How to Use Your Creativity to Innovate and Rise to Your Challenges The most important aspect of finding a better way to do things is creativity. If you want to innovate in your work or in your life, you have to first get creative. I spend a lot of time soaking up the latest writing…
“When you’ve done something unforgivable, forgive yourself.” In this week’s “Lights, Camera, Wisdom,” I explore how to forgive yourself if you’ve done something unforgivable. The quote comes from David Mamet’s House of Games. The movie stunned me when I saw it. It’s about a psychologist who gets involved with a conman. She dives into a…
Public Speaking Nightmare and How You Can Change It Into Gold In my sophomore year of high school, I was cast in my first play. Additionally, I got a real lesson in staying present, improv, and dealing with a public speaking nightmare during the run of that show. One night in the middle of my…
Compelling Content – How To Create It So You Can Make a Difference. If you have a website and you want to get more people looking at your content, listen to today’s show. I’m thrilled to welcome my new and good friend Jake Ballinger to this week’s podcast episode. Jake is an SEO (search engine optimization…
Lights, Camera, Wisdom: Vivir con miedo es vivir a media – This week’s “Lights, Camera, Wisdom!” quote is, “Vivir con miedo es vivir a media.” It means roughly, “To live with fear is to live a life half-lived.” It’s an old Spanish proverb used in one of my favorite movies, Strictly Ballroom. The movie is…
How Being Like Luke Skywalker Changes Your Clarity, Wisdom, and Decisiveness. This week’s quote: “You’ve failed, your highness. I am a Jedi like my father before me.” Sometimes, I pretend I am Luke Skywalker. I know, I know. “Huh?” But bear with me. Choosing makes me struggle. I agonize, and I hit the breaking point…
What Makes a Speech Great The anatomy of a speech and a review of a speech by one of the greats, Dr. Willie Jolley We know what makes for a great book or movie. They move us and make us laugh. Additionally, they lift our spirits and teach us something about ourselves. In fact, we…
My Birthday and My Gift To You! Today is my birthday. And even though I’m not German, I follow a German tradition of giving other people presents instead of receiving them. So, today I want to offer you a template for the little item that helps me be productive. I developed this so that I could…
Active Speech and Writing Get You What You Want Here is today’s bonus mini podcast episode. In it, I detail the difference between active and passive speech and writing. You give a lot more information when you use active speech. And your listeners learn a lot more without having to do extra research. If you use…
Speak From Within – The Book and The Message Am I ready? What’s the Message? I haven’t held book release events for all five of my books. In fact, the last time we “partied” was for The Fiddler’s Talisman (and we did a party for Life Elements). That was back in 2011. The Piano’s Key and…