Advice for Life from a Survivor – Don’t Waste Time!
Create a Masterpiece With Your Talk
Do you get a thrill of delight when you look at a great masterpiece? A Constable, a Canaletto, Pablo Picasso, Monet? How do they make you feel or how do they inspire your senses? Why shouldn’t our talks and speeches aspire to be something just as beautiful. I find it really helpful to visualise my […]
Transform Your Speech with a Mentor
For any aspiring professional speaker I would strongly urge you to get at least one mentor. Their advice and experience is invaluable and they can bring on an ‘OK’ talk to the levels of ‘Brilliant’. As a keynote conference speaker I actually have 3 mentors and they each serve a different purpose for me but […]
Is Your Talk Heavenly Food?
When I first decided to turn my public speaking into a profession I began, as is my wont, to research how best to do so. As I explored the subject it dawned on me there was more to being a good or great speaker than might first appear. I simply had not realised how much […]
Want To Be A Millionaire?
It’s just another pressure to put yourself under. We are all going to die at some time or another and what can you possibly take with you when you do? While the train crash was actually happening I remember thinking ‘it hasn’t been worth it’. I was successful, had money, a nice home, a posh […]
Treat Others as You Want to be Treated Yourself
How do you like it if people treat you badly? How do you feel if they are rude to you? You want the best for yourself and you do the best you can to achieve this. Why wouldn’t you do the same for other people? When I was a kid I remember my grandfather saying […]
What Do You Do When Someone Says “No” To You?
Just because someone has said “no” or “that is not possible” don’t just accept what they are saying. Question why. If it really is not possible they should be able to justify their remark. “No” was a word I heard time and time again during the campaign years as we pushed for the safety recommendations; […]
Thinking of Changing Your Career?
Huffington Post UK artcle : January 2015 The start of the New Year appears to get many people thinking about other new starts. Sometimes in relation to resolutions such as giving up chocolate, alcohol or cigarettes but sometimes it is something much more fundamental – how about a change in career? With the start of […]
How Indispensable Are We?
No-one is indispensable. No argument there as I am merely stating a fact. However, do you truly know, believe and appreciate that if you were to be wiped off the face of the earth tomorrow it will not be that noticeable to the rest of the world. You can be replaced if necessary or you […]
Work Out How to Get Around an Obstacle Blocking Your Path
There is never one answer to a problem. Use the intelligence you have been given to stop, consider the problem from all angles then work out what you can do to get around it. The way I learnt this valuable lesson was at the start of the rail safety campaign I ran. There had been […]