The Toastmasters district where I am located has asked me to present a 90 minute workshop called Characteristics of Effective Leaders next week on September 16. It is a free event but pre-registration is required because of the limited space. More de ...
Medical Pharmaceutical Sales Book Was First
I've been talking about the next book I'm currently writing on motivation and success. Some people are probably wondering if there was a first book written and indeed there was. It was a medical pharmaceutical sales book called "How To Get A Dream Job I ...
Will Try To Recruit Editor For My Upcoming Book
I'm going to be meeting with a fellow Toastmasters member this Friday to see if I can recruit her as an editor for my upcoming book on motivation and success. This is one of the benefits of being in Toastmasters as there are lots of people who can help w ...
Will Even Use Some Motivational Quotes By Bruce Lee
I went through my saved notes on motivation yesterday and extracted some good content that will be added to my upcoming book. They are mostly inspirational quotes that will be sprinkled throughout. Among these quotes are ones by the late martial arts he ...
Time To Go Through Motivational Notes
I've had loads of motivational notes I've taken through the years from reading books, listening to tapes and watching videos as well as attending live presentations. Now it's time to pour over all those notes to see if anything would fit for my own upcom ...
Inspirational Injured Ex-Soldier War Veteran
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 ...