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And The Winner Is....

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Channel: Damon Cart NLP · 2016 · People & Blogs

Last week I asked people to send by email or video their inspiring NLP story.

The person who sent the most inspiring story, decided by three judges, would win free admission to any NLP Gym workshop.

We have a winner!

But before I announce the winner; I'm reminded of a story Tim Ferris wrote about in his book The Four Hour Work Week.

Ferris gave a talk to a class and at the end of the talk he proposed a challenge to all of them to reach out to a celebrity and either get them on the phone or even better, meet the celebrity face to face and ask them a question.

The winner would get a prize worth thousands of dollars provided by Ferris.

No one even attempted it so no one got the prize.

Ferris was disappointed. Had one person attempted it and had they not even succeeded but turned in a report of what they had done, by default Ferris would have given them the prize.

He was trying to teach the students to try something that seemed impossible even if they would likely fail. What they would learn in the process was more important than succeeding. It's likely though that everyone who tried would have gotten closer than they thought.

Ferris went back to the class and asked them why no one had even tried. Their response was that they thought they wouldn't win, so why even try?

This was not the case for my contest. Like I mentioned, we do have a winner. However, only one person took me up on the challenge so by default he won because he had no competition.

This in no way takes anything away from his inspiring story and in a way makes it even more inspiring because he was the only one who tried.

I don't know that my contest suffered from the same issue Ferris' did. Perhaps people didn't respond for other reasons. I would be happy to hear your feedback and I would also still like to hear or read your inspiring NLP story.

I write and post videos of my story a lot. Sometimes though it's not always so inspiring. Hearing other peoples' stories fuels my own inspiration and sharing with each other helps to build community.

Congratulations Hector Diaz! And thank you for posting your inspiring story. I really do appreciate it.

You get a free workshop for sharing! You deserve it.

Take Care,
Damon Cart
NLP Gym

P.S. There's still time to take advantage of the Memorial Day Special. Anyone signing up for Dr. Sid Jacobson's Hypnosis Workshop over the Memorial Day weekend will get free online NLP training worth $450. This is not a contest. Just for signing up, you get the online training for free!

And The Winner Is....

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