557: A Tribute to John Ruhlin - The Power of Thoughtful Gifting
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Hal Elrod
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We all want to feel appreciated, and one of the most powerful ways to show love and gratitude to someone is through the art of gift-giving. Especially when the gift is both incredibly thoughtful and unexpected, which is something I learned from one of the best to ever do it.
Today’s episode is a tribute to one of my dearest friends, John Ruhlin, who tragically passed away recently. John was the author of Giftology, a book that has completely transformed how I think about leveraging the power of thoughtful gift-giving to optimize my personal and professional relationships.
John was literally one of the best gift-givers in the world and a great friend to everyone in his orbit. For 25 years, I had the privilege of learning countless things from him. Today, I’m sharing 5 key lessons he taught me on how to build better relationships through the art of radical generosity.
When giving someone a gift is done right, it can strengthen the bonds with the people you love and even transform your professional and personal relationships. John made it an art form, and I’m excited to pass on his wisdom to you.
If you’d like to support John’s legacy further, you can get a 70% discount for his Referral Partner Transformation course. All proceeds will go directly to John’s wife, Lindsey, and their four beautiful daughters.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Go beyond the usual and create genuine “Wow” moments with your gifts
- Go all in when it comes to appreciating others
- Make the gift about them, not you
- How to make sure your gift hits the mark and with their loved ones too
- You don’t need to spend a fortune to get the perfect gift
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.5 | I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, and we ask them to give you a |
| 0:24.0 | peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same. |
| 0:28.0 | Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello friends, welcome to the |
| 0:33.0 | the |
| 0:35.0 | this is your host Hal Elrod and today is a tribute to my good friend John |
| 0:39.7 | Rulin and this episode is dedicated to John. It is dedicated to supporting his family and his legacy. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm sharing with you five of the lessons that I learned from John. He's one of the most prolific gift givers in the world. He is the author of giftology and I'm going to share five lessons that I learned about appreciating other people through the art of gift giving. Now these five strategies, these five |
| 1:05.8 | lessons, they apply if you're giving gifts to your spouse or your family or your |
| 1:10.1 | friends, but they also apply and maybe more so if you're giving gifts to your clients or |
| 1:16.1 | your employees or your referral partners or in fact if you're not giving gifts to those people, |
| 1:21.5 | hopefully this will open your eyes to why that is such an |
| 1:23.9 | important strategy for really making people feel acknowledged and |
| 1:28.9 | appreciated by giving them a gift that they will use regularly, maybe every single day. |
| 1:37.0 | They will think of you, they will feel the love and appreciation from you for that gift. In fact one of the things that John said in regards to why gift giving was so important is that a physical gift is a representation of the value you place on a relationship. |
| 1:56.1 | You'll hear me say that again during the episode, but a physical gift, right? |
| 1:59.6 | If you give someone a gift, a physical gift, every time they look at it, they feel those warm and fuzzy feelings. |
| 2:05.1 | And John's company, the Ruling Group, and his book Giftology, which I highly recommend, I'll talk |
| 2:10.3 | more about that in the episode, but it was essentially opening people's eyes to, |
| 2:15.4 | we can do this, like there's the way this is done, |
| 2:17.6 | which is like buying people whatever gift you think they might like or giving clients your gift with your logo on it. |
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