One of my favs. A little gift for you all.

[Glenn]

Thanks Gordon,

Tattoo Testimonial -

LOCATION -

Gas Station.

Girl has back to me. Has two Huge Tattoos on her back.

ONE looks like Cher.

So I Yell out - "EXCUSE ME!"

When She turns I said, "I Like Your CHER Tattoo!"

She looked Puzzled.

Then SMILES BIG.

Then said, "Thank you but that Tattoo is of "Mother Nature."

And she talked and Talked.

I listened.

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The Beauty of this is I don't have to Carry Anything.

Hmmmm

Just googled, "#1 Most Popular Tattoo for a Girl"

ANSWER - "Butterly"

At AMAZON.COM found "Temporary Butterly Tattoo Sheets"
with THOUSANDS of Positive Ratings.

Tear off a few and put them in my pocket.

(I have done marketing for Tattoo Artists. Discovered the Affluent ones do a first Tattoo for Free. Their AH HA? Tattoo's are Addictive! If they get one on you. People come back for many more.)

Not my cup of tea.

What if I changed my mind?

Glenn

https://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Tempo...015739&sr=8-23

[Glenn]

Thanks Mr G,

Turns out.

That Talking about yourself with NOBODY LISTENING also creates
Brain Chemicals.

Dopamine - Pleasure.

Isn't that a hoot?

Explains why my neighbors talk to their Dogs and Cats so much.

Often in a Baby Voice.

Yuck.

Thanks,
Glenn

P.S. - I think I will go outside and Talk to my tomato and Zucchini Plants.

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Glenn

Thanks Gordon,

Tattoo Testimonial -

LOCATION -

Gas Station.

Girl has back to me. Has two Huge Tattoos on her back.

ONE looks like Cher.

So I Yell out - "EXCUSE ME!"

When She turns I said, "I Like Your CHER Tattoo!"

She looked Puzzled.

Then SMILES BIG.

Then said, "Thank you but that Tattoo is of "Mother Nature."

And she talked and Talked.

I listened.

Hi Glenn,

Great example of complimenting someone's tattoo!

This triggered a memory...

To cut to the chase, many, many years ago - we're probably getting close to 30 years ago now - I read a book called "Intimate Connections" by David D. Burns.

David Burns is actually a psychiatrist, and he also wrote a much better known book about cognitive therapy for helping people with depression. That book is called "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy"...

But he also wrote this other book, which is less well known, called "Intimate Connections," which is about how to ask someone out on a date and have the beginnings of a good relationship.

I read this book a long time ago, but the main thing I remember from that book is the following...

One thing he advises you to do is to compliment people - honestly and authentically.

That is - find something you can honestly compliment about them...

Of course, when I saw your tattoo compliment, I thought - wow, that's an example!

Anyway, after I read that book 30-odd years ago, I started practicing it on my friends, male and female... I was still in university at the time. So I would just compliment them just for practice, only about things I could honestly compliment...

(I'm a very bad liar, so if I lied about the compliment, I feel people would be able to sense it! So I had to be able to find "real" compliments to be able to do it...)

I think if you look hard enough, you can find something to compliment in almost anybody...

For example, I might compliment one person on their sharp dress sense. I could compliment another on their quick wit, and another on their creative ideas. I could compliment another person on their kind-hearted nature, and another for their self-discipline...

Anyway, I practiced it, and it became second nature to me...

So nowadays, I find no problem if I want to find something I can honestly compliment about somebody. I think this ability has definitely opened doors...!

That leads to another thing I wanted to mention, which is a video I just saw a couple of days ago... I'll link to the video below, which is by a woman who works for a dating website.

She said she was in the park and a man came up to her and stayed eight feet away - so he gave her enough personal space. (Maybe that's even more important nowadays, in the "social distancing" era!)

She felt comfortable and non-threatened...

And he complimented her on something particular about her "energy" - rather than complimenting her on her clothing or her body...

...And she felt very comfortable about it!

(Meaning - it worked!)

I thought, wow...

This, again, reminds me of you, Glenn, because of course, I know part of your work is focused on people's energy and auras...

This is one type of compliment I've never actually done or even thought about - complimenting someone on their "energy" or their "aura"...

I just thought I'd throw that in there as another example of how one can use this...

This is powerful stuff. Very, very powerful stuff.

Thanks for sharing. I really, really value it... I don't think everyone realizes the value in it, but I see the value, and it's extremely valuable. Thanks!

Here's the link to the video I promised...

Dating expert shares the best pick-up line she's ever heard from a stranger
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-...-pick-24260351

Best wishes!

Dien

[Glenn]

Thanks Gordon,

One of my FAVORITE Mae West Strategies, that she Used, to PACK Theaters where she was preforming in a Play goes as follows....

She Wrote to a Cities local PERSON IN CHARGE of PUBLIC MORALS.

MEN ONLY.

Invited them to Lunch.

Respectfully Requested they TAKE A LOOK at the Script for the play She wanted to Perform in their city.

To Get Their Changes.

Suggestions.

Permission.

The Play She Read to The "Morals Censer" was BORING. Not very good.

#1 - Ms West Got their PERMISSION.

#2 - Got their Written OK.

#3 - Got the "Morals Censer" to write to the Theater owner. Chief of Police. Local
Church leaders. And Anyone Else who had CLOSED her show in other cities.

#4 - Even got some of them together for lunch - to show them her Play. (She
Did Not SHARE That she had bought the rights to that Play.)

THEN
DURING
HER Play when the SCREAMING STARTED...

RIOT POLICE showed up.

She pulled out her Written PERMITS.

And When The Police, Church Leaders and The Temperance League And ALL of the others RAN to the "Morals Censer."

The Censer would ask, "Is She Performing the Play She Showed us at Lunch?"

"YES - BUT...."

Censer - "Word for Word? She hasn't Added Anything?"

"NO - BUT..."

Censer - "Then go away. Stop wasting my time."

WHY
DID
THE
SCREAMING STAR?

WHAT The Censer DID NOT know is that Mae West Started doing skits in Brothels at age 16.

SMART as she was - She Figured out a way to Earn Money without Doing The Prostitution Gig.

Little by little - Ms West Got Better and Better at Changing the meaning of Almost
Any Line of Dialogue to something Flirty and even BLUE.

Years later...

With Edgar Bergen and His Puppet Charlie McCarthy -

COMMENTS Like the following got Mae West Banned from Radio by NBC for 10 years!

But Also Made Her RICH.

MAE WEST - “I thought we were going to have a nice long talk Tuesday night at
my apartment. Where did you go when the doorbell rang?”

CHARLIE McCARTHY - “Well, I tried to hide in your coat closet, but two guys kicked me out,”

Thanks,
Glenn

P.S. - Mae West Rewrote her Dialogue in her First Movie.

Bought the rights to novels and plays. Turned them into movies.

WROTE entire movies with W.C. Fields and others.

P.P.S. - Producer/Director Harold Ramos said he and Rodney Dangerfield stayed
up all night before his big scene. Rodney Rewrote all his Movie Dialogue for
"CaddyShack."

After that Rodney wrote or Co-wrote every movie he was in.