“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” Dalai Lama Sometimes I just want the damn Porsche. This week I was in Toronto speaking about how I built my speaking business. The room was full of consultants, speakers, authors, and...
I was sitting on the old sofa in our office eating salad and thinking about sales. We were in the final throes of selling seats for my annual BOSS (Business Of Speaking School) public speaker training course and it still wasn’t full. Some 1,400 people had registered...
You’ve got to admit, we’re wired sort of funny. For example, do you have something in your home you’ve kept for no other reason than because you made it? Maybe it’s a drawing, piece of pottery or hand-knitted sweater - not much value, but for some reason, every time...
Is it just me, or have you noticed the day before you leave for a trip is a frantic, run-off-your-feet, freak-out? Everything you’ve procrastinated about (plus 9 more must-do’s) now conspires to overload any free time you thought you had. It’s nasty and it leaves you...
For over three hours we sat uncomfortably on the shag carpet of a West Vancouver home listening to a giant of a man berate us about mindset, attitude and “awakening the giant within.” He didn’t seem aware of the time or the numbness in our butt - he was fired up and...
There are few things in my day I invariably rely on, like my 5 AM cuppa tea, yoga at noon, and, in the digital world, Evernote. My catch-all, composite of random notes, project lists, scraped web sites, and gluten-free recipes is the clever app called Evernote. In...
It’s a bit cliche to brag about boycotting New Year’s resolutions. “It’s a joke,” you say, with no small amount of self-doubt, “nobody keeps them anyways, so why make ‘em?” Once again we stride into another year, full of swagger and with no end in mind. I have to...