“Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.”
From A Course In Miracles
“Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling
safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but
pouring them all right out, just as they are — chaff and grain together —
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth
keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.…”
safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but
pouring them all right out, just as they are — chaff and grain together —
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth
keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.…”
— Dinah Craik
Yesterday you heard a fabulous speaker – wonderful, inspiring, eloquent – with so much to share. You walked away buzzing, happy, enthusiastic and you remarked what a fantastic presenter they were.
That was yesterday. Today. What do you remember of that presentation, that fabulous, wonderful, inspiring, eloquent presentation?
Do you remember the next step that you were inspired to take? Are you feeling different about something? Have you changed your behaviour? What do you remember?
Do you remember the clothes they wore? Do you remember the joke they told, or just that they were funny?
Three weeks later. What do you remember?
Chances are it will be one thing – one idea, one word, maybe one graphic, or maybe the person’s style.
No matter how much information the speaker gave you, chances are, still, that you will not remember much more than that one thing.
Chances are also that it will have been attached to an emotion … happy, sad, euphoric, devastated, frustrated, angry … and that’s why you remembered it.
Where will you be adding or creating emotion next time you speak?
“We all have to start with ourselves. It is time to walk the talk. Take the journey of making very difficult decisions. Start removing things from your life that are not filling your cup and adding things that bring joy in to your life.”
Lisa Hammond
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
– David Frost
“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence
Tim Minchin, the former UWA arts student described as “sublimely talented, witty, smart and unabashedly offensive” in a musical career that has taken the world by storm, is awarded an honorary doctorate by The University of Western Australia.
He speaks our language!!
I just loved this presentation, this speech – not just his style, but his content, based around our culture and our language – so wise and so hilarious.
Persuasion/inspiration/information/entertainment at its best!