I am net surfing for opinions on sales, trying to find out what other people thing about the practice and this is what i found: a website about a company willing to give you money for your soul.

“Soul extraction is painless and worry-free. You need never remember your previous soulful existence, and look forward to a “life” of money and security.”

And they are not joking…

Okay, this sounds a little like the demon surgery in The Golden Compass. But way spookier.

So there is a way you can see how much your worth and some of the questions are really funny. (Or are they ?:D)

Like:

• have you ever owned vehicle with an engine capacity of 2.0 litres or greater?
• do you own goods made by the following manufacturers:nike, sony, nokia, apple, microsoft?
• have you ever been employed in any of the following occupations: estate/rental agent, advertising agency, car/life insurance company?
• do you download music and media from internet?

So what you think, sell or wait?: )

And if you decide to give it a try - the only try you have mwa ha ha ha” don’t forget to try these links: )

 the complete satanic worshiper’s guide to soul selling :>

soul auctions nowadays 

a less serious but documented guide  

Principles

Cum functioneaza

“ Oamenii sunt toti ca niste melodii. Unii sunt gravi, cu mult bass, sau piano; sunt oameni opera si oameni - rock, sunt techno-aerieni sau chill out. Pe unii ii asculti cu volumul dat la maxim, pe altii doar in lift. Sunt aceia pe care ii asculti cu prietenii si aceia pe care ii asculti singura, cu lumina stinsa. Si toti sunt compusi din note muzicale. “

Viseaza cu pasiune cu tot

“Paul Beeston, coach la www.mission-coach.co.uk spune ca a-ti trai misiunea este cel mai generos lucru pe care il poti face pentru tine. Misiunea ta va avea astfel intotdeauna o contributie majora asupra vietii tale si a celorlalti din jurul tau.”

De ce sa ai o viziune

” Oamenii asociaza in primul rand viziunea cu vedeniile vrajitoarelor sau a celor care pretind ca vad in viitor. Altfel spus inteleg viziunea ca fiind o perceptie imaginara a unor lucruri ireale.”

Valorile brandului tau

“Daca misiunea brandului tau iti spune catre ce te indrepti, iar viziunea cum vei reusi sa iti atingi scopul, valorile brandului tau nu sunt altceva decat codul dupa care traieste brandul tau. Valorile brandului tau sunt punctul de reper in luarea deciziilor cele mai bune si in masurarea performantei tale. Valorile in care crede si dupa care se ghideaza brandul tau personal sunt cele care stabilesc legaturi emotionale, care dicteaza perceptiile celor din jur si felul in care acestia interactioneaza cu noi. “

Gandeste maret

“Dar daca toti oamenii stiu aceleasi lucruri si intreprind actiuni asemanatoare, cum mai poti face diferenta? Are sens sa fii altfel fata de 60%, dar sa fii unul dintre ceilalti 20% care se straduiesc sa demonstreze acelasi lucru? Aici fiecare poate da raspunsul sau, dar o solutie ar fi sa depastesti prima granita si sa incepi sa gandesti MARE. Think BIG, cum spun vorbitorii de limba engleza. “

Mission statement

“Un mission statement este aur daca stii cum sa alegi acele lucruri din tine care iti dau putere si care iti spun pe unde trebuie sa mergi. Nu e chiar cel mai usor lucru de facut, aceasta cautare si selectie. Dar adevarul e ca acele lucruri foarte importante pentru tine locuiesc de multe ori pe varful limbii tale. Trebuie doar sa pui intrebarile bune.”

Propriul tau Picasso

“Din nou am incercat sa trecem peste reticente si sceptiscism si sa ne imaginam cum vom ajunge la misunea noastra. Sa ne desenam in minte povestea. E asa de straniu cum insasi aceasta vizualizare ne aduce mai aproape de ceea ce ne dorim, si cum acest simplu exercitiu de imaginatie iti da solutii la care te-ai fi gandit altfel zile intregi, in fata calculatorului sau a caietului, incercand sa-ti planifici reusita.”

Development

Image

Support

Sales

“I will refuse to write the HOWTO in html code.”

A how to for open source lovers of all ages

“How to Do a Rough Storyboard

 

Again a piece of gold found here.

And this is how it goes:

A multimedia story is some combination of video, text, still photos, audio, graphics and interactivity presented in a nonlinear format in which the information in each medium is complementary, not redundant. So your storyboard should be put together with all those elements in mind.

The first thing to tackle is the part about the story being nonlinear.

1. Divide the story into its logical, nonlinear parts, such as:

• a lead or nut paragraph, essentially addressing why this story is important
• profiles of the main person or people in the story
• the event or situation
• any process or how something works
• pros and cons
• the history of the event or situation
• other related issues raised by the story”

Take my hand. Close your eyes. We will go beneath. Under the trees and grass, under my home and your home, under the small river. Aren’t you a little afraid?

Caves are journeys. Are paths to self-exploration and tunnels that lead to our-real-selves. The first human beings lived in caves. This was our first home. The cave men wrote on the walls and made portraits of themselves and their pray. They were playing. Or making a statement. Their drawings were who they were. Nowadays we search in caves for the remains and the clues left by our ancestors for the same reason. To find ourselves. To find out where we came from. Our past is our identity. We are caves. Think of the term: cave men. Caves are part of who we are.

In Fight Club, at one of the meetings where the narrator went for relaxation, at the cancer-patients group, Cloe guides the other patients in meditation. They go trough a palace, trough several doors. The last destination is a cave.’ Cloe talked us into caves where we met our power animal. Mine was a penguin. Ice covered the floor of the cave, and the penguin said, slide. Without any effort, we slid trough tunnels and galleries.’

The same identity search. The same quest for what is ‘under’ life and ‘under’ pain. And for what remains if you pull out these two from yourself. An attempt to find The Core.

In the Romanian novel ‘Ciresarii’, Constantin Chirita leads a bunch of teenagers trough a cave. The explorations of the cave, the dangers encountered by the characters are actually the road from childhood to adolescence. The cave is a tunnel of discovery. Going trough the cave is going trough the ‘other side’.

Caves can cause fear. And it seems okay, because self-exploration is scary. Because it’s dark in a cave and you don’t know if you’ll like everything you find. Because it’s hard to go back to the surface, and because you might get lost. We fear caves because we are used to associate sky and nature, generally ‘the world above’ with Good. With good fairies and good creatures. Something that lives in a very tight place must crawl to move and because of the darkness must be unattractive.

What can be good in a world that has nor colours, nor light? Where creatures lost their eyes during The (R)Evolution and grew unnatural glow-in-the-dark wings and even excrements (bats). It sounds like a nightmare, doesn’t it?

Caves are prisons. The stalactites and stalagmites are bars. There is no way out. In Plato’s ‘Republic’, the men in the cave are prisoners. Prisoners of the things they don’t know. The allegory begins with a graphic picture of the pathetic condition of the majority of mankind. We are like chained slaves living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den. Here we have been from our childhood, unable to move or to see beyond, being prevented by the chains from turning round our heads.

In the Greek mythology, Zeus, the god of all gods, grows up in a cave. The cave is his exile. His hideout. He became a man and he raised from the cave and left Crete only for revenge. Searching a way to free his soul and mind from hatred. Caves were also the entrances to Hades, the realm of death, a place of devils and demons. A place where you would be a prisoner beyond life, beyond death, for eternity.

Caves are treasures. They are nor Good, nor Bad, just beautiful. Dangerously beautiful. In caves you find lost Paradises, but only if you are mature enough, only if you went trough a series of challenges. Only if you are a free-thinker. Only if you can see beauty with your hart, because sometimes, in the dark, eyes are useless.

Caves are words. 

Daca ai trecut deja prin articolele anterioare de la principiile brandingului personal si daca vei cauta pe Google despre branding personal, vei descoperi ca la un moment dat lucrurile incep sa se repete. Specialistii ajung cam la aceleasi concluzii, in mare am putea spune ca este o lista a lucrurilor pe care trebuie sa le ai sau sa le faci. Vom vorbi in continuare despre ele.

Dar daca toti oamenii stiu aceleasi lucruri si intreprind actiuni asemanatoare, cum mai poti face diferenta? Are sens sa fii altfel fata de 60%, dar sa fii unul dintre ceilalti 20% care se straduiesc sa demonstreze acelasi lucru? Aici fiecare poate da raspunsul sau, dar o solutie ar fi sa depastesti prima granita si sa incepi sa gandesti MARE. Think BIG, cum spun vorbitorii de limba engleza.

De facut neaparat

Relatiile se construiesc de la prima discutie sau se termina acolo. Atunci cand am avut a doua sansa de a discuta am descoperit de multe ori ca oamenii nu erau chiar atat de neinteresanti pe cat pareau. Asa cum am observat de multe ori cum oamenii incepeau sa imi spuna lucrurile cu adevarat interesante dupe ce atingeam anumite puncte in conversatie. Daca ii impresionam, daca vorbeam cu pasiune. Si vorbind cu pasiune despre lucrurile cu adevarat importante pentru mine ajungeam la lucrurile cu adevarat interesante si demne de discutat.

continuarea aici.

Ne transformam continuu incepand cu primii patru ani de viata si apoi tot restul vietii datorita experientelor prin care trecem, oamenilor pe care ii intalnim, slujbelor pe care le avem. Unii dintre noi sunt multumiti sau chiar fericiti cu ceea ce facem, altii mai putin. Unii schimba zeci de locuri de munca si sunt la fel de nefericiti ca si pana atunci; dupa ce trece surpriza, totul devine gri si neinteresant.

Ia cel mai bun lucru din fiecare situatie in parte

Am cunoscut oameni care spuneau ca pentru ei nu conteaza ce lucreaza, intr-un an vor face voluntariat intr-o tara straina, in altul vor lucra intr-un bar la capatul celalalt al lumii. Unul dintre ei era inginer in telecomunicatii. Stia ca ii este foarte usor sa castige bani, ii placea ceea ce face, dar nu parea sa fie niciodata la fel de important ca a calatori, a cunoaste oameni, a isi descoperi noi si noi talente.

Mai mult. 

 ”A lot of people who would be called a “communications professional” are Blogging from such a visceral and emotional level that their professional insights are being overshadowed by these emotions and their lack of industry experience. I used to follow their Blogs for professional insights, links to other relevant content, and to feed off of their passion. And now, I feel like I am following a soap opera that revolves around challenging what another Blogger has said/done, a customer service rant about why they should get some free stuff, or generalizations about their peers’ business model.”

Now I think this is gold!

Recently I had a very flamy talk with someone about what communication is and is not.

Theoretically it is impossible not to communicate. We are all so connected to each other that every move, every silence, every breath we take is  sending info to our peers. There is a message, a channel, a language and a receiver of that message. And so - we communicate!

I know there is still a lot of debate on what is and is not communication but i can’t agree with this opinion that i am going to share in the next frases.  I have to talk about it

The  point of person B ( me being of course A:D) was that when reading a book you just understand what is says and can’t talk back. Thus it is not communication.

But there is the Message and it does get across and the receivers does interpret it thus communication is what we have indeed, A says.

But the reader cannot talk back so the sender can’t know if of how the communication occurred, B points out.

It is not diallogue, I agree, but what you had there, after reading a book is a first stage of communication. Someone told you something. You can write back and say and there you will have the secons stage of communication.(Of course blogging helps a lot

All in all, does communication necessarily have to be a two way process to be communication? And how do we define two-way?

Photo source.

 

Ce legatura poate avea atitudinea cu brandingul personal? Te porti asa cum esti si gata. Nimic de discutat aici! Din fericire chiar avem ce discuta, caci spre deosebire de personalitate, despre care psihologii spun ca nu se schimba in timp, atitudinea este rezultatul unor experiente. Nu numai ca poate fi modificata, ci si educata. Atitudinea este o reflectie a trecutului si o predictie a viitorului, spune expertul in leadership John.C.Maxwell. Oamenii simt atitudinea ta si uneori nici nu mai conteaza ce spui, daca atitudinea ta proasta, oamenii te vor respinge.

In cartea sa Atitudine 101, Maxwell spune ca atitudinea poate fi cel mai bun prieten sau cel mai mare dusman. Ea este cea care decide daca vei reusi sa atragi sau sa respingi oamenii.

Citeste continuarea. 

Photo from here.