Chapter 1 The Secrets That Lead To Fame, Fortune and Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 The Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 3 The Four Basic Communication Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 4 Effective Personal Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 5 Life and Love’s Most Vital Ingredient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 6 Communication and Interrelationship Integrity Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 7 The Importance of Effective Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 8 What is a Paradigm? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter 9 Harmonious Games Versus Self-Destructive Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 10 The Quest For Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 11 The Ability To Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Article "Words Can Work Wonders For You" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 12 Terms That Raise Your Level Of Excellence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 13 More On Noncomprehended Terms, Subjects and Misrepresented Symbols 45
Chapter 14 If You Can't Define It You Can't Have It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chapter 15 Precepts How We Develop Our Rules And Principles For Living . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 16 Good Education and Optimum Training Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 17 How To Achieve Effective Personal Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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FAME, FORTUNE AND HAPPINESS
Let us observe some very famous people who have built great fortunes and appear to enjoy much happiness.
Bob Hope, probably the most respected comedian and entertainer in the world.
Pele, the legendary soccer star.
The Beatles, the most successful group in the music field in history.
Leonardo da Vinci, the world's greatest painter.
Aristotle, the world's greatest philosopher.
Shakespeare, the world's greatest playwright.
Bill Shoemaker, champion jockey, has won more stakes races than any other jockey in history.
What did all these people have in common?
They were masters of the tools of their trade. Their mastery communicated to millions of people. So outstanding were some of these stellar people that their messages have lasted hundreds of years. They have become legends.
They were in communication with their subject and their audience.
Not only were these legendary superstars in communication, but they had mastered their ability to perceive the obvious. These perceptions led to new thoughts. These thoughts were verbalized, written or acted upon in such a manner that others could understand and appreciate the mastery of their craft.
They demonstrated their ability to perceive, their ability to think and their ability to communicate, whether by word, product or actions.
Thus we can discover from these great people the six basic tools needed for success, prosperity and happiness. They are:
1. The ability to perceive.
2. The ability to create and control thought.
3. The ability to envision what part of those thoughts should be transferred into a form of communication so that others can understand what actions will take place, and be able to contribute to the action.
4. Mastery of their tools.
5. The ability to implement (action).
6. The ability to produce results by bringing their created thought into reality by implementation, using their basic tools and having it understood by others, who then rewarded them with acclaim, position and wealth — Results!
What were their basic tools?
Bob Hope: Verbal communication; command over an audience.
Pele: Ball control; body control.
The Beatles: Verbal and instrumental communication skills.
Leonardo da Vinci: Knowledge of paint and canvasses, and the mastery of color and brush.
Aristotle: Verbal and written communication.
Shakespeare: Written communication.
Bill Shoemaker: Timing, balance, control.
Other fields have other tools: a professional golfer, his club; a professional tennis
player, his racquet; a plumber, his wrench.
What then, are your basic tools?
If you are in fields which deal with people, such as sales, negotiation, executive, or leadership, your most important tool is EFFECTIVE PERSONAL COMMUNICATION.
EFFECTIVE PERSONAL COMMUNICATION
Without effective personal communication, one cannot succeed. One can attend all of the seminars, listen to all of the tapes, go to school, be yelled at by the boss, be shown what to do, but without effective communication skills one will FAIL and so will one's teachers and bosses.
The inability to communicate effectively leads to divorce, firing, lost accounts, broken hearts, and drug and alcohol addiction. Life can become so painful that people will commit suicide to handle the problem. Death, of course, is the ultimate out-of-communication.
Effective personal communication leads to a greater ability to perceive. As one's ability to perceive increases, one's certainty on the correctness of thought and ideas increases and one's confidence and implementation (action) levels take a dramatic turn for the better.
The simple but earth-shaking discovery of effective personal communication sent my life's income from being locked in dreadful mediocrity into the stratosphere.
I was languishing in a no-win life. By using effective personal communication, I was able to produce incredible results for myself and for others.
So powerful were the results that, in 1961, my personal weekly income went from $40 to $4,000. The company in which I was a major stockholder and executive, went from $395,000 in debt, to all debts paid, plus a healthy profit, all in eighteen months.
Over the past thirty years, personal invitations have come to me from dozens of countries to explain and teach these methods. I have lectured and taught in such major cities as London, Rome, Paris, New York, Copenhagen, Casablanca, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Manila, Tokyo, Zurich, Sidney, Melbourne, Toronto, and most of the principle cities of the United States.
This discovery dramatically upgraded my whole life and the lives of those around me.
This simple discovery can enhance anyone's life if they apply a few simple, easy-to-learn formulas.
The first time I released this discovery for commercial use was to a small insurance agency in Dallas, Texas, in May 1965. The use of this Effective Personal Communication data produced spectacular results. The Tennessee Life Agency was the poorest producing agency in the company. Within six weeks they had risen to the number one agency, selling more insurance in a one month period than they had in the previous twelve months.
At that time, Tennessee Life was a division of Tenneco, the Houston, Texas, giant conglomerate.
Within one week of the results being known, I was invited to Tenneco to train several of their top executives. From that simple beginning, I was invited all over the world.
Between trips I trained several people locally. Amongst these were two Merrill-Lynch stockbrokers. Applying my method, their income soared. They were making as much per month as they had the previous year. They rose to be among the top ten producers for that company.
Over the years, thousands of people have applied these techniques to break out of the plateaus on which they have found themselves trapped.
Effective personal communication is the underlying vital tool that you must have in order to create a better life, a better career, promotions, increased sales, effective advantages in negotiation results, more clients, more leads, more money, more friends, more appointments, etc.
Therefore, ineffective communication causes the reverse to take place; a worsening life and career, problems, demotions, no sales, poor negotiation results, fewer clients, fewer leads, fewer friends, lost opportunities, lower income, etc.
There is an even worse communication problem. That is: OUT OF COMMUNICATION. This condition causes loneliness, sadness, depression, failure, call reluctance, fear of meeting people, immobility, joblessness, worry, financial problems, career failures, divorce, bankruptcy, upsets, lost opportunities, missed investments, contracting markets, lucklessness, lost sales, no goods; a bleak future.
WHAT IS EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION?
Effective communication can be described as intending to impart something to someone, somewhere; moving the something toward where you are intending; and the something arriving at whom and where it was intended to arrive.
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