The Skill Stack Podcast

Social Media

You are using your phone anyway..you are on it for a number of hours every day. Why not learn to make money from social media?

For much more information on how to make money online yourself or for your business, go here: www.rsmar.rethinksocialmedia.com

or here: bit.ly/SocialMediaSkill

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important.

For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast

You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack

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Persuasion

The ability to persuade is a powerful skill.

Before you can persuade anyone of anything you need to persuade yourself that you have (or can gain) the skills necessary to improve your life.

There are strong emotional reasons why persuasion works and how you can use them to your advantage. Fear is a powerful emotion

In they episode we look at the 4 major social fears that most people have.

1. Fear of Failure

2. Fear of being judged or rejected

3. Fear of Missing Out  - FOMO

4. Fear of the Unknown or uncertainty

10 Signs You Might Have a Fear of Failure

The following list is not a professional diagnosis, but if you feel that more than one or two lines in this list are very characteristic of you, then you might want to examine the issue further, either by doing more reading about it or talking to a professional.

1. If you worry about what other people think about you.

2. If you worry about your ability to pursue the future you desire.

3. If you worry that people will lose interest in you.

4. If you worry about how intelligent or capable you are.

5. If you worry about disappointing people whose opinion you value.

6. If you tell people beforehand that you don’t expect to succeed in order to lower their expectations.

7. If you have trouble imagining what you could have done differently to succeed.

8. If you often get last-minute headaches, stomach pain, or other physical symptoms that prevent you from completing your preparation.

9. If you often get distracted by tasks that prevent you from completing your preparation which were not really as urgent as they seemed at the time.

10. If you tend to procrastinate and "run out of time" to complete your preparation adequately.

Next we tell you what to do about these fears and how you can overcome them.

We finish off with 12 points to cover of most of the main fears.

1. Do the work. Don’t be lazy

2. Stop waiting.  The time is now.

3. Rely on yourself.  No one else cares enough. They have their own battles.

4. Be practical.  Getting on in life is not a theory.

5. Get up early. Be productive early. Don’t sit around all day waiting for motivation.  You don’t go anywhere to get motivated.  It’s internal.

6. Don’t be a cry baby. Life is hard. Get on with it.

7. Don’t associate with idiots.  Pick your friends carefully.

8. Do not waste time on things you can’t control.

9. Stop kidding yourself.  It’s embarrassing.

10. Don’t try to please people. It’s sad.

11. Don’t put toxic substances in your body.  It’s stupid and you will need it to get around for a long time.

12. Stop doing the same thing and hoping change will come

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important.

For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast

You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack

email us on: [email protected]

We all want Freedom...or at least a version of it that fits our definition.  In this episode Ray asks if we are prepared to pay the price that comes with gaining our Freedom.  The other two big things we want are Time and Money, covered in earlier podcasts.

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important.

For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast

You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack

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Growing and developing new skills means confronting emotions. Sometimes unwelcome emotions. Dealing with your emotions is a huge step towards success in life and in business.  I first heard this talk on Mind and Emotions by George Zalucki many years ago in a talk called Profile of a Champion and it has always resonated with me.  I wrote to him asking permission to use this as it's so profound and as I get older it all makes absolute sense to me now.  

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important.

For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast

You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack

email us on: [email protected]

In an ever changing world it's important to take any opportunity to improve.  You can improve your IQ by doing some tests, by doing crosswords and puzzles, you can improve your EQ or Emotional Intelligence by meditation, be therapy or by learning in groups. But what is AQ and why is it so important.  After seeing thousands of Pitches for investment, Ray McLennan noticed that the founders or entrepreneurs who demonstrated greater AQ seemed to grow their company and get better results. If you are faced with a challenge, how do you answer the question "What if.....?"  If you can answer that with any kind of certainty...then you might be overflowing with AQ.

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important.

For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast

You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack

email us on: [email protected]

The phrase "Jack of all Trades, Master of None" is used in a derogatory manner.  It implies that if you don't focus on one thing, you will never succeed.  This podcast shows many examples of people who did succeed in a variety of disciplines or sectors.  Sure, there are ties when you need to specialise, but for most people, knowing a bit more about more things in the 21st century is a good thing.  To increase your value to the world, to yourself and to your family, you need to grow your skills and you need to stack them in a specific order.

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important.

For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast

You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack

email us on: [email protected]

Your brain has two parts to it; conscious and subconscious.  The problem is that they speak two different languages.  One uses the language of logic and the other uses emotion.  Humans have evolved over thousands of years with certain gifts already built in to our subconscious brains. To succeed, you need to be able to talk to your subconscious in language it understands.  This podcast explains how you do that.

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important.

For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast

You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack

email us on: [email protected]

Ray and The Skill Stack business is a lifetime member of B1G1.com .  This talk explaining The Skill Stack in a TEDx time and style was given by Ray to the UK members of B1G1 at County Hall, London on the 12th of February 2019 Ray is introduced by Steve Pipe. Selling courses online is just our excuse to allow us to do the stuff that really matters. When you listen to this podcast, we make sure that for every listener we make sure a child in the Third World gets access to fresh, life-saving water. When you join the online course, we make sure that we; 1.  plant a fruit tree in Malawi  2. we restore the sight of an elderly person in India,  3. we fund a social entrepreneur also in India  and  4. we help a woman join a business training programme in Malawi for one year. You can see the impacts we have made here: https://www.b1g1.com/business-account-profile/810 

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important. For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack email us on: [email protected]

The following podcast is a précis of extracts from common themes in all the major religions of the world. 

It is an extract from every major discipline connected to human activity such as psychology and psychoanalysis. It is not a religious text designed to do anything other than inform. 

It's probably the best answer I have come across when I get asked the question: "Why Are We Here?" meaning, on planet earth and my only agenda is to make you aware of its existence. 

If you're anything like me when I first read it, you may not fully understand it after one, two or even three listens but that’s ok.  

If you think it’s complete rubbish, set it aside and read it again in five years time.  

There will be a time when it will make complete sense to you. 

If you’ve recently suffered a bereavement in the family it may offer you some comfort.

It seems to me the best answer yet to the question “Why are we here” But what do I know?

What I do know is that information such as this helps to grow your consciousness and intelligence and just listening makes you that 1% better today than you were yesterday...and that..after all is what The Skill Stack is all about.

You have a great idea but no one is listening to you.

There are 4 strategies to consider.

1. People tend to respond to solutions, especially if they think the spark for the idea came from them.

2. Tell them this is not new thinking but it's consistent with what they already do.

3. Tell them you don't have all the answers, but you do know this....

4. Be enthusiastic. It's contagious.

You will have heard this before, but decisions are based on emotion not logic. You only use logic to justify a decision.

Offer a plan for proceeding.

Explain how your idea will prevent something bad from happening.

That way, you can get someone to take your advice or listen favourably to your plan.

You don't need to be an expert in Psychology, but it is one of the things you should make a bigger than normal effort to learn.

Remember, with Skill Stacking, you are seeking marginal gains, not to become a PhD student in it.....

All success leave clues. The Skill Stack shows you what to look for and more importantly, like any great recipe, the correct order of the ingredients and skills is as important.

For all the underlying links and transcript, go to: www.TheSkillStack.com/podcast

You can get us in our Twitter account: @TheSkillStack

email us on: [email protected]