Archive for October, 2007

California’s Wildfire - The Appreciation Of Oxygen

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

My heart goes out to everyone affected by the California wildfires, including the many fire fighters working day and night with respiratory problems as likely consequences.  I am not in any immediate danger of the fires, but the air quality is horrendous. Parks are closed, ash is falling from the sky ,and the light has […]

Manny Ramirez: “So who cares?” What did he really mean?

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Let’s talk baseball and peak performance…
Before yesterday’s game five of the American League Champion Series, Manny Ramirez, the Boston Red Sox slugger, was chatting with journalist. Here’s what The Boston Herald writes:
“Trailing 3-1 to the Cleveland Indians in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series, Manny Ramirez drew the wrath of Boston media and Red Sox fans […]

Video Example: How To Perform/Communicate and “Win” The Audience.

Monday, October 8th, 2007

What do great performers have in common? How can you improve your performances? How do you "win " an audience? Let’s watch another video clip of a wonderful "performance", and see what we might discover. 
Maybe you saw the video clip in the last blog post of Mister Rogers testifying in the US Senate? I thought I’d follow up that […]

How To Make $20 Million In 5 Minutes

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

We all need to be able to present, perform, communicate, negotiate in one way or another.  I came across this phenomenal video on YouTube that serves as a great example.  Perhaps we should call it "How To Make $20 Million in 5 minutes".   Watch it.  It’s a briliant example of the art of communication and persuasion.  Three things […]

The Reason You Don’t Want To Sound Good When You Sing - Part 3

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

After having read part 1 and part 2 of “The reason you don’t want to sound good when you sing”, you have come to realize that when we talk about not needing to sound good we are not saying that we don’t want to sound good. Of course we want to sound good when we sing. […]