On January 12 and 13, I will instructing Freedom Personal Development’s Reading Smart- Speed Reading Workshop – at the Doubletree Hotel in Oakbrook, IL.

If you have not yet reserved your seat, please enroll today (online or by phone 888-233-0407) space is limited.  You can view our National Workshop Schedule for additional dates Read More...

I have long been fascinated by how my mental preparation has preceded specific results.

If I visualize an event going smoothly, it always goes better than if I go into it to “dominate” or “kick-butt.”

If you’ve ever noticed that your mental approach to a situation affects your results, you–like me–may find the following video enlightening.

The video is an Englishman who swam at the North Pole in 29-degree water (below freezing) for 1 km and at a newly formed lake (from a melted glacier) on Mt. Everest at 17,388 feet (5300 m), which is higher than any continental U.S. peak.

Part of his talk is on climate change, but the majority of his talk is on the important lesson that he shares on the radical Read More...

Tom Weber recently spoke at the Illinois Association of REALTORS Convention and shared with them ways to improve the health of their brains.  A fit mind leads to a better memory.  In this video, Tom shares 4 quick tips you can use today to improve your brain’s health.

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If you watch nature, there are many events that take place that involve a high degree of power such as storms, earthquakes, tornados, floods, and all of them cause dramatic changes to whatever they come in contact with at the moment. And all of this happens without the storm, tornado, or flood caring about the results.

Many times we try to force a result, when if we just did our job to the best of our ability then the results would take care of themselves.

How we can use this to our advantage?

It starts with faith, and it is the faith that you will be taken care of no matter what the results. Faith that you are going to be OK and that everything happens for a reason, and even if pain is the result that Read More...

Ever forget someone’s name seconds after meeting them? Wish you could give presentations without notes? Would your life be easier if you could instantly recall important information about your clients or materials for exams?

If you can relate, the Memory Training Workshop is for you!

On September 27 and 28, I will be instructing the Memory Training Workshop in Oak Brook, IL at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago Oak Brook.  If this date and location does not Read More...

Thanks for all of the great entries!  It was tough to pick a winner this month. There were many good questions and some of them were technical in nature and others were a revelation of the fear that many people possess. Our two winners seemed to really have some serious fear when in front of large groups so I had to award the prizes to them because of their honesty. Perhaps winning a contest will give them a reason to smile the next time they are about to present in front of a group and that will help loosen them up a bit. I think some of the answers that all of those with questions had can be found in the advice Read More...

When it comes to public speaking, there are two extremes of the speaking spectrum – those who are terrified of presenting to a group and those who always jump at the chance to be in front of an audience. Most people fall somewhere between these two points depending on the size and make up of the audience. Where are you on the speaking spectrum?

In the business world, it is often our job to lead meetings, give presentations to clients and talk in front of rooms full of people. Being an effective communicator, both one-on-one and in front of a group, is necessary to inform, educate and persuade. The better you are able to express your ideas, the more success you will experience.

This month’s contest has two Read More...

For a moment, I’d like you to imagine that you are in a deep dark tropical jungle and you are completely lost. You are not quite sure which way is North, South, East or West. You can’t see the sun because the tree canopy above is so thick, which also means that you can’t see any of the mountains that you have been trying to find.

Suddenly, in the distance you hear a small group of friendly voices and the sounds of machetes chopping through the thick undergrowth. Like any smart adventurer you head towards the sounds of those voices, hoping that they will be able to point you in the right direction or let you join them.

Unfortunately, as you don’t have a machete it is slow going for you get to where those voices Read More...

In preparing for this article, I had a powerful realization. It struck me that many times when we are in need of motivation or ideas to improve ourselves, we tend to look for new concepts in new books, new CD’s and new teachers. If we could revisit what we had learned in the past, perhaps we would find a deeper level of understanding and answers our own questions.

I would like to suggest that you go back to your own bookshelf, or wherever you keep your learning tools, and pull something off of the shelf that you have not paged through or listened to in the last year.

These tools could be anything – training manuals, sales books, notes from a seminar, notes from a meeting or seminar etc. I would bet that Read More...

It is officially spring and that means many things to many people. One thing that is certain is that farmers are getting ready to plant. Whatever your background or upbringing, the example of a farmer about to start planting has relevance to you, and offers lessons to improve your business and life.

Now if you did not grow up in a rural area, you probably don’t know what that entails. You may think that as soon as its warm, farmers start up their tractors, pour seeds in the planter, and take off across the field. But it is a little more complicated than that. Let me explain.

Before a field is ready to be sown full of seeds, there is preparation that is critical to the final results. In the winter the Read More...