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From Rober Schwartz We all have an inner critic living inside us who speaks up at times, in varying degrees, negatively evaluating our own actions and those of others. As facilitators and coaches we have many opportunities to deal with our inner critic. We might doubt or judge ourselves harshly about how we dealt with […]
PowerPoint Alternatives - From Browsers to Blogs, Part II In Part I of PowerPoint Alternatives, I talked about presenters who use HTML to display the visual portion of their presentation. Now that blogs are popular, some speakers are using blogs as presentation tools, including Steven Cohen of Library Stuff fame. Here’s a presentation he created […]
A wide-ranging collection of odd words and trivia about language. Try the history of "dord" on page one, and then try to stop browsing through the rest. Thanks Sneedle Flipsock http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world." Michael Josephson
Done right, budgets are the sexiest, most exciting, challenging and delightful documents you'll ever read! Your budget ... tells you how much your business will grow, and how. Your budget tells you what you will learn, what equipment or skills you will add. It gives you a "sneak peak" at your marketing, your new services, […]
by George Eliot Middlemarch presents a vast panorama of life in a provincial Midlands town. At the story’s center stands the intellectual and idealistic Dorothea Brooke. But the very qualities that set Dorothea apart from the materialistic, mean-spirited society around her also lead her into a disastrous marriage with a man she mistakes for her […]
Edith Wharton wrote: "True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
Fred Everhart read the mail and felt sick. What would the kids do? Fred, head of the recreation commission, experienced what many American towns and committees felt - loss of funds. Greenfield, Ohio, population 5000, just another town reliant on the auto industry. Five hundred jobs (70% of the town's industrial employment) would be gone […]
Since you only die once, but you could live to give many speeches, why not learn to make public speaking easier? Here's what I did to help me take center stage—joyously!—at my book launch event: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/self-promotion-introverts/200910/public-speaking-private-people
