Public Speaking Secret #3 – How Anecdotes Relate Apart from not feeling comfortable speaking about themselves, my clients get most anxious about what they are going to speak about when they make the decision they want to develop presentations and speak from stage....
Are Your Perfectionist Traits Holding You Back? I figure I’m like most people. Not quite a perfectionist but we do like things done to a particular standard. Nothing wrong with that…unless it means we don’t recognise our shortcomings and get help when we need it. And...
Why Take the Road Less Travelled One of my favourite poems of all time is Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” You may have read it and love it as much as I do. If you haven’t then I’d recommend doing so. When I first read this poem I was completed senior studies....
Public Speaking: Practice won’t make you perfect… Why? Practice makes perfect. Well that is what we are constantly told isn’t it? But is it correct? This idea was probably best publicised as Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000-hour rule”, which says that takes 10,000...
Be Happy for No Reason What difference should it make to your business whether you are happy or not? Tons! I regularly see people in my coaching practice who are miserable and don’t know how to find happiness. Many are looking forward at a time in the future they will...
Fall in Love with the Sales Process You may relate to this. I was recently discussing the fact that many of the entrepreneurs I work with get hung up on promoting themselves and their product or service. When we did a deep dive into their reasoning and investigate...
