In the first minute of your conversation, can you engage, command attention and drive home your key points. Learn how so people listen when you speak.
Quick Tip #92: How to Hit the Headline
Don’t get buffaloed in negotiations: Use bison logic to achieve your ends.
We just returned from vacationing in Wyoming. Hiking, biking, rafting and kayaking through Grand Teton mountains and Yellowstone Park. What a great trip!
Everywhere you go, you see bison, also known as buffalo. Like cows here at home, they calmly graze in the meadows, occasionally looking your way. Typically, if you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you. Only in Wyoming, these 2000-pound animals occasionally come down from the hills and out of the meadows to stroll along the side of the road alongside the traffic.
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Quick Tip #80: Mix it Up
Turn boring talks and presentations into brilliant ones by learning how to mix up the energy along the way!
Staying Present in the Moment
It was early January and everyone in my family was sick. It was that awful coughing, sneezing, wheezing respiratory wipe you out type sick. In my case, it seemed all I could do was sleep. No matter how much sleep I got, I needed more. I would sleep twelve hours and then need to take a nap.
I started to worry about myself, but everyone around me kept telling me to listen to my body. It had been an emotional and stressful time as my father had just died. My mother was staying with us. People were constantly in the house paying their condolences and there were a lot of details to attend to.
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