How to Make Yourself INSANELY Useful

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Rebecca Withey CMT — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:42:06 GMT

I have to agree completely with this article. I have been doing YouTube videos to the gastric bypass community on what I've learned through my journey as well as learning about holistic nutrition. People come to me now for advice as well as to lead them in the right direction for health and wellness post bariatric surgery. It feels GREAT to help other people!

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Beamie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:19:47 GMT

Darned if you do, darned if you don't.

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HGoldSilver — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:41:15 GMT

Samurai, you said:

'Hmmm... I have always been told that "your rate of pay is based upon how easily you are replaced." '

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LadyPam — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:57:52 GMT

Sadly, I have to disagree most people 'at the top' have not got there by outwitting people. Having worked in the high finance world of property (real estate) investment, let me share some knowledge.

Why do big, ugly buildings get built? The employees who work there could just as easily work in smaller-scale, simpler spaces, and their bosses need to rent space in them only to keep up with the competition and prove they can afford a 'prestige' address. In the case of 'owner-occupied' monoliths (e.g. a bank's head office) it's about prestige for the board members and their kickbacks for awarding contracts. The larger the project and the investment, the more opportunity there is for corruption and thus the greater the attraction.

I have worked for consultants and seen what they do. One meets another for lunch and bingo, they charge the project a consultancy fee equal to an average person's annual salary. They insist that the project rent fancy apartments for visiting experts, then covertly let these to friends and pocket the money, putting real experts in top hotels 'because they were only here for a couple of days'. They rent a villa in the South of France for a week, invite a few pals, come back raving about the wonderful trip and proceed to generate massive invoices for a brainstorming session.

One that I worked for charged a foreign investment bank a stupid amount per hour for looking after their interests locally, invoiced them for at least four times the number of hours he really worked for them, and made deals with all that bank's enemies, promising to approve their inflated costs in return for being paid as a consultant on THEIR projects.

Guess who pays for it all in the end? That's right.

All these people were positive alright, about their own abilities AND their rights to cheat everyone else. And we haven't even started on the top money and power in Big Pharma.

*sigh* Ok: I'm too cynical and I talk too much.

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saynotoquacks — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:05:15 GMT

Whenever I give advice to family members about health or pharmaceuticals that I learned from Dr. Mercola or elsewhere, they turn their heads and look out the window or attack me. I am only trying to be helpful. I love to share knowledge. But they don't want their illusions of modern medicine shattered. It's difficult to share the truth when you're not surrounded by like-minded people.

As a good listener I am the one everyone wants to talk to but no one wants to listen to. That is why I write!

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Dekalb — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:30:55 GMT

The last point should be the first - learn to say NO when you need to

... or prepare to be used like never before

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HGoldSilver — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:41:51 GMT

Samurai, I don't uinderstand whether the relationship you're suggesting is positive or negative.

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Artemus — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:52:07 GMT

Know when to stop!

I found this the most valid point in the extended article. As a helpful person I find it can sometimes be abused.

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qualitygeek — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:34:57 GMT

Periodically, I run across people who want to be the best expert in something hoarding knowledge & upon being recognized as that expert, they discover they are not promotable because they are not easly replaceable.

Knowledge is like manure & money - it should be spread wide & far to make what it gets dumped on to grow 'cause anything not growing is DYING or DEAD...

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Nathan210 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:29:30 GMT

People pay big money for those that make themselves insanely useful.

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Russ Bianchi — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:06:29 GMT

Kindness never goes out of style.

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samurai — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:02:11 GMT

Well, I have the first part right; I can make myself insane.