Palin Joins Zig Ziglar Get Motivated Speaking Tour - Her Topic - Achievment

[RamboLiberal]

https://www.getmotivated.com/city.aspx?a=5149

Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin made history as the first woman ever to be elected Governor of Alaska, and the youngest person to ever hold that office.Her straightforward, no-nonsense approach to politics and life captivated the nation and launched her new book to an instant mega-bestseller.

• How to Successfully Manage and BalanceYour Personal and Professional Priorities

• How to Overcome Obstacles with Creative Solutions

• The Secrets to Effective Decision-Making

• How to Have Grace Under Fire

• How to Become a Person of Influence

:puke: Now after you listen to her - go back and quit your job!

[highplainsdem]

1. I was so sure this had to be from The Onion...

[HopeHoops]

2. How to put on lipstick while winking and saying "ya betcha".

:puke:

[elehhhhna]

3. My Freeper coworker booked us for this LOL...I bet her Sarah won't show up...

but I'll be there. The eyerolling will probably send me to the optometrist afterwards. I told her today it's the Return of the Has-Beens. Terry Bradshaw lol. It's only 19 bucks for a whole office of people to attend.

[FSogol]

4. Her topic? Quitting!

A fool and their money are soon parted.

[deacon]

17. You betcha. n/t

[joeybee12]

5. I'm hard pressed to find a bigger group of assholes all in one photo...

...let me go fidn some history books with photos from nazi Germany and i might be able to get something more disgusting.

[graywarrior]

6. Get Motivated. . .

to get off your ass and go buy a puke bucket. What a lineup!

[joeybee12]

7. Sarah Palin's 12-step plan to quit your way to success!!! n/t

[louis-t]

8. First, she's never made ANY effective decision

She has absolutely NO "grace under fire". She became a "person of influence" by faking her way to the governorship of Alaska. Let me tell you about these seminars: Does any one really think they can afford to pay these people tens of thousands in speaking fees by charging "$19 for your whole office"? Our office went to one where the fee was $100 for the whole office. During the break, the "MC" or another salesman pitches overpriced computer software that "guarantees" you will be able to make a ton of money on the stock market. By seeing when the "big boys" buy and sell (insider trading is mentioned and accepted as normal during the presentation) you are told that you can make a fortune. The price of the software? $6,000. If you have an arena that seats 20,000, and it is 3/4 full (they rarely sell out)that's 15,000 people. If 1% buy this product, that's 150 x 6,000 = $900,000. AT EACH VENUE! They could give a shit whether anyone gets "motivated" by listening to them. I came away with very little in the way of motivation, but several people in my office actually considered buying one of the products.

[RandySF]

9. Ever notice how

these motivational conferences always use Republicans?

[spanone]

10. she doesn't know shit from shinola

[chaplainM]

11. It's a miracle

She has only the SECOND kookiest hairstyle in that photo.

[regnaD kciN]

12. So, this'll be The Wiggy and Ziggy Tour...?

:shrug:

[kanrok]

13. I love Zig

This disappoints me greatly.

[Raschel]

14. GRACE UNDER FIRE??? OMG. Coming from a woman who attacks a 19 yr old, and

is known for her vincictiveness, her inability to let anything go.

[Contrary1]

15. Delete

[spanone]

16. 2nd from right...it that stevie nicks???

:rofl:

[Bobbieo]

19. And who is raising her latest offspring?

[bullwinkle428]

23. Rachel interviewed that woman a couple of months ago,

after the Smirk became one of the "featured speakers" at the event in Dallas! She's the wife of the founder of the whole shebang...quite the snake oil salesperson herself.

[Lex]

18. I wouldn't buy a used car from any of them.

Man, they all look like snake oil salesmen/women.

[KG]

20. 'motivational speaking' has nothing to do with motivating people, and everrything to do with lining

the pockets of 'motivational speakers'.

[jmowreader]

27. The only good motivational tape was the first edition of Abilene Paradox

If you can imagine Jeff Foxworthy as a COMPETENT motivational speaker, you get the idea as to the tone of this video. (Google "abilene paradox' to see what it's about.) The current edition has skits with actors and shit, but the first edition was just Jerry Harvey up on stage giving a very long speech.

Best part: when his father-in-law told the next-door neighbor Dr. Harvey digs ditches for a living.

"Dad, you know what I do for a living. Why'd you tell him that?"
'Because if I told him all you do is talk for a livin', he'd think my daughter married a bum.'

But yeah, this is what happens: people with a talent for science go into science. People with a talent for production, into production. Those with talents for art go into art. But those with no talents whatsoever become motivational speakers, and speak to the people with the talents until the talents disappear thanks to their motivational speaking.

[msongs]

21. the guy on the left can tell everyone how to commit war crimes nt

[mascarax]

22. Achievement, huh?

Like how to achieve leaving work at noon, taking a super-long bubble bath (because you've worked so hard in the morning yelling at staff and threatening your soon-to-be-ex-brother-in-law), and then ordering your teenage daughter and said daughter's teenage self-proclaimed "redneck" boyfriend to hightail it over to Taco Bell to get you a Crunchwrap Supreme for dinner?

(The "go back and quit your job" is hilarious, btw!)

[Edweird]

24. Well, at least it's not 'perseverance'. On second thought, that might be kinda funny.

I think people might pay to see that....

[jmowreader]

25. The Rick Belluzzo intro is the best one...

According to Zig Ziglar: Rick Belluzzo as the former President and COO for Microsoft produced STAGGERING profits for his company. Let Rick teach YOU how to use his key management and business strategies to deliver AMAZING results for your organization even through the toughest markets!

According to reality:
At HP, Belluzzo was responsible for killing the HP9000 mini.
At SGI, he was responsible for SGI's failed Windows NT transition. Fucking with Irix and the MIPS processors essentially ruined SGI. Now it's a Linux shop.
After he killed two of the three leading 64-bit platforms of the era Microsoft hired him and stuck him in the MSN division for a while. He wasn't COO there for long.

I dunno...this tour features one of the major players in launching an illegal war, the first governor of Alaska ever to resign without being under formal charges, the guy who nuked the HP9000, a football coach who has had coaching jobs at six universities and was fired from most of them, a woman whose claim to fame is writing a book on sales, and America's Worst Mayor.

HOW much did you say they were paying people to go to this?

[mascarax]

26. Excellent summary (all: must read from jmowreader!)

I wondered who Ms. Ringlets was, but I didn't want to go to the link.

Generally, these are advertised as "$99! But FREE TODAY!" and then it's a non-stop push to buy crap. I know some people who've fallen for it...I tried not to roll my eyes (think America's Worst Mayor, a.k.a. Noun-Verb-911 was in that one too).