Below is a cut from our blooper reel where I forget the name of my own podcast.
My point for your presentations is that you will never be perfect. In this example, even if you’ve been doing your podcast for three years, you’re still going to forget the podcast’s name sometimes.
Have a vision for where you want to go, get incrementally closer to it each day, and have an infinite well of patience for yourself when you inevitably suck. That’s about the best you can do.
I talk a lot on here about breaking patterns. The other day I broke one of my own patterns, and I didn't even mean to. I was talking to a friend. He said, "People only value what they pay for." "True," I replied. Up until a few days ago, I considered that one of those...
Think of when you were a kid. Who do you trust when you are a kid? Probably your mom and dad. What are your mom and dad often doing? Telling you a story. What do a lot of stories begin with? A time shift phrase. So you see, humans have been trained since birth that...
Remember, oxytocin is the trust hormone. Oxytocin is what gets your customer to step out onto that bridge between "where I am now" and "where I want to be." What gets oxytocin flowing? Stories. I can already hear the collective groan from here. "Stories, ugh. Who has...