Scott Hunter – Professional speaker, business coach, author – Learning resources, books, Making Work Work

Remember waking up and dreading the thought of going to work? Well, when you’re reading chapter one of Making Work Work, you’re going to learn that you live in a world that is run by a set of invisible rules that impact everything you SEE, everything you DO and everything you THINK and those rules are literally set up for you to fail. By following the EASY step by step method OUTLINED in Making Work Work (MWW) you can consciously.... AGAIN CONSCIOUSLY create your own set of rules ...RULES that will allow you to have whatever you want in life and bring you true happiness and fulfillment.

Remember WAKING up in the middle of the night with some conversation raging in your head, you couldn’t make it stop and you couldn’t get back to sleep? Well, when you’re reading chapter three of MWW, you’re going to learn that that voice in your head that you call self talk is a very elaborate conversation that got started when you were born ....and that 80% of WHAT'S THERE NOW.... was there by the time you were 8 years old. JUST By knowing that and becoming conscious of what that conversation is saying, YOU CAN CHANGE AND design a conversation which will allow you to effectively handle any challenge or problem you are facing. I used to think I wasn’t very smart. But when I realized that it was just a conversation I picked up when I was very young and didn’t know better, and that there was lots of evidence that I really am smart, I was able to change the conversation and accept and appreciate my intelligence.

Remember the last time someone said to you something like “Isn’t Joe a jerk” and you thought to yourself “I wonder why he thinks that. I think Joe is a pretty terrific guy?” You’ll find this addressed in chapter four of MWW where you’re going to learn that people think that what they see and what they think is really the truth..... but it isn’t. WHAT YOU SEE IS only your perception OF WHAT YOU THINK IS THE TRUTH..... It’s not THE truth, it’s only YOUR truth. When you realize this, you can begin to use language for it’s intended function, not to DESCRIBE your reality but to CREATE your reality. I have coached many people who thought it was “hard” to lose weight. They didn’t realize they were sabotaging themselves by thinking it was hard. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS HARD... SO THEREFORE ...IT WAS HARD. By getting them to change their conversation to “I can lose weight effortlessly and easily” they were actually able to do that rather quickly.

Remember THINKING if you could just get ahead of your bills long enough to accumulate the money to buy the things you really want, then you could be happy and satisfied? In Chapter five of MWW, you’re going to learn that it’s a totally mistaken notion that satisfaction and happiness are a function of the amount of money or other things that you have. In fact, people in the United States have more than any group of people in the WORLD and by every survey, we are the least happy people anywhere. By following the simple prescription explained in this chapter, you can actually learn to be both satisfied and happy essentially all or at least most of the time! One of my clients who admitted that he was always struggling to get ahead of the game and was rarely if ever happy or content took on this prescription and reported after only 30 days that his attitude about his life had totally changed and that he had found a new sense of peace.

Remember the last time you were introduced to someone new, maybe on the job or at a social event, and you could just FEEL that you were being judged and sized up? Well in Chapter six of MWW you’re going to learn that people are always judging other people and that this reality is the major cause of the upsets, disappointments and frustrations that we all seem to have with each other. Chapter 6 lays out a totally different and REVOLUTIONARY way to create your relationships with everyone in your life, a way which, when you get good at it, has you truly enjoy all of your relationships – even with people like your mother-in-law. Personally, I used to struggle with relationships. I couldn’t keep a secretary and really didn’t have any meaningful friendships. As a result of learning to operate in this new way, I now have really great relationships with literally everyone in my life.

Remember THAT conversation with someone and you walked away, AND said to yourself: “I might as well have been talking to the wall?” Chapter nine of MWW BRINGS YOU TO LEARN that people aren’t ever listening to you, they’re listening to their own inner dialogue. Furthermore, they don’t have their attention on you, they have their attention on themselves. When you realize this, and become aware of the fact that you do this too, you can learn to listen in an entirely new way which will always leave people who talk to you having the experience of being heard. A manager in the branch of the Post Office was dealing with very poor morale. She discovered in Chapter nine that the reason for this was that she never really listened to any of the carriers in her branch. By following this EASY procedure, she was able to turn things around by 180 degrees in just 30 days.

Remember the last time a significant relationship got so frustrating that it ended in a shouting match or it just ended? Well, in Chapter 13 of MWW you’re going to learn that we go into all relationships with expectations and that sooner or later those expectations are going to be unfulfilled and you’re going to be disappointed. So far, no problem. But what you’ll also learn is that mostly we don’t communicate our disappointments and so they build and build until you can’t handle them anymore. That’s when the blow up occurs. Chapter 13 lays out a STRAIGHT FORWARD FIVE STEP PROCESS for appropriately speaking about your disappointments and making it safe for other people to communicate their disappointments to you so you really should never have to deal with blow ups in relationships again.
I have conducted over 125 retreats for business groups of all sizes in which we have taught them this process and allowed them to speak appropriately about what was on their minds. The result has consistently been referred to by the participants as a miracle.

The remaining chapters of Making Work Work contain equally exciting tools and insights that will allow you to
• Be more effective in all of your relationships
• Create a vision, mission, purpose and culture for your company
• Create true “partnership” relationships with everyone in you life
• Properly use the law of cause and effect to be more abundant and prosperous
• Eliminate gossiping and complaining from your workplace
• Provide inspiring leadership for your team.