{"id":1980,"date":"2015-07-31T09:07:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2015-07-31T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:07:55","slug":"darn-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"Darn Rookie!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I re-learned that we have two ears and one mouth. \u00a0A classic rookie mistake.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how sincere and certain we are that we can help someone, no matter how pure our intentions &#8211; we must exercise self constraint and <em>listen first<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Prospects come to us with their own agendas, preconceived notions, issues, and concerns. \u00a0Sometimes they&#8217;re like a coiled rattlesnake just waiting to strike at anything or anyone that moves. \u00a0Sometimes they come to us with the sucking black hole of victim energy &#8211; and everything in between.<\/p>\n<p>Bottomline; they&#8217;re listening to WIFM and unless we <em>listen first<\/em>, we will certainly lose the opportunity to assist them.<\/p>\n<p>And of course there&#8217;s the flipside &#8211; yesterday was Lindsey&#8217;s last day of horsemanship camp and while we were there I also re-learned that you can only lead a horse (or prospect) to water&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.LivingWithIntention.Net\">Live With Intention<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dr Bill<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I re-learned that we have two ears and one mouth. \u00a0A classic rookie mistake. No matter how sincere and certain we are that we can help someone, no matter how pure our intentions &#8211; we must exercise self &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1980\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}