Communication Is The Difference Between Winning and Losing

The ability to "communicate with a focus" (action) plays a vital role. Regardless of our occupation, individuals who excel in a specific field and are able to communicate this knowledge to benefit others and themselves always win. Be attentive to your presence, voice, body language, eye contact, and actions. Communication has many forms and when used properly you win. Democracy and capitalism form a communication system allowing us to work with one another. In United States, political campaigns are abundant because 2004 is a Presidential election year. Will George Bush be reelected, Democratic candidate, or an Independent? A political campaign is won on ability of a leader to communicate to people their path forward for a better future. Newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his inaugural speech, "let me assert my firm belief that only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." Everyday we wake up with a positive winning attitude or a negative losing attitude. The choice and decision is yours. A positive winning attitude communicates life is fun and your a success. A negative losing attitude communicates opposite. Therefore, wake up with a positive winning attitude. There is no cost and it has numerous mental and health benefits. Your ability to communicate determines whether you have a winning sales call. The next time you communicate with an individual, focus. It will differentiate you and should give you a competitive advantage. It takes practice. Your lunch meetings will be more meaningful and when you say "hey" and talk to your significant other instead of heading straight upstairs your personal life will be more meaningful. Selling will become a winning proposition. If I receive good communication from players, coaches, and fans during a sporting event, I know we will win. The players communicate to me by making plays. If my team intercepts ball, I cheer. If my team allows a touchdown, I'm not cheering. The announcer and scoreboard also inform me of who is winning game. I wish I knew every language in world. Could you imagine ability to connect with people? When two people don't know same language communication still takes place. In Washington, DC I parked my car, began walking, saw a man and woman making what appeared to me to be abusive gestures. His face looked thwarted and so did hers. In my mind, I was to calm situation and I thought

What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?

The next time you find yourself relaxing on couch, having popped some corn and about to watch “Sopranos”, instead, pose this $1,000,000 lottery question to yourself and see what flows. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Would you work, not work? If you knew anything you touched or did held possibility for success - whatever that is, what would you do? If there were no time constraints, no obstacles, no self-doubt, what would you do?

Some of you are already saying, “What’s point of this!?” “This will never be real!” “Who’s got a million dollars?…Not me!” Well, whole point is to have you dream...to take a ride. To get to heart of what it is that you truly value. To uncover elements in life that is of importance to you. This “story” that you create gives you clues as to elements you can furnish your “real life” with. More so, you may find that some of things you dream on, cost nothing. For example, a walk in park, time spent with friends, time spent with family, flowers in your home, eating well, exercise, a new home etc. Let me not put words in your mouth. Go on, and dream!

In order to find out what it is you really want in your life, self-exploration is first part of that process. Questions like $1,000,000 question help you to begin to design life, career, and/or relationship you desire. Pose this question to any aspect of your life, removing all boundaries, all “shoulds” and “should nots” and see what you come up with. You will be sure to unravel hidden strengths, talents, gifts and values. Values you can use in creating a game plan for your life. Another important point is to be as specific as you can. Record all colors, time of day, smells and people in your story. Be very specific. Dig deep.