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Newsletter 32 : 7 april 2010

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Greetings
Welcome to our newsletter. You’ve received it because either you requested it (extra thanks!) or you met Jeremy while networking.
We offer a change from other newsletters which do demand an awful lot of reading, and hope you will find it diverting.
We aim to publish once every two weeks, but sometimes the flesh is weak even as the spirit is willing.

Offer of the week

We believe that networking is the best way for almost all small businesses to obtain clients. It enables them to build a strong set of business relationships which mutually deliver referrals. emotional intelligence at work sponsors the Bristol monthly NRG lunch, and Kay hosts it.

Before lunch, Jill Green, senior trainer with the Referral Institute UK, is giving the first of six seminars on how to get the most from networking: So tell me, what do you do?. So, if uncertainty about what to do at a networking event has stopped you attending in the past, banish your reticence with this training – free to diners.

The venue is Berwick Lodge (near Cribbs Causeway) which offers an excellent light lunch in elegant surroundings.

NRG is offering readers of this newsletter, who aren’t already members, £5 off a lunch at Berwick Lodge. Just go to here (15 April) or here (20 May – seminar is So tell me, how can I help you?) to book, and enter the promotion code NRGKMCM

Quotation of the week

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.
Michel de Montaigne, philosopher (1533–1592)

So, nothing new there, then.

Emotionally intelligent presentation on advanced interpersonal relationship skills of the week

Insight and expertise comes from an unlikely source – er, William Shatner, he of Star Trek fame. (The postmodern, ironic, point is that, however much we may smirk at the delivery, the message is of course true.) (duration: 1.5 minutes)

Video of the week

Five ways to become happier today. There are very specific things people can do each day that are proven to increase happiness [it says here – well, it’s worth a whirl]: Tal Ben Shahar gives several practical happiness tips including changing your approach to car parking. And what if what he says were true? (duration 4.5 minutes)

Extra quotation of the week

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her
Michel de Montaigne, philosopher (1533–1592)

He got into trouble for that – attributing intention to an animal…

Fairy story of the week

A new way of looking at an old story (duration 3 minutes)

Joke of the week

A scientist and a philosopher were being chased by a hungry lion.
The scientist made some quick calculations; he said “it’s no good trying to outrun it, it’s catching up”.
The philosopher kept a little ahead and replied “I’m not trying to outrun the lion, I’m trying to outrun you!”

Contributions gratefully received.

If you have been, thank you for reading.
Kay and Jeremy