Finally. It’s summer! Longer days! No more freezing temperatures! Sunshine, vacations, outdoor dining… and maybe a little more time to enjoy your life! Release….! So what are you going to do? Finish up last summer’s reading list? Lose a little more so that bathing suit looks even...
I often find that I’m forced to come to a complete stop on the interstate in the midst of the chaos of my morning commute in Atlanta. It absolutely makes me crazy. I get tense, my blood pressure is skyrockets, and it feels like I’m...
The title of this Pink Floyd song presents an interesting question. Are we comfortably numb? What does that really mean? Let’s take these two words at face value. Comfortable means physically or mentally content. Numb, means lacking feeling or emotion; indifferent. Are we really physically or...
People who begin work on their speaking skills don’t usually see themselves as starting a long-term journey. They usually begin because of the demands of a particular situation or a new role. Maybe they’ve advanced to a more senior position and have to address larger...
Sshh, Sshh… Stop the talking. Stop the beeping, the phone, the pinging, the music, and the TV. When was the last time you can remember just being in the quiet… absolute silence? Our world today is so full of constant sound and stimulation that we have...
We come across articles galore on the topic of multi-tasking. Typically, the focus is how to do it better. We live in a world where multitasking is quite acceptable. I find myself doing it, talking to someone on the phone while watching a program on...
I don’t care what you think… what do you feel? Typically, if we actually think through what we’d like to say before we say it, we do it within the safe confines of paper and pen...
To Thine Own Self Be True …but What is True and How can I be Myself? We all want to be our real selves. We know that when we are, we are our most comfortable and most effective. But, what is our “real self” and how do...
by Scott Weiss President & CEO of Speakeasy Communications and Author of the Best Selling book "DARE!" You know the drill…executive gets ready for a big client meeting 30 minutes before he steps into the conference room. He attends the meeting with two colleagues and afterwards, they...
by Jason Daily, Instructor and Speech-Language Pathologist This past week, I was asked to participate in a pilot for a program that will be conducted by one of my colleagues, a fellow instructor, overseas in the coming months. This was much different than sitting in and...