Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame then you have given them control.
Bob Perks
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The Instrument is an interactive, self-directed, multi-sensory, multimedia tool that will help you build and create whatever you desire. It is specifically designed to help you focus your awareness, clarity your thoughts, and provoke you toward deliberate, explicit, and 'awareful' creation.
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with Shawne Duperon
Your speaking, training and consulting career can be helped or hindered by how you come across on camera, whether it’s a media interview, your demo DVD or a YouTube segment. Video media exposure can expand your visibility exponentially to potential customers and powerfully cement your credibility — when you use it well! If not, it can actually hurt your brand.
Using on-camera strategies and tactics, Shawne shares all the inside secrets to become exquisite on camera.
In this content-rich teleseminar, you will learn:
How to avoid on-camera mistakes
How to “dance” in a TV interview
Where to look when you’re on-camera
The best camera-ready clothing to wear
The difference between taped and live interviews
How to talk in 2- to 3-sentence “sound bites”
Why the first question is the most important
When and why you should “parrot” the reporter
How to meet both the reporter’s needs and your messaging goals
After this session with former TV reporter Shawne Duperon, you will understand how to be outrageously charismatic on camera. Over the last 20 years, five-time Emmy award winner Shawne has interviewed presidents, celebrities and sports stars. She’s filmed Colin Powell, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Morgan Freeman, YoYo Ma, Phil Mickelson and Bill Cosby to name a few. She knows what it takes to be great on camera and have reporters, producers and editors coming back for more.
Register or order the CD or MP3 recording. Note: people who register for the teleseminar will get the MP3 recording of the session for free.
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
- William Shakespeare
The Girl who played with fire
The Girl who played with fire
by Steig Larsson
Dozens of authors and thousands of readers will converge on Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center on May 16 and 17 for the National Black Book Festival.
Featured authors will include Roland S. Martin (Speak Brother! A Black Man's View of America), Mary B. Morrison (Noire, Single Husbands) and Persia Walker (Harlem Redux, Darkness and the Devil Behind Me)
"The power to move the world is in the subconscious mind."
-- William James
"Fun is about as good a habit as there is."
Jimmy Buffett
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Do I have to forfeit a life of quality in order to make my dreams of abundance come true?
No, it turns out. The answer is a resounding no.
Neither my family, my spirit, nor my health has to pay in order for me to make millions. In fact, it can be easy.
Mark Allen was the first to put it in terms that you can understand. You get to understand that while following his dream of total financial success, he did not sacrifice his family life, his personal time, nor any other interests that were important to him. He managed to make millions “in an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, and in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all.”
Playing or listening to music can create a feeling of well being, which affects the vascular system.
-- If you didn't catch the white coat and the stethoscope, you might take Dr. Mike Miller for a middle-aged rocker, roaming the halls of the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
For years, Miller, a research cardiologist, has been studying the effects of happiness -- or things that make people happy -- on our hearts. He began his research with laughter, and found watching funny movies and laughing at them could actually open up blood vessels, allowing blood to circulate more freely.
Miller thought, if laughter can do that, why not music? So, he tested the effects of music on the cardiovascular system. "Turns out music may be one of the best de-stressors -- either by playing or even listening to music," said Miller. ... more
Lazy Little Loafers
by Susan Orleon
Ever experienced stroller envy? Ever wished you were applauded just for walking across a room? Ever wanted to loaf about the park on a blanket in the middle of a school day with nothing on your agenda but being relaxed and happy? Then you should be a baby. They’ve got it made.
In this charming, droll story, a world-weary older sister ponders the question, why don’t more babies work? Her answers, hilariously tinged with resentment, offer up a wickedly accurate picture of just how great babies have it.
There are two types of speeches used in public speaking, either you are “selling” something or you are “telling” something. The type of speech you select will depend on the reason you are presenting, and the nature of your audience.
In public speaking selecting the right type of speech will increase the effectiveness of your speech. The purpose of your speech can range from enjoyment to convincing the audience to take a certain action. How much the audience knows about your topic and their attitude towards it, also needs to be considered when selecting the type of speech you will deliver. ... more
