Motivational Speaker Quotes
Be aware, putting on a poker face can backfire during your first impressions because it can make people uncomfortable and make you more difficult to read and harder to get to know.
At any moment, you can use your face to open doors of opportunity if it demonstrates interest, enthusiasm, respect, understanding, delight, agreement, and more.
What are you projecting? How are you showing up? Are you aware of how your expressions are impacting your communication with others?
Smiling is one of your most powerful non-verbal behaviors. People do read a book by its cover and these expressions provide glimpses into what they will find inside.
ASK YOURSELF: Have you found that being nice to some people is simply not effective? When might it be wise to throw down the gauntlet and get tough or confrontational?
It is no mystery why nice people are well-liked and get along harmoniously with others. Being nice makes people feel emotionally safe, allowing for more authentic, trusting, and happy interactions.
Being proactive and intentional will enable you to create a positive experience for yourself and others.
By being fully present and engaged you will maximize your moments to make every encounter count.
Move beyond yourself to serve a greater purpose and vision. Learn to mix, mingle, and glow, thus helping others feel more comfortable, at ease, important, and connected.
Become a ‘good finder’ and seek to acknowledge the best you see in others.
The Art of Action explores specific action steps you can take for personal and professional transformation. Start by taking the initiative to be kind, courageous, and polite.
Smiling and Expressions of Emotion. A genuine smile is inviting, contagious, and encouraging. People do read a book by its cover and your expressions provide a glimpse for what they’ll find inside.
Orientation & Proximity. Be aware of the orientation between yourself and others so that you can be sensitive and responsive to their comfort zones.
Handshakes, Hugs & Other Touching. Learning how to touch appropriately can elevate your presentation, demonstrate respect, and convey confidence.
Approachability. Being warm and inviting demonstrates comfort, care, and emotional safety all of which encourages engagement. Your openness says, “I’m happy to meet you and am glad you’re here.
To cultivate bravery and courage, avoid the bystander effect.Rather than standing on the sidelines watching other people achieve their goals, jump in with both feet and get involved.
If you want to enjoy confidence, engagement, positive feedback, connection, and reward in your relationships, start being and doing what it takes to make it happen.
Mindfulness means paying attention to what is happening at this very moment and being keenly aware of your surroundings and the people in it.
When you begin conversations with confidence and listen attentively, you will become more flexible and adaptable in most any situation.
The Art of Communication shares insights to help you communicate with a higher awareness and focused intention and meet people on their level to increase clarity and understanding.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be a natural communicator and know exactly what, when, why, and how to speak so that your message is conveyed and received as you intend?
When you become an actively engaged listener, you will develop the mindful awareness that active listening involves multiple layers and distinct levels.
While active listening is crucial for optimal communication, we are faced with a dilemma which can perplex even the sincerest and engaged of individuals.
Active listening is key to all healthy and effective communication, however, it doesn't necessarily come easily.
If the skill of participatory listening came effortlessly and easy for everyone, there would not be so many misunderstandings, communication breakdowns, irritations, and frustrations.
Listening actively confirms for people that you are positively receiving and thoroughly understanding the message they are conveying.
Think of the communication that takes place in your own life on a continuous basis—at home, at work, with friends, and beyond. When you actively listen to people, you enhance communication.
How do you minimize the awkwardness in that moment? What are some of the conversations starters you've used to open, encourage, and support enjoyable and beneficial conversations?
Your first words will not only shape your first impression, they can create amazing connections, lead you to your dream job, or help you discover a new best friend—or accomplish exactly the opposite.
Being grounded in your lifelong culture and your personal perspective, you are comfortable with the way you see things and may believe it is the best and only way.
Active listening is one of the best services a company can provide.
The process of attentive listening makes the other person feel important, valued, and heard. For Nick, listening was, and still is, love. I've never forgotten that precious moment—and the lesson!
Becoming an empathetic listener helps you to better understand how another person feels and why they communicate as they do.
Active listening requires being fully present and engaged in the moment.
Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life’s experience.
Surround yourself with positive people who ignite your energy and spirit.
Believe in your power to make happiness a choice—do so every day, until it becomes a lifelong habit.
A positive attitude feels a heck of a lot better than a negative one.
Building confidence is an ongoing process and something that can be accomplished over time.
Many people go through life complaining, whining, and obsessing so much about what they don’t have that they are doing exactly what it takes to block it.
Would you like to feel a calm confidence when you walk into a room full of strangers, knowing that you can start new a conversation with anyone?
Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage.
To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement—it is the underpinning!
Since your mindset can make you or break you, how is it going? Is it representing you well or does it need a complete overhaul?
Do you yearn for loving, loyal relationships? Be that for others
If you do nothing, you’ll have nothing. If you do something spectacular, you will have something spectacular.
The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction.
One would think that if people truly wanted to live incredible lives, they would do everything in their power to create a mindset which helped them get there. Right?
Your internal thoughts determine your outer world.
This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person’s shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about.