Motivational

Here are the resources for the Choose Happiness Even When Life Sucks episode of  The Public Speaker The Problem With Happiness Another Study by the Same Author Above (Kashdan, T.B., Breen, W.E., & Julian, T. (2010). Everyday strivings in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: Problems arise when avoidance and emotion regulation dominate. Behavior Therapy, [...]

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Last week on the show I talked about Bob Seger… The Secret to Great Public Speaking Why did I talk about him? I love Bob Seger–not because of his music, but because of his passion. I went to a concert when I was high school and I when I was watching Bob and his band [...]

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Listener Chitra Sivasankar from India shared a very touching video on his Facebook Wall. Maybe you’ve seen it? It’s a video of an old man asking his grown son several times “What is that?” The first time the son responds, “A Sparrow”. The son gets progressively impatient with the father. Eventually he explodes at him, [...]

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“Failure is NOT an option.” I really don’t like that phrase. (It’s from the Apollo 13 movie.)…I know, I know, it was meant to imply that it’s never a good idea to lose hope or give up.  We should always look  for alternatives. However, I think many people perhaps look at that phrase from the [...]

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