How Do You Sound?!
People will tend to "interpret" your comments to suit their own agendas. They'll say you sound "angry, sad, disappointed, upset, confused, sanctimonious, depressed" and so forth. That's because they want you to feel that way to reinforce their own agendas.
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/2/25
If we can put people on the moon and try to send them to Mars, why can’t we… ….build a toaster that can toast a bagel in less than a day and a half? ….use retinal scanning to allow citizens to pass
Tipping Point
We needed 50, 40-pound bags of salt to open our salt water pool for this new season. While I could buy them from the local pool store, the transport and loading and then dispersal are tedious and difficult. I found,
Wow, That Was A Close Shave!
Gillette, which has "owned" the men's toiletry market (and a large part of the women's) had confused me with a plethora of razors, all battery powered, muliti-blade, with pro glide, power glide, propower glide, glide power pro, and so on.
Lord Knows….
It's fascinating what we take for granted. I'm a lector in church, and since I've been a professional speaker as part of my career for decades, and I'm in the Speakers Hall of Fame, I'm pretty good at it! One
Who’s on First?
I recently talked to someone who used his virtual assistant to coordinate with a speakers bureau secretary who reported to her boss, and then the boss spoke to a meeting planner at a client, who went to her boss for
A Minute with Alan® — Scarcity Mindset
May 29th, 2025 Scarcity Mindset.