WRITING & SPEAKING INVOCATION: (TO BE SPOKEN OUT LOUD, WHILE READING THESE WORDS, UNTIL YOU COMMIT THEM TO MEMORY) For best results, read the words in bold italics OUT LOUD just before sitting down to write or deliver a presentation. Ideally, put on your most inspiring music in the background while reading these words [...]
Finding Empowerment Through Letting Go Do you ever find yourself feeling caged like a bird, wings beating against the bars of a situation that you can’t see a way out of? Most people will experience feeling trapped or disempowered at different stages of their lives, and it’s often hard to know what to do about [...]
How to unlock your true self and speak from the heart on all stages of your life? The “Double Extreme” technique. Here's an example of how I've used this tool myself. I was asked to be the featured speaker for a combined group of Toastmaster clubs on the East Coast of the United States. In [...]
This blog post has been created from a video interview that has just aired to thousands of viewers in Australia, on Steve Colquhoun's show on the Fairfax Media Group's The Age newspaper , "Executive Style" Title of Show: The Body Speaks (Speak No Evil) Subtitle: Anyone can stand up in front of a crowd and [...]
Next time you are at work, when you are alone with yourself for a moment, feel what it is like to embrace silence for roughly ten seconds. Silence... Sometimes making contact is even more engaging in the silence than in speaking, having to put on a show. Many of us are completely untrained in this. [...]
Something remarkable happened with me this morning at the end of my movement meditation class: I was speaking with a woman who was telling me she presents to large groups of women all around the world. Somehow, she felt like telling me how it was that she made a breakthrough 20 years ago when she [...]
We use our voices almost every day, yet it’s a part of us that is often taken for granted. When was the last time you stopped and listened to how you say the messages you want to convey? Unless you’re in a profession where recording is par for the course, the answer is probably somewhere [...]
A client I was assisting to create short 3 minute videos of the best of his work asked me, "What to do when I pause in front of a live audience and feel uncomfortable in the silence? What to do?" I suggested that he would do well to guide the group listening to him with [...]
Integrating Personal Development Work Into Your Life Doing personal development work opens up a world of abundance, especially when it is fully integrated into your life. Believe it or not, there are ways of doing personal development without getting the full benefit of it throughout your life. Often this can happen when personal development is [...]
How Fears Of Public Speaking Manifest (and what we can do about it) Having a fear of public speaking is incredibly common. Some studies have even found that up to a quarter of all people are more scared of speaking in front of an audience than they are of death. Public speaking, however, can be [...]