"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."-Henry David Thoreau
My daughter, Victoria, is becoming a beautiful pianist. Beginning piano students have a huge body of knowledge to learn-how to read music, hand position, tempo, foot pedals, where on the keyboard to place their hands. It takes lots and lots of effort to make a piece sound effortless. Students are not simply given a Beethoven Piano Sonata and expected to put it all together at once and play it.
Even an advanced player learns a piece 'hands alone', as in, learning the right hand separately from the left hand and then, eventually, putting them together.
For most, there's a lot of practice involved between beginning student and Beethoven sonata.
As with many disciplines, in music, as in persuasion, learning something deeply is about breaking things down to their elements and then practicing.
I think everything is powerful in its simplicity and when we start junking it up with too much complexity, that's when it goes awry.
Looking back at all the trainers and teachers in this field who weren't successful, I find that the main problem they faced was making things too complex, too soon. Humans are impatient. We want results now, now, now, but many of us don't understand that results come as a result of practice.
The way I have excelled is that I keep things very simple. I continue to go back to the basics until I master the idea, until I can do it backwards and forwards, in my sleep, blindfolded, in the middle of my dreams. . . I want to be absolutely fluent in all the details.
So I started working to do that and I started to put those things together. But all of a sudden the more complex things just started happening.
The most profound things in the world are very simple. When you master the simple things, more and more you'll find the big things come together with ease.
Take a few moments and evaluate the core of what you're persuading people to do. What are the simple principles? Focus on these, and watch your results begin to climb.
Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent prospects using persuasion. He runs unique public and private seminars and offers home study courses, audio/visual learning tools, and coaching programs in persuasion strategies. This and other unique content 'persuasion' articles are available with free reprint rights.
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