Maybe some of my Toastmasters and professional speakers can relate to this stage fright. We have all had it at some point or another and some of us may still have it. I for sure can relate to this. Many times the feeling hits me hard. What am I doing here? I am nobody, pretending […]
What happens to you when you are standing in the spotlight just before your speech? Read More »
This coming Sunday I will be giving two workshops. First, one is on the methodology I created and used to double our club membership and the second is on how to use entrepreneurial tools and software used in Startups to apply it to your speaking career. The first workshop I have never done before. The
Anxiety & Fear. A simple story to help you get over obstacles. Read More »
My friends call me the mountain goat. That\’s because I go running and hiking every weekend. Sometimes it is trails set by my running group and other times I take the trail, or better said, I find routes that maybe and I say maybe the mountain goat has taken but very often it is the
Disconnecting helps you push past obstacles. My weekend routines Read More »
Were you told by your parents, or grandparents \”Hey kido, Get a job, work hard. Money doesn\’t grow on trees?\” We are programmed from day 1. We are fed information and all this information sets at some point turn into our beliefs. A while back I wrote an article on \”Hard Work VS Effort\”. I
Tomorrow I am due to speak at the Virtual Speakers Association on how to use and apply Startup & Entrepreneurial toolsets for public speaking. It doesn\’t matter if you are presenting a new product, the annual report at work, selling something to customers, or pitching your startup to investors. When you are speaking or on
Presentation Mastery: Making the audience succumb to every word, image and move you make Read More »
Too often we are asked to do something, are presented with a challenge, or given a new task, and we simply push them away. They say, practice saying NO. I say, practice saying YES. Of course, you have to find a balance between the YES and NOs. 10 years ago as I was taking on
Life is a sea of opportunities. Are you taking advantage of them? Read More »
I am sure that you have probably faced this situation once or twice, if not more, in your life. You are all enthusiastic, fired up with energy, you have this grand idea that is going to change the world or make you billions, and bang, when you share it with the one person whom you
Did they tell you that your idea won\’t work? Read More »
What is your relationship with money? Are you a spender or a saver? How do you value money and where do you get those values from? They say that you get most of these from your childhood and mostly from your parents. I don\’t know about you, but my parents always told me to make
Is it possible that saving money is a bad idea? Read More »
Some of the best ideas come from applying learnt skills and tools from one discipline to another. In my case, I have been in software development (programming) & startups for most of my life. In the course of my working life, I have had to use numerous tools for productivity and achieving my objectives. Some
The entrepreneurial Toolset for speakers Read More »
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. Last night I was honoured to be asked by the Eloquent Leaders Toastmasters Club to be one of the keynote speakers, alongside Jessica Breitenfeld (2022 champion of public speaking in the Iberian peninsula) I was asked to speak about #Leadership and my first reaction was, I
Lessons in leadership. 25 years as an entrepreneur Read More »
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