Improving Our "Signals" and "Beings"

This is a review of Carol Fleming’s The Sound of Your Voice, an audio program created to improve your voice. What better way to improve the quality of your voice than to listen to a speech expert teach the skills she has learned for several decades. Since 1968, Carol Fleming as ran her private speech [...]

This is a review of Renee Grant-Williams’ Voice Power: Using Your Voice to Captivate, Persuade, and Command Attention. Have you ever wondered why some people can grab people’s attention and make them listen to their every word? If your voice isn’t as powerful as you want it to be, you can learn to make it [...]

This is a book review of Susan Jeffers’ Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: Dynamic Techniques for Turning Fear, Indecision, and Anger Into Power, Action, and Love. Forget trying mumbo-jumbo, a psychological trick, or the latest dietary secret to “remove” your fears. Just do the thing you fear. If reading that statement scares you, [...]

We fear being alone; we fear being crowded. We fear the doctor; we fear living with health problems. We fear the opposite sex; we fear not knowing the opposite sex. We fear making decisions; we fear of not making an impact. We fear problems; we fear opportunities. We fear failure; we fear success. We fear [...]

This is a book review of Michael Hall and Bobby Bodenhamer’s Mind-lines: Lines for Changing Minds. You’ve been to told to see the glass as half full, but how do you do it? Have you ever wondered how your worries, fears, disagreements, interpersonal conflict, anger, and misunderstandings can be reinterpreted so that they empower you; [...]

This is a book review of Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas’ The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play. I’ve written a review of the book because having a good memory is important in speeches, conversation subjects, and remembering people’s name. You forget a person’s name. [...]

“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.” – Richard Whately “Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.” – Loren Eiseley “We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my [...]

This is a book review of Richard Bandler and John Grinder’s Frogs Into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming. It has been referred by many as the book to read for somebody starting out in neuro-linguistic programming and rightfully so. Richard Bandler and John Grinder are the founders of neuro-linguistic programming so you can expect a fair [...]

“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.” – Radclyffe Hall “All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “You don’t have to [...]

This is a book review of Leil Lowndes’ How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships. Author, Leil Lowndes gives 92 tricks for becoming a better conversationalist and improving your relationships. The 92 tips are spread throughout the following 9 parts: How to intrigue everyone without saying a word: You [...]