2 questions
Today - short and sweet questions.
1. Are you making a presentation, or a paging through a PowerPoint slide show? What is your PowerPoint Presentation style? I see so many presenters merely paging through slides and wish that I could reach into his or her brain to educate them. Your PowerPoint presentation is firstly a presentation and secondly supported with striking visual aids.
2. Valentines day - My family celebrated at a local restaurant chain store. 14 years ago I took my wife-to-be on our second date. Sweltering hot summer evening in Pretoria, driving a 20 year old dented and rusting Chevrolet 3800. If you had told me that one day we would be blissfully married and living in the USA, I would have told you that you had been out in the sun too long. Us live in the USA? We worked in entry level positions in dead-end departments in a South African Government service. I struggled to put petrol in the car let alone buy an airplane ticket. The sun was certainly powerful enough on that day to cause delusions.
Well, here we are in 2008. MBA certifcate hanging on the wall, helping clients all over the world to dramatically increase business presentations through effective PowerPoint Presentations. As Alan Weiss says "Ya never know". You have to try.
You have to try and pursue a higher traditional degree if you need it for your career. (Starting my path towards my MBA through years of part-time study proved to be a wise decision, hence my steadfast belief that everyone needs higher education). If can do it with my checkered academic record, then most certainly can get your next degree as well. But I digress.
If you being tells you to move to a different country to fulfill your destiny, then you have to try. You won't know how successful you can be, unless you try.
What is your being telling you? What is your next step? Are you willing to act despite your fears, self-doubts and the abundance of people around you "advising" you on your foolishness? True, you may fail. But I bet you that you have a greater chance of succeeding if you "burn the boats" and put your mind towards success.
1. Are you making a presentation, or a paging through a PowerPoint slide show? What is your PowerPoint Presentation style? I see so many presenters merely paging through slides and wish that I could reach into his or her brain to educate them. Your PowerPoint presentation is firstly a presentation and secondly supported with striking visual aids.
2. Valentines day - My family celebrated at a local restaurant chain store. 14 years ago I took my wife-to-be on our second date. Sweltering hot summer evening in Pretoria, driving a 20 year old dented and rusting Chevrolet 3800. If you had told me that one day we would be blissfully married and living in the USA, I would have told you that you had been out in the sun too long. Us live in the USA? We worked in entry level positions in dead-end departments in a South African Government service. I struggled to put petrol in the car let alone buy an airplane ticket. The sun was certainly powerful enough on that day to cause delusions.
Well, here we are in 2008. MBA certifcate hanging on the wall, helping clients all over the world to dramatically increase business presentations through effective PowerPoint Presentations. As Alan Weiss says "Ya never know". You have to try.
You have to try and pursue a higher traditional degree if you need it for your career. (Starting my path towards my MBA through years of part-time study proved to be a wise decision, hence my steadfast belief that everyone needs higher education). If can do it with my checkered academic record, then most certainly can get your next degree as well. But I digress.
If you being tells you to move to a different country to fulfill your destiny, then you have to try. You won't know how successful you can be, unless you try.
What is your being telling you? What is your next step? Are you willing to act despite your fears, self-doubts and the abundance of people around you "advising" you on your foolishness? True, you may fail. But I bet you that you have a greater chance of succeeding if you "burn the boats" and put your mind towards success.
posted by Wayne Botha @ 7:32 PM
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