What does your Avatar picture mean?

**sallybode** · 01 October 2006, 06:29 AM

My avatar was taken from the stylized cartoon I did of me when I had a cartoon strip in a local paper.

This is me now.

**parahandy** · 01 October 2006, 11:32 AM

Ya musta bin a bootiful baby cos baby look at you now.

**Intbel** · 01 October 2006, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by sallybode

This is me now.

Life just gets better >sigh<

**alepacca** · 03 October 2006, 08:42 AM

A big nose, little hair, an earring...Here I am!

I upgrade the picture because I cut the mustache.

**Availor** · 03 October 2006, 10:10 PM

One picture worth a thousand words! My small picture is from that very own day. I'ts my graduation day from the NLP marketing courses. The lecturer is a former soviet KGB agent captain (yup that's right), who later became NLP coacher for companies and businessmen. Anyway, it's a pretty darn serious fellow with a (very) rich past "practice" in his life.... It's an official graduate... everyone goes in turn, he shakes their hands and give them the diploma.

Now I come in, he reaches his hand for an official handshake... and... Just look at his expression, his right hand still in the air! I can't hold my smile even now when I see his face, he sure did not expect that to come

**Availor** · 03 October 2006, 10:10 PM

Group hug anyone?

**ankhor** · 03 October 2006, 11:04 PM

Originally Posted by Availor

Group hug anyone?

Well if you hug me, it kinda feels like a group hug I can tell you.

**Ross Macintosh** · 04 October 2006, 01:38 PM

Congratulations Availor!

I have a vague idea what NLP marketing is. As a new graduate how would you describe it?

Regards, Ross

**Availor** · 04 October 2006, 02:21 PM

Hmmm take a look in HERE
It's about presenting yourself and seeing what the other person wants so you can persuade him for your benefit. It's about body language and "feeling" the person that is in front of you.

For example: If I want to sell a car to a mechanic I will not go and tell him how beautiful it looks, but I'll go through the details. If I speak to an artist for example, I will try and "draw" him the "picture" of what I'm trying to tell him. I will not get into little details because he isnt interested in them. The skills are how to review the person and see what suits him most and mimic his speach/body language.

One of the techniques is doing the unexpected. You won't expect someone to get naked and jump all over - you'll be shocked and lose your concentration. That was the last lesson. It's useful in some cases. Bosses use this technique without noticing it. If you go to your boss asking for a raise, he can start laughting and telling you jokes, or screaming at someone on the phone. You'll get distracted and will probably leave to wait for a better time.

In the military the shouting is good for that matter. If a higher rank officer screams all over you forget what you want.

We've all tried to "shock" the coacher trying to prove him what we've learned. One thing he did not expect is for someone to hug him. Looks pretty shocked now isn't he?

**ankhor** · 04 October 2006, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by Availor

In the military the shouting is good for that matter. If a higher rank officer screams all over you forget what you want.

No they try to make your question ridiculous, they get the laughers
on their hand, you just wait until the laughing stops and ask
the question again, then they usually admit that they didn`t know
the answer and you had to ask such and such.
They didn`t like me there, believe me.