Saturday, February 28, 2009
the work week
started out in a realitively good place, ended with frustration and discomfort. the weekend feels like a big warm hug.
speaking of hugs, i got one from a CLIENT yesterday. it was an unexpected moment, but i get it. i am affecting those i work with and they appreciate me. so i guess the week didn't end with as much discomfort as i thought.
speaking of hugs, i got one from a CLIENT yesterday. it was an unexpected moment, but i get it. i am affecting those i work with and they appreciate me. so i guess the week didn't end with as much discomfort as i thought.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
the sun came out today!
yeah, its still winter in Indiana.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Roy's gonna tell you a story...
From Roy H. Williams "Monday Morning Memo" this morning:
Let Me Tell You a Story...
Magic Words to Penetrate the Filter,Erase Suspicion and Lower the Guard
It was exactly 10 years ago. I was on the telephone with an 87 year-old man I had been hunting for several weeks. I needed this man’s permission to publish a private letter he had written to America’s Chief of Naval Operations back in 1963. The man’s name was William Lederer.
“Where you calling from young man?”
“Austin, Texas.”
“I was there recently. Nice town.”
“What brought you to Austin sir?”
“I was there to bury my best friend Jim.”
“I’m sorry to hear that.”
“You would have liked Jim. Everyone did. He once gave me some advice that changed my life.”
“What was it?”
“William,” he said, “the public is more willing to believe fiction than non-fiction.”
Mr. Lederer now had my full attention.
Our bodies contain approximately 100 million sensory receptors that allow us to see, hear, taste, touch and smell physical reality. But the brain contains 10 thousand billion synapses. This means we’re roughly 100,000 times better equipped to experience a world that does not exist, than a world that does.
The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
Four and a half years ago in the summer of 2004, a screenwriter named Eli Attie began creating a persona for a new fictional character that would appear on The West Wing. Matt Santos (played by Jimmy Smits) would be a young congressman, new to Washington, a working-class member of an ethnic minority. Prior to running for public office, our fictional character Santos had been a community organizer in a major city (Houston.) Screenwriter Eli Attie admitted to The Guardian, a British newspaper, that he was inspired in 2004 by a young Illinois politician – not yet even a US senator – by the name of Barack Obama, a community organizer from Chicago. As a result of Attie’s attraction to Obama, the 2006 television season showed us a glittering, fictional candidate for the presidency, a happily married, young minority male with 2 children who would run against a moderate Republican opponent from a western state. The imaginary Republican senator, Arnie Vinick (played by Alan Alda,) was unpopular with his conservative base due to his moderate views. His principal opponent in the fictional Republican primary was the Rev. Don Butler, a Christian preacher. Keep in mind these West Wing episodes aired 18 months before America ever heard of Mike Huckabee.
But wait, it gets weirder.
Ten years ago, Aaron Sorkin admitted that he based The West Wing’s Josh Lyman on Rahm Emanuel, who served in Bill Clinton’s White House. Both Lyman and Emanuel are Jewish. Both are brilliant. Both mail dead fish to opponents who make them angry.
In the 2006 season of The West Wing, seasoned White House staffer Josh Lyman serves as campaign manager for the long-shot, minority candidate. When his candidate wins, Lyman is named Chief of Staff.
Two years later Rahm Emanuel, the real Josh Lyman, will become Barack Obama's Chief of Staff.
Was it all a plot? Don’t be ridiculous. It’s just an example of how we tend to act out the things we’ve seen in our mind.
By the way, here’s the end of the Lederer story:
“How did Jim’s advice change your life Mr. Lederer?”
“Well, I had written a few books but none of them sold very well. So in 1958 I showed Jim the manuscript for my newest book and he told me to go back and fictionalize the name of the country, the characters, everything. ‘The public is more willing to believe fiction than non-fiction.’”
“How did it turn out for you?”
“Well, that book, The Ugly American, stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 straight weeks and sold more than 3 million copies in its first year. Marlon Brando starred in the movie. But of course that’s nothing compared to what Jim did.”
“What do you mean?”
“Jim wrote more than 40 books, sold more than 100 million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize.”
There was an awkward silence.
“I’m sorry sir, but I can’t think of what Jim you might mean.”
“I’m sorry, son. You probably knew him as James. James Michener.”
Roy H. Williams
really??? it turns out there is a REAL-LIFE person attached to my never-ending assertion that Josh Lymon is the perfect man...and it's Rahm Emmanel. what do i do with THAT????
Let Me Tell You a Story...
Magic Words to Penetrate the Filter,Erase Suspicion and Lower the Guard
It was exactly 10 years ago. I was on the telephone with an 87 year-old man I had been hunting for several weeks. I needed this man’s permission to publish a private letter he had written to America’s Chief of Naval Operations back in 1963. The man’s name was William Lederer.
“Where you calling from young man?”
“Austin, Texas.”
“I was there recently. Nice town.”
“What brought you to Austin sir?”
“I was there to bury my best friend Jim.”
“I’m sorry to hear that.”
“You would have liked Jim. Everyone did. He once gave me some advice that changed my life.”
“What was it?”
“William,” he said, “the public is more willing to believe fiction than non-fiction.”
Mr. Lederer now had my full attention.
Our bodies contain approximately 100 million sensory receptors that allow us to see, hear, taste, touch and smell physical reality. But the brain contains 10 thousand billion synapses. This means we’re roughly 100,000 times better equipped to experience a world that does not exist, than a world that does.
The first step in persuasion is to entice your target to imagine doing the thing you want them to do.
Four and a half years ago in the summer of 2004, a screenwriter named Eli Attie began creating a persona for a new fictional character that would appear on The West Wing. Matt Santos (played by Jimmy Smits) would be a young congressman, new to Washington, a working-class member of an ethnic minority. Prior to running for public office, our fictional character Santos had been a community organizer in a major city (Houston.) Screenwriter Eli Attie admitted to The Guardian, a British newspaper, that he was inspired in 2004 by a young Illinois politician – not yet even a US senator – by the name of Barack Obama, a community organizer from Chicago. As a result of Attie’s attraction to Obama, the 2006 television season showed us a glittering, fictional candidate for the presidency, a happily married, young minority male with 2 children who would run against a moderate Republican opponent from a western state. The imaginary Republican senator, Arnie Vinick (played by Alan Alda,) was unpopular with his conservative base due to his moderate views. His principal opponent in the fictional Republican primary was the Rev. Don Butler, a Christian preacher. Keep in mind these West Wing episodes aired 18 months before America ever heard of Mike Huckabee.
But wait, it gets weirder.
Ten years ago, Aaron Sorkin admitted that he based The West Wing’s Josh Lyman on Rahm Emanuel, who served in Bill Clinton’s White House. Both Lyman and Emanuel are Jewish. Both are brilliant. Both mail dead fish to opponents who make them angry.
In the 2006 season of The West Wing, seasoned White House staffer Josh Lyman serves as campaign manager for the long-shot, minority candidate. When his candidate wins, Lyman is named Chief of Staff.
Two years later Rahm Emanuel, the real Josh Lyman, will become Barack Obama's Chief of Staff.
Was it all a plot? Don’t be ridiculous. It’s just an example of how we tend to act out the things we’ve seen in our mind.
By the way, here’s the end of the Lederer story:
“How did Jim’s advice change your life Mr. Lederer?”
“Well, I had written a few books but none of them sold very well. So in 1958 I showed Jim the manuscript for my newest book and he told me to go back and fictionalize the name of the country, the characters, everything. ‘The public is more willing to believe fiction than non-fiction.’”
“How did it turn out for you?”
“Well, that book, The Ugly American, stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 straight weeks and sold more than 3 million copies in its first year. Marlon Brando starred in the movie. But of course that’s nothing compared to what Jim did.”
“What do you mean?”
“Jim wrote more than 40 books, sold more than 100 million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize.”
There was an awkward silence.
“I’m sorry sir, but I can’t think of what Jim you might mean.”
“I’m sorry, son. You probably knew him as James. James Michener.”
Roy H. Williams
really??? it turns out there is a REAL-LIFE person attached to my never-ending assertion that Josh Lymon is the perfect man...and it's Rahm Emmanel. what do i do with THAT????
Sunday, February 8, 2009
is there anything more yummy-looking
ps-they are delicious!
sun! glorious sun!
the sun is allowing me to recharge my necklaces. they should be raring to go in the morning! (it is my hope that i will be too)
shelley<>
Saturday, February 7, 2009
already this morning
i have moved dressers, hung photos in the living room, mirror in the entry way, started tonight's dinner on the stove and transferred it t the crockpot to slowly cook all day, made a yummy breakfast of eggs and avocadoes. i am working on my bedroom closet today! and, i am determined to get the other two ridiculous mirrors over the gorgeously- deep bathtub off the wall.
yay hooray it's Saturday!
shelley<>
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
day 1
hmmmmm.
i know i am looking at my fuel differently today. i also know i don't have to do this all at once. being gentle and making subtle changes one at a time will help this way of thinking and eating sink in and become habit, and not turn this bit of info into New Year's Resolution Syndrome. just add one helping of veggies or fruits per day or meal and it should stick!
Spinach and Avocadoes: alkaline
Eggs and Cheese and GF Muffins: acid
but i gotta say, there are two servings of veggies that wouldn't have been there before.
its day one!
shelley<>
Sunday, February 1, 2009
the kids next door
yesterday morning we started out at 6, so an almost 30 degree warmup makes it feel like Florida outside. coat? i don't need no stinking coat!
the balmy weather had the neighbor kids out playing in the snow. they started out playing snowball catch. when that got boring it progressed to snow-boulder catch :)
then, as i was standig at the kitchen sink doing dishes, i spy their dad creeping around the corner of the house, packing a few snowballs. he sees me and waves before lobbing the snowballs towards the kids.
fun stuff!
shelley<>
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