One of the best speakers in corporate America, Steve Jobs not only conveys information, he inspires.

Here are some of the key techniques Steve Jobs uses to electrify his audiences that you can incorporate into your presentations:

1. Unveil a single headline that sets the theme and direction for your presentation. This headline will give your audience a reason to listen.

2. Make your theme clear and consistent throughout your presentation.

3. Provide an outline and provide a clear transition in Read More...

The very first “motivational speaker” I heard as an adult was a gentleman named Mort Utley. I experienced his speech in May of 1989 in Nashville, Tennessee, at the end of a week of Sales School with the Southwestern Company.

I was 19 years old and had just finished my freshman year at the University of Wisconsin, and Mr. Utley’s speech was the final component of my formal training to sell educational books door-to-door for the summer. I was absolutely coming out of my skin with an indescribable combination of intense excitement and great fear. Mort Utley’s speech made one of the most “un-motivational” statements I had ever heard. He Read More...

There are many lessons you can learn from the natural world, but do you know how to apply these lessons? Let us revisit the concept of flexibility by looking at what the Tao te Ching says about it:

Men are born soft and supple;
Dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
Dead, they are brittle and dry.

Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
Is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
Is a disciple of life.

The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail.

So, how can this message from Read More...

Who said this? “Never give up! Never give up! Never, ever give up!”

If you answered “Winston Churchill”, you would be correct! Thank goodness, there were men like him in the day when the world needed them most.

His message, of course, was related to World War II, but its implications for our lives are profound.

If a person gives up on his or her dream, all that will surely follow is sadness and depression. You need to team up with someone who will encourage you to “never, ever give up”. If you do not have a friend, parent, sibling, or spouse who fills this role for you as your biggest supporter, it can be very, very hard to persist.

In fact, those who should and could be Read More...

When a tree faces a windstorm or a snowstorm, it has two options: fall over or withstand the force.

A friend of mine is a landscape architect. He talks about Bradford Pear trees with great disdain because they are such a popular choice in landscaping, and yet they are weak trees. Although they look pretty, due to their poor roots and thin branches, they deteriorate in about 20 years if they do not toppled in a windstorm sooner. Storms do not strengthen the Bradford Pear tree, they destroys it.

However, many other varieties of trees actually strengthen in storms. With hearty trunks and branches that flex in storms, they withstand the strength of the snow or wind and continue to grow stronger. Read More...

Watch this movie video morning and start you day in an upbeat way. Repeating and feeling this affirmations will also help attract positive results into your life.

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I am not surprised when people in my reading smart workshops tell me they tend to fall asleep while they read, especially work or study material.

My first question to them is “Where do you read?” Many of them say they read in bed, others say they read on a comfortable couch or their favorite reclining chair. Well, hello?! Think about it! If you are reading in these locations, then you might just be TOO comfortable!

Reading work or study material in a comfortable place is not the ideal place to expect to get a lot Read More...

Emotional health refers to your overall psychological well-being. People who are emotionally healthy handle stress well, deal with challenges as opportunities, have a positive self-image, and are able to sustain healthy relationships. Review the following tips on how to stay emotionally healthy.

1. Laugh often – Emotional benefits of laughter include feeling a sense of contentment and joy, shifting your perspective to a positive outlook, giving you more courage and hope, dissolving tense situations, and improving overall mood.

2. Do frequent feelings checks – Determine how you feel when you wake up in the morning. If the feeling is negative, figure out what’s Read More...

I want to share with you one of the quickest and easiest ways to give yourself quantum leaps in your energy level and it hardly takes any time.

What is it? It involves releasing the heaviest and most destructive emotion that you carry around with you. You know what it is? Sadness? No. Depression? No. It is anger.

Anger that you carry around weighs you down and sucks the energy out of your life. I am continually amazed how many people, and even kids, carry around anger for so long that is just unnecessary.

For some of you reading this, there is something that a boss or a co-worker said to you a week ago that ticked you off and you are still mad about it. For others, there is Read More...

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. People tend to keep looking outside of their own self to find solutions to problems that happen within their own self.

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