When you make public speaking your "magnificent obsession" you will find material for your speeches and presentations all around you. As a speaker you need to become an observer of life and not just people - all life. You can learn as much from observing nature and inanimate objects such as ... Click to read the article details

Here are five tips to improve your interviewing techniques for teleseminars:

1. Tell them what they want to hear
The best interviews are structured around what your listeners want to hear and the best way to do this is to ask them beforehand. This interview approach means that you ... Click to read the article details

Don't! Bill Gove, known around the world as the father of professional speaking, says you should never set out to write a speech.

Doing this is like writing an article. Articles are meant for reading; speeches are meant for saying. Therefore, material written to be heard should be ... Click to read the article details

In advance of launching his new coaching programme, Jason Dinner, an Internet marketer who was personally mentored by Internet guru Mike Filsaime, recently carried out a survey in which about 1,900 individuals took part. The results were shocking.

To be a successful internet marketer you ... Click to read the article details

"The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us."
Thomas Huxley

Life can be likened to a game of chess. In chess you have to read the board, look ... Click to read the article details

Public speaking and presentation skills are skills that we all need at some time in our lives. Many people have a deep fear of public speaking and fear it more than even death.

"According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number ... Click to read the article details

If you're struggling to achieve success then it may be because you haven't identified the reason why you want to achieve success, why you want to achieve a particular goal. When you discover this it will become a compelling motive that drives you forward and gives you the energy to attract the ... Click to read the article details

The Grand Prix Formula One race at Fuji Speedway, Japan, the first in 30 years, was a lesson in mastery and a thrilling race that will probably be talked about and analysed by fans for years to come. It was particularly sweet for Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) who, with his win, opened up a 12 point ... Click to read the article details

Yesterday I saw three baby turtles on the pavement their bodies were so small they could fit into the palm of your hand. Presumably, these turtles would have travelled from the beach a journey which would have taken me mere seconds but for these tiny creatures this journey must have felt like a ... Click to read the article details

To succeed in life you've got to step up to the plate. You cannot move forward in life by sitting on the bench - you have to get into the game. You have to get into the habit of saying 'yes' even when you're not sure how you are going to successfully complete the challenge you've ... Click to read the article details

"Achieve more by doing less" said Dr Wayne Dyer. It sounds nonsensical at first but there is a powerful truth behind this statement and it is a key time management and success strategy whether successful people use it consciously or not.

There are several ways to achieving more by doing ... Click to read the article details

Many entrepreneurs are guilty of working extremely long hours and neglecting their health. They fail to get adequate rest and relaxation. They say they are too busy to eat. They don't take time out to exercise. Their focus is getting the business off the ground at all costs. The cost is ... Click to read the article details

Successful people do not follow the masses. They are independent thinkers.

"The masses are obsessed with conformity rather than creativity."
Bob Proctor: Purpose, Vision, Goals

They are visionaries and because they have the courage to stand out and even apart from the crowd ... Click to read the article details

A blog comment I read recently asked,

"How is it that if two people with the same knowledge do the same things, one can become successful and the other not?"

First of all people may have access to and be exposed to the same information but they may process that information ... Click to read the article details

The secret to success is to do work you love. So do you love your work? Many individuals do work as a means to an end. Now, fundamentally there is nothing wrong with honest labour except this - whatever you do you are exchanging your life for it. In other words, if you do not enjoy your work ... Click to read the article details

In the playground near where I grew up was a construction we called "stepping stones". It consisted of a series of progressively taller, cylindrical columns which served as steps leading to an 'island' with a tree growing at its apex. When I was growing up those stones seemed huge and I recall ... Click to read the article details

Often when you ask someone what they want from life they will reply:

"I just want to be comfortable."

Well, I can almost guarantee that anyone who says this is struggling in life and frustrated with their results. Someone who says they just want to be comfortable often feels ... Click to read the article details

We all have a money blueprint. We are born with one. People's money habits tend to be very much like those of their parents and their parents before them. The problem is that:

"97% of all people live and die without learning how to earn money. Their poverty consciousness is passed on ... Click to read the article details

Whether you enjoy watching Formula 1 racing or not, there is so much you can learn about life, goal achieving and what it takes to be a winner just from watching the sport. Someone once described life as a series of failures punctuated by successes. Many individuals become discouraged by ... Click to read the article details

"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy."
Florence Shinn

Thoughts have energy.

Thoughts become things.

If you think you cannot see your thoughts then think again. You only need ... Click to read the article details

I recently had to make a decision on a business deal. Looking purely at the numbers my decision should have been straightforward. Yet I hesitated. You see my intuition or my gut feeling was not in agreement with the outwardly, more logical decision that analysis of the numbers was leading me ... Click to read the article details

It's ironic that on the eve of Ted Ciuba's recent launch of his "The New Think And Grow Rich" that I heard another internet marketer, Matt Bacak say in a teleseminar that the original "Think And Grow Rich" should be tossed out and not in favour of an updated version. However, Bacak was not ... Click to read the article details

It's tradition to make New Year resolutions but how many of them do you actually keep?

By the time the excitement of the New Year's celebrations have worn off many resolutions have already been discarded like the millions of tossed out Christmas trees. You slip back into your old ways. ... Click to read the article details

At this time of year it is customary to wish people "Happy New Year". The truth is that whether you are happy or not is simply a choice for whatever your circumstances you have the power to choose how you feel. It is one of our greatest gifts.

"Everything can be taken from a person but ... Click to read the article details

Many of us spend our lives trying to make money (and therein lies our first mistake, more on this another time) without realising that we were born rich and that the best things in life are free.

I was talking to a couple of colleagues the other day about this same point. One agreed with ... Click to read the article details

The movie The Secret has been creating ripples across the world. It features some of the world's greatest teachers, philosophers, entrepreneurs, scientists, doctors, authors and financial advisors and presents the concept of the Law of Attraction in a manner that anyone and everyone can ... Click to read the article details

I met someone recently who worked in insurance but wanted to do something else for a living, in fact she wanted to be a writer. She said she had tried several business ventures but all had failed. I asked whether she chose her business ventures because they appeared lucrative or because it was ... Click to read the article details

Let's consider the antithesis to this question. Does negative thinking work?

Well, has there been a time when you have worried unduly about something? Maybe you were worried about an exam, a driving test, an interview. Chances are that your worst expectations came into fruition and ... Click to read the article details