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Get Applause Now: Learn Public Speaking from a World Champion

Get Applause Now: Learn Public Speaking from a World Champion Note: This review contains affiliate links.

One of the most sought after improvements people seem to want in life – from what I have observed both out there and via my blog – is to improve their social skills.

The scariest and most uncomfortable part of people skills is most likely to get up on stage and speak to people.

As Jerry Seinfeld put it:

“According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”

My friend Andrew Rondeau has released a product today to help people out with the public speaking skills that many of us would like to improve.

How to Take Responsibility for Your Career: 10 Valuable Tips

How to Take Responsibility for Your Career: 10 Valuable Tips
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Note: This is a guest post by Hilary Jeanes of Purple Line Consulting.

How important to you is your career?

It is surprising how many people leave their careers to chance.  They seem to think that their career will just happen or that ‘the organisation’ they work for will not only decide when their next step on the career ladder is but also what it will be.  If it doesn’t happen, then the organisation is perceived to be useless or not caring or not recognising/rewarding effort or hard work.  We spend a lot of time at work, so doing something we enjoy and find rewarding (both personally and financially) makes good sense.

From my own experience, both as an employee of large organisations and as an HR professional, here are 10 tips which make it much more likely that you will achieve the career you want.

Four Big, Sweeping Generalizations that Can Hurt You

Four Big, Sweeping Generalizations that Can Hurt You
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“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Eric Hoffer

Making sweeping generalisations can be hurtful to your image of yourself and of the world. It can create imagined barriers inside and outside of you. Barriers that are holding you back from doing what you want and achieving the success you’d like.

Here are four such big generalizations that many of us have made. By keeping them in mind you can start to stay more conscious and avoid falling back into old behaviour patterns. And find a more empowering and accurate perspective of the world.

If you think you are not using these generalizations in your life I suggest taking a closer look at some of your thoughts and assumptions about yourself and the world. Who knows, perhaps you’ll be surprised. Maybe you discover that things aren’t as you thought they were.

Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life

Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor and creator in many creative fields. He’s perhaps the most well-known painter from all of the 20:th century.

He also had some interesting things to say about life. Here are my 7 favourite tips from him.

1. You have to believe to be able to do.

“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

This is a great quote because it doesn’t just say that you should “believe in yourself!”. It explains why you need to believe in yourself and your ability to do something to actually do it.

J.C. Penney’s 7 Keys to a Smashing Success

J.C. Penney’s 7 Keys to a Smashing Success

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“Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.”

“The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.”

As you may know, John Cash Penney was the founder of the very successful chain of American department stores that bear his first two initials and last name. He founded the company in 1902 and everything went swimmingly until the big market crash in 1929 and the following Great Depression. Penney went into a big financial crisis and as a result of that a health crisis too but managed to work his way out of them both.

In his spare time he spent time on philanthropy with other positively minded people like Norman Vincent Peale – of The Power of Positive Thinking fame – and IBM-founder Thomas J. Watson.