong to observed that the dialog complained a lot about the association we all belong to. She posted the following.
Nicely put. She didn’t negate the value of identifying problems, but she took the dialog to the next level of creative solution. PowerPhrase: call me at (x) instead of the number I am calling from I call out on my Skype phone to keep my main line free and reduce phone charges. However, I prefer people call me back on my home phone since I keep my Skype phone in my office. I would leave the number to call me on, but people would still call me back on my Skype phone… until I became clearer. I started saying,
My less detail-oriented friends – (whom I identify with) – need more emphasis so I include an explanation about my calling out on Skype. This has resolved the issue. Sure, it “should” be enough for me to leave the number to call me back on, but since it appears not to be, the extra info does the trick. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Poison Phrase tip: Create a walking wounded dictionaryYesterday my husband sat near me to tell me all about an insight he was pondering. He was still talking while he got up and started walking away. What does that say? Well, it seems to be a clear indication... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Success Story: Conversation about hygiene changes a lifeOne of the most popular articles on my site is about how to tell someone they smell bad. I see that topic emerge in many places. Joseph Grenny, coauthor of Crucial Conversations tells a tale of how his coming clean with a smelly friend (please forgive my pun) changed his friend’s life. It’s at the bottom of the article addressing inappropriate attire. Scroll down or read the whole thing. Then, if you’re ready to SpeakStrong, you can find some help with my PowerPhrase Tutorial. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blog comments PowerPhrase: I am placing that into long-term memoryUndercover for the Boss? A criminal record and job interviews (Helpful for all job seekers) Reader Question: When subordinates abuse power Reader Question: An uncooperative bus driver Bad form, even for a spammerPoison Phrase: Flip cameras are cruel Got a comment or question? Comment on my blog and Ask Meryl. |
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We'll have more details later - but for now, if you start reading the book, you'll get a picture of what money maturity is. As Kelly says, "Money is visceral." Once you understand what that means, your entire relationship to money will change. We're not just offering this for your illumination - we're looking forward to it for our own discovery, illumination, and empowerment. More next week.