"Dumb Jock"

Thanks to Cognitive Daily for the article Is "Dumb Jock" an accurate stereotype? While you pose the question

with more and more studies demonstrating that athletic participation is associated with higher academic performance, why does the stereotype persist?

I suspect that maybe you are generalising too far. I grew up with the stereotype - either dumb jock or academic brain, but not both. I live in a household of males, all of whom love their sport and both sons play football, basketball and cricket. While I know that there are many sporting activities particularly athletics where there is no longer any dumb jock behaviour, I see it persisting in the football rooms still. Any announcement after a game of football was accompanied by skulling (is that how you spell it?), last time I attended. I was mortified to see it still existed. Does success on a football field still depend on that masculine, blokey testosterone fuelled atmosphere?

Public speaking update

Two new articles:

Handling Questions

Incorporate Humour in your next Presentation

Public Speaking Resource:
“Little Things That Have a Big Payoff: Secrets to Making Real Money in the Speaking and Consulting Business” with Shep Hyken, CSP
You’ve watched speakers on the platform that you *know* make four times as much money as you, and thought to yourself, “He isn’t four times as good a speaker as I am.”
So what’s the difference?
Little things, usually. Maybe that speaker knows how to close more bookings, at a higher average fee. Maybe he knows how to get a lot of repeat business. Maybe he knows how to get the client to buy a large quantity of products to give to the audience. Maybe all of these, and more. The point is, if you have the chance to hear a highly successful speaker explain some of the “little things” he does to get extraordinary results for his business, you might want to listen.
You will learn:
* A powerful question that will help you discover your client’s core needs.
* A system to help qualify and define your *ideal* clients.
* An offer you can make to your clients that will separate you from 99% of your competition.
* Techniques used to sell large quantity product orders.
* How to make more money *and* take more time off.
* Strategies to multiply and duplicate past successes.
* And more.
Shep has developed marketing strategies and practices that have brought him top business success. He is going to share them with us in his August 16 teleseminar.
Register, or order the CD or MP3 recording
SPECIAL LIMITED-TIME OFFER: If you’re interested in Shep’s message on how to make more money in the speaking/training/consulting business, you will also want the information shared in two other SNN teleseminar recordings:
* “Don’t Leave Money on the Table: How to Increase Your Bottom Line Without Working Harder” with Jennifer de St. Georges
* “Creating the Good Life: How to Have a Six-Figure Income Working Less and Living More” with Elizabeth Jeffries, CSP, CPAE
With your order of Shep’s teleseminar, CD or MP3, at checkout you will be offered the tapes(not CDs or MP3s) of these programs for the special price of only $10 each, while quantities last.
This offer expires Sept. 15
.Take advantage of this offer before it expires

Speech Making Success Tip:

If the structure of your speech involves ”Tell them what you are going to say, say it and tell them what you just said…” then the Introduction, Body and Conclusion are vital. But just as crucial, are the links between those parts - the bridging. They provide another opportunity to remind the audience of your message, and to link the parts together seamlessly. Often as you take breath to launch into the next point of your speech, the following utterance carries the weight of that breath or pause, and therefore is an ideal opportunity to reinforce your message.

tag: Public Speaking

For Teachers

I have updated the following pages with resources for teachers ...


Lockie Leonard read-alikes
Indonesia
Weather and Seasons
Farms
Biography
Lighthouses - booklists
Toys
Pirates
Inventions
Disasters
English Grammar
Special days

Tag: teaching resources

Public speaking resources

I have updated the Public Speaking pages at Pivotal Points.

I added two new Articles:

Conquer Your Fear of Speaking

How to Be A Great Speaker-Tomorrow,

and

a Speech Making Success Tip.

The Public Speaking Resource of the week is:
Pivotal Quotations.

Tag: Public speaking

Self improvement

I have updated the Personal Growth web pages at Pivotal points.

Here are the latest additions:


Crunch Time - 8 cheap Marketing Tactics
How to Improve Your Business's Image
...More on Marketing


Optimism Increases Productivity
... More on Motivation

On the Rebound
More on Leadership

Seminar Success Strategies - How to profit from your Investment
More on Being organised


6 Time Management Tips: Time Audits
...More on Time Management


Working Well With Others..
... More on workplace success

How to become an expert in your field in ten books or less!
.. More on Creativity and Innovation

Tags: Creativity, career, time management, organised, leadership, motivation, marketing

the Moon landing - stuff of legends

We need our myths and legends. We have the little girl in the red hood and the big bad wolf, and we have the moon landing. It has become the stuff of legend, too - pride in our achievements as a race. Look at the language used in it - "one small step ..." suitable to any myth or legend.

My sons listen to a song that says "Space may be the final frontier/but it's made in a Hollywood basement ..." More vivid language and another myth about the moon landing - an urban myth.

And now to add to this whole melting pot, the news:


NASA can't find original tape of moon landing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,"

From a Librarian's point of view this is very sad. What were they thinking - stuff of myth and they don't even know where it is!! and why didn't they put it on microfiche and store it properly? We must preserve our history! We must preserve out mythology!

Tags: Moon landing, Library, Mythology

Public speaking resources

Two new articles:

Handling the audience in public speaking

10 Sure-Fire Steps To Take The Fear Out Of Public Speaking

Public Speaking success Tip

Latest resource:


Teleseminar - register or order the recording ...

"Little things that have a Big Payoff: Secrets to Making Real Money in the Speaking and consulting business" wth Shep Hyken, DSP

Tag: public speaking

My good news item

Are you left-handed?

I grew up in the days where left-handed people were treated as slighly deficient, at school. They certainly had a probelm when it came to writing - forced to adopt that crabbed, over-the-top hand position which just did not work, in those days of pen and ink. So it was a pleasant surpise to read this news article ...

Higher paychecks: a left-handed compliment?


Left-handed men, often seen as having an advantage over right-handed counterparts in sports like tennis, also enjoy much better paydays, a new study says.

Left-handed men with at least some college education

Read on ...

Tag: left handed

Resources for Families

I have just added new material to these Resources for Families web pages:

Books and reading

Parenting

Family nutrition

Family Health


Please visit. I hope you find something of use to you.

families

I have updated the Whizz Kids pages at Pivotal Points.

These pages got new material:

Books & Reading
Arts, Crafts and activities
Fun & Games

Tag: kids

Self improvement resources

I have updated the Personal Growth web pages at Pivotal points.

Here are the latest additions:

Low Prices = More Customers? Not Always

10 Essential Small Business Productivity Tools
...More on Business
Frequency in Advertising




"Questions to Ask At A Meeting That Includes a Meal"
More on Marketing





Control Yourself

Wanna Stay Thin? Go To Sleep!
More on Personal health and wellbeing

Practicing Servant-Leadership

Why Entrepreneurs Should Delegate
More on Leadership

Do You Have More Than 3 Magazines to Read?
More on Being organised

10 Ways to Find More Time
More on Time Management

small business, marketing, health, time management

Blogging ITC Convention 2007

I am relly enjoying a different style of blogging on the convention blog. Most of my blogs are simply notification - I point the readers to interesting things I've come across on the web. I feel I don't need to comment because they speak for themselves. But in this blog, which is a behind-the-scenes look at how we are getting the programme ready for convention 2007 is a whole different style - a chat with members, really. And I am really enjoying it. Visit, if you would like to ...

For Teachers

I have updated the following pages:


Flight

Fiction Activities

Animals

Classroom Management

Medieval

Disabilities - Teaching

Thinking skills

Booklists - Bullying

Fairy tales

Nursery Rhymes

Internet Research

Behaviour Management

lesson plans

Public Speaking

I have added two new articles to the Pivotal Public Speaking web pages ...

PowerPoint Bullets Bye Bye

Give a Great Talk, Part 2

public speaking

From the latest issue of Pivotal Personal Best ezine

Hello and welcome to this issue of Pivotal Personal Best.

Do you attend seminars and conferences? I find them the most uplifting recharging experiences. I come home full of ideas and enthusiasm. And I know from experience! that it is so easy to let that charge and those ideas gradually slip away if you don't have a plan of action to put them into practice. Fellow Aussie, Lorraine Pirihi has written a very useful article with some great ideas on how to benefit most from your conference/seminar attendance.

But first here's a little piece to increase your optimism from our resident resilience authority, Michael Licenblat.

Optimism Increases Productivity

How am I going to get through all this work?
I don't know what will happen if I fail?
What happens if we don't meet the sales budget?
I hope that I don't get sick!

If this is a familiar train of thought then you are in trouble!

Pessimism has been found to not only increase stress, but also increases incidence of illness & absenteeism, tiredness, slower recovery from surgery, low self esteem, and causes the under use of abilities.
You simply cannot afford to 'put up' with a bad mood, having a miserable day, or negative colleagues. Pessimism will drain both your productivity and quality of life.

Main Article:

Seminar Success Strategies - How to profit from your Investment

I've recently returned from a 3 day seminar, full of renewed enthusiasm and information that, when actioned, will make a dramatic difference to all aspects of my business and my personal life. There were also many other people there, who like myself attend seminars and conferences to gain more knowledge so they too can improve their lives. However, it's not the knowledge that makes the difference, it's the application of that knowledge.

Visit Pivotal personal Best - the Ezine - it's now online