| There's something new you'd like to try. But you're | | | | Training for the life of [the spirit/sales/relating to others] |
| scared to do it because you might make a fool of | | | | is no different. The transformation facing the untrained |
| yourself, or heaven forbid, people will belittle you and | | | | is neither smaller than the elephant's nor less |
| you'll know you should never have tried it in the first | | | | demanding. Without visible evidence that success is |
| place. And you don't have a 5-hour block of quiet time | | | | possible, without a continuous transfusion of courage, |
| to study it. So on the back burner it goes. | | | | discouragement is bound to set in..." -Huston Smith, |
| But somewhere inside, you DO want to try it even | | | | Buddhism |
| though it makes you a little nervous. Time for the | | | | Isn't that why Jesus told his disciples to go tell the |
| elephant method. | | | | story, and to Go 2 by two to do it? |
| Have you heard of it? | | | | Is anyone still doing that in network marketing today? |
| "When a wild elephant is to be tamed and trained, the | | | | Tell your experience. |
| best way to begin is by yoking it to one that has | | | | P.S. We have run cadaver calling sessions in teams |
| already been through the process. By contact, the wild | | | | for years. In last week's New School class, a whole |
| one comes to see that the condition it is being led | | | | group did it in pairs. Teaming up is the only reason |
| toward is not wholly incompatible with being an | | | | most of them did it at all. One gal couldn't eat or sleep |
| elephant - that what is expected of it does not | | | | all week in anticipation of this dreaded activity. We |
| contradict its nature categorially, but heralds a condition | | | | paired her with someone who went first, and our gal |
| that, though startlingly different, is viable. | | | | listened to 5-7 calls first. Then she got HER nerve up, |
| The author then adds the best known way to survive | | | | did it many times, and now she's offering to help |
| this process of evolving: | | | | others in the class make calls in case they're as |
| "The constant, immediate, and contagious example of | | | | scared as she was before... |
| its yoke fellow can teach it as nothing else can. | | | | |