{"id":1069,"date":"2012-02-21T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2016-01-06T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T15:11:51","slug":"whats-in-it-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In It For Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best selling author <a title=\"Seth Godin Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sethgodin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Godin<\/a> hits the nail on the head\u00a0in a recent blog of his, &#8220;<a title=\"Seth's Blog: The sad irony of selfishness\" href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2012\/02\/the-sad-irony-of-selfishness.html\" target=\"_blank\">The sad irony of selfishness<\/a>&#8220;. It can never be about What&#8217;s In It For Me!<\/p>\n<p>Just think what the world might look like if everyone put the other guy first. If your first call of the day was to say to a prospect, client or friend, &#8221; how can I help you,&#8221; that alone could jump start an ailing economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why don&#8217;t we do it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are we too self-absorbed or too busy to care or are we just ignorant of the social graces of business? For many I believe it is the latter. I think we just don&#8217;t know how to get out of our own way. It is not an intentional wish for others or ourselves to fail, however, a lack of what taking an altruistic approach can have on our bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>Start tomorrow by making that call and asking, &#8221; what can I do to help you succeed today? &#8221; And do me a favor &#8211; share your experience in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>Make that extra effort right now!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"About Bob Paff\" href=\"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/about-bob-paff\/\">Bob Paff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your first call of the day was to say to a prospect, client or friend, &#8221; how can I help you,&#8221; that alone could jump start an ailing economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-bobs-desk","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}