Just love this one …
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs – ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Harold Thurman Whitman
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I updated the Resources for Families pages over the weekend, and if you are interested, these are the pages updated….
but I wanted to share this book review that I also added.
All New Square Foot Gardening (Paperback) by Mel Bartholomew
…anyone, anywhere can enjoy a Square Foot garden. Children, adults with limited mobility, even complete novices can achieve spectacular results.
I’ve rarely seen a more reader-friendly book! It comes complete with layout pages, very consise planting guides, even planting time tables for your area and the amount of time you can store your seeds! If you have never gardened before or started a garden that eventually left you frustrated, then this is the book for you! I just think that you should check your area for agricultural grade vermiculite before you buy the book. But once that little snafu is over, you are going to be amazed at how brilliant and easy this book makes successful gardening. I highly recommend this method for busy people and parents like myself. It is wonderfully easy to maintain, makes loads of produce, and looks very attractive. Two green thumbs way, way up.
Amazon – $13.59
This week’s Just for Fun post comes from Bill Bradley
–You know you’re living in 2006 when…
1. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
4. Your boss doesn’t have the ability to do your job.
5. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
More humour at my Just for Fun web page …
Tag: humour
This is a brand new article, and is actually an extract from my online course on how to write a great speech.
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To create a great speech or presentation you certainly need content that will appeal to your audience and that will support the impact you want to make. Research will find you that content. But you also need to research vital details about audience, venue and context if that speech is to be successful and is to have the impact that you want it to create. Read on …
Tag: public speaking
Communication and language is changing and evolving rapidly. So it was interesting to join the community at a new blog called “Language Rules.” It is devoted to the rules of American English and I am enjoying being part of the community. At first I thought “What relevance can we make of these rules in a climate that seems bent on flaunting them?” But I’ve realised, since, that there are people who want to abide by those rules and need to know what they are. Check out Language rules.
And on the subject of Communication, I’ve updated the webpages on communication if you want to visit.
Two new articles:
Continuing the message
Review Techniques: Keeping Acquired Information Fresh in Your Mind
Two new success tips:
Meetings, Communication
Tags: language, communication, English, grammar
This headline jumped out at me this morning. Strange because so many headlines about sporting figures are there, but not of interest.
(I will digress for a moment, though, and comment that I followed a series of American news items about an athlete with a broken leg. There was huge attention – the story ran for days and it wan’t until I read what must have been about the fifth day’s story that I realised it was a horse!! – I thought it must be a football player!!)
There are stories about individual athletes and their performances or lack of, about coaches, about teams. Many of these people are treated in the news items as if they are celebrities and the whole industry seems to be surrounded with media magic.
So it is attention-grabbing for me to read about a person putting their sporting career on hold to attend college – what give up that huge commitment, that magic status to go to college? What has college to offer in comparison?
I’m off to investigate participation in two blogging endeavours –
successjolt and language rules. See you there!
Bronwyn
I’m just so sorry he has gone. For all of us who wonder if there is anything we can do for the environment, he was a hero, and did something. For all of us who wonder if cruelty to animals and lack of concern for their future is going to take over, he was a hero and did something. For all of us who think life can be very hum drum sometimes, he was passionate. I wanted him to go on forever .. and he didn’t. I’m sorry Steve – for you, for your wife, for your beautiful little children and for all of us who will be the worse because you’ve gone.
Tag: Steve Irwin
I celebrated International blog Day with the Thali over at Libraries Interact. It was a challenge to define just what blogging means to me, but easier to list 5 blogs I enjoy. They area diverse list, but I’m very happy to share them. Have a happy blog day!!
Thanks to Cognitive Daily for the article Is “Dumb Jock” an accurate stereotype? While you pose the question
with more and more studies demonstrating that athletic participation is associated with higher academic performance, why does the stereotype persist?
I suspect that maybe you are generalising too far. I grew up with the stereotype – either dumb jock or academic brain, but not both. I live in a household of males, all of whom love their sport and both sons play football, basketball and cricket. While I know that there are many sporting activities particularly athletics where there is no longer any dumb jock behaviour, I see it persisting in the football rooms still. Any announcement after a game of football was accompanied by skulling (is that how you spell it?), last time I attended. I was mortified to see it still existed. Does success on a football field still depend on that masculine, blokey testosterone fuelled atmosphere?
Two new articles:
Incorporate Humour in your next Presentation
Public Speaking Resource:
“Little Things That Have a Big Payoff: Secrets to Making Real Money in the Speaking and Consulting Business” with Shep Hyken, CSP
You’ve watched speakers on the platform that you *know* make four times as much money as you, and thought to yourself, “He isn’t four times as good a speaker as I am.”
So what’s the difference?
Little things, usually. Maybe that speaker knows how to close more bookings, at a higher average fee. Maybe he knows how to get a lot of repeat business. Maybe he knows how to get the client to buy a large quantity of products to give to the audience. Maybe all of these, and more. The point is, if you have the chance to hear a highly successful speaker explain some of the “little things” he does to get extraordinary results for his business, you might want to listen.
You will learn:
* A powerful question that will help you discover your client’s core needs.
* A system to help qualify and define your *ideal* clients.
* An offer you can make to your clients that will separate you from 99% of your competition.
* Techniques used to sell large quantity product orders.
* How to make more money *and* take more time off.
* Strategies to multiply and duplicate past successes.
* And more.
Shep has developed marketing strategies and practices that have brought him top business success. He is going to share them with us in his August 16 teleseminar.
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Speech Making Success Tip:
If the structure of your speech involves ”Tell them what you are going to say, say it and tell them what you just said…” then the Introduction, Body and Conclusion are vital. But just as crucial, are the links between those parts – the bridging. They provide another opportunity to remind the audience of your message, and to link the parts together seamlessly. Often as you take breath to launch into the next point of your speech, the following utterance carries the weight of that breath or pause, and therefore is an ideal opportunity to reinforce your message.
tag: Public Speaking