Larry Hochman

Breaking Barriers, Having Fun, Achieving Success

Promoting Success: Ice Cream In A Hat

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Can success be as simple as ice cream in a hat?

This was one of the best days ever…which would have been even better if the Mets had won the game.

Game Four of the 2015 World Series. The major part of my 50th Birthday present from my wife. Two tickets to Game Four.

There really wasn’t any serious thought about who would be going with me.

Had to be that girl right there.

Jillian and I have been baseball pals ever since I coached her nine year old softball team. We still go to games once in a while, even though we’re several hours from Citi Field. (Closer to Yankee Stadium, but ya know…that’s the Yankees!)

She’s interested in the games, and she loves a bunch of the players.

But what she really loves is, you guessed it…

Ice Cream In A Hat.

I really don’t know how she got fascinated with the idea of it. Probably just the novelty of it.

But it’s a thing we do together…one of many.

And it obviously means a lot to her. Just like little things mean a lot to me.

And just like little things mean a lot to you.

And if you’re in any kind of business or sales, just like little things mean a lot to your prospects.

Right this minute, people are banging out sales copy that promises home business success, a certain income level a month, leads, followers, etc.

That’s all well and good. There are lots of people who are looking for those very things.

But there are very few people who are asking people what they want.

And there are even fewer who are listening to the answers.

No, I don’t think home business is supposed to be a social welfare program. It’s supposed to be about creating income…either to supplement an already existing paycheck, or break free from the need for a job…or anything in between.

But I do think that when we ask the right questions, when we find out what’s important to people, they start to gain trust.

We figure out what their “ice cream in a hat” is. Their definition of success.

And give them a path to work for it.

Be that kind of home business builder, and leader.

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YOUR TURN

What is your “ice cream in a hat?”

Are there people who have helped you get it?

Have you been that person for someone else?

Comment below. Like, share and Tweet above. Someone is waiting for their ice cream in a hat!

Seeking Playmates!

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I love “old folks.”

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Much of the people in my life are “old folks.”

I don’t mean their actual age.

I mean how long they’ve been around.

As customers, clients, friends, gym buddies, etc.

But the world is a big place.

There are always lots of new and great experiences to have.

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So as much as I love old folks, I always seek out new blood.

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New playmates.

In the true sense of the word. People to play with.

Have adventures with.

And that can take the form of people who invest in my products or services.

New energy. New struggles. New challenges.

And of course, new triumphs.

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So I’m calling out to new playmates.

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Maybe you’re one of them.

Come throw down!

Because we play hard while we work hard.

And we achieve hard.

And if you’re one of the “old folks,” I have good news.

You can easily shift around your energy, your intentions, your commitment…

You can easily become one of the new playmates.

No matter how long you’ve been around!

YOUR TURN!

For real! I want you as one of my new playmates!

If you’re new to this blog, sign up with the form on the right side of this page.

I’ll make it worth your while. 😉

 

Who Is Sneaking Up On You?

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My baby girl graduated from college exactly one week ago from the date I’m posting this.

Jill always played bigger than her age, so a lot of the occasions of her life didn’t hit me all that hard.

First prom? no big deal.

High school graduation? No big deal.

College graduation… That got me.

It’s not because she changed so drastically. The changes were gradual, little bit by little bit.

It wasn’t her sitting down with a glass of wine, or even for telling us how she was looking forward to getting back to her place and having a glass of wine or two to mellow out.

It was other things: how she talked with her grandparents how she conducts herself around strangers. How she makes the thousands of little decisions each day that decide who and what we are.

Yep, she snuck up on me. My little girl is all grown up.

So my question of the day …

Who is sneaking up on you?

And even better: who would you like to sneak up on?

The people in your life see you a certain way. Family friends, online acquaintances, your list, if you are a marketer. They all expect certain things.

If you’ve been flaky, that’s what they expect. If you’ve been a reliable source of help, that’s what they expect.

And from personal experience, there’s nothing better than confounding someone’s expectations of you.

Someone thinks you don’t have money, then you pick up the check at a very nice dinner.

Or someone expects you to be late with your bills again, only to find you’re three days early.

Or a really nice piece of jewelry or airplane tickets show up unexpectedly.

Or you show up at a quarterly meeting 40 pounds lighter than the last time in with a definite spring in your step.

For some of us, it really is that we want to sneak up on the other person. To give them an “I told you so!”

But for most of us it’s the sense of well-being, abundance, security and pride in ourselves that drives us.

And if you’re still trying to do it to show the other guy, you’re going to need to transition to a healthier place in order to truly get what you want…and keep it.

 

YOUR TURN

Who has snuck up on you? Who confounded your expectations in a really good way?

Have you snuck up on anyone?

Comment below. Like, share and Tweet above? Sneak up on someone!

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One Simple Way To Lose Weight

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Well, if you’ve been sticking around the goings on at NMHB, you know it’s been all about the soon to launch T3 Method: Total Transition Training.

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Two weeks from now, many people are going to make it their mission to lose weight.

 

.Some even call is a “resolution” of some sort. 😉

And many of them will start with beating themselves up for all the overeating they did in the weeks leading up to January. They’ll grit their teeth, dig in and pass by the Christmas leftovers in the fridge. They may even get that gym membership…or use the one they’ve had for the past couple of years (as soon as they remember how to get to the gym).

That would be fine, if there wasn’t a 6000 percent failure rate on that kind of New Year’s Resolution.

Anyone up for trying something that is sure to work better…and be a lot more fun?

Good.

Here’s one solution.

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Laugh more.

Physiologically, it’s a really good idea to laugh. Endorphins, the happy, joyful painkiller chemicals get released when you laugh. Those by themselves are worth the price of admission!

There have also been many studies that show laughter boosts the immune system and is excellent for the cardiovascular system.

But laughter also releases tension.  And if you scroll up a few paragraphs, you’ll see that many people are holding a LOT of tension around their weight and health.

Let’s take that a step further. Excess weight is often held as a defense against other things.  Physical ailments, mental, emotional and spiritual pain. Our bodies are ingenious in the way they protect themselves.

Except when they aren’t. When it’s time to fix the problem, rather than protect with something that makes us feel badly and hurts our quality of life…like obesity.

When we laugh, we release pain. We find release from tension. We often share our laughter with others, so we create friendships and bonding.

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Laughter opens up the doors to healing, to bravery, to courage.

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To facing the things that hurt. In our bodies, or our spirits, or our relationships, or our checking accounts…wherever the pain is.

And making them better. And making ourselves better.

Because gosh darn it…you are worth it!

Will laughing more solve all our weight loss issues? Of course not.

But it will make it that much easier to walk to path to solving them in the smart ways we already know work.

And we’ll enjoy the journey that much more.

And usually take it together.

Scroll up to the top of this post. There’s a good start on your laughing journey!

YOUR TURN…

Have you been able to find humor in your struggles? With weight, or anything else?

Have you found a community that works together, plays together and laughs together?

Comment below. Share your experiences. Like, share and tweet!

 

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Your Real, Nonvirtual Life

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That’s correct.

That is not a pipe.

That’s a drawing of a pipe, right?

Wrong.

It’s an image of a drawing of a pipe, projected onto the screen of whatever device you’re using to read this blog post.

Three degrees of separation from an actual pipe.

It’s just as well. A pipe is something you really don’t need in your life.

I’m not sure what the original intent of that drawing was. It was hanging in the doorway of a high school classroom. Maybe it’s from a novel. Or maybe it’s an art project.

My interpretation of it is someone trying to say the symbols we use for our lives are not the lives themselves.

And the things we do to try to substitute the symbols won’t give us the same satisfaction as the actual things.

That “pipe” will never produce smoke, or the smell of tobacco. It will also never stain anyone’s teeth or contribute to anyone getting cancer. So that’s a good thing.

But if that were a magnificent meal, we wouldn’t eat it.  We wouldn’t have the memories of the taste, or the opportunity to tell our friends about the restaurant we got it from.

If it were a beautiful man or woman, we wouldn’t gaze into that person’s eyes and have them gaze back. They wouldn’t hold our hand. We wouldn’t build a life around them.

You see where I’m going with this…

Too many of us live virtual lives. We play with the symbols, the trappings, the trinkets. We experience the adrenaline rush the products of today are marketed to elicit from us. The vibration in our pocket. The “likes” and “follows” that are a poor substitute for connection.

At the moment I’m part of the leadership of two groups: The #GuruCode and The iii Method For Ultimate Health.

Both require you to watch online, as either part of a video hangout or on a phone line or Skype set up.

And both have recorded videos for you to watch.

And both have clear and precise goals…one for you to become a business leader, with the followers and cash flow that go along with it; the other for you to lose weight, get stronger and healthier and function better on every level.

There is no doing those things by just playing with the symbols of our early 21st century existence.

There’s no Wi, or no program that gets you healthier, or gives you more influence.

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You have to execute.

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You have to do stuff.

You have to reach out across the digital divide.

You have to get up off the couch.

You have to stop reading the self-help book as if it’s a novel, happening to someone else in the third person, and let every piece of it in….starting from the beginning.

You have to stop watching the hangout you paid to be on, or at least invested your time in, as if it’s entertainment. If it’s quality, then it holds the secret to being it, not just watching others be it.

That is not a pipe.

That is someone’s idea of a pipe, transmitted into your senses.

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You’re buying it hook, line and sinker…because you don’t have enough curiosity, commitment and sense of self-worth to get your own…

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Or you’re an active player in your own life. You’re making your own pipe…or whatever else you’d like to make.

And you’re living in the first person, committed, connected and on purpose.

YOUR TURN

Touch something or someone today in a way you would normally have technology do for you.

Reach out across the digital divide and do the deal!

See if you don’t feel just a little bigger afterward!

Share it. Comment below and let us know what you did…and what you felt.

 

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