aGreatQuestion from Ken Keys Jr.

As said before, aGreatQuestion was a labor of love. My son Johnny and I worked on it/them together and that was a good to great part of the pleasure for me. But more was the passion that a GreatQuestion is simply a "great" project, because...

The Question is THE Answer

The more great questions we can ask ourselves & others, the more great answers & possibilities will open up in our lives.

So, here's the second one we did. Love to learn what you like best about it - AND where the question leads you.

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Who knew...?

Who knew...?

Stanley Ipkiss is into transformation. "The Real Jim Carrey" indeed. Let me know what you think of this, please.

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Here's how to change what life is "giving" you.

Have you ever entertained the idea that your life was simply a reflection of yourself... that what and how you experienced any person, place or thing in a given moment was an echo of your own thoughts and feelings...?
 
Here's a story for you:

A father and his young son were walking in the mountains. Suddenly, the boy fell, hurt himself and hollered: 'Owwww!!!'
 
To his surprise, he heard his voice somewhere in the mountains repeating: 'Owwww!!!'
 
Curious, he yelled out: 'Who are you?'
 
He received the answer: 'Who are you?'
 
Angered by the response, he screamed: 'You coward....'
 
The answer came back: 'You coward....'
 
The boy looked to his father and asked: 'What's going on?'
 
His father smiled, then he yelled to the mountain: 'I admire you!'
 
The voice answered: 'I admire you.'
 
Again the man shouted: 'You are special!'
 
The voice answered: 'You are special.'
 
The little boy did not understand.

His father explained: 'People call this an ECHO, but really, this is LIFE.' It gives you back everything you think... and feel... and say... and do....

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It's called the "Mirror Game."

I'll tell you more about it if you want. Let me know if that's so.

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Are you bored (and is that why you're reading this)...?

I have an assignment to complete for the 8-Week Blogging Workshop I'm taking & teaching with Bob Yeager. When the teacher is ready, the student appears. Quite the schizophrenic deal I've gotten myself into. <smile>
 
Our "homework" is to write a weblog entry and— I think I've got this right— to post it on our blog as well. I'm not sure, because Bob gave us the assignment (he didn't ask me about it). We have to complete the following sentence:
 
I believe most people are __________________ and off a-writing we go. 350 words worth. So...

I believe most people are (dramatic pause here) bored.

Bored. NOT as to have made a hole in something, except perhaps the empty gap in their lives.
 
Bored, as in; feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity.
 
Even though its got an "ed" on the end, the word bored isn't only past tense.

Okay, everything spoken about or written is always in the past. It's not happening now. It's only remembered now. The moment of creation is short-gone, but gone none the less.

That said, bored is in its greatest hoary glory when it's right here, right now, in your space & face bored.
 
I was chatting with the afore-mentioned Yägermeister a few days ago on this very subject. Being the Internet maven he be, Bob let loose with some Social media metrics.

"69% of all Facebook users," he said have said, "they post updates, likes & comment, because they are bored." That's 345 million people who have nothing compelling enough in their off-line lives to occupy and/or interest them. So for the sake of satisfaction & fulfillment they engage in drive-by postings on Facebook.
 
"May you live in interesting times," the Irish bless us. Indeed.
 
What does it— 100's of millions of bored people on-line— mean... really?
 
"Most men [and women, presumably]," Thoreau wrote in Walden, "lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
 
That was 147 years before Facebook.
 
What did all the bored people do then...?

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She's as real & natural as Cool Whip.

I have a person in my life & work whose formula for success is to be so nice... so very nice, no matter what.

Thing is, she "tastes" as real & natural as CoolWhip.

Thing is, I no longer believe her now, even when she "says" good things I want to, like to, love to hear.

What do you do with people who do that?

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What if your life was PERFECT... Now... Just As It Is?

Recycled, because I need & want to hear it for myself— trusting it will serve you as well. NOT the truth, necessarily, and... can be if you want it to or it's valuable & useful for you.

Kurt Wright is one of my Mentor-Coaches. He's the creator of "The Five Right Questions."

Kurt's the author of one of THE most profound & life-changing books I've ever read, Breaking The Rules. One of Kurt's missions in life and work is to offer you & me the opportunity to live & work free of judging— the good/bad, right/wrong "fault-finding" approach to life on Earth that at best gives us a roller-coaster ride of emotional highs and lows. And at worst, engages the Law of Attraction to provide us with a constant diet of bad tasting WHAT'S WRONG that always leads to a full body-mind-spirit dis-ease and disease that brings us down, down, down. 

Instead, Kurt offers the possibility a steady upward journey of energy-building fulfillment & joy that comes from finding VALUE in the PERFECTION of All That Is. How? By constantly looking at the world around and within us and asking WHAT'S RIGHT?

What's perfect about this...?

Intrigued? Good. Then listen to this.

Click the player below to listen to the (4:48) Mp3:

To listen/download via the url: Click here.

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When I'm wrong, I... duck Amazing!

"Ask lousy questions, get lousy answers," Tony Robbins says, and follows with, "Ask great questions, get great answers." Yeah, well, NOT always.

I believe...

The Question is THE Answer

But there are just sometimes no matter how great your question is... well... Doh. Here:

Now, what would I do if I had this person in The Communication Workshop? I mean, besides issue an immediate refund... My heart goes out to her. Poor girl.

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aGreatQuestion - from Wayne Dyer

It blows my mind (easily done these days *smile*) that aGreatQuestion was begun (and ended) two years ago! Wow. I'm not very good at recalling dates, but that's remarkable to me.

aGreatQuestion was a labor of love. My son Johnny and I worked on it together and that was a good to great part of the pleasure for me. But more was the passion: a GreatQuestion is simply a great project, because...

The Question is THE Answer

The more great questions we can ask ourselves & others, the more great answers & possibilities will open up in our lives.

So, here's the very first that Johnny & I made. Love to learn what you like best about it - AND where the question takes you.

As requested, let me know what you think & feel.

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What about me?

Been away. "Planning" to get back here more often, and then... the bast laid plans <smile>.

Doing lots (by which I mean LOTS) of work with Communication, Speaking & Listening. Working on a book & a blog both (You Don't LISTEN & You TALK Too Much!) and half-way through The Communication Workshop (which started with the first Session Saturday, July 17th). All to say my entries here will "probably" be skewed towards Communication for a while. Hope that serves you.

"Do away with the narcissistic thinking
to make all conversations about you."

— Dr. Michael Mirdad,
You're Not Going Crazy... You're Just Waking Up!

Got to issue a warning with this one. IF you're also up for paying attention to how often & with whom this "self referential" gravity occurs in conversations BY other people... you'll be in for a good dose of frustration, possibly even shock & anger, too.

I'm amazed by it.

The end result— when you're on the receiving end— is you are NOT heard and you feel that, physically as well as emotionally.

You can't do a whole lot about being the object of the other person's self-referential "dump," save if you're bold &/or diplomatic enough to calmly point out to them what's happening and how it lands on you.

Tough stuff at times, because for the self-referential, that's a direct hit on his or her self-esteem. Which is in need of building up (which is why their so self-directed in the first place) and your remark, no matter how lovingly offered, is received as a tearing down by a self in need of more, more, more positive reinforcement.

So, two things: Hold your nose & jump (IF the person is important enough to you... & do the work on yourself. May not give you the right to tell all the others what you "see" them doing, but then... maybe it does <smile>.

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Learning how to Communicate is THE #1 Key to greater achievement, satisfaction & success!

This is a "sales pitch" for a life-changing Workshop about Communication.

You Don't Listen &

You Talk To Much!

You can change that completely in two weekends
this July 17th & 24th for less than $200. ______________________________

If you're in any of the "People Professions" such as sales, real estate, insurance, banking, investment, services, government, health care, healing, helping, retailing... If you're a teacher, entrepreneur, coach, counselor, minister, manager, networker... If you're building any kind of business or you are a leader of groups, teams and organizations of people… Learning how to Communicate more & better is THE #1 Key to greater achievement, satisfaction & success!

Communication is a skill. It can be learned, developed & mastered.

Communication is a two-sided coin composed of Speaking & Listening.

Listening is hearing all the words & music.
Speaking is asking the right questions.

Of the two, the most important to improve first is your Listening.

In The Communication Workshop you will learn...

...to Speak and Listen in ways that have people feel special, happy and truly connected with you: Eager & excited by their appreciation of you (and of themselves!). ...to Speak and Listen without negative mental judging. ...to Speak and Listen in a way that has people 'Fall in-like with you' in just minutes AND want more of you... and more of what you're offering, too.

You will learn to Speak and Listen in ways that:

• Move people to take heart–felt, enthusiastic, committed action.

• Validate Not Violates.

• Awaken your own and the other's positive energy, creativity, motivation and personal power.

• Has the other person be truly heard, healed, inspired.

You can learn to Speak and Listen in a manner that opens up possibilities... calls forth intuition and imagination... gets quickly and deeply to the "Hear-of-the-Matter" no matter what's the matter... that is visionary.

The Communication Workshop

For two hours each day (11:00 am to 1:00 pm EDT) on two consecutive Saturdays this July (the 17th & 24th) you’ll participate in a total immersion, interactive intensive that promises to increase your Speaking & Listening skills by at least 20%— you WILL experience the positive changes in your life & work immediately.

IMPORTANT: Both Sessions will be recorded & archived in Mp3 format for later listening, so if you can't be there live, you've got a plan B. Professional transcripts will be provided for each Session (including the surprise "follow up" session— which I guess isn’t a surprise anymore ). Plus you will be getting an extensive library of study & resource material including eBooks, articles & audios. All of this is yours to keep & most of it you are free to share.

Not so incidentally, the value of the resources & material you will get before, during and after the Workshop far exceeds the price of the Workshop itself. The Empowerment of Listening six-hour audio album with Dr. Carol McCall (out of print and not available elsewhere) sold for $179. You'll be getting that & much more. The cost of The Communication Workshop is $197.

In addition the tuition, you will have to be a Member of TheGreatestNetworker.org to have access to all of the resources & study material. A -month trial Charter Membership is included when you enroll in the Workshop.

If you need more info to decide, check out all Six Videos (and more) About Improving Your Communication Skills. Even if you don't/can't do The Workshop, watch them please. Good & useful stuff. The first one is right here. It's about "The #1 Challenge of All…"

Enroll and get started in The Workshop right away by clicking
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Mark your calender for the two Saturdays, July 17 & 24, and keep a look out in your eMail and right here on the TGN.org site for resources, ideas and exercises I'll be sharing from the Communication Workshop and all the videos we have coming (soon) for you.

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