How can I attach arrows to myself for my costume?
so i am wearing a full cowboy costume but i want indian arrows sticking out of my chest (i saw it on a halloween episode of Roseanne and it was great) does anyone have any suggestions for attaching these feathered arrow ends so that they look like they are sticking out of me? Any advice appreciated!
Well, you’ll have to ruin a shirt for my advice, but it can be one of those cheap Hanes worn under the rest of your costume or such.
Take one or more arrows (wood toy arrows or cheapies for a kid’s bow will probably work; or just get a straight stick and put some feathers on the end to try to look like fletchings). Cut them in half. You’ll then want to get something stiff, like a piece of plastic. Affix that to the inside of your shirt (fabric/plastic rated glue or somthing). Then using a screw with a broad washer, screw the arrow onto the backing. (The arrow will be on the outside, the washer and screw on the inside, screwed together through the shirt and stiff plastic.)
Between the plastic and the washer, it should give the arrow enough backing to stick straight out.
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Coaching Skills Training: the Arrow Questioning Sequence: Reality
The most important thing we must recognize as we coach people through the Reality stage is that it is all a matter of perception.
We are all constantly interpreting our environment based on our own experiences. As a result we construct our own unique model of the world which then serves to guide us through life without having to deal with every interaction we have as if it were a new experience.
Our model of the world enables us to deal with familiar objects or events beause we recognise patterns from prior experience. So that having seen a tree in England we can recognize the same thing if we encounter one in Switzerland. However, not everything will be interpreted the same way by different people. Draw a curved line on a piece of paper. Is the shape is concave or convex? Of course there is no right answer; it’s all a matter of perspective. For some the shape is concave, for others it is convex.
You may well ask what any of this has to do with coaching? The important perspective in coaching is that of the person being coached – it is their version of reality that counts. I have a story that illustrates this point: John was a sales person who was seeking some coaching on how he might better answer customer objections during the sales conversation. He approached Mary for some coaching on this and having discussed his aims they began to explore the reality of John’s situation. John was very concerned about this aspect of his sales technique and rated himself as one of the poorest in the team in this regard. Mary disagreed. She insisted that John was one of her best performers as far as handling objections was concerned and suggested that John should think of another performance area on which to be coached. John thanked Mary for the encouragement but explained once more that this was his number one issue effecting his performance overall. He instinctively knew that if he could get over these feelings his performance would really soar. Mary became so irritated with John for failing to see what she saw as the reality of the situation that she ended the coaching session and suggested that John might like to return when he had something sensible to discuss. She had failed to help John raise his awareness, she had reclaimed the responsibility for John’s learning and she had shattered the relationship of trust. Needless to say, John did not seek her coaching again. So we can see that we need to be alive to the possibility of different perceptions and perspectives.
Draw a picture of a square. Divide it into quarters by drawing a line down the centre and a line across the middle. Similarly divide each of those squares into quarters. How many squares can you now see? The correct answer is 30:
1 whole square
16 individual squares
9 squares of 4 units
4 squares of 9 units
Look again until you can see all 30. Here then is another important lesson when it comes to thinking about reality. Namely that the true picture of reality often only emerges after we’ve looked several times and that it is worthwhile spending some time in a coaching session on the Reality stage.
We should welcome the fact that the people we coach may see things differently to us. It creates a sense of diversity and can throw up all sorts of new ways of taking a situation forward that would never have been uncovered if we all thought in the same way. Coaching is a powerful tool for improving performance in any area. In an organizational setting we should never use it only as a means of addressing poor performance. Sometimes even the best performing team members are still operating below the level of their potential and they too deserve to benefit from coaching and see how much better they might become.
However, coaching is also a valuable tool for problem solving and dealing with difficult issues and it would be true to say that the majority of coaching that goes on at work is used for these reasons.
As such, it is possible that when we are coaching someone through the Reality stage that things may get quite downbeat as they come to realize how big a task or challenge they face. It may be necessary to encourage them to think through all the things that are going well in a situation – there will always be some! – to help them get a balanced picture.
This is not the same as imposing our view it is simply encouraging the other person to recognize that an accurate view of reality includes acknowledging what’s going well. More importantly, it sets a positive tone for discussing solutions later in the coaching session.
About the Author
Matt Somers is a coaching practitioner of many years’ experience. He works with a host of clients in North East England where his firm is based and throughout the UK and Europe. Matt understands that people are working with their true potential locked away. He shows how coaching provides a simple yet elegant key to this lock. His popular guide “Coaching for an Easier Life” is available FREE at http://www.mattsomers.com
Know any good movies out like Broken Arrow that deal with Indian/Caucasian relationships?
I just saw the movie Broken Arrow (1958) ,after I returned from Sedona. and in it Isaw the symbol of the broken arrow on a drum face – was wondering where I could purchase anything with this symbol on it – pottery, rugs, cards, etc.
which I thought was very well done. It deals with contemporary situations and features two Indians as the main characters. It was called Smoke Signals.
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Add More Communication Arrows to Your Quiver by Writing Books
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and above all accurately so they will be guided by its light.
-Joseph Pulitzer
All of our communication eggs for the 400 Year Project (demonstrating the feasibility and encouraging people to make improvements 20 times faster from 2015 through 2035) were not in the Web site basket: We also planned to create a series of books and articles that would begin sharing helpful information about our project.
One such source of material already existed, and it’s always a good idea to repackage material in new ways that will appeal to different people. Since 1992, I had been analyzing the behaviors of CEOs whose companies grew their stock prices the fastest during the prior three years through an annual series of articles.
This research was the first (to my knowledge) tracking study of CEO best practices, and I had high hopes for what it would reveal. My idea was to locate practices that other company leaders could use to grow 20 times faster than usual.
The study did indeed become a potent source of information. Carol Coles and I used the insights we gained to write about the importance of continuing business model innovation in a later book.
While the CEO tracking study continued, Carol Coles and I asked Robert Metz to assist us in creating a book that would outline a process that almost anyone could use to accomplish 20 times as much in a given area with the same time, effort, and resources. We correctly saw this book as the first major output of the 400 Year Project.
While most people try to write business books to boost their consulting and coaching businesses, our intention was to boost interest in and activity for finding new solutions through the 400 Year Project.
The good news was that we already had such a process that could be adapted for the purpose: the universal problem-solving process that Peter Drucker had noticed that we always used. He had correctly perceived that we had moved past our clients in creating innovative practices.
The key to our effectiveness was a master process that could quickly resolve most problems with superior solutions that no one had ever employed before. In early 1995, Peter began insisting that we take this process and turn it into a universal resource. Otherwise, he was concerned that a tool of immense practical value would be lost, potentially for centuries.
We were flattered by Peter’s high opinion of our work’s potential. The bad news was that Carol and I had no experience with turning processes we used into books.
We turned to Robert Metz to help us. Robert had written a number of investment-related books and had authored one best seller. Robert had helped new authors before and felt confident he could shepherd us through the process.
Having heard a lot about interfering agents and intractable publishers, we asked Robert to advise us on how to get an agent and a publisher. His advice was to simply write the book and then look for a publisher. In this way, we were likely to be able to write a book that contained the content we intended rather than the direction that a publisher wanted us to take.
Beginning around 1997, we started the conceptual development of that book. We needed to lay out a format that people would enjoy using for learning. Early on, we decided to fill the book with as many examples as possible and to make the information accessible to those with many different learning styles.
That approach was quite a challenge because most people have read or experienced relatively little in the way of advanced practices. We had to take the most solid information available and reduce it to tasty bites that contained the essence of the lesson without cloying our readers’ appetites for more.
In one-on-one conversations about the project, it was obvious that people loved specifics and were confused or bored by general principles. But we needed to express general principles, or people wouldn’t know what to do next. What model could we use to get around this problem?
The story of Scheherazade came to mind. She married a king who had executed a string of brides after each wedding night. To stay alive, every night she told her husband a new story that ended in a cliffhanger. She continued to tell the stories for 1001 nights, gave the king three sons, and so avoided execution.
Could we similarly string together a large number of fascinating stories, stories so rewarding that readers would race forward to find the next one? Well, it was worth a try.
Robert, Carol, and I were all accomplished storytellers and had large repertoires of stories we had accumulated from our reading and contacts. We could draw on those resources and see what we could do.
Have you been working on your stories to illustrate what you want others to learn? You’ll need as many as you can when you are ready to use books to help attract attention.
About the Author
Donald Mitchell is an author of seven books including Adventures of an Optimist, The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution, The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook, The Irresistible Growth Enterprise, and The Ultimate Competitive Advantage. Read about creating breakthroughs through 2,000 percent solutions and receive tips by e-mail by registering for free at
http://www.fastforward400.com .
Would I get ticket if I turn my car in intersection at yellow light?there was sign turn only at green arrow?
i was driving at 35mph and when I reached the intersection the light just went yellow and I just turned right.I saw a green arrow before.There it told only to turn at green arrow.Will I get a ticket for that?
In Texas, as long as your bumper has entered the intersection before the light turns red, you’re ok.
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