Peeling the Onion: Layers of Complexity in Life and Persuasion
Kenrick Cleveland
I love a good metaphor. An especially powerful metaphor for me lately has been that of an onion. The Cleveland Method deals with a deep understanding of our core drives and unconscious motivations. When we focus inward, only then can we genuinely understand others.
Lately with my students I've seen tremendous growth in quite a number of people that I've been talking with. This growth comes not only from an application and dedication to the strategies of persuasion in business but it comes from applying these to your whole life.
One of my students, an adviser who is becoming more and more successful in his business and financial life, was telling me on a recent phone call how these skills have not only affected his "bottom line" but they have meant so much to him in other ways. As a result of one technique, he stopped smoking and some other incredibly positive things have taken place in his life. (This is what I live for. When my students have breakthroughs in all areas.)
As an example of this peeling of layers, one both figurative and literal, I have seen this growth in my own life having shed 140 pounds. Peeling the layers, getting to the core of what is important, improving, fine tuning. . .these persuasion skills apply for us to enhance and grow.
peeling away these layers I uncovered something else I needed to remedy--a hernia. Now I'm able to help myself even further towards the goal of excellent health.
Using the onion as a metaphor for our lives helps us begin to understand the power of our unconscious drives and the motivations in our lives. My focus on persuasion has come to a fine point in recent months. I have laser pointed my intent toward persuading the affluent. With the results my clients/students have been getting I completely understand that the big picture is of utmost importance. We are our own first persuasion project, when you think about it. As we learn to influence ourselves, we are on the path to being able to persuade others powerfully.
I can absolutely guaranty you that there's never been a great persuader on the face of the planet who doesn't have a degree of mastery over his own life. Before I lost the weight, I had a very conflicted relationship with the thinking, the practice, and the actual doing. Eventually, something clicked. I got it. I understood on another level that as an onion, the first step is to peel away the skin, and to keep peeling through visualization, through tapping, through intention, through coaching, through determination, through the universe system-it all came together as if I were a magician and finally figured out the alchemical recipe for my own self mastery.
Persuasion is a process. I, by no means, have mastered this body of knowledge. It would be egotistical and arrogant to believe that. It would also make me feel quite sad. Frankly, I love to strive for the goal of the highest I can achieve, but the real vibrancy in life comes from constantly evolving and growing.
Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of affluent clients using http://www.maxpersuasion.com/ persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in http://www.maxpersuasion.com/ persuasion techniques. This and other http://www.uberarticles.com/?id=36367&b=79 unique content 'persuasion' articles are available with free reprint rights.
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