Posted on 08/01/2014 4:51:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In 1980, Morley Safer traveled to Dallas to uncover the multimillion-dollar industry that was making people richer, better, and happier
This week, Morley Safer reported on a job-training boot camp that places disadvantaged youth in positions at some of the country's most competitive companies.
Nearly 35 years ago, Safer reported on another tool job-hunters were using to gain an edge in the workforce.
The year was 1980 and Safer found himself in Dallas at a $900, three-day seminar where average Joes were being taught the secret to success: enthusiasm.
The man behind the seminar, Ed Foreman, claimed he could make individuals richer, better and happier just by changing their mindset from "a frightened little church mouse" to that of a "super mouse."
Some advice was as simple as answering, "Terrific!" when asked, "How are you?" Other advice included filling out goal planners and a creative ideas manual.
Foreman's gospel and that of his competitor, Zig Ziglar (referred to as the "most fantastic man outside of God" by a loyal follower), earned both men millions.
Puzzled by the simplicity of the seminars, Safer asked whether Foreman was stating the obvious when he preached "life is for laughing, loving, and living."
"Well, it might be the obvious, but very few people, in fact, in life practice it," Foreman told Safer. "A positive mental attitude and action plus a specific, identifiable, written goal equals supper on the table, equals health, wealth and happiness."
These days?
A) Be a crony
B) Tow the liberal party line, or else its firing time.
you didn't build that, your work is plundered [either by the company or the government stealing your wages], and all your effort yields naught but scorn.
It's Toe the line
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Stand corrected. Thanks “”
A positive attitude coupled with the energy of enthusiasm is what won WWII and wins in everyday business.
If you have that and good Christian values, you cannot lose.
“Some advice was as simple as answering, “Terrific!” when asked”
I always answer “marvelous” or “fantastic” or “fan-dam taskic”.
I really do believe that attitude makes up 90% of our reality and our world...
I’ve wondered since Zig Ziglar died - did Obama’s re-election kill him? He was over 80, but he seemed very healthy. I am very familiar with Zig’s work, and the America where that worked, is not the America today.
To be enthusiastic you must act enthusiastic!
Frankly, it would be far harder to *tow* the liberal party line. Gotta be a drag...
A) Be a crony
B) Tow the liberal party line, or else its firing time.
C. Don't be too White
D. Don't dare be too seasoned (Old, you will be too experienced to hire)
Heh.The beatings will continue until morale improves.
and the advice just choose to be outgoing
to people with social anxiety.
Zig was slowing down, but he especially wouldn’t let the disaster known as Obama get him down. Everytime I saw him it was:
Hi/how you doing, Zig?
Better than good
That was a Terrific article!
Some Brainy Quotes:
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
You need not be the best at a given task, but if you had a good enthusiastic attitude and tried your best, you were on your way to a promotion.
In way too many commands, the way to the top was knowing when and what to kiss.
Well I only have a theory. Zig was positive, but it was not a phony positivity. It was based on the truth of our great free enterprise system, and how “you can get what you want by helping enough other people get what they want.” He was a big risk reward type guy.
He had to see that the new model was cronyism, and that successful entrepreneurs are being punished and vilified - undermining the very free enterprise system and the very America upon which Zig built his entire motivational template.
I don’t know how he felt about political issues as he was such a positive guy, he would not let on (publicly at least) on the corruption and problems we have
I think he was more of a Will Rogers type, though less political in his jokes and speeches. Humor all around. He was also a VERY devout Christian. Both he and “The Redhead” (his wife)
He was a staunch conservative. He was not overtly political - for business reasons - but his message was based on the conservative principles of devout Biblical Christianity and faith, and the free enterprise system operating as intended in the American experiment.
HIs positivity was based on certain fundamentals, and many of those fundamentals are no longer true in America. I suspect he knew this.
Agree on all parts. He was quite the guy
And to be fair, I may be projecting. Zig’s teachings - and I was first exposed to them in about 80 or 81 - greatly impacted me. I still quote him from time to time, off memory.
However, in the past 5-6 years, I have not been able to really embrace them. I have an over active truth meter - and the foundations upon which Zig based his message are no longer what they’ve essentially been for many decades. I just was not able to over look that. Maybe that’s a weakness of mine, maybe a strength. Maybe both. But it’s who I am.
Just struck me he did shortly after Obama re-elected. At any rate, his eternity is secure, and Obama’s America no longer bothers Zig. I would say RIP, but I know he is.
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