Sunday, March 05, 2006

What's your favorite thing to do on a Sunday?

9:09 AM 4 comments

This is a great question to ask someone you just met. I use it all the time. And you can learn a great deal about who that person is simply by throwing it out there. Now, for me, the answer is: going to Borders with a fully charged Ipod, grabbing about 35 books, sitting by the window, reading through every one of those books, taking notes, and then buying one or two of them.

But that's just me.

Anyway, since I'm a bit of a quotophile, (hence the picture) I wanted to share a few great one-liners that struck a chord in my always-thinking-about-approachability mind:

"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening." --Dorothy Sarnoff

"When people laugh at your jokes, they are involuntarily agreeing with your message." --Jim Richardson

"Communicate so that others can't help but pay attention to you." --Bo Diett

"Everybody is somebody's somebody." --Jeffrey Fox

Oh, and while we're on the subject of "questions," here's a great article featuring Deborah Fine about the relationship between small talk, asking questions and approachability.

LET ME ASK YA THIS...

What's your favorite thing to do on a Sunday?

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Scott Ginsberg
Author/Speaker/That guy with the nametag
www.hellomynameisscott.com

4 comments:

Sleep in... and then have the best strawberry pancakes ever.

I can tell you for sure, it's not going in to work at 7am.

when you have the luxury of working for yourself, everyday feels like a Sunday and it's just a joy to wake up and 'go to work'.

#1 - Borders is evil. Go to a neighborhood, independent bookstore.

#2 - Why bring the ipod? How can you be approachable while listening to your earbuds?

Hey Bill, nice to meet ya.

In response to your comments:

1)Borders sells my books, pays the bills and everyone I've worked with through their local and corporate offices has been EXTREMELY good to me. So I'll stick with them until they do something evil to me.

2) While an Ipod may suggest inapproachability (what's known as a "pyschological inovlement sheild") I DID in fact have a ten minute conversation with a complete stranger who walked right up to me and asked me what CD I was listening to ;)

Thanks for your comments Bill!

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