Something on CBC News caught my attention. They profiled an ex Canadian paratrooper soldier who served in the Balkans, Afghanistan and other war zones. He was injured during a paratrooping exercise and became paralyzed from the waist down. He then turn ...
Unmotivated In College
So yesterday my friend calls me up to tell me that he's dropping off his daughter to college, actually University of Toronto, and last night, I ended up having this bad dream about doing a university math exam. The exam had only three questions but I cou ...
Leadership Is How One Deals With People
This week, I was doing a talk at Nortel and one audience member asked me how leadership plays into careers. I told her that leadership is really about how one deals with other people since in order to get things done, one must get people in your organiza ...
Will Be Guest Speaker At Northern Telecom Toastmasters Club
Even though the telecommunications company Northern Telecom (Nortel) hasn't been healthy for years now, I certainly hope to see if one of their Toastmasters clubs will be today. I'm going in as an invited guest speaker and will see how their corporate To ...
Olympic Champion
Since the Beijing Olympics just finished, I remembered that I have a connection with a former Olympic gold medalist right here in Canada. This person saw me speak before so I am working on a testimonial from her. It would be great to get a testimonial a ...
Motivational Talk Presented In Berlin
Last week, I was in Berlin, Germany and presented my 15 minute version of my motivational talk to one of their local English speaking Toastmasters clubs. It was a great experience as this was the first time that I ever presented this speech outside of No ...
Toastmasters Benefit
One of the benefits of being a member of Toastmasters is that I have access to many people who have the ability to critique my speeches. I will certainly have my main motivational keynote speech I'm working on to be test run through my Toastmasters netwo ...
Wrote Two Chicken Soup Stories During Trip
I finished writing two Chicken Soup for the Soul stories during this trip to Europe. I hope to begin submitting them in September after I've had some time to edit them more fully. The first one will be about Resolutions and the deadline for this project ...
Full Length Motivational Speech After Trip
I will be flying out on an overseas trip to Europe today for one and a half weeks. I will have some travel down time during this trip and I intend to use the time efficiently by developing my full length motivational speech. My goal is to come out and r ...
Toastmasters Leadership Workshop Probably In Brampton
The Toastmasters leadership workshop I talked about yesterday will likely be held in Brampton, Ontario. More details to come soon.