Question 3

What are you best at? What's the one thing that you really excel at? Is it talking to people, tap dancing thinking positively or mud wrestling? I think the answer to this one is organizing and in particular organizing people – actually Bloss calls this manipulating! But I do have the ability to get people to do what I want/need them to do. I remember once someone telling me that I should be in sales as they reckoned I could sell ice to Eskimos. So how do I get people to do what I want – I guess by selling them the/my idea so that they think it’s a good idea. I also am a bit of a people watcher and try to understand what makes someone tick so that when I’m ‘selling my idea’ I know what buttons to push to get them on side. I also don’t have a need to shout from the rooftops that it was my idea – for me the important thing is that I’m getting what I need. I had lots of practice of this with my Dad. Dad never really like being told what to do – so I’d plant the seed of an idea then just leave it for a while then occasionally ‘water’ it gently – by this time he’d be thinking it was his idea in the first place and bingo! Manipulative or persuasive – you choose!