A gentlemen sits at the crowded bar nursing a cold beer. The stool beside him empties, and a nicely dressed woman seats herself there. Curious, the man asks her what she does for a living. She replies, “I am a psychiatrist.” “That’s interesting,” he says, “because I have a problem.”
“What’s that?” she asks.
He says, “I know this will sound silly, but I’m afraid I have monsters under my bed, so I rarely sleep and walk around tired all the time. Do you think you could help me?”
She sips her wine for a moment and says, “Sure, but it will take two sessions a month for a year at $200 per session.”
Three weeks later, the gentleman is sitting on the same stool at the bar when he feels a hand on his shoulder. Turning around, he finds the psychiatrist, who asks, “Did you ever think about my proposal?”
“Well, I did,” he stutters, “but the bartender solved my problem for $20.”
“$20?” she exclaims. “How’d he do that?”
“Well, after I told him what the problem was, he asked me for $20 and told me to come back the next day. I came in and he handed me a carpenter’s saw from the hardware store. He said to cut all the legs off my bed and stop worrying. I’ve been sleeping like a baby for weeks.”
I’d like to take a shot at the bartender’s principle.
Getting the target to break, even a more difficult target, can be done by most anyone. The tricky part becomes breaking that same target—or any target, for that matter—consistently. That’s a different story altogether.
To that objective, we can take the long, expensive way around—or the short way. For example, there’s so much information out here, at times it can be difficult to know what applies where. Here’s what happens when we don’t simplify.
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