This was the way speaker Steve Robbins CHANGE started his talk at an event where I was presenting.
Like me, most of the audience answered pop. (even though the commercial has been off the air for years) it makes you see how we are programmed to respond. Yes it was a great marketing campaign, but it makes you wonder, how many other things you are reacting to in old automatic ways.
How many other ideas are stuck in that brain of yours, spewing out stories that have been long off the air?
People are creatures of habits. We like routine, some of us more than others. And in order to feel safe we start patterns that make it easy to get by. I have women that come to my show and every time they sit in the front row and in the same order. They all sing in the choir together and even more interesting they sit in the same formation they do at choir practice.
They did it once, and it became a habit.
But life is fluid, and creative. It changes up on us. No more so than now.
One of the things I love teaching companies is how to improvise: how to look at change in a more positive lift. I see more than ever we need to try and interrupt old thought patterns to get to better answers. Long term solutions for the new world reality.
The rule of improvisation is to say yes and see where it leads. This does not mean running around like a chicken with your head cut off. Its means leaning into the change and letting your experience lead you. And seeing if you say YES to it, where are the answers are. Leaning into it, makes it easier. And we also see answers that are right in front of us.
But leaning into yes means letting go of the old routines, and if you’re anything like me anything I let got of has claw marks all over it. Even if its good change, I buck it. And especially if its financial. God that old financial fear and anxiety.
But if we lean into yes you are reminded of your resiliency. You lasted this long. In six months this thing you’re freaking out about will be the new reality, and you’ll be onto something new.
That’s the way of it and you are going to be okay.
I want to hear from you. And if you have some old outdated routine you’re trying to shake up in your work or personal life, please email me or leave a comment below– I’d love to hear how you are being asked to say yes in your life.
is it 2012? And the Mayan Calendar. the Mayans are a lot more hip than the rest of us thinking about Peru. The Mayans are just trying to make a buck. don’t know. I want to take my writing to another level. 12,000 feet below sea level. Where the air is so thin, you want to throw up. I want to write in places that will make my stories deeper and richer. I want to create a story telling retreat that will blow you away. And we will write and share stories on page and in person. I want to IM-PERU–VE your writing style, and access the creative soul you want to be.
Have you ever been to the kind of presentation, where someone stands up and gives a dull powerpoint? The kind of presentation where someone has their back to the audience, staring at a screen saying “Refer to Appendix C…” Time slows down.
The audience wants to poke their eyes out. Even the presenter wants to blind herself with the laser pointer.
Whenever I go to an event, they say do you have powerpoint? MAKE YOUR FACE YOUR POWEPOINT.
Why?
Sure you can do a slide show or power point but you need to be sure its an add on -and sure your presentation can survive without it. Because I can’t tell you how many gigs I have been at where you get there and the technology messes up and you’re stuck. What are you going to use? Hand puppets? Mime?
You need a solid well crafted story. And you need to rehearse like actors do. Getting the nuances right.
The story needs to be something the audience goes through it with you.
As a presenter its important you get your face animated. You got to get some energy going. It doesn’t mean acting it out like some grade 2 schoolteacher. That is just annoying, but as my friend and comic, Ron James, told me -in comedy, you need to “Get in their seats. *(which is quite different than get in their pants–that my friends is a a whole other seminar)
Paint a picture with words. Use relaxed language to illustrate what point you want to make!
BODY LANGUAGE +TELLING YOUR FACE TO HAVE SOME FUN= ENGAGED AUDIENCE.
That means you RISK looking like a dork.
Looking like a dork is part of the deal.
And you will screw up. You won’t die of embarassment. I haven’t.
So tell your audience you’re in on the knowledge that you are a dork. (or hambone, or I lost my place) They can see you did. And if you tell them hey I know I am lost. I am cool with it, they relax.
You don’t want an audience feeling sorry for you!
ONE FUNNY LADY can help make your presentation style, BRILLIANT.
At this point most people say, “But I am NO public speaker.”
You don’t have to be. You need techniques to bring levity to your work.
So ONE FUNNY LADY(which is me and I don’t know why I am talking in the royal we.) has created a way for you to share your brilliant experience and knowledge in a better way.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN:
1) How to use body language to make the point.
2) Through story, animation and voice tone (as well as projection– they won’t get the information if you can’t hear you)
3) Tried and true techniques to battle stage fright. And how to make your knees stop shaking.
4) Five powerful techniques to bring humour to the room.
Two ways to do it.
A group coaching.(2-3 hours depending on size of group. Maximum 25 people) 1500 plus HST.
Or one on one. (2 hours) 225.00 (by phone and email so you have time to practice. We do Skype calls so I can watch and coach first hand how to deliver)
(Oh and by the way I’m taking clients for even one session for the next couple weeks to support people jump start thier lives! Give yourself a gift of support and inspiration.)
My last name being Kimmett, I was called Kermit a lot. Like the frog on the Muppets, get it? I hated it as much as you can imagine. But as I get older, I realize Kermie was a lot wiser than he looked. For instance, he advised “Never fall in love with a pig.” Think of how many hours of pain you could have avoided if you had only listened to that one!
He also said,
“It isn’t easy being green.”
You got that right, Kerm! In fact, it isn’t easy smelling green, either. I have a bamboo yoga suit. When I sweat, I smell like a Burmese forest. Saving energy can be exhausting. I began using compost worms. You think cats are fussy? Worms won’t take your garbage unless you’ve ground your kitchen scraps in a blender. (Note to Cousin Francine: I told you that wasn’t a smoothie.)
I use cloth bags for my groceries. Or at least I intend to. I still haven’t gotten them from the car to the grocery store, but I still say no to plastic bags. No matter how many groceries I have, I stuff as many items in my handbag as I can. I’ve gone through three purses so far. I’m reducing plastic, but increasing leather consumption. The cows may be mad, but there are fewer of them passing wind.
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