Comments on: Smooth Verbal Aikido Comeback response on Facebook keeps posts on track http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/02/12/smooth-verbal-aikido-comeback-response-on-facebook-keeps-posts-on-track/ By Meryl Runion and SpeakStrong, Inc. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: merylrunion http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/02/12/smooth-verbal-aikido-comeback-response-on-facebook-keeps-posts-on-track/comment-page-1/#comment-454748 merylrunion Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:10:51 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/?p=2124#comment-454748 I missed that one! You're right! it's just like the food despot where giving extra info is taken as an invitation. I missed that one! You’re right! it’s just like the food despot where giving extra info is taken as an invitation.

]]> By: Meilee http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/02/12/smooth-verbal-aikido-comeback-response-on-facebook-keeps-posts-on-track/comment-page-1/#comment-454746 Meilee Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:05:03 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/?p=2124#comment-454746 Enjoyed reading this post. Verbal Aikido...nice phrase. On a different topic I do have a GoWearFit and have worn it consistently since October 2009. I can comment to your friend about my experience and my twenty pounds of success. Ahh - positive results - such a lovely thing! Enjoyed reading this post. Verbal Aikido…nice phrase. On a different topic I do have a GoWearFit and have worn it consistently since October 2009. I can comment to your friend about my experience and my twenty pounds of success. Ahh – positive results – such a lovely thing!

]]> By: HRNamaste http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/02/12/smooth-verbal-aikido-comeback-response-on-facebook-keeps-posts-on-track/comment-page-1/#comment-454743 HRNamaste Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:35:44 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/?p=2124#comment-454743 The poster invited unrelated to the question comments by sharing irrelevant information to the question: "In a never-ending effort to drop 10 lbs". She could have asked the same question that she wanted answered without giving her readers the opportunity to comment on her attitude by simply removing most of the first sentence: "just bought a GoWear Fit. It’s like a BodyBugg. Anyone else have one?” This question, unlike the one she posted, does not invite her readers to comment on her weight loss goals, attitudes or frustrations. The poster invited unrelated to the question comments by sharing irrelevant information to the question: “In a never-ending effort to drop 10 lbs”. She could have asked the same question that she wanted answered without giving her readers the opportunity to comment on her attitude by simply removing most of the first sentence:

“just bought a GoWear Fit. It’s like a BodyBugg. Anyone else have one?”

This question, unlike the one she posted, does not invite her readers to comment on her weight loss goals, attitudes or frustrations.

]]> By: Reader seeks PowerPhrases to get food nazis to back off | A PowerPhrase a Week http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/2010/02/12/smooth-verbal-aikido-comeback-response-on-facebook-keeps-posts-on-track/comment-page-1/#comment-454718 Reader seeks PowerPhrases to get food nazis to back off | A PowerPhrase a Week Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:09:44 +0000 http://www.speakstrong.com/newsletter/?p=2124#comment-454718 [...] Now that we know how pushy some people can be, we can go back over the conversation and see where you went wrong. Not that anything you said would have been “going wrong” with people who respect others’ choices. But where did you give this overbearing woman a hook? I’d make the main approach kind of an aikido move like in my post about how my friend handled advice on Facebook. [...] [...] Now that we know how pushy some people can be, we can go back over the conversation and see where you went wrong. Not that anything you said would have been “going wrong” with people who respect others’ choices. But where did you give this overbearing woman a hook? I’d make the main approach kind of an aikido move like in my post about how my friend handled advice on Facebook. [...]

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