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    The Great Gordino Newsletter - Issue 259 - Wed 24th Nov 2004
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    Hi There,

    I hope you're well today.

    I am just coming out of a snap cold.
    One day I was fine, and the next my nose was running faster
    than my feet ever have done.
    One minute Sahara nose, next minute Niagara Falls nose.

    Here's something else - it was only one side too! How does that
    work?

    What's that you say? Too much information?
    Fair enough, and maybe I'd better not talk about how my cup of
    tea kept refilling by itself, if you follow me.

    I have no idea how the body works in the nose-running
    department, it just does.

    The other week you may remember my car wasn't working.
    Again, I don't know about car engineering, but I do know how to
    drive one.

    Do you see a theme here?
    You don't have to know how something works, in order to know
    that it does.

    This can be a good logic to follow when it comes to online
    business.
    Accept that if several people say a certain theory works, it
    probably does.
    Try it, and in due course you will understand why it does or
    doesn't work.

    In the end, it does make life easier to get the full knowledge, in
    the case of my car, I would save money by doing the work
    myself, but the point is I don't *have* to get the detailed
    knowledge to get around in my car.

    This week we have seen the start of new series of 'I'm A
    Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here!'

    If you don't know the show, they put a bunch of D-List celebrities
    in the Australian rain forest for 2 weeks, and get them to do all
    sorts of horrible jungly things.

    It's great TV on a lot of fronts - it's funny, you get to see well
    known faces in their natural non-performance mode. and for a
    people-watcher like me, it's riveting.

    It's a shame that out of 10 celebrities, 2 are American, 1
    Canadian.
    Nothing anti-American or Canadian there of course, just a shame
    that our own celebrities are so poor we can't even find enough of
    them!
    Anyway, onto the Canadian, Natalie Appleton.

    I can't say I really liked her singing, but she did get to the top
    of the music tree.
    As soon as she got into the jungle, she was constantly
    moaning 'I can't do it!'

    On the very first day she was in tears wanting to go home, and
    the second day was no better.

    'You WEED!' I yelled at the TV, wishing that there were walls in
    the jungle so that someone could bash her head against one.

    Each day the group's food over and above basic rations is
    decided by how well one of them does in a task, and Natalie's
    woeful start and admitted fear of heights meant that when the
    first task was revealed as a height challenge, it was a shoe in
    that the public would vote for her.

    When she realised she had to walk across a wire 200 feet up in
    the air, you could see her real fear.
    Terror in fact.

    She had the chance not to do it, but the pressure of people
    watching at home, and the group waiting back in camp meant
    that not even trying is not a strong option, so out she went on
    the wire, legs-a-wobbling.

    Despite lots of tears, she made it, and collected a good food
    quota for the group.
    When she came back she needed oxygen to calm herself down,
    and you know what? I was impressed!

    It's easy to say 'I can't' when faced with even the most simple of
    tasks.
    It's even easier when the task becomes difficult.
    When the task is genuinely frightening, the urge to back out is
    overwhelming, but Natalie showed that with the right motivation,
    you can push through.

    Here's the kicker too, at the other end she was stronger and was
    already saying she would stop with the 'I can't'.

    OK, that's it for today, and here's 2 thoughts - firstly, can you
    explain a runny nose, or do you just reach for the tissue.
    Secondly, are you motivated to push through your own 'I can't'?

    'Til Friday,
    Health and Happiness,
    Gordon
    email me at gordon@gordonbryan.com - you'll have to copy and paste
    thanks to the idiot online spammers!



    
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