Anxiety & Fear. A simple story to help you get over obstacles.
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...Continue reading→
Disconnecting helps you push past obstacles. My weekend routines
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...Continue reading→
Why Money Grows on trees, and No Pain, No Gain is a false belief. Start working from within
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...Continue reading→
Presentation Mastery: Making the audience succumb to every word, image and move you make
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...Continue reading→
Life is a sea of opportunities. Are you taking advantage of them?
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...Continue reading→
Did they tell you that your idea won\’t work?
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...Continue reading→
Is it possible that saving money is a bad idea?
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...Continue reading→
The entrepreneurial Toolset for speakers
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...Continue reading→
Lessons in leadership. 25 years as an entrepreneur
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...Continue reading→
Kill Your Darling. The art of cutting out the crap from your startup pitch deck
Before I get to the point, I thought I should add something in simple acknowledgment. As you know my morning routine is waking up around 5:00 am with a bit of exercise followed by reading. Yet as I read a chapter from a very interesting book and many new ideas came to my mind, that...Continue reading→