Do you think 51% of the market should be owned by the, can believe I’m asking this, Government?

Sometimes in life things don’t work out the way we want them to. We all know that. Often, though, what makes all the difference is not whether a thing happens or not; whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing. The difference is always in our response to it. Pain enters our lives uninvited and usually unannounced. And then it’s up to us.  As Richard Rohr once said, “If we don’t find a way to be transformed by our pain, we will only transmit it to others.”

Well here’s an example of what one man decided to do in response to his pain, his suffering. My open question to everyone is simply this, “How have you responded to your pain?” I will put my answer below and I hope you will too.

Press Play and then Pause. Let the video buffer for about 30 seconds.

And look what just showed up in his teeth….if you’re counting on the government to fix your problems, your fixing to have many more. Read Here.
Can I have my $62 Billion back please?

Want to see him dance??? Watch Here.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. The questions raised: in a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made……. How many other things are we missing?” From an anonymous email…

So, what opens up here is the question of how well are we paying attention. To ourselves, our daily life, and our customers. In fact, marketing, what I call “relational marketing” isn’t about being on twit/space/book. While a curiosity it is largely just another distraction that leads to more info overwhelm or just “la-la land” instead of real business results.

Relational marketing is about creating real, genuine relationships…not MONEY. Real relationships are NOT possible, unless we pay attention, really get inside our customer’s head and heart and understand things from their perspective. Gouging people with fear and greed based offers just hurts relationships, turns your marketing into pimp style slang and treats your customers like prostitutes.

Call it Capitalism or Corpratisim – It’s really the worship of money in the pursuit of self interest. Selfishness is easy. But the big problem is that it is self destructive. What happens when we organize an economy around the service of self? What happens when we organize foreign policy around the protection of an economy organized around self? You get what we’ve got: $33 trillion dollars in debt. Debt is slavery. We are becoming slaves and the guy with the whip is about to come over to our row of cotton and make sure we know who’s really in charge.

Selfishness is self destructive.

Value creation is self empowering.

We need to create value, not capital, create service, not consumerism.

My, My, My!

One simple reason: watch to discover…

I don’t usually brag about clients of mine but Bill Kipp definitely deserves the honor. I’ll let the video speak for itself. Wow!

Psycho-babble or transformation??? What is the result of our focus, of our unconscious self? Nothing? Everything?