Chris,

How could you allow such an awkward English language sentence to be used so prominently against your thousands of writers as this one?:)

Does anyone agree with me?

The offending sentence:

“Article: Being Smart, As The Way For You And I To Go In Life has been updated, and awaiting to be re-reviewed.”

“and awaiting to be re-reviewed.”???!!!

Certainly not common usage. Either use: “and is waiting to be re-reviewed.” Or, “and waits to be re-reviewed.”

You don’t normally have a passive verb (awaiting) referring to a verb “to be re-reviewed.”

Note: “awaiting execution,” where the verb refers to a noun.

But I’m not suggesting anything that extreming!

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I will go with “Disagree” because it is quite evident as to what it means and conveys the message, and you know exactly what it means too.

I also voted for “Disagree” because, I enjoy disagreeing with you personally. You see, Strephon, you are a very hard to get along with individual and often your comments, attacks and posts are simply mean-spirited. Which is totally interesting because you preach being one with the Universe and in complete euphoria, that is if you are not practicing high-speed sword swallowing or levitation sleep?

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Andrei,

Not easily.

Many already do this template by simply SOLVING PROBLEMS as the core purpose for their article focus.

I can tell you this:

Some fail at this template when they talk for 99% of their article on the “WHY” solving the pain is important vs. the “HOW” to solve the pain. We would say that this type of ‘cheating’ is like failing to deliver on the promise made on your article title.

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Soichiro Honda once said, “Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be through repeated failure and introspection”.

I think that failure is synonymous for learning lesson. You can do nothing about the past, but you can change the future.

In 1986, Halle Berry, Miss USA, did not qualify for the finals at the Miss World pageant in London, UK. In addition, she was favorite until last second. Who is the greatest black actress of All-Time? Halle. I remember when she had won the Academy Award. I could not believe it was true. What happened? She worked without letup (more perseverance than talent). Certainly, Halle Berry is an example…she loves her work!

Alejandro

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I believe that the people who learn from their failures go onto greater things, but I also have observed that most often, people learn from their successes and attempt to repeat them or use that knowledge to keep going more often, most people generally do not learn from their failures. The definition of insanity yes, but that is generally what happens.

So, when you see a super star like Halle Berry learn from both her successes and failures, well it’s just amazing what they can do. So, I enjoyed your point here today Alejandro, continued success to you my friend and may your failures in life lead to the same patterns of success of great characters of our time.

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Yes, there are many people:Carl Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Pele and Steven Spilberg. I am agree with you: many people accept their failures. For example, Uruguayan football players. Uruguay did not win the FIFA World Cup since 1950.
Many thanks for your comments

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Alejandro,

Indeed, I did enjoy your list, these are very important folks to have as role models, here is a list of folks that I believe everyone should study:

http://www.carwashguys.com/0021803_2.shtml

I put this list together to assist others who want to reach their dreams, and yes, sometimes you cannot avoid the pain, but understanding the pains that they went through, well it might be some wise lessons to learn in advance of that journey.

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Lance,

Thanks again

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Last night I was up to 3:15 AM dealing with failure, real failure, which can easily happen for a published author who writes for years on his books. Some sell. Others don’t.

Being a published author means business relationships with others, means big sums of money.

Behind any of these ideas on this blog, or countless other blogs, are real world successes and failures, I am sure.

When I worked as a dreamwork psychologist how I worked with people could also mean success or failure. Sometimes other psychotherapists sent their failures to me. Very difficult.

Was I to help them handle their failures? Was I to help them become successes? Was I a success?

The identity problem is defining yourself as a success. Some find it more to their liking to define themselves as failures.

In my experience as a psychologist I would change the avoid pain formula maybe a bit for writing articles.

Find a person’s true motivation and help them with it.

-Are they basically a person who is always struggling with their failures, their pain?

-Are they persons almost always trying to make a success of things, taking opportunities whenever they can, using their resources as effectively as possible?

So please consider then two kinds of pain, for yourself, and for others. Know your own pain and try not to give it to others but deal with it yourself. Seek healing.

If you are not a trained psychotherapist but a writer of articles or in business, still know what kind of a person you are writing for.

-To help them get out of their pain?

-To help them maximize their potentials into successes?

My observation: there are these two kinds of personality differences. Those who live life from negative motivation and those who live life from positive motivation.

The EzineArticles pain formula, I speculate, only works for negative motivated people, not for positive motivated people.

Right now I have a business partner of each kind, and believe me, the mix does not go easily, and may be impossible.

-For the complainers of the world who live from fear of hurt: stick together!

For the excited idealists of the world who seek out the opportunity in everything: stick together!

Keep your distance, you two! You don’t work well together!

And watch out if you find yourself in between!

The sun rises, but it also shuts down for the moon to take over, but still there is utter darkness. The light needs darkness to shine.

These are my original ideas. Please acknowledge a bit if you use them in some writing of yours.

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Good points, now here is a thought. Indeed, a very positive hard charger may not want all the doom and gloom in the “Pain Avoidance Template” first discussed in the Blog Article by Chris. So, what if you cut down the “pain” or calamity or stressful obstacles that exist and concentrate more on the conquering of adversity part. Indeed, this could be used good for either personalities; that is to say the “misery loves company” crowd types (BTW-I agree) and still fulfill at least some of the expectations of the champion or challenge seeker success story (or success belief system individual).

So, if we limit the problem and capitalize and spend 2/3 pr 3/4 more time on the solution, then perhaps we catch the interest of the negatively motivated sole, but still catch and pique the curiosity of the “Believe to Achieve” optimist?

In saying this, we must realize that the title, must be almost ambiguous double meaning. Why? Because a negatively motived person will click on the article, but a optimist must have strong power words to motivate them to click on the title, then if we are careful, maybe we can keep both interested long enough to read it without clicking out, as a true article marketer hopes, so they get to the bottom of the article and want to learn more?

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I recently received the notification about the “Pain” template. I found it interesting in that I am about to send in an article on Physical Pain and a way to control/eliminate it.

I read all of the comments and only found one that actually mentioned physical pain, (bicycle racing husband). All of the rest have been mental or psychological related pains (not to deminish them). I very much enjoyed Strephon’s idea of presonalization.

My feeling is that when I am dealing with people that I need to personalize the relationship whereas with objects it is a totally different situation.

About the template, I view it as an excellent outline for just about any kind of marketing presentation. As Chris pointed out he encountered it via Tony Robbins and realizes that Tony also got it from somewhere else. That does not make it any less of an excellent general format that can be followed for just about any presentation.

Strephon and myself and probably a few others find that personalization also has its place in article writing. I tend to personalize mine where appropriate.

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Maybe not altogether NEW, but VERY well and nicely put. Thanks! I posted that little snip on my bulletin board…
Lee

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Not only is the post on this particular blog post interesting and an excellent idea for article templates, but the comments have been quite helpful as well.

Variations of this same template style offer thought for revision of the template. Perhaps the “Charger” style would be more effective, where you avoid mention of the problem at all, but rather concentrate on the solution and focus the reader on solving the problem. Then by way of solution, bring the reader back to your website link via product or service fulfillment.

The ideal marketing solution is just one click away… I’m thinking it embarks on a new sales strategy. (Or at very least reminds us of an old one worthy of revival.)

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I enjoy the manner how articles are grouped by date, month and year. Exorbitant to spot that approximately all posts are banded together with related photos. I recommend this to any who wishes to dwell into this topic. After you read a post you can’t wait to see another one for the comments given. The writer appears to know the pulse of the industry. The titles are so cleverly written, it demands you to read. What I enjoy is the feature of share this with a friend. You can find a lot from reading the comments and feedbacks.

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hi,great way to write articles. But i write in my blog for the so call web dummies , in this respect i remember when i was a web dummy too and all the trouble i went throught.For this reason to highlight the pain is more than a smart way of selling ! But i think is a realistic way of exposing facts ! Next To give a solution is probably the reason why made me open the blog, to help people disclosing what you have found after years of search and endless hours ..i know you all know what i mean !! Your reader has to understand what is his problem first and then the solution.In the case of computer world ther`s so many way to avoid pain and useless stress , but most of the people they yust ignore all the new software and they need sombody who as to show them the pain and then the solution….thank for opening this topic it is of course a great one for bloggers.

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Rosso, I am so sorry, I must need a cup of coffee, but I didn’t quite get that. Can you please re-explain what you are trying to say?

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Awesome stuff! this is why ezine articles is the best! great training and help. It is awesome for people who start out.

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Enjoyed reading the article, Chris. You are absolutely correct; we try to avoid pain sometimes at all cost.

This is one of the reasons people give into their fears. For example, starting an online business, some people would rather avoid the pain that comes with the fear of failing. Therefore, they negate the pleasure of gaining personal freedom and unlimited wealth.

Just my .02 cents.

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Chris,
As an aspiring article writer I would say, “Thank You”, for this template and your desire to establish excellence within this community.

At present my niche deals with helping people learn how to do something that is pleasurable – playing an instrument – However, there is much to discuss on both the “pain” side as well as the pleasure side so for me this template and the following comments are most pertinent.

It is my goal to start placing articles on this venue and use article marketing as my main focus to building a business.

In the spirit of good debate it would seem that Light does not need darkness to shine.

Light IS – darkness happens when light leaves that environment, shining is not dependent upon the presence of darkness. Darkness happens only when light is removed from the environment.

Pertaining to who first used this template:

I would suggest that in the book of Genesis Satan first used this tactic to create a need within Eve to have something she felt was lacking in her life.

The fear of loss – most of us have this to one degree or another.

Respectfully

Reeder

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The template has set me thinking. The reason why so many of us avoid taking the first step is the uncertainity surrounding the action and the possible outcome, pain, if it does not succeed. The action can be bsiness, emotional overtures or letting go if something.
Fear and Pain is inter related because if we take out fear then pain will be of no value….

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Great stuff! This information could increase traffic to your site if you are using article marketing. It has similar language to good copywriting techniques.

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