Monthly Archive for December, 2009

K. Beate Richter on Influencing and Presentation Skills – Monday 18 January

Published on 18 December, 2009 in events. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

15 January UPDATE: K. Beate Richter will be leading this session on Influencing and Presentation Skills.

As Lynda Dyer explains:

Today we must create great presentation and communication skills or miss out on the business coming our way due to vigorous competition in the marketplace. This Influencing and Presentation Skills presentation will show you how to get instant results from this “hands on” fun and informative workshop that is based on excellence.

  • Imagine taking a quantum leap in your personal and professional development
  • Imagine being a Master Communicator – assisting others to change with the power of words
  • Imagine being a Master Communicator – taking your communication skills to the next level and accelerating your client’s results
  • Imagine being a Master Presenter – see nerves disappear and widely increase your circle of influence
  • Do you want to hear others praising your leadership abilities and seek your advice and expertise?
  • Would you like to feel that natural confidence that happens when you are in touch with your core identity?

K. Beate Richter, Monday 18 January, from 7pm

At the REV office, 15B Ladoll International Hotel, 831 Xinzha Lu at Shimen Er Lu (just north from Nanjing West subway station on Line 2).

We only have space for about 12 3 more of you, so if you want to come, you might want to register quickly…

We are now fully booked for this session – thanks very much!

Alec Baldwin’s film career is a failure

Published on 1 December, 2009 in article. 0 Comments

Alec Baldwin is a well-known actor. Many would consider him successful. He has starred in many moves and appears in popular television shows. Yet he sees himself a failure. Just recently, he said, “I consider my entire movie career a complete failure.”

I couldn’t help but ask myself, “How?”

Rather than trying to reassure him that he wasn’t, or denying that he was a failure, I got curious and wondered how he could feel a failure after so much ’success’. And sure enough, the answers were clear too. For him,

“The goal of movie-making is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that.”

And although he starred in the 1990 action film The Hunt for Red October, which made more than $200m, it was successful because it was based on a popular Tom Clancy novel – not because of his performance.

He feels that his career is a failure not because it “is” – after all, how can we really define whether someone’s career is a success or a failure? But he feels that is is a failure because of how he defines success.

What do you want most? What drives you?

Success?

Happiness?

Joy?

Achievement?

Love?

Money?

Each of us have many things that drive us. Some things that pull us forward – that we want to experience something. And maybe there are other things that we desperately want to avoid.

We all want to experience different things. And that’s great – that’s one of the things that drives the rich and diverse world in which we live. Yet how well are we setting ourselves up to feel good? There are so many ways that we can find to feel bad. And there are so many things in the world today about which we could feel bad if we wanted.

But what could happen if you could feel better more and more often?

(from DanielSmith.info)