Here’s Help If You Always Procrastinate

September 2nd, 2010
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#procrastinate #procrastination #selfhelp — The Motivational WebTV episode on an effective way to stop procrastination was very popular and this tells me that this is a topic of major interest among my readers and viewers.  In fact, when I ask my live audiences how many people have ever procrastinated, every person at my talks end up raising their hands, sometimes both hands!

I talk about what do to if you procrastinate during my full motivational keynote speeches and also cover this topic in detail in my book ‘The Life Champion In You‘.  I recognize that procrastination can significantly hamper one’s efforts to achieve success in life.

If you are always putting certain things off or aside in life, especially the major important tasks that you want to do in order to make any progress, then you will have to do something about this procrastination habit.  Of course it’s no surprise that quite often, the things that you do put off are the unpleasant tasks that require real work.

A fine example is exercise in order to get in shape or lose weight.  Exercise is never an easy thing to do.  You end up sweating (if you exercise properly) and some people just don’t want to sweat.  We all recognize the great benefits of exercise but to actually do it is just too unpleasant for many people.

So we end up procrastinating as we tell ourselves that we will start a fitness program next month when things are not as busy.  Does this sound familiar?  Or we will start a savings program but not until we splurge on that flat screen TV that’s currently on sale.

Yes, we’ve all been there before.  So that’s why in addition to that Motivational WebTV episode, I’ve decided to write a full article on this topic just in case if you are one who tends to procrastinate a lot and could use some further insights into finally beating this habit for good.  See the article on how to stop procrastinating at my website.

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College RA Group Gets Diversity Training

September 1st, 2010
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#college #university #diversity #diversitytraining  –  It was interesting to present my college diversity speaking program to the group of RA students at Daemen College just north of Buffalo, New York this week.

RA stands for Residence Assistant and they are usually senior college students.  This group of RAs were back on campus after a camping trip to bond and my diversity talk was part of a multi-day training program that they go through before the school year starts up.

I asked the Director of Residence what a typical RA does and she told me that the RAs would organize activities at their residence as well as to help sort out any problems or issues from college students staying on residence that might pop up during the year.  The RAs are pretty well representing their residence floors or units.

This is probably not an easy job especially when things can get busy since these RAs have their own college studies as well.  But I think it sounds like a great experience and will certainly look really good on a resume.

Given that college students can come from all parts of the country as well as the world now, exposure to diversity training is a smart idea for the RA groups at colleges.  We are seeing increasingly diverse student bodies on campuses and knowing how to deal with such diversity can only benefit not only the entire campus, but help prepare college students for the real working world.

In many cases, the real working environments out there are even more diverse than on college campuses.  As bonus tips, I gave this group of RA students some valuable information with respect to future job interviews and diversity which will come in handy when they graduate.

More information about my college speaking programs including diversity are available at my website.  I am available to speak at any college in the United States and Canada.

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Motivational WebTV #16 Inside US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Midway

August 31st, 2010
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#motivational #inspirational #motivation #inspiration  – Do I have a special treat for you today in this episode of Clint Cora Motivational WebTV.  If you have never seen the inside of a real US Navy aircraft carrier before, you will really enjoy this video!

During my recent trip to southern California for a mini-speaking tour, I was able to spend some time on the USS Midway, a decommissioned US Navy aircraft carrier now a floating museum in San Diego.  It was enormous and I made sure I brought along my camcorder to shoot video footage for a special episode of Motivational WebTV.

In addition to the scenes showing you the various parts of the aircraft carrier, I did the editorial scenes in my hotel room as I related the facts of the USS Midway to a motivational quote by Robert Collier.

Collier’s quote, “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out” not only reflects how the crew of the USS Midway operated, but also pertains to your goals in life as well as you will see in the video.

This is the first combined issue of Motivational Quotes Success Newsletter which comes out at the beginning of each month and Motivational WebTV.  This combination of course was influenced by the results of my recent poll in order to accommodate both people who prefer text newsletters and those who prefer watching videos.

As usual, if you have any comments on this interesting episode of Motivational WebTV with the US Navy aircraft carrier (or any other episode for that matter), just leave them here in the comments section after this blog post or at my Facebook Motivation page – oh, and please hit the Like button at the blog sidebar if you are on Facebook.

I hope you get a real kick out of watching this special episode as much as I did while going through this big ship when I was in San Diego earlier this summer.

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Personal Management Includes Being Careful In Summer Heat

August 29th, 2010
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#summer #toronto #management — We are heading into perhaps the final week of a summer heatwave up here in the Toronto area with expect daytime temperatures of 32 degrees Celcius or 89.6 degrees F.  Part of our personal management during this time is to be careful not to get sunstroke or heatstroke or even sunburns while enjoying the sunshine out there.

Plently of liquids, eye protection and use of sunscreens will be essential for safe enjoyment of the last past of our summer.  I have already mentioned this on my Life With Dogs blog since I was thinking about my own two Lhasa Apso dogs Chester and Roxie during this heatwave, is that pets and others are also prone to heatstroke if not careful.

It should be an extension of our personal management to make sure that we don’t leave our dogs, cats, children, babies (okay, even significant others), etc., inside the parked car while we are shopping inside an air conditioned mall or plaza.  Pets and children have tragically died because of this type of negligence.  Temperatures inside cars go be significantly higher than outside air temperatures especially in strong sunshine.

People have been arrested and fined heavily if caught doing this.  Worried passerbys would often call in police and animal control officers if they see poor dogs or babies left inside hot cars.

I’m not even going to take my two dogs outside during most of the daytime hours until late afternoons or even early evenings when temperatures are lower and the sunshine is not as intense.  This is part of my personal management with my dogs.

So do enjoy the last part of the summer out there but do have some personal management sense when it comes to the effects of heat and UV rays.  Don’t fall into the negligent status that some people do in terms of summer heat.

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Motivational Sayings From August Week 4

August 28th, 2010
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Here are the motivational sayings that I posted on my Motivation Facebook page for week 4 of this month.

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” ~ Henry Ford

“Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association” – Jim Rohn

“We all made mistakes. It’s how we come back from the mistakes that matters” ~ Tom Welling

“A person, who never made a mistake, never tried anything new” ~ Albert Einstein

‎‎”Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Ziglar

I think Henry Ford hit it right on the nail with his words about continuing to learn no matter what your age.  Learning is a great antidote to aging.  I also really like Zig Ziglar’s about failure as it reminds us that in life, it’s okay to fail at things and our response will determine the outcome rather than having the failure as the outcome itself.  Here are some more of the motivational sayings that were posted during the week.

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

‎‎‎”One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.” ~ John Stuart Mill

“It is in the moments of decision, that your destiny is shaped.” – Tony Robbins

“From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of always being right.” – Samuel Butler

“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” ~ Zig Ziglar

Zig Ziglar did it again with another profound quote above that also has connection to failures.  Failures are experiences to be learned from, that’s all.

I hope you liked these motivational sayings.  I post these on a daily basis on my Motivation Facebook page.  They helped me keep on track each day if you would like the same, hit the Like button for this Facebook page.

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Motivational Videos Teaching Diversity

August 27th, 2010
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#diversity #motivational — Since I’m switching gears this weekend to prepare for my diversity talk at Daemen College in the Buffalo area next Monday, I thought that I would list out (with links of course) all the previous episodes of Clint Cora Motivational WebTV that featured some sort of element teaching diversity related skills.  I try to shoot a new motivational video with this in mind for every couple of episodes.

Here are the past motivational videos released so far with this important topic;

Episode #5 – Diversity Skills For Success – the very first episode where I introduced the concept of diversity skills for achieving success

Episode #8 – How Chinese Food Helps Build Relationships – I take you inside a real Chinese dim sum restaurant to show you how ethnic food can help foster relationships with different people.

Episode #11 – Multicultural Festival Highlights - video highlights of the many different pavilions and entertainment performances at the Carrassauga Festival in my hometown.

In addition to speaking on motivation and personal growth, I also speak on diversity as my other major topic for keynotes and seminars.  All of my speaking programs are listed and described depending on the type of audience at my website.

Since there is so much diversity in many countries these days, particularly in the leading industrial nations such as the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, achieving success today involves being able to be effective in the diverse working envirnoments.

The more prepared you are in terms of dealing with diversity, the better you will be in any diverse working environment.  This is true for both ethnic and non-ethnic people alike in any country.

This is why I have decided to produce some motivational videos teaching diversity so that people can get some exposure to the concept of developing diversity skills.  So if you haven’t watched the above episodes of Motivational WebTV, I would suggest that you give them a view.

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How To Get Discount On Professional Development Seminars In Toronto GTA

August 26th, 2010
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#professionaldevelopment #gta #toronto  –  One of the ways that I can help Toronto GTA organizations and companies get a discount on my Professional Development Seminars is if the company agrees to take over one of the preparation tasks.  In my full day action planning seminar based on my book The Life Champion In You, all participants get a 60 page binder that serves as an Action Planner they work through all day.

Normally, I prepare enough of these Action Planner binders in advance and bring them to the seminar.  As you can imagine, it’s a big job especially if there will be a lot of participants.  For example, if it’s 50 people who will be attending a full day seminar of mine, it will be 50 binders each with 60 pages and dividers I have to produce in advance.  I have to either bring all of these binders to the seminar or ship them in advance.

If organizations are willing to take over the production of these Action Planner binders for my Toronto GTA professional development seminars scheduled for them, I will be willing to offer a discount from my usual seminars fee.  I simply send the pages template of my 60 page Action Planner to the organizers and they make enough copies for all attendees in advance as well as bring them to the seminar location.

Most companies and organizations have photocopying facilities anyway so it wouldn’t be hard for inhouse production of my Action Planner binder for the professional development seminars I do for them.  I would be most willing to allow companies to take this task of producing the binders off me in return for a discount.

Since training and meeting budgets are tight these days, this is just one way that I could work with companies to help them bring in high quality professional development seminars for their people at a cost that will possibly fit their budgets.

Oh by the way, of course such discounts are offered for companies and organizations elsewhere besides the Toronto GTA area as well.  This will help eliminate shipping of binders in advance too.  For more details on my Professional Development Seminars, just go to my website or click on the links in this blog post.

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Personal Development Seminar Speakers In Toronto GTA

August 25th, 2010
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#toronto #gta #personaldevelopment  –  I met up with the managing director of the organization I will be conducting a full day Personal Development Seminar for next month and asked her if there were any specific issues that her group wanted me to address.  She told me that in previous years, the personal development speakers in the Toronto GTA were too lecture oriented which made it tough for seminar attendees over a full day.

She told me that it would be nice to have more interaction and I responded by letting her know that audience interaction is a big factor in both my keynotes and seminars.  In addition, there are various fun group activities that I put the seminar attendees through at various parts of the session.

She saw some of the videos I have at my website and said that it seemed that I would be such a personal development speaker that involved the audience quite a bit which is what her group was looking for.  The best video to capture this atmosphere is at the middle of my home page at my website.

If you belong to a company or organization and are looking for a Personal Development Seminar Speaker in the Toronto GTA with interesting angles to the topic as well as a really fun interactive session, I would be your guy then.  As a speaker, I find that the inclusion of lots of audience participation makes my job more fun as well.  The audience retains more information when there is more interaction.

Although I can travel pretty well anywhere in the world to run my seminars, companies and organizations in the Toronto GTA within say two to three hours have the benefit of having my seminar run with no travel related costs.  Such personal development seminars can be set up relatively quickly since I am located in the Toronto GTA region, specifically Mississauga.  So if interested in my full day seminar, just contact me to explore possibilities.

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Self Improvement From Poolside In Motivational WebTV

August 23rd, 2010
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#selfimprovement #motivational #swimming  –  Here is the first ever episode of Clint Cora Motivational WebTV featuring self improvement from poolside as we took advantage of the nice summer weather.

A half naked motivational speaker in the form of yours truly talks about a personal example of comfort zone expansion in the pool.  I did not know how to swim as a kid and it took a high school gym teacher we nicknamed ‘Duckie’ (because he also happened to be the school swim team coach) who forced us all to do lengths in the school pool that taught us how to swim.

Swimming now represents a big part of my overall fitness activities especially in the summer months when I’m in the pool at least three times per week doing laps.  But this progression of self improvement also led to my own development as a certified scuba diver.

In this episode of Motivational WebTV, I dig out some great video footage of beautiful Caribbean marine life taken during some of my scuba dives down south.  I show the real reasons why I chose to become a scuba diver and how this would not have been possible if I didn’t expand my comfort zone in the water all those years prior to my dive certification.

If you like tropical fish, the footage of the marine life here will really be entertaining as I have some really beautiful fish captured on video.  The entire episode although entertaining with the inclusion of the scuba diving video footage, also takes a Thomas Edison quotation into mind as our self improvement lesson.

Thomas Edison once said,

“If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves”.

This was most certainly true for me in the personal example I used in this episode and you can also end up astonishing yourself in your life as well if you take this quote to heart.  Here is the episode.

Your comments are of course always welcome either here at the end of this blog post or at my Motivation Facebook pages.

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