Friday, March 27, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
An Inspirational film that touches your Soul
The people who believe will succeed and you can too. We are all winners waiting to claim our prize of living a fruitful life with passion.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
5 Dynamic thoughts to engage your audience
One of the challenges most speakers would face is to engage the audience or get them involved. To have a non responsive crowd would not be a good thing. The speaker with all his enthusiasm and excitement pounces into action to inspire the audience to speak and has a mental timer inbuilt waiting to trigger of the audience to be involved. One of the many outcomes the speaker could face would have not knowing when would be the appropriate or right time.
It just would be too late and awkward to realize from the time the presenter asks for the crowd’s participation and coming to the rude awakening that he is not getting the desired outcome. That would crush him or cause him or her to make further mistakes, creating a not so promising atmosphere and an uneventful presentation.
My brothers and sisters, we can avoid these situations. Let me spark off some ideas that could alter the course of your presentation and making it not only interactive but interesting as well.
Build Bridges
Some preparation that you could do is to make as many friends of the audience as possible. You could do it before your speech or during the speech complimenting your audience, possibly gaining some favouritism or eventually some fans. Just by making friends so that you are not talking to a cold audience.
Observe bodies that speak
Look out for possible gestures and movements of your audience and pay closer attention to those that nod for approval or smile and build on them. They are your anchors that illuminate your environment. They can possibly assist you in the interactive portion of your speak.
Be a Story Teller
Stories are always great, but people would be more engaged if it were your story, personalize it to make it powerful. By doing so, it allows the audience to relate to you and share with them you are actually one of them. The walls of barriers would come down. If possible inject some witty humour or even ask the audience what they think the morale of the story is or it would be even better letting them share a similar short experience or story, encouraging participation. You would be able to set the scene or the mood; this allows you to channel your energy to the audience, making it two ways.
Play the Game
Everyone that I know of loves to be involved in a game. Playing a game allows the creative juices out, makes us relive our childhood and enables us to relax. When you show the audience or make them have a great time, you will be rewarded with the flood gates of an appreciative crowd. Use it as a fantastic leverage.
Gift Giver
Leading you on a truth, just like a kid with a candy, everyone adores the fact of walking away with something. If they realize that they would be gaining something from their painstaking presentation that would charge them up.
See it in your mind's eye of having a dynamic and engaging presentation, gaining participation is a mental obstacle. Use these five ideas to help you in your road to motivating and inspiring your audience. A food for thought from E.W Howe "No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next."
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Energize the magnet that attracts money
“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what the root of all money is?”Quote from Ayn Rand
"Show me the money!","He is a filthy rich selfish scrooge!", "She is born with a golden spoon, born into riches!", "Money is the root of all evil!”. Stop for a moment and realize what you are saying, money is not bad, money is good, it is my friend, it is just material. Bo Derek had a saying “Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”
What I sincerely am trying to share with you is that, find a meaningful purpose for the use of that money, the choices that you have, how you could bring joy to your loved ones and go into dream mode. Benjamin Franklin had a saying “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” Find the cause, what you hope to achieve, find the vacuum filler.
Napoleon hill the author of "Think and grow Rich" mentioned something very vital."Thoughts become things." What you see in your mind’s eye and consciously believe it, it might eventually become a reality. Imagine yourself already having that money. Do you see yourself in a volt full of money or do you see yourself with your loved ones in a beautiful environment. It is all about the reason behind why we need that money. It gives us the choice of being free. We no longer have to be a prisoner of our work. No longer to we have to fall in the quicksand of debts and the bugging bills that we have to pay. Just like a ship having a rudder, we have to have a purpose. Do not be a victim of circumstances, be a victor.
My question imposed to all of you is that have you energized your magnet allowing enormous, massive amounts of money rushing towards you, flowing into your life?
Believe you deserve to be comfortable, believe it is one of your family members. Believe in the luxury of life you are destined for. Helen Gurley Brown had a saying “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” Unless if you not believe and if you are going to have a self talk saying that you feel miserable, instead of being poor and miserable, be rich and miserable. Best is to be wealthy in heart, with money and happiness.
In a world of scarce resources, we have use the power of our creativity and imagination to come up with endless possibilities. No Limitations, No Boundaries and No Barriers actually hold us back from achieving the things we want to, our destiny of happiness and abundance of wealth.
Remember you make it possible, you make it happen, and you are the fire started in your engine for attracting large and massive amounts of money in your life. Ayn Rand had another saying “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” Don't be a passenger and let things happen, be the pilot and take charge, what is required for attracting money would be your action and a positive attitude that that would align your channel of wealth.
I would like to sign off with some parting thoughts from Mike Phillips who had a saying “Money will come when you are doing the right thing.” So my friends, it all comes from within, do the right thing and you will see the money.
Spark of the Soul - Laughter
A secret that has been burning inside me and I sincerely would love to share it with anyone and everyone I meet. It is something which does not really require much effort and it is not rocket science. Futhermore it does not cost much at all. Then, what is it that I am rambling about. It simply is the willingness to laugh and have a good time. Laughing is the best medicine for the soul.
Mark Twain had a saying "The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter." This saying is so true, it orders to break a tension, and you just have to alter your tonality of speech, bearing in mind not to offend anyone. A person who in fact laughs all the way actually lasts. Have sometime to gather some of your very close friends and have an organized laughter session. The amazing part is that the fake laughter would blend in so well with the real laughter, that it would nourish the soul.
Voltaire had a saying that "God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." We are too concern of what others would think of us that we keep it to our self and not break the pain that consumes us and eats us alive. Laughter is probably the best release mechanism, just like our mouth is the release valve that extinguishes the hatred and pain and replaces it with a great feeling that makes us want to live each day with joy and passion.
Cat Stevens had a saying "I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry." It is important to realize that by changing our physiology, our human structure and posture that we can alter our presence of mind a ignite the fire of happiness. We all go through pain in our life. What does not break you makes you. I would like to share with you of a story I once heard about a guy who came across a caterpillar in a cocoon on its journey to transform into a beautiful butterfly. He was standing there admiring nature, looking at the beauty of the transformation process. Something that bugged him deeply was seeing the caterpillar struggle to come out of that cocoon. He felt extremely disturbed and sad. He decided to help the poor insect and end its misery of its struggle by using a stick to enlarge the hole so that the caterpillar could come out. The caterpillar slid out easily from the cocoon. To his horror, he realized his greatest mistake. The caterpillar was all shriveled up not able to move. What a mistake he made and came to the understanding that it was nature he was playing with. The caterpillar had to go through that process of forcing itself out of that tiny hole so as to inject the stream of fluid to its wings for it to fly. My intervening, the caterpillar does not have the strength in its wings to fly. His biggest lessons he learn that also applied to us. What does not break you makes you. All of us have to go through the struggle of life to makes us stronger arming us with the vital experience of handling the journey of life. Any tough situation only calls us to laugh out loud that we are being equipped with more experience to face life. Life is good and Life is great.
I would like to close off by saying this quote from Alan alda "Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."My brothers and sisters out there laughter is actually the trigger and the spark of our soul.
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