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A Prayer for Living
Posted by Doctapaul in Affirmations, Current Affairs & The Economy, Healing, Life's Changes, Love, Mindfulness, Myths, Personal, Pitfalls I've Fallen Into, Poetry, Relationships, Self Development, Self Help, Soundbytes of Wisdom, Tip for the Day, Uncategorized, Visions and Dreams on January 30, 2021
Saturn (the Lord of Karma) enters Aquarius
Posted by Doctapaul in Astrology, Astronomy, Current Affairs & The Economy, Healing, Life's Changes, Myths, Personal, Pitfalls I've Fallen Into, Self Development, Self Help, Soundbytes of Wisdom, Tip for the Day, Visions and Dreams on March 22, 2020
Chronos (Saturn) removed the sword from the stone (of the earth sign, Capricorn) overnight, coincidental with the Spring Equinox. The Lord of Karma (and Time) has entered the cold, critical and distant airs of Aquarius. He will soon be ably assisted by Ares (Mars), who shall wield the two-edged sword of magic lore, freely and possibly mercilessly.

And where do you find truth?
In your heart, the he-arth of your body, He-Arthur.
Chronos will be our judge, and in my experience, will wreak karmic revenge on those who transgress the laws of light: borne of truth.
(from) The Message To The Hierarchy of Ares
Against you: some among your number cling
To evil rites, and giving way to hate
With curses would their foes annihilate
And, seeking sorcery’s fell powers to win,
Eat demons’ food and practise nameless sin;
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Reform, or I shall come to you with speed
And with my magic sword confute their creed…..
Shine on!….
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Image borrowed from http://dungeonsmaster.com
The Message To The Hierarchy of Ares from The Hellenic Fragments by James Morgan Pryse
Total Solar Eclipse in North America, 21 August 2017
Posted by Doctapaul in Astrology, Astronomy, Current Affairs & The Economy, Mindfulness, Myths, Personal, Pitfalls I've Fallen Into, Self Development, Self Help, Soundbytes of Wisdom, Tarot, Tip for the Day, Training & Development, Uncategorized, Visions and Dreams on August 21, 2017

Take a step back and organise yourself accordingly.
See it live…. from The Weather Channel
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Image courtesy of http://www.sciencealert.com
Top Salespeople in the Future will Forge Truth…
Posted by Doctapaul in Business, Coaching, Current Affairs & The Economy, Leadership, Marketing, Self Development, Selling, Tip for the Day, Training & Development, Visions and Dreams on May 2, 2013
Extract from Quick Guide – How Top Salespeople Sell
Picture courtesy of Electronic Payments Coalition
The higher up a corporate customer’s management hierarchy you call, the more uncertainty there is to deal with. At operational levels, you deal with business unit managers who, by and large, are all measured against the same tangible yardsticks of performance.
Once above that level you deal with leaders of change who, by definition, are looking to do things that haven’t been done before. They focus on defining and creating new realities. They are the ‘harbingers’ of tomorrow’s world.
The ‘harbingers’ delve into the unknown. Their task is becoming increasingly difficult because the unknown, aided and abetted by ever increasing changes in technology, is getting larger and darker. There’s much more data about what’s going on but can it be extrapolated with confidence into the future?
There is very little data that accurately measures what the world or business may look like in anything beyond six weeks hence.
I went to series of banking seminars in and around mid 2008. Were there ‘green shoots’ appearing in the economy? Were we in an elongated dip? Were we starting a ‘double dip’? Nobody could predict accurately. Any form of optimism was mooted very cautiously. More data was called for. More analyses were completed. Did they make any of the forecasts more believable? No. Bankers and politician’s couldn’t predict the future with any sense of accuracy. They/we still can’t.
We live with more data, more unknowns and more uncertainty than we ever have because the future happens a lot more quickly than it used to.
The more uncertainty faced, the more we need to put trust in our advisors and ourselves. But trust is not truth.
Trust is the gap between what we know and what we put our faith in.
Here lies the role for, dare I say, a ‘newish’ generation of salespeople. There was a biggish fad a few years ago to develop salespeople to become ‘trusted expert advisors’. My personal experience is that you can count on one hand the number of ‘broad-based industry experts’ in, for example, a global IT sales organisation who know as much about, say, banking as the bankers themselves. And even then you might find you have three or more of your fingers missing.
The new sales role is more than mentoring and different. The relationship with the customer still requires a huge amount of trust but the ‘new salesperson’ doesn’t need to be an industry expert. Instead, they develop the expertise to help explore uncertainty and find answers in the hidden nooks and crannies of the psyche of their customers’ organisation.
By psyche, I mean the intellectual and emotional capabilities of its leaders and workforce. These salespeople don’t have magical answers. Instead, they have magical questions that spark the customers imagination into collaboratively putting together a believable ‘image-in-ions’.
This is about making the sales/customer relationship equation: 1 + 1=3. The sum of the parts is more than each party can bring to the table on their own. But this is a relationship that transcends trust, it’s rooted in truth. There are no hidden agendas.
When you exchange truth with another wholly, you no longer need to trust them. What remains is your trust in yourself.
This is more than being an ‘honest broker’. The salesperson of the future will still bring skills and know-how of their own industry to the table. BUT, the top salesperson will be an intrepid explorer too; capable of guiding clients into the unknown and back again safely. They achieve this by knowing how to find and help release that which holds the client back, namely fear.
Only four things hold us back in life: shame, anger, sadness and fear. When you look inside these negative emotions, you discover they’re all fear. The opposite of truth is falsity. Behind all falsity lies fear.
The top salesperson earns the customer’s trust because they deal in truth, and only truth. Truth drives out falsity which ultimately releases fear. More than trust, truth forges a relationship that can connect to the ‘greater good’ for all involved.
A business world forged by relationships rooted in truth might be a pipe dream. But we have to imagine it before we can create it. As we look back over history and specifically the world economy over last few years, it begs the question, “What sustainable alternative do we have?”
Shine on…!
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Paul C Burr
Author of Quick Guide: How Top Salespeople Sell, Learn to Love and Be Loved in Return, 2012: a twist in the tail and Defrag your Soul
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Supernova – visible in northern sky for 9 nights!
Posted by Doctapaul in Astrology, Current Affairs & The Economy, Visions and Dreams on September 7, 2011
The recently discovered supernova in M101 (the Pinwheel Galaxy, in the Plough constellation) should be visible through binoculars over the next 9 days.
When it’s cloudless, look to the northern sky. Go to a local spot with low surrounding light pollution. Look for the Plough Constellation. Follow Star 3 to Star 2 and keep going. There you should find an exploding dwarf star that sucked the energy out of a neighbouring big star, too much too quickly, and “burst” – 21 million years ago.
Shine on!
@paulburr
This June 9, 2005 NASA false-color picture shows the supernova remnant of Cassiopeia A.
Thomas Paine on “the vulgar and ignorant mob”
Posted by Doctapaul in Current Affairs & The Economy, Soundbytes of Wisdom on August 16, 2011
“They rise as an unavoidable consequence, out of the ill construction of all old governments in Europe, England included with the rest. It is by distortedly exalting some men, that others are distortedly debased, until the whole is out of nature.”….. Thomas Paine
Hat tip: This is from a Tax Justice Network Blog who, in turn, were inspired by Michael Law (from a letter in The Guardian)
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Shine on…!
Paul C Burr
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