Visualization for presenters

Coincidentally, (or not coincidentally according to your belief), a fellow Toastmaster gave a touching speech this week explaining how the Law of Attraction has worked in her life. This is in the same week that I received my copy of "Living the Law of Attraction". (Coincidence? Who knows?)

Which reminded me to again discuss the benefits of using the Law of Attraction and visualization for your presentations. You definitely get better results when you do one or more of the following:

1. Visualize your meeting room. Visualize your audience. Now visualize, with strong positive emotions, your audience hanging on your every word and paying attention to your presentation. What does the room smell like? What is the temperature? How is the lighting? Then also visualize a successful presentation - depending on your definition of a successful presentation. If it is a business presentation, you can visualize closing the deal. If it is a wedding speech, you can visualize everyone laughing at your jokes. For maximum benefit, visualize every morning and evening in the days leading up to your presentation.

2. Write out affirmations by hand. Affirmations such as "I see the crowd going wild". "Everyone came up to me afterwards and shook my hand".

3. Put up pictures of a successful speaker on your vision board and imagine that you are that speaker.

4. Use positive self-talk in the time leading up to the presentation. Consciously say to yourself things like "I feel comfortable speaking to these people". "This audience came a long way to hear my message today".

Now, before you think that visualization is the only key to being the best speaker in the history of the world, I need to make sure you also take tangible steps in the right direction. Remember that actions determine results.

Larry Winget says it best in this quote: "What you think about, talk about, and get off your ass and do something about comes about".

After you have completed the important steps of visualization, you need to craft your presentation and then rehearse it. Rehearse it out loud, and time your presentation so that you know how long it is.

This is the Law of Attraction in Action for presenters.
Step 1. Visualize.
Step 2. Take appropriate actions.
Step 3. Enjoy the results of your labor with a memorable presentation.

Tips to Live the Law of Attraction

Here I am holding the newly published book. Here are some tips to help you manifest your dreams, starting today.

1. Put up a vision board and pin photos or pictures of your dream on the vision board. When you see your vision board imagine that you already posses the object you desire. How will you feel when you possess that object? Will you be happy? Use your emotion to strengthen your desire by feeling the happiness every time you look at the photos on your vision board.

2. Create a "Dream book". Write down the accomplishments that you want to achieve, even if you have no way of reaching them currently. Write your desires in your dream book and keep it on your bookshelf to review from time to time.

3. Use affirmations each morning when you wake up. Write down ten to twenty desires that you would like to achieve, one desire on each 3 x 5 index card. Each morning you read the card, visualize the desire for 30 seconds, and then read the next card.

4. Be open to new opportunities in your life. The Law of Attraction may manifest your desire through new experiences. Be willing to undertake new adventures and go where you have not gone before.

5. Do your part. If you want to manifest a promotion, then you also have to do your part and apply for open positions. You may attract the open position, but it will pass if you don't apply for the position and visualize acing the interview.

Living the Law of Attraction

My copy of "Living the Law of Attraction: Real Stories of People Manifesting Health, Wealth, and Happiness" arrived in the mail today". Disclaimer up front - I don't make any money on this book. Rich German and Robin Hoch have done a nice job of gathering stories and publishing this compilation. You should have a copy for your bookshelf if you want to improve any area of your life and you can purchase your copy here.

I immediately turned to page 145 and read what I had written. That's right. I contributed my story of how I manifested our immigration to the USA using the Law of Attraction. My hope is that readers around the world will vicariously experience our success by Living the Law of Attraction in their lives. Seeing your words in a printed book is an ego enhancing event, no matter how small your contribution. To be honest, I contributed my story to stroke my ego and to give others the opportunity to learn from my experience (in that order).

Now that I have read the final version of my contribution, I will read the other fabulous stories in this book to learn how others benefit from Living the Law of Attraction. I bet each contributing author is feeling good about themselves right about now.

Contributing author

Just received notification that my story will appear in the upcoming book Living the Law of Attraction.

My story details how I used the Law of Attraction to reach our dream. My wife and I have wanted to live in the USA for as long as we can remember. But how? Neither of us had the money to get up and leave South Africa and we did not have work permits to seek employment in the USA if we were to find ourselves here. This was the impossible dream for middle class employees in South Africa.

Yet, here we are - making a new life in the USA. We did it by following the Law of Attraction. You can also reach impossible dreams by following the Law of Attraction. I am living proof that the Law of Attraction works.

Living the Law of Attraction comprises the best 62 stories chosen from hundreds of stories submitted. Bob Doyle from "The Secret" has written the Foreword. I can't wait for my copy to arrive and learn how other people, from a dozen countries have benefited by Living the Law of Attraction.

If you want to turn your dreams into reality, then pre-order your copy of Living the Law of Attraction now, at the special price of only $12.95.

PMA For Speakers

PMA stands for Positive Mental Attitude. Speakers need to have PMA to:

1. Visualize presentation success.
2. Radiate Positive Mental energy to your audience.
3. Attract positive situations and success into your life.
4. Look for the silver lining of difficult situations.

Have you ever been attracted to a negative speaker on stage? I doubt it. A speaker who gets in front of you and complains about the weather, his physical health, the inadequacy of his fee, the state of the world and his presentation cannot attract future audiences. No one pays money to share this negativity.

The best speakers implement PMA, every day. Best speakers have energy, are enthusiastic and provide benefits to the audience.

I recently encountered a woman - I will call her Dumpy who stands out because of the NMA (Negative Mental Attitude) she drowns herself in. In Toastmasters we are learning and growing together. Toastmasters are mostly people who have PMA and are bringing good to their audiences through personal stories and humor.

I listened to Dumpy for five minutes (seemed like the Eternity described by Hell-and-Brimstone preachers). Dumpy loudly proclaimed that her employer did not pay her enough money, her desk at work was not suitable for someone with her station in life and the sun shone too brightly.

I believe that Dumpy does not even realize that she is dragging herself into this level of NMA. She is hard to listen to and a drain on her colleagues at the office. I am sure you have met your own version of Dumpy.

On reflection, I wondered why Dumpy shocked me so much. I have come across Dumpy in other people before. Then I realized that I am among Toastmasters with so much PMA that NMA is foreign. This is what makes Dumpy stand out so much - the contrast to most people I interact with each day.

Here is your challenge for today. Are you a Dumpy and not know it? Are you exuding PMA from every pore when you are on the platform? You don't want to hear about a speaker's problems all the time - do you think your audience wants to constantly hear about your adversities? Take some time to reflect - watch some of your recorded speeches. Look for PMA and NMA.


P.S. Dumpy is not a Toastmaster yet. I will report out her reaction when I ask her to attend an Open House at my Toastmaster club this week.

Creating your Dream Job

I have just read "Secrets of the Hidden Job Market" by Janet White. Get a copy for yourself from Amazon.com (Only if you are interested in obtaining your dream job of course)

Janet's pragmatic book details the "Contrarian System" of job hunting and calls the Law of Attraction to your aid in landing your dream job. This book now has a special place on my bookshelf.