Bruce Turkel’s Blog
ChatGPT and Synthetic Media Created This Post.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve been hearing a lot about ChatGPT and synthetic media lately. I decided to see if ChatGPT could write this blog for me, and if synthetic media could create my video. To do this I logged in and asked ChatGPT to write a 700-word blog post about using ChatGPT to write blog posts. Here’s what it returned. Please remember I did not write or shoot this, it’s all AI
How to Increase Your Value.
Oscar Wilde wrote “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Because we can’t count on others for this, it is our job to be scrupulous about the choices we make about how we’re going to spend our time, whom we’re going to spend it working for, and what we’re going to charge for that work. Simply put, to increase your value you must know your value.
Your Function is Cost of Entry
All companies have to offer some degree of function, or they wouldn’t be in business. But your function is cost of entry. And after the generic requirement of function has been met, it becomes the “What’s in it For Me?” factor that makes the difference, makes the sale, and makes your day.
What this means to you is that it’s time for a sober, gimlet-eyed look at your business’ messaging to make sure you’re not simply listing your features or cataloging your benefits but instead are making a clear and concise argument for how you make your customers’ lives better.
Is it True That Practice Makes Perfect?
Is it True That Practice Makes Perfect? The key to mastery is to develop the various talents that are an intrinsic component of who you already are, so that not only isn’t practice something you HAVE to do or even something that you WANT to do, but something that you do without planning to do it or even think about it. You do it because it’s a part of who you are. The saying in Spanish is “eso le nace,” meaning “it comes from within you” or literally, “it’s born in you.” Accomplish this, and practice makes perfect.
Smile
Charlie Chaplin’s best-known song, Smile, distills his positive outlook on life into a simple but profound masterpiece. And even though it was written almost 80 years ago, its message seems truer and more necessary today than ever before.
“If you smile through your fear and sorrow,
Smile and maybe tomorrow,
You’ll see the sun come shining through, for you.”
Is Elon Musk Destroying Tesla’s Brand?
There are lots of reason why a company’s stock price can fluctuate. But what if it’s Tesla’s brand, and more specifically, how the CEO’s actions have affected that brand, that’s causing the drop in shareholder value? In other words, have Elon Musk’s actions on Twitter and off, affected Tesla’s brand, resulting in a 55% drop in shareholder value?
How Do You Prepare For The New Year?
How do you prepare for the new year? Preparing for the upcoming new year gives us all an opportunity to look back over where we’ve been and what we’ve done while we also look forward to where we’re going and how we’re going to get there.
Putting the UNITY in COMMUNITY.
It’s time to celebrate putting the unity in community. And so, on Tuesday, December 13 at one PM EST, we’re going to host a reunion. Everyone who’s joined us over the past couple years and found the tools, guidance, resources, encouragement and relationships they needed to pursue their goals is invited to get together and tell us all all about it.
Living for the Weekend – The 3Ps
I hate to preach, but if we’re just living for the weekend, we’re living for less than a third of our lives. I’m not one to spout that old-hackneyed saying “if you make a living doing something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” But I do think there’s an answer. Part of it is called The 3Ps. The other part was inscribed by the ancient Greeks on the Temple of Apollo almost 2,500 years ago…
Are You Answering the Question Nobody’s Asking?
Branding is about understanding and presenting a clearly defined position. It’s about clarity. It’s about knowing yourself and your client and understanding where you can best solve their problems and meet their needs. It’s about being careful not to be answering the question nobody’s asking.
That clarity is critical to focus entrepreneurial energy, secure investment, motivate and retain employees, and successfully deliver concepts to the market.
Knowledge is Power. Really?
Knowledge is power, but if that knowledge is based on bad information, how powerful can it be? Sadly, bad information is available everywhere you look – popular culture, politicians, social media, and “MFTP.” People who we believe have our best interests at heart and would only share good information don’t always live up to our expectations. By improving the quality of the information you use to make decisions, can you make better decisions. And by making better decisions, you can make a better business, better relationships, better investments, and a better life.
The Power of Referrals.
Marketer Dean Jackson says this about the power of referrals: “a referral serves the referrer as much as it serves as the beneficiary.” He calls that feeling “the social reward of referring.”
Here are a few proven ways to generate referrals and recognize their graciousness and generosity.
Repetition and Learning.
Neuropsychology proves that repetition and learning is the simple secret to success. And it’s so easy to do it’s almost hard to believe.
What Time Is It Really?
…Ali rolled her eyes so hard I’m surprised she didn’t keel over. “Dad…” she said slowly with a world-weariness that belied her age, “…have you ever done a jr. high school science project… with you?” Once again my daughter reminded me that our actions have consequences, whether we think anyone is watching us or not.
Actions Have Consequences
…Ali rolled her eyes so hard I’m surprised she didn’t keel over. “Dad…” she said slowly with a world-weariness that belied her age, “…have you ever done a jr. high school science project… with you?” Once again my daughter reminded me that our actions have consequences, whether we think anyone is watching us or not.
Using Your Best Gifts at Their Highest Value.
Are you a people-person or more comfortable one-on-one? Are you a speaker or does that notion terrify you? Can you write? Can you fight? Can you lead? Some people are natural motivators, natural leaders, others simply are not. Those talents are gifts, and they are parceled out unequally at birth.
Using your best gifts is, in a way, like being your true self.
It just plain feels good and makes you more effective and happier.
The great key to happiness in life is using your best gifts at the highest end you can.
How to Overcome Sales Objections.
It’s difficult to really understand lost opportunity cost. After all, how do you know what you missed out on if you don’t do it?
Choices are like that. Just like Robert Frost’s Road Less Traveled, will you be kicking yourself for not trying everything possible to GET MORE of what you want?
More out of life? More out of business? More out of EVERYTHING? Especially if it only costs a few hours per week?
How to do Things Better
Unlike the improvements you’ll make writing, speaking, or playing an instrument by experiencing great art, you’re not going to become a stronger weightlifter by watching other people pick up heavy loads any more than you’ll become a faster runner by watching other sprinters zoom around the track.
Because at some point, if you want to do things better, you have to get up off the couch and do the work.
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