Jack Canfield's Success Strategies Newsletter

 

ISSN 1931-4558

August 13 , 2009
Vol. IV, Issue 18

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Feature Article: The Most Important Question You Can Ask

Note From Jack: Live from BTS in Scottsdale

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A Note From Jack


Welcome to Success Strategies, Jack Canfield's e-Newsletter
Specifically Designed to Help You Achieve Success in Every Area of Your Life!

Please feel free to forward this edition to friends, family, associates and loved ones.

Dear %$firstname$%,

I'm ready to use the gifts I've been given, Jack and Inga Canfield at Breakthrough to Success
ready to make this world a better place to live-in...

These are the lryics my wife Inga and I were listing to this morning as the amazing Jana Stanfield opened another session today at Breakthrough to Success in Scottsdale.

With her soaring vocals, acoustic arrangements, and meaningful lyrics, Jana's music always gets our hearts and minds in the right place, starting our days off with a healthy dose of inspiration and fun!

The week keeps getting better and better! We are in the middle of witnessing so many breakthroughs and experiences, I can't wait to see what happens over the next few days!

ATTENTION Trainers, Speakers, Educators, Coaches and Success Consultants...

I'm also extremely excited today because I'm officially announcing my brand-new Train the Trainer Program that begins this October. The Train the Trainer Program has been many years in the making, and I'm truly thrilled to begin helping the next generation of trainers reach their full potentail, starting this Fall.

I announced this unique, one-of-a-kind program first to my Platinum Inner Circle members and my top-level protégés. They immediately applied and dozens were accepted into the 100 training spots and only limited spaces remain. If you act quickly—and you qualify—you’ll be joining what is already forming as the most advanced, connected, aware, successful and welcoming group of training professionals our industry has ever seen!

Are you using feedback to your advantage?

Once you begin taking action on your goals and ambitions, you'll start getting feedback about whether you're doing things. Today's article will help you identify when this feedback is coming in and how to best incorporate it into your life.

Enjoy!

Your Success Mentor,

Jack Canfield
CEO, Canfield Training Group

Taking you from where you are to where you want to be

 

 

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Over an entire year, I will carefully train you, guide you and provide you with the skills and resources you need to become a high-quality, dynamic trainer when presenting these powerful principles to your students, employees, clients and others—in workshop formats, at staff meetings, via new-hire trainings, in the classroom, during one-on-one counseling sessions…in any training setting imaginable.

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Given all that's been happening here in America and around the world, I've been answering a lot of questions about how to turn your attention to more productive thoughts and actions that will get you closer to what you truly desire.

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Feature Article


The Most Valuable Question You Can Ask
by Jack Canfield

The Most Valuable QuestionAs you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect.

Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Thomas Edison is reported to have tried over 2,000 different experiments that failed before he finally got the light bulb to work. He once told a reporter that, from his perspective, he had never failed at all. Inventing the light bulb was just a 2,000-step process. If you can adopt that attitude, then you can be free to take an action, notice what result you get, and then adjust your next actions based on the feedback you have received.

Ready, Fire, Aim!

Don’t be afraid to just jump in and get started moving toward your goals. As long as you pay attention to the feedback you receive, you will make progress. Just getting into the game and firing allows you to correct and refine your aim.

The Most Valuable Question You May Ever Learn

In the 1980s, a multimillionaire businessman taught me a question that radically changed the quality of my life. So what is this magical question that can improve the quality of every relationship you are in, every product you produce, every service you deliver, every meeting you conduct, every class you teach and every transaction you enter into?

Here it is:

“On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the quality
of our relationship during the last week?”

Here are a number of variations on the same question that have served me well over the years...

“On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate…

• our service?

• my teaching?

• our product?

• this class/seminar/workshop?

• this meeting?

• our date/vacation?

• our performance?

• this meal?

• my coaching/managing?

• this book/recording/show?

• my parenting/babysitting?

 

Any answer less than a 10 always gets this follow-up question:

“What would it take to make it a 10?”

This is where the *really* valuable information comes from. Knowing that a person is dissatisfied is not enough. Knowing in detail what will satisfy them gives you the information you need to do whatever it takes to create a winning product, service or relationship.

There Are Two Kinds of Feedback

There are two kinds of feedback you might encounter – negative and positive. We tend to prefer the positive – that is, results, money, praise, promotion, raise, awards, happiness, inner-peace, etc. It feels betters. It tells us we are on course and doing the right thing.

We tend not to like negative feedback – lack of results, little or no money, criticism, poor evaluations, complaints, unhappiness, inner conflict, pain, etc.

However, there is as much useful data in negative feedback as there is in positive feedback. It tells us that we are off course, headed in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. This is priceless information!

In fact, it’s so valuable that one of the most useful projects you could undertake is to change how you respond to negative feedback. I like to refer to negative feedback as information for “improvement opportunities.” Here is a place where I can get better.

Ask Yourself for Feedback

In addition to asking others for feedback, you need to ask yourself for feedback, too. More than any other source of feedback, your body will tell you whether or not you are on course or not. When you are relaxed and happy, your body is telling you that you are on track. When you are constantly exhausted, tense, in pain, unhappy and angry, then you are off track.

Take time to listen to what your body is saying to you. Take time to listen to your physical sensations and your feelings. They are sending you important messages. Are you listening?

Remember, Feedback Is Simply Information

You don’t have to take it personally. Just welcome it and use it.

For more on Using Feedback to Your Advantage, review Principle #19 in The Success Principles. It’s one of the most important principles you can apply.

© 2009 Jack Canfield

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About Jack Canfield

Jack Canfield is the founder and co-creator of the billion-dollar brand Chicken Soup for the Soul. The New York Times #1 best-selling book series has more than 200 titles in print and over 100 million copies sold in 41 languages. As an internationally recognized leader in personal development and peak performance strategies, Jack has spent the last 35 years teaching millions of people how to up-level everything they do. His bestselling book, The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be contains dozens of the most powerful secrets to success used by top achievers from all walks of life.

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