We all try to recognise the importance of setting goals throughout our lives to get things done; but among those of us who actually set goals, only a minority are actually able to achieve them. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”](Image courtesy of Dollar Photo Club)[/featured-image] This is strange, considering the fact that many people actually set up small and…
This week I will be hosting my friend and past UK and Ireland Public Speaking champion to a webinar where we will be talking about how to prepare for your next speech competition. Not everyone will be preparing for a speech competition but everyone can benefit from improving their public speaking skills. So let me…
This was one of the semi-final rounds of the 2011 World Champion of Public Speaking in Las Vegas Nevada and I sat mesmerised in the audience having heard 9 highly competent speakers try to win the hearts and minds of the audience and the judges. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”](Image courtesy of Dollar Photo Club)[/featured-image] The third place winner…
There are times in your journey when you know for sure where you are heading, but sometimes, you have to set off on a hunch without much clarity as to the destination. We left the running of the world’s financial markets to people we thought knew what they were doing. Now we know better. A…
The process of creation starts with a thought – an idea, conception, visualisation. Everything you see was once someone’s idea. Nothing exists in your world that did not first start as pure thought ~ Neal Donald Walsch, American author of the series “Conversation with God” [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”](Image courtesy of Dollar Photo Club)[/featured-image] I have always been…
You should have been with me that Sunday afternoon. Standing with my head down and my eyes wide-open waiting for the procession to pass. The trumpeter was blowing “The Trumpet Shall Sound” from Handel’s Messiah. And all that was going on in my mind was “when is this ordeal going to pass, I am hungry”. After…