I love making people laugh. This has been my forté for the majority of my Toastmasters career thus far because I am good at it. However, how can we find out if indeed we excel in other areas if we’re not willing to leave out comfort zones and try something new? Last week, I presented [...]
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” – Albert Einstein
I am devoting myself fully to my cause(s) or rather, pursuits and dreams. I know that this will demand (almost) all of me, but I [...]
This week, I learned the value of saying “NO” on occasion. I was asked to facilitate at an event on Saturday. My first reaction was “Agree, Rebecca!” However, after giving it some brief thought, I realized that I simply did not have the time to prepare for the event and that it would not be [...]
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” – Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from “Faust”
“It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who [...]