by Trish Springsteen | Jan 20, 2010 | Personal Development, Public Speaking
I was at a function recently discussing speaking engagements when a friend turned to me and said excitedly, “I have been asked to be an MC!” I was delighted for her and asked some questions like “When is it, Who to, What format and are you preparing?” To which she...
by Trish Springsteen | Jan 15, 2010 | Leadership, Personal Development
It’s always exciting when you are about to embark on a new project – there is the anticipation of great times ahead tempered with the apprehension of what might go wrong.I think I may have mentioned that my eldest granddaughter is embarking on a new chapter in her...
by Trish Springsteen | Jan 13, 2010 | Personal Development, Public Speaking
People attend our workshops for many and varied reasons: to get more confidence, prepare for work presentations, to be able to answer impromptu questions clearly and concisely. One of the many reasons given is that they have to give a speech at a wedding. Wedding...
by Trish Springsteen | Jan 10, 2010 | Personal Development
There is nothing more pathetic than the sight of me wandering around my bookshelves muttering “I have nothing to read!” There are about three thousand books jammed in the shelves, piled on the floor, spilling over coffee tables and getting under foot!What I mean of...
by Trish Springsteen | Jan 7, 2010 | Business, Personal Development
Have you met your ‘Lugubrious Lucy’ yet? You know; the one that is sure it is never going to work? Well you will!!I bumped into my ‘Lugubrious Lucy’ in the shopping centre just the other day. I hadn’t seen her for months and of course we had to stop for coffee and...
by Trish Springsteen | Jan 1, 2010 | Business, Personal Development
My grandmother used to be quite passionate about New Year’s Day – it was, she told me, a crossroad. Here we could pause a little in our life and make some decisions about the year ahead.“What you do on New Year’s Day” she said “was an indication of how you would spend...