Are You labelling them or yourself?
Labelling- What is it? Placing a
- value
- description
- reaction
- experience
- a belief
Onto an item, a situation, a fear or experience as a form of recognition to you, to other people and to society.
“Volvo ad with the father bribing the kid to get in the car” It has taken years to rebuild that brand, even though at the time it seemed like a good marketing plan.”
- “Fruit farmers were always know by their straw hats and thongs” The Guppies
- “Victorian Sheep farmers for their Gum boots and baggy pant” Footrot Flats
- “The Territory cattleman- big hats, big country and big debts” Texans
- “Personal Development” only weak people need it, it will do nothing for me.
That is the label I grew up with up until I join Polaris Global. I knew nothing else. I had no experience to change or compare, even though many of the business books I was reading were certainly mentioning these life strategies, I was very intent of not wanting to be labelled weak or needy.
Fast forward to Nov 1 2014. I was asked at Business Lunch, after receiving an Industry Award, ‘how and what created this success why would you bother selling a Personal Development Online Product?
This was one question I never wanted to answer 5 years ago and I answered it like this.
“This Personal Development Business will be my greatest success because daily I am ask to stand up, thinking, act and deliver results in any situation.
- It started out being the most challenging part of me and my business.
- The most fearful thing for me to speak about
- The most challenging program to encounter
- And has made me a better man.
It is simplistic and this methodology suits the direction I want to take my organisation and the potential is unlimited, because I can not see how it can fail. I enjoy being in business and always have love the competition and today I blend my growing interest in Personal Development together and I am lucky to have found a great match.
Many of my friends still “take the mickey out of me” and probably label me as well. The only thing that I am interested in is creating a better meaning, experience and definition to what Personal Development actually is and what it can achieve.
That definition is seen in how you act, think and apply.
- water won’t kill weeds- chemical and water may
- reading theories won’t change results- acting on them will.
