Every single one of us has received a gift in our lives that have made us feel like the most important person on this planet and knowing that it's easy to see how giving gifts to others will make them feel.

But how often do we tap into the power of gratitude and appreciation and gift giving?

My guest today author of Giftology, John Rulin, joins me to talk about how powerful gift giving can be, how to build credibility and influence through the power of appreciation, some important factors to consider when gift giving, how to avoid it coming across as manipulation and the art and science.

And the importance of giving gifts.

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Now I want to introduce you to my guest and somebody who has become a friend of mine over the past several months, his name is John Rulin.

In fact, last week I had the opportunity to spend some time with John. And I can tell you that this is a man who understands how powerful appreciation and gratitude can be a cool experience we recently had is that when I was out of town last week with John,

one of John's friends who happened to be hosting this event that I was at sent my wife a set of glasses with our initials etched on them and a singing bowl. You have to Google that if you don't know what that is, but that's something my whole family can enjoy.

But my wife ended up sending me a message and said, if I'm going to get cool gifts while you're gone, I'm going to send you away more often so you can see the strategies that he's going to share today actually work.

John is the author of giftology. He's got some incredible incredible clients, including the Cubs, the Jaguars, Wells Fargo, Caesar's Palace so many more, but more importantly, as I said before, John has become a good friend and he's here to talk with us about strategies of giving gifts.

John, what's going on, man? Thanks for joining me on the show today.

Ryan, man, thanks for having me. This is going to be a lot of fun. It is. It's been a couple of months time kind of, you know, blends together when you're as busy as I know both of us are.

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