Yup! You are the C.E.O. of your dream. Is that scary? Is that an eye-opener? Think about it. You can delegate, hire consultants, have teachers, but you are still 100% responsible. Yes, 100%. It’s your dream, not your parents, not your kids, not your friends. It’s yours. Think about it. Dreams are yours. The desire…
When you get negative unsolicited feedback, how does it make you feel? Do you get defensive? Do you react or respond? Do you let it get the better of you? Do you change the way you do things, or dig in your heels deeper? It’s been said that you know you’ve “made it” when people start despising you,…
We all have a past. Some memories are good, and some memories painful, but they all make us who we are. Adversities and lack of misfortunes shape us, like it or not. I was fortunate to grow up in a loving home in Auburn, a small town in central Massachusetts. My dad, a Veteran, worked…
We all have moments of wonder as a youngster. We can easily be impressed. Did you ever notice the memories that stick with us, good and bad, are the ones connected with a deep emotion? That emotional memory peg is why we remember the moment. It becomes etched in your brain forever and can be…
Collateral growth? What does that mean? It’s a learning effect you may not be fully capitalizing on. Never heard of it? I just coined this self-development phrase based on a recent experience. (It is also a medical term, but I’m taking credit for my version in our industry. Tee hee.) What does it mean? Let’s…
I was still in grade school when I was being made fun of because of my awkward, ugly black shoes, which were two different sizes. Now, I don’t know about you, but I love my mom, but she has zero sense of fashion. Let’s say what she thinks is cute does not really jive with…
Question: If you met someone over coffee, and with sincerity and conviction, they say to you, “I wanna win the World Championship of Public Speaking.” What would you say to them? How do you think you could best help them with their goal? If it was me, and I really wanted to help them, I’d…
We often work really hard on creating powerful presentations. That is good! Hard work usually pays off. When the hard work is for a presentation, our work multiplies every time we deliver it, and again for every audience member who listens. People in your audience, however, are not all the same. They come to you…
My mentor, Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE said, “Tell me what you say you want, show me one week of your life, and you and I will both know if you’ll ever achieve it.” Wow! Truth bomb! She says that it is easy to say you want anything, but it will never happen unless you are…
OK, how serious are you about truly impacting your audience? We’ve heard about learning styles and the Myers Briggs tests. Still, have you considered who the people really are in your audience and, more importantly, what they really need from you? Let’s sit down with three of them and hear their actual truth. We are…