The Confident Speaker is a comprehensive and detailed guide to public speaking. It will help both novice and experienced speakers to succeed and grow.
The authors, Harrison Monarth and Larina Kase debunks the many fallacies associated with coping with the anxiety associated with all forms of speaking in public. They show how many avoidance behaviours and over-compensation activity can compound the anxiety problem and the stress.
Understanding and Preparing to Beat Speaking Anxiety
The first part of The Confident Speaker covers these issues and explores the source and nature of anxiety around speaking even considering informal social interaction.
Part 2 shows how to deal with the anxiety in sensible and practical It provides detailed advice on preparing and giving a presentation Much of the advice applies equally to preparing written documents, especially with regard to understanding the audience and the objectives for the presentation
Since I wrote the article Being in the Present and because of it I have been able to make changes to my attitude to life. As a result of those insights I have changed my focus and I am no longer hankering after my old life and especially not my old career. Although I miss the income I do not want to go back; it is time for a change. Letting go of the past was a useful lesson from Choosing to Be.
Writing for M-dash and Suite101 has reignited my love of language and words. Other work is now getting in the way of my writing and I am in the process of relaunching my writing and photography career. It has taken time as I have had to find a focus for this new direction. I have always loved ideas, creativity and the pursuit of knowledge so I have had a broad, potentially unfocussed, spectrum of interests on which to draw.
Recession creates change and provides an opportunity, or a need, to make lifestyle changes or choose a new career. Here are reviews of guides how that should provide someinspiration or encouragement that positive change is possible.
Global recession is forcing people to re-examine their lifestyles. It may be redundancy, insecurity or forced retirement. Reduced pensions may require others to delay retirement. Some want better work-life balance, a simpler life, are dissatisfied with their current job or are otherwise ready for change and a new career.
Eliminating clutter frees the mind; people then feel better about themselves. It frees time for other things as an organised home needs less cleaning and maintenance.
How the Toothbrush Principle Will Change Your Life, and Self Esteem
Banish Clutter Forever was born out of Sheila Chandra’s cluttered childhood and feeling that possession were more important than she was.
The Time Paradox explores how our attitudes to time affect behaviour and consequent lifestyle. It suggests ways that readers can make changes they desire or need.
This book explains Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good. The problem solving skills of practical work should receive more respect.
Practical Job Satisfaction
In The Case for Working with Your Hands Michael Crawford argues that traditional practical trades should be given more respect.
Daring to Dream - What Do You Want to Do?
If you followed the previous article, you should have some ideas about what you want to BE in the next stage of your life. So the next question is; what do you want to DO during that phase?
Dare to Dream
As with dreaming about what you want to BE, dreaming about what you want to DO will require you to challenge what you, friends and family considered normal. You will need to think in new ways about how you want to spend your time if it is not to stay in an unsatisfying job, waiting for the mythical "someday" when it will all magically change. If you start by ignoring the usual assumptions about the money needed to do things, then the possibilities are unbounded. So much choice makes finding the dream difficult.
The 4-hour Work Week, Escape the 9-5 and Get a New Life.
Tim Ferriss suggests that wealth itself is not the aim but a means of achieving a lifestyle. His book, The 4-hour Work Week, argues that a better approach to quality of life is not to wait for retirement but to spread a series of mini-retirements through life. Combined with an alternative portfolio career it will provide the lifestyle of what he calls the New Rich. For the New Rich it is about a rich lifestyle rather than simply getting rich.
In The 4-Hour Work Week Timothy Ferris suggests his lifestyle challenges traditional concepts of retirement as old-fashioned. It is a manifesto for living more, working less and living the dream. He makes a distinction between the wealthy who are usually hard at work making money and his New Rich. The moneymakers put off living their dreams until a mythical someday while Ferriss' New Rich are working smart and already living the millionaire lifestyle along the way.
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The Positivity Pages
Living life positively is the theme of the The Positivity Page column. It will focus on the positive aspects of life we tend to forget or take for granted. It will be an antidote to the almost total negativity of the news and media generally. Initially weekly it will become twice weekly as soon as possible.
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