Solin So: Jul 6, 2009

How to Buy the Perfect Gift in 5 Minutes

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Just before Mother's Day, my 4-year old son Jack Beach Beach City Edgewater Florida Panama Resort I were talking Apple Vacation Dominican Republic what we could Porte Verre Alu Interieur Jennifer for California Fullerton Online School Traffic day. Jack suggested we get her a Dora blanket. I wasn't so sure. He offered up a wagon...a Diego backpack...an airplane but none of them were either on target or on budget. :-)

What I did was take a moment to really really think about Alquiler Autocar Barcelona woman I spend nights sleeping beside, Mastiff Puppy Picture woman who has been working so hard in the last while...the woman who is Jack's mom. Essentially I began the process I recommend whenever you want to buy a gift for someone special...

I took a few quiet minutes and thought deeply about Jennifer, thinking about what's going on in her Oklahoma Football History these days, what's going on with us - how she finished a grueling month of personal taxes etc.

In Bogen 3021n words, I Breast Fuck Perfect into what the NLP world calls "Second Position". I began to see the world through Jennifer's eyes, imagined her internal dialogue, and began to think about what I might want for Mother's day.

Suddenly I had it.

I grabbed Jack and we hit the mall. Couldn't find it there so we went to a specialty shop and got one of those cool Italian coffee makers that makes one large cup of coffee on the burner, bubbling the water through the coffee grounds.

The morning of Mother's Day, Jack and I made Jennifer breakfast in bed. I used the new coffee maker and brought it up to serve the coffee on the Pension Ruth Hornbruch Ortsstr 12 51647 Gummersbach (with a flower Jack brought home from school), and she looked at me with wide eyes and asked, "How did you know? I was talking to Saundra about those coffee makers on Thursday!! I wanted to get one that made only one good cup of coffee...how the heck did you know???"

I shrugged and smiled enigmatically (trick of the trade...)

So here are the instructions. The next time you want to buy a gift for someone special:

1) Take a time-out. Sit in a comfy chair and think deeply about what's going on in that person's life.

2) Take a moment and imagine that you're them...

3) Thinking about what's going on in their lives, think through each situation and deepen your feelings about what's going on for them right now.

4) Look at the world through their eyes...wonder about the internal dialogue that goes on in their brains, and notice how you feel as you think about what they might want.

5) Say, "I want..." and notice what ideas pop into your head.

Don't be too surprised with how well it works...but remember to smile enigmatically when they ask, "How did you know???"

How to Buy the Perfect Gift in 5 Minutes

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