do you want to be the best rec therapist?

Do you want to be the best Rec Therapist?

Chris Widener had written an article for success.com titled “12 characteristics of people who are the best at what they do.” Read the article and see how many of the 12 characteristics you have:

http://www.success.com/article/12-characteristics-of-people-who-are-the-best-at-what-they-do

Bill Gates secret to success

Bill Gates is wealthy and successful.

He had one trait that successful people seem to have in common.

What is that trait?

Discover the secret at this business insider  link:

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-habit-common-among-successful-people-2016-1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29&utm_content=FaceBook

Power of forgiving.

CBN News featured on article reading how there are major health consequences for people who are not able to forgive and let go.

I (Danny Pettry) featured, forgiving, in my book, Building Character with Sam an Izzy: 15 Tips to help children build character, as a friendship tool. I believe people who aren’t able to forgive will have a difficult time making and keeping friends. Example: if I didn’t forgive for any minor offense (on purpose or by accident) then there wouldn’t be any friends left for me. Forget about me forgiving them. I’m just grateful my friends have forgiven me. I strive to be the best person I can be, but I have let others down.

Here is the article (it features a video) 

http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2015/June/The-Deadly-Consequences-of-Unforgiveness 

Some thoughts on life

A Book Review of Ask, Part I by Ryan Levesque

Levesque, R. (2015). Ask: The counterintuitive online formula to discover exactly what your customers want to buy ... create a mass of raving fans ... and take any business to the next level. United States: Dunham Publishing Group.

            

                Ryan Levesque Ask book was first presented to me on the internet. I think I paid shipping to get a free copy of the book. I purchased it because it promised to help with business. As a small-business owner, I am always looking for books that help with business. Oddly enough, I received two copies of the book. I’ve had them on my shelf for a while, but decided to pick it up and start reading it tonight (January 24, 2016).

                Part I of this book is a self-written autobiography by Rayn Levesque. He discusses his life aspirations and how he came to discover and put together his famous “Ask-technique.” This technique isn’t revealed until part 2, (which I haven’t read at this time).

                                Neuroscience is something I don’t know anything about. I had posted a blog entry at my Rec Therapy Today blog earlier today [on Sunday, January 24, 2016] regarding 13 books that Neuroscientist Sam Harris recommends for people to read. I didn’t recognize any of the books recommended. The post did mention and suggest the Tim Ferris Show.  Ironically, The Four-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss is pointed out as a book that he had read while in China.

               

                Levesque  discusses how he studied neuroscience at Brown University because he was originally planning on becoming a doctor. He didn’t take that path. He makes a reference to the sour grapes fable, where the fox who is not able to reach the delicious grapes, decides to call them sour and pretend he didn’t really want them.

                

               Self-determination is also discussed in his book. Levesque posts a self-reflection question in his that is strikingly similar to the one Daniel Pink asked in his (2009) book, Drive. He has a choice to select a high salary ($120,000) or take a third of that salary ($42,000 with no bonuses) but have a very intrinsically rewarding career.  Levesque takes the path less taken and goes for the personally fulfilling career.

                

            Law of Attraction (LOA) experts argue that you attract and bring into your life whatever you think about most. Levesque doesn’t discuss LOA, however, he appears to have implied in his chapter on “an unexpected twist,” where he receives a message about an opportunity at the right time.

                

              Levesque includes a long letter that he had written to his mother. The letter consists of goal to makea lot of money from a business concept. He discusses several of his personal qualities that gives him faith that he can make it happen.

These qualities consisted of:

• ·         Goal-setting
• ·         Hard-work: to learn more
• ·         Taking courses: to learn more information
• ·         Persistent: keeping at it and improving

                He appears to be self-validating of his own accomplishments when addressing this letter to his mother. He appears to be seeking her validation as well and yet determined to go for his dream of making money without any validation from others.

                Levesque appears to have always had an interest in business, marketing, and copywriting from an early age.  He shared how he had studied copywriting from Gary Halbert Letters.

Part 2 (The techniques) will be covered in the next Rec Therapy Today blog entry.

Bibliography

Levesque, R. (2015). Ask: The counterintuitive online formula to discover exactly what your customers want to buy ... create a mass of raving fans ... and take any business to the next level. United States: Dunham Publishing Group.

Pink, D. (2009). Drive

Bat Man helps kids in need.

I (Danny Pettry) provide services for children at a psychiatric residential treatment facility (part of a larger hospital system) in West Virginia for children and adolescents with various needs.

The Heroes for Higher BatMan is from the Huntington, West Virginia area.

BatMan has been coming to see our children once a month to talk about character lessons for over a year. Some of his talks are on: responsibility, teamwork, fairness, forgiving, and other traits. These traits are a lot like my children's book, Building Character.

Here are some picture of BatMan that were taken by our unit social worker, Annie Lane

 

You may have heard that the Baltimore BatMan had been killed in an automobile accident. That Baltimore BatMan was on his way back home after talking to some kids in West Virginia.

The Huntington (Heroes for Higher) BatMan had told us that he was going to cover all of the Baltimore BatMan’s visits to Children Hospitals and other events.

The story made it to the Real Stan Lee blog that you can read here:

http://www.therealstanlee.com/when-one-batman-couldnt-fulfill-his-promise-another-batman-stepped-in-to-save-the-day/?utm_content=buffer90905&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer