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Success Tips: For best results do it "wrong"

1/9/2013

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If you don't care about the result, then you get the best results.

If I want to pee, I just pee. If I want to sniff, I sniff. When you are focused on what you are doing fully and with joy, and have no thought or care about the result, while you're doing it, then you will achieve your best results.

I've seen people be their most successful when they are convinced they are doing it "wrong."

Do the Opposite

"There is no way this is going to work," and that's when it comes out great. It's like that Seinfeld episode I used to watch where George the loser says, "I will do the opposite," of all of his initial thoughts and he becomes a huge success.

I saw my co-author Roger do this once. He had to meet people at a theater downtown and he forgot to take directions and his sense of smell is terrible. He was walking me around looking for the place and then he finally said, "I don't know where the theater is, I'm lost. Just for kicks I am just going to walk down the wrong street. I know it's not on this street." 

About halfway down the street, we both saw the sign for the theater.


How to get into the Ivy Leagues the Wrong Way


My friend's person got into Brown University this way. His college entrance essay began "I am a great risk" and detailed how he was a poor candidate for Brown. He wrote it, he said, because he "didn't give a crap about what they thought because I knew I had no chance of getting in."

But he wrote the essay because he loves writing and he felt free and great doing it. He graduated four years later and is a published author today with a new book coming out spring of 2013.

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Superdog Abby's Top 10 tips how to deal with difficult people that will keep your tail wagging even when they're snarling.

1/4/2013

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Abby speaks:

1. Ignore them. Don't growl back. It's no fun to fight alone. Difficult people and dogs want an audience. If you don't engage them at their level, there is nothing to fight over.

2. See them better than they see themselves. When people and dogs do mean things, it's because they don't love themselves at that moment. Imagine what they would be like at their shining best holding a crunchy biscuit and a fresh bone.

3. Is it Me? Don't be difficult personality yourself. How many fleas are you contributing? Even if they are 95% wrong, what can you do about your 5%?

4. Don't get into a pissing match with a skunk. Those watching might not be able to tell the difference and you'll both end up needing a bath.

5. You can't fix stupid. Don't even try.

6. Put yourself in "Time Out." If they won't play nice, walk out the door and go do something you like until everybody cools off.

7. Apologize. If you pee on someone's leg, say you're sorry sincerely and clean it up as fast as you can.

8. Change the subject. Are you just going around and around in circles biting each other's tails? Look over there, a butterfly!

9. Smile and say something nice. It's amazing how well widening your eyes and tilting your head, or even a lick on the hand, can change the situation and brighten your entire day.

10. If the room stinks, don't fart more. Do I even need to explain this?

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    Abby and Chopstick are life-long buddies. Abby is patient, Chopstick is not. (The opinions of Abby and Chopstick are theirs alone and may not wind up being in your best interests. The management takes no responsibility).

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