What are you wanting to manifest this year? Do you have the support and tools available to you to make it happen? Dream big, live big, love big! See how…
Want to make a impact this year? visit: http://perfectyear.eventbrite.com
What is the secret to Public Speaking and Presentation Success?
There are two quotes I particularly look to for guidance in everything I do in planning, in preparing and in delivering a speech.
The first is from Dale Carnegie: Begin with something interesting in your first sentence. Not the second. Not the third. The First! F–I–R–S–T! First!
This emphatic statement is so true and such good advice. You have limited time to make a great first impression. This is generally recognized as 7 seconds or less! You have also limited time to capture the imagination and the rapt attention of your audience, so why begin with unnecessary information?
Get going, get moving and get to the point!
It is essential to start making an indelible and a compelling impression from the first words you speak – to the last thing you say. You have a specific purpose in making your presentation. The audience has a specific purpose in listening to you. Is there any reason you would not want to be fascinating, intriguing and interesting from your first sentence?
The second quote is from Winston Churchill: If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit again. Then hit it the third time – a tremendous whack.
If you have any doubt about the soundness of this advice click on the following Talking Points link – Speak Like a Pro News-Feed – It discusses the Four Key Principles of Effective Communication. Great information.
The key to great speaking is to eliminate verbiage, to concentrate on a small number of key facts, to be succinct, to stimulate intense curiosity and to get to the point. Your audience will certainly approve and they will respond accordingly!
LifeStylized is holding 3 FREE – Speak Like a Pro events, in which you will receive great instruction and inspirational ideas to kick start your Public Speaking and Presentation prowess. These will be held at 444 Broadway, in Saratoga Springs. (Above Wheatfields)
These are to be held on
They are just like the Carnegie opening – practical, effective, and productive – from word one!
For those of you who don’t know, the Life Stylized team went to Schroon Lake for a weekend of planning. We stayed in an amazing house on the lake with our friend and colleague George P Kansas. If you haven’t met him yet, you are in for a treat. He’ll be part of our team here as we go forward in 2012.
We communed with our food and our ideas, we ate amazingly well, we laughed a lot… and we occasionally got stuck in the process… of planning. In the end we had a powerful year planned and lots of exciting events to support you in creating your most amazing life.
The experience was incredible and if you do this for yourself I guarantee it will dramatically move you forward in ways you can only imagine. If you have been putting your dreams on hold and know that having planning partners as part of your success process is important (and for most of us it is), clear your calendar and join Sierra and I for Envision Your Perfect Year happening this Saturday here at the center.
Sign up today, you will be glad you did!
Hey Stylizers… thought you might get a kick out of this. Cheers Rono
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. Konstantin Stanislavsky
One of the amazing and slightly cautionary realities is when communicating with another person – body language accounts for more than 55% of communication! Only 7% is communicated by the words being used and 38% comes from the tone of the voice. Wow!
So how can you tell what the other person is really thinking and how can you be sure you are communicating the right message?
In life, in business, in relationships Body Language is the method of communicating, which we respond to emotionally, intellectually and spiritually.
Fortunately Ronald K. Smith, “Rono,” one of the four principles partners of LifeStylized, Saratoga, has combined his knowledge, his experience and his unique skills to create a powerful program called, “Poised and Profitable.” This program specifically for women is built around what he describes as the Five Languages of Confidence.
These are:
This extraordinary program, will positively transform your life, instill great confidence and provide you with the tools to excel in whatever endeavor you are focused upon. More on the free events, free videos and the workshop later.
So why begin with Body Language? Simply because as soon as people see you they begin interpreting who you are, what you stand for and if they like you or not.
Did you realize that in a brief glance, lasting less than 5 seconds, is all it takes for people to form a strong opinion about who you are based upon your posture, your appearance, your dress, your body language, your demeanor and your mannerisms?
5 seconds!
So the question is what image do you want to project and how important is it to you to turn the tables and figure out how the other person is reacting, feeling and responding to you?
Of course – effective body language is vital for success in any field and particularly in relationships.
Rono will teach you all of this and so much more. Here are 10 Body Language Tips you can apply for success in meeting people…
To learn more about the Poised & Profitable: Five Languages of Confidence event series and limited attendance workshop*, PLUS to receive the first free Body Language Video CLICK HERE, and sign up. Its free!
* Free Live Event, to be held on January 7th and 12th at the LifeStylized Center at 444 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. Limited attendance main event to be help January 13-15th.
If you’re human, you probably find yourself feeling doubtful from time to time about different things in life. Maybe you doubt your ability to make more money. Maybe your doubt that you’ll get that new job or find true love. Maybe you doubt your beauty or how talented you really are.
Whatever and wherever your doubt shows up, know that you have a choice on whether or not to believe that doubt. And as I once learned from a wise 10 year old girl a few years back is- “You’re not going to get to where you want to be by doubting.”
Are you letting doubt hold you back from where you want to be? Check out this 30 second video on the importance of not doubting!
Feeling a little bogged down and disconnected from your passion? Here are 2 simple (and fun) ways to ignite your passion fast! Enjoy!
Let me start by explaining that I am a widower with four grown daughters. All of them are talented, loving, bright, achievement-oriented young women. For this, I am grateful. For the most part, they are focused on their careers, their partners, and the daily stresses of their own life. There is one exception. That is when Dad comes to visit, and I become the focus of their not-always-entirely-welcomed scrutiny, and efforts to do a Dad makeover in a day!
On a recent visit to my daughter’s house in Saratoga Springs, in Upstate N.Y. for the Thanksgiving holiday, I had a chance to visit with my two middle daughters. One is a life coach, and the other a teacher. Both have lots of advice for dear old Dad! I probably should not have complained about my sciatica, plantar fasciitis, and other sundry annoyances of an increasingly post-middle age existence.
Since my wife died, my daughters often act as parents in reverse. Without a wife to nag or cajole me, my daughters have taken up the cudgel! I have to keep reminding myself that it’s only because they love me!
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