"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- Norman Vincent Peale
Entries by bronwynr
Effective Communication Tips for Today’s Manager
This is a great article .... The ideas are simple, but powerful, and they apply as much to public speaking as they do to conversation. Some of the headings are: Express your thoughts clearly: The effective communicator has empathy: Be "truly present" . Be a good listener: ... and more - you can read the […]
Unique Ideas Are Not Important to Win
Ideas are always a creative response to a problem without a present-day solution. People dream them up as the wonder what they might do to solve their problems, and they draw on inspirations from their environments around them to do so. What people forget is that neither their problems, nor the inspirations from which they […]
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert
The Invitation
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and of you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for […]
“Tell them what you’re going to say. Say it. Then tell them what you said”
Ah ... a contentious statement, that! What do you think? A great way to visualise the structure of your presentation or speech? Yes. True. It's simplistic, and yes it has been abused. Audiences may have short attention spans, but they need some subtelty from you. But then, used subtly, yes it does work. And that […]
Thought for Thursday
Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life. Bo Bennett
Thought for Thursday
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." Pablo Picasso
