Greetings Negotiators!

Although I am passionate about my Negotiating material, insights, strategies, etc., I do my best to shy away from controversial topics for my blog. I differentiate between controversial and sensational. Sensational draws clicks to my site, gets peoples’ voyeuristic side engaged and is a great marketing tool. Controversial on the other hand usually divides the readers literally in two, which is to say – those who agree and those who disagree.

Today, I wish to share my insights and experience with the seldom-thought-of, greatly devalued resource that is in my opinion THE resource of all the resources a Negotiator has available. The reason that I share this with you today is that I would use my blog to inspire and compel any of you who read it to find any way you can to preserve this resource. Before I tell you what the resource is, I want you to see the following:

 

I suspect by now you are clear on the resource I am referring too. I’ve seen this video about 8 times now and I would think after a few times of watching it I might become numb to the reality that video represents. Fortunately that is not so. The intense passion and the depth of the seriousness that I feel for being free and being able to express myself freely does not chill so easily as I feared.

I’m neither for nor against John Kerry, I have no idea what he was speaking about. I know though if I was someone who won the presidential vote even if I lost the election and I cared about freedom of speech – I would never allow local police to arrest anyone for asking me a question – no matter how much I might hate that question.

One form of speech inhibiting that occurs in our society today, especially in the U.S. is the Matrix-esque political correctness. The whole idea that you are “not supposed to say that” reflects how far the average citizen has been mislead by the mega-conglomerate mass-media and their owners. The mere fact that the police were standing right behind the microphone for the question and answer session suggest to me that the whole production was done with the repression of freedom of speech in mind.

If you ever find yourself in a situation similar to this – my advice to you is to challenge the information. You ask as many resourceful questions as you can possibly think of. Challenge everything they do if it’s about inhibiting your right to speak. Regardless of the “investigations” or even potential trial outcomes that might occur as a result of this event between the social dissenting college student and a should-have-been president – those cops were breaking many laws. The fat white one even had the mindless pride to look up and smile right in the camera. If our children who we send to college to learn more about life and the world might be arrested for asking the wrong questions – where have we come to?

In almost every case when someone lies – it is because the challenge to their information is so strong that they are afraid of the truth. The truth being in most peoples minds a relative thing is the most accurate portrayal of any person’s right-minded understanding of whatever context is being challenged. Are you afraid to ask hard questions? Are you afraid of being asked hard questions? If you are afraid then challenge your own information! Discover the source of your fear and Negotiate to Your Own Best Good in order to transcend it.

I encourage responses to today’s video and my take on it. You are as always welcome to challenge the information! You can leave a comment or send an email directly to me at justask@yourownbestgood.com. You may also sign up for my newsletter and receive the FREE NEGOTIATORS CHECKLIST on the top right-hand side of my site.

What would you be willing to learn now if every time you opened your mouth, you got exactly what you asked for?

Bruce Burns the Negotiator!