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What Sushi Can Teach Us About Mastery
We all want to be great at what we do. In his book “Drive”, Dan Pink says that one of 3 main motivators for people at work is Mastery: the pursuit of becoming great at a particular craft or skill. I love the word “mastery”. More than “talent” or “anointing,” the word “mastery” points to…
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Jump Before You’re Ready
Several years ago I went skydiving. After four hours of on-the-ground training the instructor and pilot took us up to 2500ft and dropped us out of the pane, one at a time, to have our 2 seconds of free fall and 10 minutes of floating our way down to the ground. It was incredible. Can…
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Focus on the Hero
A couple weeks ago I had the chance to give a presentation for the sales team at Golden West’s Steinbach centre about how to give more effective presentations. Yes, a presentation about presentation. Yes it got all crazy and Inception-like. Check out the video here or below: If you haven’t yet, make sure you check…
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Super Bowl and Spiritual Advertising
We all see a lot of ads each day, and the Super Bowl which we just experienced is the great event of the advertising year. Generally ads are all the same, with some new dazzle or joke or sales pitch. As an audience we might feel bored, deceived, or at best, amused. But one in…
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Take Your Eyes Off Yourself
If you’ve ever gotten up to make a speech, you likely know the nervousness and anxiety that comes in the moments before you actually start talking. In a speech I heard last week, Doreen pointed out the real problem of these nerves: when you’re nervous, you’re only focused on yourself. When all you’re thinking of…
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The Introvert Advantage
I recently heard an interview with Susan Cain, author of the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. As an introvert, it was really affirming to hear someone else who thinks sitting down with a good book is a party, and helpful to look at some of my personality…
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Just Say Yes
At the Canadian Blood Services luncheon yesterday I found out that only 5% of eligible Canadians give blood. Only 5%! Though we all know this is important, and everyone knows someone who has needed blood at some point in their life, very few of us give. I’ve noticed that whenever given the opportunity to help…
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Slides Are Harmony
Funny thing about this thing we call a “presentation”. Usually our first thought when we’re getting ready to give one, besides the possible dread or stress, is the visuals, the slides that will be on the screen. The PowerPoint guys have convinced us that visuals are what makes the presentation, that no presentation is complete…
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Free eBook: 10 Tips For Your Next Presentation
Presentations are a powerful way to spread your ideas and make them stick. Any time you give a talk, you have the opportunity to draw your audience into a compelling story, to persuade them, change their minds and help them grow. Unfortunately, we’ve all sat through a lot of really bad and ineffective presentations, where…
