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I was driving from Florida to Toronto, a 2 day trip.
While driving, I got to make a LOT of phone calls, getting caught up on business, etc. One of the calls was to check and compare car insurance rates.
I spent 30 minutes with Sunny on the phone… she was great! I just about ALWAYS get great customer service; it’s easy… How? I treat them with respect, which they respond with in return.
The one single biggest tip?
Use their name! (We all love to hear the sound of our own name)
I don’t do it to get great customer service, I do it because it feels good. The great service is a byproduct.
So anyway, I pulled over (a unique situation) and filmed this inspired video… inspired by the love I felt after such an affirming conversation.
(See below for upcoming workshops, teleseminars and trips)
Upcoming Teleseminar “Prosperity, Passion & Purpose” March 17, 24, 31st
Celebrating Your Body’s YES! Toronto, March 20th
Swimming with Wild Dolphins! Bimini, Bahamas. Next trip May 5 – 9, 2010
Tags: customer service, great service, respect
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The fresher, the better…
The closer to the source, the more vitality, the more enzymes, vitamins, etc…
Straight from the tree is as good as it gets!!! Hence this inspiration…
I was in Bimini, helping my friend Kevin put a roof atop his new bungalow… there was a coconut tree right above my head, with some fresh ripe juicy coconuts… inspiration struck!
Tags: bimini, coconut, fresh, juice, machete, palm, raw, tree
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I know a woman who pets her cats while she watches the news… the two of them are balancing out all the negativity with the love that they share…
My friend Rob says that God put Dogs here to make sure someone is always holding a focus of love…
Pets are so unconditionally loving; they are saints in drag! “Dear God, make me the person my dog knows I am!”
Want to feel some lovin’? Tune into Kitty, aka ‘Princess’, and get a dose of her love…
Here’s one of the comments posted on YouTube:
“I was just sitting here, with my 3 cats, and thinking about the love and peace that I get from my cats. Then I opened my email and there was a link to this wonderful video. Thanks Joe, I have often equated the love of cats as the key to World Peace. :)”
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We’ve taken one of the most intelligent animals on the planet and confined them to a tiny pool, commanding them to do our tricks on our schedule.
I swam with a pod of captive dolphins once. It was one of the nicest setups, but it was still confinement. That’s why I bring people to swim with wild dolphins and whales – there is no comparison.
Dawn, the trainer at SeaWorld, was the third person that Tilikum, the orca, has killed. I imagine he is a bit crazy living in such confinement. I’ve asked myself; what would he say about what he has done?
The answer was simple, loud and clear….
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I went to Bimini to bask in the ocean…
It is so rich, so vitally alive!!! I come alive when I see that amazing water; so clean, fresh and blue…
I ask the ocean to feed me, this fish swam right up to me! (This is not another fish story!)
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I love coconuts and I love smoothies…
I started making smoothies for breakfast 25 years ago, when I was a carpenter working construction. In midwinter in freezing below weather, I’d heat up fresh apple cider, add bee pollen, brewers yeast, lecithin and a banana. I’d drink it while the other guys had coffee.
They’d bust my chops about what I was drinking (I was a bit of an anomaly to them in many ways) so I told them the smoothie contained turtle food for protein. They believed it!
Anyways, over the years, my taste has changed… a lot! Living in the Bahamas and Florida, I have access to lots of fresh coconuts…. I love them! Here’s my current ‘ultimate’ ZOOM smoothie!!!
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Tilikum, a 12,000 lb Orca, killed a trainer in SeaWorld yesterday… she’s the third person he’s killed.
There is no known record of killer whales killing someone in the wild.
I’ve been leading trips to swim with wild dolphins and whales for 15 years. I’ve never seen a dolphin or a whale injur anyone in the wild (I wouldn’t bring people swim with them if they did!).
SeaWorld is protecting their assets; reporting things like “This has never happened before” and “He grabbed her pony tail by mistake”… Yuck… See the movie “The Cove’, and you’ll know how much money having captive cetaceans is…
As humans, we give meanings to things. Something happens, like a trainer being killed by a whale, and our brain wants to give a meaning to it.
What meaning do we give this???
One definition of mastery is being deliberate about the meaning we give things…
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Trees are AMAZING!!! They give so much…
I love trees, started climbing them as a kid. We climbed apple trees, maple trees, pine trees… If it had branches we could reach, up we climbed! I’m still climbing trees – my appreciation for them grows…
Food, shelter, warmth… and then there’s what trees give us ENERGETICALLY…
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It started out as a ‘Tower of Doom’… a blight on the horizon!
Concrete and steel, visible from miles around, a monument of corporate agri-business (at least in my mind)
Then I had an epiphany, a change of heart…
Tags: abundance, blessing, corn, grain silo, seeds, soybeans, temple, temple of abundance
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I was feeling crappy a couple of days ago – my joints ached and my back hurt; typical virus symptoms.
Started telling myself a story about it… “Where did I get this? Why did I get it? This is a drag… This could last for days…”
The mind’s totally predictable dialog only adds fuel to the fire… so I turned the channel!
Every time I found myself thinking about ‘my illness’, I focused on something else. Primarily, assisting others, taking a walk; things I love to do. I got out of the way, let my body do what it knows how to do. It felt great!