What's your Game?
What are thew rules to your 'game'? Keeping score?
Started a call with this question, and the answer threw me. Geosh replied with his Myers-Briggs score. Turns out a Project Manger introduced himself with his score so my friend did the same. I will not tell you mine!
Information is power. When the other side has inside info you are going to lose.(my world view) Why would you give them a stick to beat you with? "It helps us communicate, so you like see where they are coming from." Don't fall in this trap.
Reduce the information you give away. Kevin tells us to reduce our scent signature. Dress in the right clothes for the correct setting. Take down the personal stuff off the desk. Put up books up that fit your business. That Covert Hypnosis manual needs to hide.
Read about a 'Web Guy' who spends 20 hours a day on the Net. He keeps score by Page Ranking and Profits.
"What shall it profit a man..."
Balance your 'game' with a 'life'
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"I don't like to lose" - Captain J. Kirk, USS Enterprise
We all keep score in the game that is important to us. Might be money, might not. Might be points on a board, might not, but we are all keeping score at something. Most of us are probably not even aware what we are keeping score at but we know when we are ahead and when we are losing.
Knowledge is sometimes curative. We all need to know what we value. Great post.
Steve Chambers
Of course, strategy is key for business. Don't give out information without purpose. It's fine to help people, but if you give everything away, you could actually sabotage their efforts to improve themselves and their business.
Sheridan Randolph
What is on time? For some people (Tony) it is when they get there. Others it is 15 minutes early. Your rules are personal, we don't share them.
Knowing is the power.
Thank you for the reminder to 'reduce the information you give away' -- when we write courses for the Academy, we have a tendency to give too much. We have so much knowledge and we so want to share it. Also for the reminder to keep the personal stuff separate from our business. I've never heard the term 'scent signature' but i like it! Great post.
Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Mentor
Make your own game.
Steve
Aaron
I've heard both sides to this equation, and truthfully I don't know what to think. Some say that keeping information to yourself is the best idea, and others say transparency is power. I'd love to be persuaded one way or the other....
Jennifer Skinner: Wardrobe Planning, Image and Style
Tim
Aaron
Those are powerful words in life on many many levels
Focus Your Energy
Matthew Shields
"Reduce the information you give away". Excellent point. I am in control when I give much more of my attention than I give information.
Yann
Personal Development & Success Coach
In Poker, to give too much information, you lose.
In Bridge, you HAVE to give information (like in a partnership relationship) so you two end up in the right contract.
If you bid it correctly and you have SKILL, it won't matter that the other side knows what you have. You will STILL win as a result of communication and skill. Like in the sensual communication of Sex. Skill + Communication = FABULOUS!
All the best,
April BraswellRomance Coach, Online Dating Coach