"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain………………………………………………………………………Resource for the Week:“Set your Goals and Implement them” – a Fr/ee eBook from Pivotal Points. Just send me an email to request it.
How do you make your presentation more interesting to your audience? Perhaps the most important technique is to include them when you speak. You can choose your words to engage your listeners — or leave them out. If you leave them out, boredom is the probable result. In this article, I'll give you some specific […]
"Fortune sides with he who dares.” -- Virgil
"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us -- how we can take it, what we do with it -- and that is what really counts in the end." -- Joseph Fort Newton
Why should I bother using humour in my presentations? Can't I just deliver my information and sit down?You sure can! That's what most people do. The problem is that most people are not effective presenters. They are nighty-nite, snooze-inducing, say-your-prayers, hit-the-sack, unlicensed hypnotists. They are ZZZZZs presenters. They might be experts in their field and […]
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso ………………………………………………………………………Resource for the Week: The Myth Movie Build the business and life of your dreams
"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do." -- Ethel Barrett
University researchers have helped West Australian teachers and schoolstudents tweak their talking skills to better suit modern life. For six months, a team of Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers, Associate Professor Rhonda Oliver, Dr Yvonne Haig and Dr Judith Rochecouste, assisted 50 teachers to investigate the language skills of about 2500 of their students. http://ecumediaqa.ids.ecu.edu.au/popups/mrPopup.asp?mrID=655
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." Og Mandino
From: Jim Rohn I often talk in my seminars about the importance of time and time management -- how rich people and poor people both have the same amount of time every day - 24 hours (which by the way, I find fascinating). This week, as we continue to celebrate the Anniversary of the Weekend […]
" ... kids function best when they're real clear about exactly what's expected of them ..."