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Are you being Influenced With simple observations or questions you can enable people to want to help to be able to think differently. Often these comments can appeal to the conscious mind, but also to the unconscious. Supposing you have a friend who is in a quandary about a craft project. You could suggest: “You…
What is your Processing system? I talked earlier this month about how Body Language matters following discussion about negotiation. The context can be anything but if you are selling your crafts then you want to be able to influence people and these discussions are all about establishing rapport Today I want to talk about how you…
Questions that Enable if you want to help your fellow crafter to think differently about a crafting project you can offer ‘questions’ that can help them. IThere are a vast array of observations you can make, and questions you can ask, in order to enable him or her to think differently about whatever problem s/he…
New Year’s Eve 2024 How many of you remember Lizzie who used to work for me? (@lizziewildeevans) She has just posted a new year message on social media and I have had her permission to reproduce it here – for I couldn’t have put it better. Over the next 24 hours, to next few days,…
Body Language Matters How often have you wanted to either help another crafter, or to sell your work to someone? How often have you realised you need to establish trust with that person? Then, you need to understand that body language matters when communicating. Nonverbal communication is as important as are the words we use. The…
What can I do differently? I have, before, touched on the concept of ‘reframing’. It is something that many of us do unconsciously, but learning to do it consciously for your own benefit or that of others is worth doing An example is, say, it is pouring with rain. That is fact. However, the effect that…
Our lives are a Series of Activites This is not necessarily directly written for crafters other than it is relevant for all of us and as a serial crafter I find the knowledge of value. I read a quote recently where it was pointed out that our lives are a series of activities: disputes, negotiations,…
Understand your Potential My logic has always suggested to me that I could just as easily have been a car mechanic rather than someone who was addicted to art and crafts. But then further thought reminded me that had I become a car mechanic would have been more likely if my father was a car…
It’s Not What we Say But How We Say it You are struggling with a crafting project. It could be anything – say you discovered you had dropped a stitch half way down a piece you have been working on, or more consequently you have something to complete and just can’t work out what the…
From Playtime to Passion If you think back to your childhood, what were the influences that caused you subsequently become a keen crafter? This image reminded me of the homes I used to visit when I was a child, and the recognition that invariably when one is a crafter the desire starts very early on. …