Comments on: Patient Attention http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/patient-attention/ Persuasion Strategies for Opening Doors and Winning Favor with the Affluent. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:24:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joshua http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/patient-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Joshua Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:34:17 +0000 http://maxpersuasion.com/blog/patient-attention/#comment-414 James, that reminds me of an approach to affirmations/self-hypnosis/manifestation that I ran across recently. You have a bucket full of water. Every day, if you do your affirmation, you drop a pebble in the bucket. If you have a day when you don't do your affirmation, you take a pebble out. When you've filled the bucket with pebbles and there's no more water, you get a new bucket and start on a new goal. It's both a reminder to do it, and a metaphor in itself. Every pebble is new programming. The water is the old programming. With every pebble that goes in, you replace a bit of the old programming, and eventually you've completely replaced the old programming. Without even really noticing it; the water comes out of the bucket gradually and without conscious awareness, necessarily. James, that reminds me of an approach to affirmations/self-hypnosis/manifestation that I ran across recently. You have a bucket full of water. Every day, if you do your affirmation, you drop a pebble in the bucket. If you have a day when you don't do your affirmation, you take a pebble out. When you've filled the bucket with pebbles and there's no more water, you get a new bucket and start on a new goal.

It's both a reminder to do it, and a metaphor in itself. Every pebble is new programming. The water is the old programming. With every pebble that goes in, you replace a bit of the old programming, and eventually you've completely replaced the old programming. Without even really noticing it; the water comes out of the bucket gradually and without conscious awareness, necessarily.

]]> By: James http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/patient-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-409 James Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:45:25 +0000 http://maxpersuasion.com/blog/patient-attention/#comment-409 I grew up and still live in the city and while I can see an image of a young boy helping his grandfather on the farm, that is something that I just do not relate to much, even though I see the value in the metaphor. You see I, like most of America would naturally prefer instant gratification. After all who would not not prefer to have something NOW as compared to later, maybe that is why sod is so much more popular than seed when it comes to planting a lawn. So as I thought about this idea of patient attention. I realized something, something that made more sense to me, something that I could relate to, something that gave me fond memories of my childhood as well. Marbles, I can carry around a single marble in my pocket every day and use this marble to remind me of a certain persuasion technique. As I use this technique and become proficient at this technique I could deposit the marble into a fishbowl that I place somewhere I can see everyday to remind myself of my accomplishments. Then retrieve a new marble from my bag and carry that sphere around with me until I become competent using that persuasion skill. As I see the fish bowl grow abundant, more full and closer to the top of the rim of the fish bowl I will have achieved this idea called patient attention. After all didn't Lao-tzu say the journey of a thousand miles started with single step? I grew up and still live in the city and while I can see an image of a young boy helping his grandfather on the farm, that is something that I just do not relate to much, even though I see the value in the metaphor. You see I, like most of America would naturally prefer instant gratification. After all who would not not prefer to have something NOW as compared to later, maybe that is why sod is so much more popular than seed when it comes to planting a lawn.
So as I thought about this idea of patient attention. I realized something, something that made more sense to me, something that I could relate to, something that gave me fond memories of my childhood as well. Marbles, I can carry around a single marble in my pocket every day and use this marble to remind me of a certain persuasion technique. As I use this technique and become proficient at this technique I could deposit the marble into a fishbowl that I place somewhere I can see everyday to remind myself of my accomplishments. Then retrieve a new marble from my bag and carry that sphere around with me until I become competent using that persuasion skill. As I see the fish bowl grow abundant, more full and closer to the top of the rim of the fish bowl I will have achieved this idea called patient attention. After all didn't Lao-tzu say the journey of a thousand miles started with single step?

]]> By: Dave http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/patient-attention/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Dave Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:25:32 +0000 http://maxpersuasion.com/blog/patient-attention/#comment-408 The biggest accomplishments that have occured in my life have been due to the concept of patient attention. After working on a project or skillset for up to a couple of years, it suddenly dawns on me that a little twist right 'there' makes the results maginify considerably. With dilligence and patience, a work day is compressed to under two hours of actual work time, then an hour, then 15 minutes. Athletic accomplishments come as the result of training for a half hour on only two days a week with the patient attention to detail. Persuasion skills tend to come in small jumps throughout years of study by displaying themselves every couple of months or so. And the most dynamic of rewards comes from the result of patient attention to the dollars coming in and the dollars going out. Perhaps the second greatest feeling is awakening one day after many days of patient attention to growing your savings to the point where saving six months of living expenses has occurred. Then onwards to a year, two years, and extrapolation to the ability to retire at will. The biggest accomplishments that have occured in my life have been due to the concept of patient attention. After working on a project or skillset for up to a couple of years, it suddenly dawns on me that a little twist right 'there' makes the results maginify considerably.

With dilligence and patience, a work day is compressed to under two hours of actual work time, then an hour, then 15 minutes. Athletic accomplishments come as the result of training for a half hour on only two days a week with the patient attention to detail. Persuasion skills tend to come in small jumps throughout years of study by displaying themselves every couple of months or so. And the most dynamic of rewards comes from the result of patient attention to the dollars coming in and the dollars going out. Perhaps the second greatest feeling is awakening one day after many days of patient attention to growing your savings to the point where saving six months of living expenses has occurred. Then onwards to a year, two years, and extrapolation to the ability to retire at will.

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