The following is taken from Get Paid University.
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The following is an excerpt of David’s interview in Top Coaching Techniques.
David: It’s simply be practical. If you’re after a relationship, you can sit at home or you can complain to your friends that you’re not in a partnership, or you can actually write down who you’re looking for, get out there off your butt, join a club. If you’re after people who are into personal development, go and do some personal development courses. Go and do an acting course. Go and do some dancing. That’s often a wonderful way to meet people; get into some kind of dancing class. I’ll tell you, that’s one of the best tips I’ve ever come up with from a Ingrid.
Ingrid: Really?
David: Because you not only meet people who are into the same things that you are – for example, into dancing or into going out – but you also get to spend maybe six weeks or eight weeks with the same people, and you get to know them. You don’t have to go to a bar, and walk up to someone and try and establish a relationship under the influence of alcohol, but you’ve actually got time to develop a relationship and see, ‘Do I want to ask this person out, or do I not?’
The following is an excerpt of one of David’s coaching sessions in Top Coaching Techniques.
David: You know, I understand it. I know you’re like, ‘I hope he says yes, and if he says yes, I hope he sticks to it because he might change his mind later. If he says no, then am I going to do it on my own,’ or whatever. There’s no commitment from you.
Client: Right, so you’re suggesting that I need to just figure out what I want to do, commit to it, and see what part of it he wants to join me on and what part he doesn’t.
David: Well, you could do that but let’s look at an upgrade to that. What if you decided what you wanted to do, made a commitment to it, and then enrolled or enthused him in playing that game with you?
Client: Right.
David: It’s a very different place to come from, when you’re actually committed to it, than saying, ‘I’d really like it. Let’s kind of do it.’
Client: Right. I’m so glad you said that, because that’s sort of what I came to today. I was like, ‘You know, I just need to figure out what are the things that are really important for me to accomplish over, let’s say, the next year? How am I going to prioritize those things? How am I going to make them happen? What parts do I need him or don’t I need him to do with me?’
The following is an excerpt of David’s interview in Top Coaching Techniques.
David: That’s exactly why this is an incredible exercise, because you list it all and then you go, ‘Well okay, there are about two people on the planet that could meet that, and they’re married.’
Ingrid: Yeah, that’s right.
David: So yeah, you list all that stuff and then you circle the ones that are really absolute deal-breakers. See how broad you can get. Try not to circle everything and see if you can say, ‘Well, maybe he doesn’t have to be tall.’ You know, or, ‘Maybe she doesn’t have to have an incredible body. Maybe if she was really loving and fun and challenged me, then that could be a wonderful relationship.’ You could even call this – well, it sounds like a narrowing exercise – you could even call it a broadening exercise, because people walk around with this little radar, looking for their perfect partner. The scope of that radar is so narrow, what you want to do is broaden that to give yourself much more opportunity.
The following is taken from Get Paid University.
Another reason I have a newsletter is it gives you an instant market for your product. This is so critical. I told a friend of mine who’s an investment banker years ago, I said, “I’ve got this great idea! I want to sell it in the market place,” and he said, “Yeah, but what’s your distribution?” I said, “What do you mean?” He said, “How do you get it out to the public?” I said, “I don’t know yet.” He said, “Well, that’s where the real money is because you might have a great product but you need distribution. You got to get access to the customers. So whoever has access to the customers is going to charge a fortune because without them, you can’t sell it.” When you have a newsletter, you have distribution. You can now reach your customers. As I said, I had a newsletter before I even launched my first product. I got it up to so many thousand people, built it for three years, and made a few thousand dollars with the first product because I had an instant market for my product.
