A Little Help from Your Friends: Tap Into the Hidden Potential of the People Around You

re: A Little Help from Your Friends: Tap Into the Hidden Potential of the People Around You

Vegan Rose — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:22:33 GMT

You're right there! We neglect the learning that we can gather from the people closest to us because they've been around us for so long that we take them for granted. If you look closely enough, you'd find that most of your friends have helped you turn your life around just by experiencing life together.

re: A Little Help from Your Friends: Tap Into the Hidden Potential of the People Around You

Swiftchariot — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:36:47 GMT

Appreciate your quote Duparc. On my days off from work, I learned that those days when I really relax are the simple days of just taking note of everything around me on a very slow delayed ..scale. The things around me I refer to are those daily activities that take place in God's creation, that have been in action long before me and will continue after me.They are free and cost only the time it takes to observe them, but yet awesome in magnificance while at the same time exact in precision,like the habits of an insect and the setting of the sun.

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Salud — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:00:32 GMT

This is true, I am always learning from my friends, and I hope they learn from me too, because I am a teacher... I've got friends in all areas of expertise, so I never needed to go to a stranger for advice or help. But there are two main ways of learning from friends: one is just watching them or following their example, I take this for free. The second one is through real service or professional advice, and for this I like to pay them, because it's their job and as a friend I should be the first to value it and understand that they need to make a living too. When they refuse my payment I tell them - "Please accept it because otherwise I couldn't come to you next time but would need to go to your competitor and pay them more than I'm paying you." So, they accept and both of us are happy.

re: A Little Help from Your Friends: Tap Into the Hidden Potential of the People Around You

Duparc — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:07:15 GMT

Note Taking Nerd, Checked the site you mentioned but not impressed. The site surely is designed for those who feel inadequate or in some way emotionally wounded and still hurt but, some of us are comfortable with our lot and are happy watching the parade as it passes by. May I take the liberty of quoting the following from a fellow life-traveller:

What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs,

And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,

Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,

And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can

Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare.

Leisure by W. H. Davies

re: A Little Help from Your Friends: Tap Into the Hidden Potential of the People Around You

Duparc — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:25:00 GMT

What about the wealthy criminals who are never caught or the womanizers whom woman love; what skills could a guy learn from them? As a tax paying monogynous husband, I can dream, can't I?

re: A Little Help from Your Friends: Tap Into the Hidden Potential of the People Around You

Note Taking Nerd — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:24:22 GMT

"We Are the Sum Total of the Five People We Spend The Most Time With." Jim Rohn - Business Philosopher

I love this quote. In thinking about this post it made me ask "What if the 5 people I spend the most time with don't have the traits named above?"

If no one around you personifies a trait you'd like to develop you might want to consider pursuing a hobby you've been scared to.

A hobby that involves other people. A hobby in which people with the same interests as you get together and enjoy each others company.

Some people (myself included) are not natural social lites. But haven't you ever struck up a conversation with some random person and found out they had a similar interest you did which triggered an awesome conversation? Maybe even a friendship.

This happens naturally when you pursue hobbies that genuinely meet your core desires.

Try this. I seen it work magic in my life. Maybe it will for you too.

Note Taking Nerd #2
http://www.mynotetakingnerd.wordpress.com