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Archive for November, 2009

Announcing

The Great Twacebook Verbal Self Defense Book Draw of 2009

We are gearing up for the launch of our new book and we have some advanced copies left up for grabs. What we’d like to do is offer TWO free books for people! How do you enter? There are two ways!

First way to win:

Go on Twitter and Tweet the following phrase:

Stand up to Bullies! Win a book! @verbal_sensei has a contest http://bit.ly/8uu9me RT to Win

Second way to win:

Join the Verbal Self Defense Facebook Group at:

http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=177970966779

What you can win:

Do this all by 5pm Pacific on Monday, November 30th and be entered to win! Winners will receive (via mail) one signed Advance Copy of the new book:

6 Steps for Verbal Self Defense
to Stop Workplace Bullying

Members of the Facebook group at the end of the Monday will be automatically entered into the draw. Maximum of 5 twitter re-tweet entries per person, per day. Winners will be selected at random.

Good luck!

I’ve been thinking about doing some promotional stuff for my new book … maybe some You Tube videos and such. Since NLP is really based on behavioral modeling I’ve been looking for ways to model all the viral videos that are out there — and there seems to be a LOT of them!

It’s difficult to determine what the right set of components are in order to meet all the criteria needed to make my ads a phenomenal success; music, action, simplicity, humour, emotion, etc., etc., etc. It’s just all so much to figure out.

Instead I’ve decided to see if I can find an expert who I can model — what do you think of this guy as a good standard of personal excellence for my book promotion ideas …

One of the foundational concepts of NLP is that we all have our own Model of the World — our own personal understanding of how the world works and what to expect. For myself, as an NLPer, I find that the funniest practical jokes seem to play on messing with a person’s map of reality … human’s are hilarious in the fact that, so long as the explanations or our experience is in line with our expectations of how the world works, we are gullible enough to believe almost anything! Case in point …

For all my NLP students and colleagues out there, here are a few NLP jokes that I’ve found around the internet…

Q. Why did the NLPer cross the road?

A. It’s not important. what is important is how specifically did they cross the road?

Q. What NLP techniques do speed seducers like most?

A. In Bedded Commands!

Q. How many meta modelers does it take to change a light bulb?

A. In what way, exactly, would you like it to be ”changed”?

Q. How many milton modelers does it take to change a light bulb?

A. Think about it.

Q. How many psychoanalysts does it take to change a light bulb.

A. 1 – but it must reeeally want to change

Q. Why did the man give his photo albumn to Richard Bandler?

A. He wanted the pictures reframed.

Q. Why was the NLPer so happy?

A. Because he met a model.

Q. How many metaphors to change a light bulb?

A. Many hands make light work!

Q. How does the egomaniac screw in a lightbulb?

A. He just holds the bulb up to the light fitting and the whole world revolves around him.

  If you have any more please feel encouraged to share them with us…

I just realized today that I haven’t updated my blog in over a MONTH! Wow! … I guess I’ve been so busy with getting the new verbal self defense book to publication that I completely forgot to keep everyone updated on our progress in life!

Well … I’ll be fixing that important oversight quite soon.