mark ty-wharton

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I recently signed up to John Assaraf’s newsletter, after buying his excellent book, The Answer.

I particularly like Law Of Attraction material with a tangeable scientific base and John certainly knows his subject.

On his FaceBook feed John introduced us to his colleague Mike Koenigs, co-founder of TrafficGeyser.

While I find it hard to read facial expressions in a social setting, I like to freeze frame the videos of people who are selling to me from time to time and study their faces.

I am a great believer in micro-expressions. Micro-expressions give away what a person is really like / thinking.

Try it on Joe Vitale for example.

Run one of his sales videos for a bit, then randomly pause it and see what you get. In an all digital world, it is very easy to do. And in the split second of a frozen frame a person will often reveal to you what they are thinking in a micro-expression.

What do YOU get from Joe Vitale?

As a disclaimer, remember depending on who trained them, a GOOD presenter is often taught to present to a single person they hold in their imagination, so what you get, may not be aimed at you personally!

Another author from The Secret, has a micro expression that involves sticking out his tongue in a yah boo sucks “that showed you” manner.

Maybe the person is driven to prove to someone from their past they could make it. Hopefully it is not aimed at us…

Onto the competition.

I was watching the Mike Koenigs video presentation, when my son interrupted me for a glass of milk.

So what do you think he is trying to say!

Comment below…

Best comment gets a free paperback copy of The Logic Of Attraction,

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

mark ty-wharton, creative thinker | innovator | visionary

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I have been watching a BBC television series we currently have here in the UK called “The Speaker”.

It follows a competition to find Britain’s best young speaker.

Something struck me.

One of the judges told one of the participants not to ask the audience a question in a speech then not answer it.

Apparently it is bad speaking practice not to “wrap up”.

Okay, here’s another bit of bad speaking practice…

Bollocks!!!

So, if you listen to my podcast it is thought provoking.

Why?

Because I ask questions and leave you thinking.

If you read my blog, you’ll find I often do the same.

People want to be told the answers because they don’t get asked enough questions.

We are told what to do through life by teachers, politicians and others.

And at the end of the day most of them will actually admit they don’t really know what they are doing!

So here I go again…

I have been thinking about integrity.

If I buy something from someone and it is priced £950 plus tax and the vendor tells me they will knock of the tax if I pay cash, am I out of integrity if I buy it?

Answers in the comments please…

Second scenario…

If a tradesman comes to repair something and tells me it is £45.67 plus tax, then tells me he will do it for £40 cash without putting it through the books, am I out of integrity of I choose this option?

I’ll go on to say, the legal answer isn’t the right answer.

For example an anarchist who paid taxes would be out of integrity.

And I am not saying I am an anarchist and another person’s tax is their issue, however, in the grand scheme of things, who am I, if enable another to break the law?

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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For me, Wes Wehmiller was one of the most important members of Duran Duran.

He was weird like me.

Actually it might be truer to say I am learning to be weird like Wes.

Wes had a way with weird that was loveable.

Earlier today I was rudely reminded he is dead.

I recently discovered two signed tour books I was given while touring with Duran Duran.

Wes’ signature appears on one of them.

I looked at it and without thinking much about it then looked at the other book.

The other book is signed by Lamya.

It simply says “Hey Tinley Tins. Keep In Touch”.

We didn’t.

She is dead too.

She died on January 8th this year.

Reading those words shocked me.

Whether she meant for me to keep in touch I don’t know.

The bizarre thing is both Wes and Lamya died, as I understand it, of roughly the same condition.

Looking at the book, Steve Alexander wrote “We’ll work together soon” probably ten years ago and we haven’t done it yet.

So I have to assume they are throw away comments and not get too emotional.

And dead is dead right?

Except the legend that is Wes lives on.

Later in the day, I was archiving Duran Duran master tapes and found a session I recorded with Wes in Paris.

It was for one of my tunes which I put up on a machine during a break (which as I recall involved eating a really oily pizza).

I had a tune I wanted help with and Wes laid down a whole load of bass parts for it.

If I am totally honest, I have no idea what he played. I trusted him so much to come up with the goods, that I literally stuck the machine in record and let him get on with it.

So today, I am putting Wes’ bass parts into Pro Tools, throwing a channel open and listening to Wes Wehmiller.

I also have a disk of Steve Alexander drum loops I recorded.

Perhaps I can fuse the two and make something interesting. A tribute perhaps?

So do I need these reminders of friends dearly departed?

Well no…

Like the tour laminates I gave away earlier this year, money cannot replace them.

So guess what?

I want to give the tour books away.

No more writing competitions though.

This time I want hard cash!

I have registered with http://buyoncegivetwice.com and will be running an auction for items to benefit my charity of choice, the Autism Research Centre here in Cambridge, England.

Details of that next week.

Without further adieu, I am packing my virtual bags and leave you in the capable hands of my guest bloggers.

See you on the other side of the looking glass,