Greetings All!

I’m not big on LONG HEADLINES - however I am a sucker for any resourceful question. I’m sure each of you has stopped everything you are doing to contemplate the answer to today’s post’s headline. Hopefully I’ll remember to give you the answer somewhere in this post!

First off I just want to say thank you to Koorosh Vahabi for sending his first copy of The Million Dollar Secret That Lies Hidden Within Your Mind. You can find his material at http://www.hiddenmindsecrets.com. I’ve not yet had a chance to read the book, but I was quite honored to receive his first copy. I only know Korrosh through the internet, we’ve never spoken or colluded on any business project. Congratulations again Koorosh. Koorosh’s timing with his gift was quite synchronistic (can you figure out the answer to the headline yet?)

I can’t say too much about this next topic (today) so I’ll just touch upon it. I’ve been contributing to a product that is about dealing with fear. Yesterday I participated in some audio material. This product isn’t my idea though I was grateful to have my attention drawn toward it and to have to use my varied skill sets to engineer some solutions that have to do with dealing with fear. An hour after I was done - I took action to face the greatest fear I’ve been juggling with for nearly a year now. As I said in the work I contributed to yesterday - you have to move from your head to your body and take action to escape the paralyzing prison. Of course today I have some resourceful questions. How do we negotiate our way into fear? How do we negotiate our way out? Who are we negotiating with when we do either?

Finally - I want to thank Amy Grant (http://www.newsuccess.org/success/success_blog/index.html). Amy gave me some one-on-one coaching in February of this year. The coaching was part of a seminar we both attended. She was a contributor. She asked me a very powerful and resourceful question about what I REALLY want. The answer was quite specific with middle of June deadline that I created. (Can you guess the answer to the headline yet?) I didn’t hit my specific mark on the answer I gave her, however I must say from the deepest pit of my skeptical self that her work has paid off! Suzanne and I signed the paperwork last weekend to move into a home that is nearly double the floor space of what we are living in currently. My wife is so excited about the move that we don’t sleep much at night (we went to bed at midnight last night and fell asleep after talking around 5am). Thank you Amy!!

In my headline I named Erin Murphy. She was the little girl that played Tabitha on the 60s-70s TV show Bewitched. She and I and all the other people listed in my headline were born on the same day - June 17th. Tomorrow is my birthday. Erin and I were born the same year as well. Barry Manilo (God I can’t believe I’m revealing this)was once my all-time favorite singer (5th grade). King Edward the I was also known as Longshanks. He was the King in the historical fiction Braveheart with Mel Gibson. The Scotsman that rallied the Scots in the end of the Movie was named Robert the Bruce - that is who I am named after. Venus Williams turned Pro the same year Suzanne and I were married. I have no known connection to Joe Piscopo except that I almost rented a 4 story house in New Jersey (where Joe is from) in the late 80s with 3 women that were all in love with me. Happy Birthday to all of you!

What would happen if everytime you opened your mouth you got what you wanted? Have you Negotiated to Your Own Best Good today? If you found any of this post interesting enough to comment on please feel free to do so below. If you’d like to know more about Negotiating or might be considering a serious study of Negotiations please find the signup for my newsletter and/or my apprenticeship program to the right of this post.

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Bruce Burns the Negotiator!