We get feedback. We got tons of feedback recently following a survey Keith sent out. Keith has been working his way through your messages and we are both doing what we can to respond positively to the feedback we received.
For some reason, people wanted to see more of me. If you come on my courses,
or invest in our online training programmes, or come to our peer support events, or social events, or conferences, then you get to see me, hear me, and heck, even touch me…. Hahahaha…. However, for some of you, well, quite a lot of you actually, you wanted to weigh me up a bit more it seems. So this week, I did a bunch of things for you to get a sense of who and how I am, and bring myself into vision a bit more.
Firstly, I opened a professional Instagram account. I have always resisted Instagram, because I thought I could do all that it does in other ways.
However, I can now post pictures with a range of filters! So if you want to see more of my hypnosis memes, plenty of pictures of me at my gym (and
this week a clip of me doing squats at the gym - tomorrow some pull-ups with a weight plate hanging around my waist!) , or pictures of me and our 8 month old enthusiastic cockapoo puppy, and the quirks of my world (purple clay tea pots, Red Dwarf mouse pad and Jason and the Argonauts drink mat, for example) then my Instagram account is a great way to do that. I have been sharing a bunch of that stuff from Instagram to Twitter and Facebook to, but some bits are exclusive to Instagram.
My account names for social media are as follows:
Secondly then, I started to do a bunch of Facebook Live broadcasts. This week, they have all been off the cuff. That is, I’ve not announced them, I’ve just gone live and spoken about some topics that have been relevant at the time and so on. In coming weeks, we’ll announce key broadcasts for
those who want to come in and interact. I’ll also be broadcasting from my classrooms and other destinations along the way from time to time. They are just little snippets, and you can go and watch them and catch up with them if you’d like to over at my Facebook page:
So far this week, the comments on the videos have seen my
professional peers and ‘friends’ public refer to me as looking like ‘one of the Goodies’, ‘having a great face for podcasts’, ‘looking like a newshound presenter’ and ‘Harry Potter’ to name just a few. I covered some topics such as ‘Shoshin, the beginners mind’, gave business advice for hypnotherapists, made a big reference to the Karate Kid (the 80s film), said the word ‘Snatch’ (as in weightlifting) without giggling like a 13 year old, did an Alan Partridge impression, showed my guns, spoke of
loving oneself and various other bits and pieces along the way.
That there is us responding immediately to your requests and we’ll continue working hard behind the scenes with regards to other feedback you have given us too, as much as is viable and do-able anyway. My sincere thanks to all those of you who responded.
