Monday 27 July 2015

A Wonderful Way With Words

A Wonderful Way With Words



I have just returned from a week in Washington DC where I spoke to a "standing room only" crowd who laughed at all my jokes and got a great deal out of my session. (This made me very happy!)

While I was there, I had a look around some of the monuments and galleries. The Hershhorn Gallery of Modern Art had an installation from Barbara Kruger (the photo above.) It was fascinating and showed a wonderful way with words. She used some quotes of other people and some observations of her own to challenge you and your perspective. These quotes were printed on pieces of vinyl and pasted all over the room, escalator, floor and wherever there was a surface.

With todays "text speak" and web lingustic "shortcuts", the power of language can be lost. When you don't get the reaction you are after or need who's responsible? 

What are you doing to ensure you can truly tap into the power of words? Is it reading the classics? A word a day calendar? Maybe even just stopping someone when they use a word and you don't know what it means to discover how you could use it.

Communication is so important and I wish for you Dear-Reader to have a wonderful way with words.
 


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Monday 20 July 2015

Where's Your Head At?

Where's Your Head At?

Greetings from Washington DC! I am over here speaking at a conference with only about 2,000 people!

While here I received an email from one of our tribe asking:

"I wonder your thoughts. A person I know said that he thinks it's wrong to tell people/youth they can do what they want to do, be whatever they want to be.
He thinks it gives them a goal they can never reach, or a dream they can never fulfil, if they dream too big, or hope too high, they'll never achieve it and be full of grief and hopelessness.

I say, dream as big as the stars and then have as much fun as you can getting there. Who's right?"

You know the good thing?  You are both right!

Henry Ford famously said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t you are right”

So by this person telling anyone, “Don’t think too big, play a smaller game, you will never make it” they will make it true. AND they will be surrounded by people who think smaller, are self limited and typically unsatisfied and grumpy.

But amazingly awesome people like YOU who say, “Anything is possible, dream big and strive towards it” create fabulously positive people! Let’s be honest, they may not make it, but they chance that they will make it is far higher. Maybe they won’t make their goal but they will make it far closer that the person who listened to the person saying “don’t try” and they will have one hell of a ride along the way.

I like to think that we are building a better world by talking about what’s possible not what’s impossible.

Here in Washington, President Kennedy said, "We will go to the moon." He didn't say, "We'd like to but it's too hard, too expensive and we may not make it."
Just recently a satellite flew past the furtherest "almost" planet Pluto.

"We will go to the moon" has taken us much father than "that's really hard and it may not happen."

So what about you Dear-Reader? Where is your head at?



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Monday 13 July 2015

Give Til it Helps

Give Til it Helps

Often people say, "Give 'til it Hurts", but I am more of a fan of "Give 'til it Helps." It doesn't just have to help them, it can also help you!


Recently I saw on Facebook (so you know it's true) that volunteerism had declined. So I thought I would check it the research.
The Volunteering Australia website informs me that while more people are volunteering, they are doing it for a smaller amount of time. Young adults in particular have reduced the amount of hours they spend volunteering.

The great thing the research said is how good it is. Not just for the recipient, but for yourself as the volunteer.

Volunteering gives a measurable increase in:

  • Happiness
  • State of well-being
  • Overall state of mental health
  • Level of sleep
  • Self-Worth

Unfortunately, the volunteer rates a far lower in the city when compared to rural volunteering (34% vs 41%). Volunteering has also decreased for community services and emergency management.

From personal experience, professional associations are also declining in numbers of members and numbers of people willing to do things or give their time.

What about you Dear-Reader? Do you volunteer? While we seem to get busier and busier, the health benefits for volunteering are outstanding and the costs are minor - it's cheaper than therapy and almost as good for you.

Why don't you look at how you can volunteer? It could be as simple as helping paint a friend's room or patting dogs at the local dog shelter. It is amazing the benefits you will get.

Quite simply, Give 'Til It Helps!




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Monday 6 July 2015

Are You Leaving Signs?

Are You Leaving Signs?



There are certain signs everywhere. Some are easy to recognise and others take a little more effort.

The sign above was a little something I left for a friend. Let me explain.
We rented our friends weekender at the beach very last minute and we knew that they had other guests coming after us. I needed to let my friend know that we had cleaned her place so well that her next guests would be impressed.

What better way to show that than folding the toilet paper. She even had a laugh when I texted it to her.

Dear-Reader, what about your team mates, customers and family? What little signs are you leaving them?

These little signs can speak absolute volumes. So are you leaving signs?


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