You Know I can’t start a Sentence without saying “You Know.”
I heard it on Sportscenter.
So it must be true.
A short interview with a college athlete who was training for the NFL Combines, which separate the serious April draft choices from those who precipitously fall down the rankings.
It was sad.
Each time the TV interviewer asked a question,
The response started with “You Know,”
“What are you doing down in Arizona to prepare?”
You know, I am just trying to get ready.
“We heard you tore a hamstring muscle. How is it now?”
You know, I would say 90%.
“What is the biggest change you expect to see in the NFL?”
You know, bigger and stronger players.
And you know the rest. It continued for several more questions. Until, you know, I put it mercifully to an end by clicking my, you know, remote.
The real shame of this is no student athlete or any student need to fall into speaking traps in this way.
By picturing in your mind what you want to say before you say it, any student can add spontaneity, energy and color to their language.
A lethargic repetition of words can be replaced with a sparkling insertion of vocabulary choices.
Listeners hear more of what the speaker is saying because the dull sound of repetitive words doesn’t hit them over the head with hammering consistency.
A speaker who wants to dazzle their audiences.
A writer who wants their words to be read.
If they learn to see pictures in their mind before the words.
The results can be worth a treasury of new thoughts.
And each one sounds like it is for the very first time.
And that is when the audience is connected to speaker and writer.
You know?
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
Want to be A Life Coach? What are you Waiting For?
You have studied Movies of the Mind with me.
Now, you want to be a coach.
What do I suggest the rest of 2007 should be like for you?
Enough graduates have asked me that question that I feel compelled to provide you a checklist.
So while I work on my quest to attract the right elements in the universe for me to take Movies of the Mind to the greatest number of minds possible, you can be working on these goals plus your own to make 2007 a year that propels you coaching career and changes your life while you help change the lives of others.
You’re a Coach. So coach!
What are you waiting for? The hardest thing for new coaches to do is get started. There are clients all around you. You have already studied with me. You have the right to use my 26 lessons as an ice breaking tool for letting others know that you are a personal life coach. So what are you waiting for? There is no time like the precious present. Get started spreading the message about your talent and expertise. Once you begin working with others, you will find your niche and connect with those talents that first attracted you to me. Your future clients wish to benefit from that talent. But they can’t find you until you start sharing your message with the rest of the world.
Attracting Clients
Marketing your practice must become your life’s work. What I tell you today about marketing will only get you started. It’s up to you to let this momentum take you to the next stop on your personal coaching journey.
I have the following suggestions to jumpstart your practice.
Print business cards.
How can anyone know you are a personal life coach unless you begin sharing the message with everyone you meet?
On your business card, the particulars of your name, cell phone and email address are obvious.
Make sure you include a specialty.
Tracy Moviemaker
Personal Life Coach
Lifestyle and Weight Management
Let others know where your greatest talent is in coaching others. Distribute your cards freely.
Advertise in free classifieds on the Internet and in weekly alternative (reasonably priced) newspapers in your town.
Get the message out!
Speak about your coaching at groups, libraries, etc.
Let anyone and everyone know you are a coach.
It’s no longer a secret.
Once you begin to seek attracting students, they will begin to be attracted to you.
Fees
Give away your talent at first and then build a fee into continued and new coaching.
Mentors
You are fortunate to have one.
Me.
Email me as you build that coaching practice with questions which will help you grow your individual life coaching practice
Books
Read everything you can get your hand on about the subject of visualization, mental imagery and life coaching. Scour the Internet.
Any good visualization booklist begins with Maxwell Maltz, Adelaide Bry, Shakti Gawain, Claude Bristol and those are only four great writers among the thousands I have read in the last 10 years.
This isn’t a sprint.
It’s the rest of your life
Your Movie
Continue filming your movie one scene at a time, each day.
You will attract whatever you need as long as you remain faithful to your moviemaking techniques.
And whenever the coaching business brings with it a question which your movie can’t seem to solve, it’s time to write your mentor, the most tenacious emailer you have ever known.
You can make it happen.
First, see it all in your movie.
Now, you want to be a coach.
What do I suggest the rest of 2007 should be like for you?
Enough graduates have asked me that question that I feel compelled to provide you a checklist.
So while I work on my quest to attract the right elements in the universe for me to take Movies of the Mind to the greatest number of minds possible, you can be working on these goals plus your own to make 2007 a year that propels you coaching career and changes your life while you help change the lives of others.
You’re a Coach. So coach!
What are you waiting for? The hardest thing for new coaches to do is get started. There are clients all around you. You have already studied with me. You have the right to use my 26 lessons as an ice breaking tool for letting others know that you are a personal life coach. So what are you waiting for? There is no time like the precious present. Get started spreading the message about your talent and expertise. Once you begin working with others, you will find your niche and connect with those talents that first attracted you to me. Your future clients wish to benefit from that talent. But they can’t find you until you start sharing your message with the rest of the world.
Attracting Clients
Marketing your practice must become your life’s work. What I tell you today about marketing will only get you started. It’s up to you to let this momentum take you to the next stop on your personal coaching journey.
I have the following suggestions to jumpstart your practice.
Print business cards.
How can anyone know you are a personal life coach unless you begin sharing the message with everyone you meet?
On your business card, the particulars of your name, cell phone and email address are obvious.
Make sure you include a specialty.
Tracy Moviemaker
Personal Life Coach
Lifestyle and Weight Management
Let others know where your greatest talent is in coaching others. Distribute your cards freely.
Advertise in free classifieds on the Internet and in weekly alternative (reasonably priced) newspapers in your town.
Get the message out!
Speak about your coaching at groups, libraries, etc.
Let anyone and everyone know you are a coach.
It’s no longer a secret.
Once you begin to seek attracting students, they will begin to be attracted to you.
Fees
Give away your talent at first and then build a fee into continued and new coaching.
Mentors
You are fortunate to have one.
Me.
Email me as you build that coaching practice with questions which will help you grow your individual life coaching practice
Books
Read everything you can get your hand on about the subject of visualization, mental imagery and life coaching. Scour the Internet.
Any good visualization booklist begins with Maxwell Maltz, Adelaide Bry, Shakti Gawain, Claude Bristol and those are only four great writers among the thousands I have read in the last 10 years.
This isn’t a sprint.
It’s the rest of your life
Your Movie
Continue filming your movie one scene at a time, each day.
You will attract whatever you need as long as you remain faithful to your moviemaking techniques.
And whenever the coaching business brings with it a question which your movie can’t seem to solve, it’s time to write your mentor, the most tenacious emailer you have ever known.
You can make it happen.
First, see it all in your movie.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Think Like Tiger!
THINK LIKE TIGER!
You watch Tiger play and you no doubt wonder what makes this guy so good.
The swing appears flawless and you have to laugh to yourself when he hits a wayward shot because on even super slow motion replays, breaking his swing down to stop action frames, it still seems perfect to almost all of us.
Other players on tour can hit the ball farther and Tiger is often penalized for his proclivity to be too aggressive on certain holes.
So what is the secret to his game?
Is there anything that we can learn from his utter dominance of the game?
A comedian might come in at this point and deliver the punch line.
We can learn that Tiger is Tiger and the rest of us are not.
But still, it gnaws at many of my golf students.
What can we learn from Tiger to help us in our game?
And the fact is, you can learn a lot.
I have studied Tiger’s game, as well as made a study of champions in all sports.
These champions have one thing in common that the garden variety weekend athlete doesn’t have.
In fact, this ingredient is so easy for me to teach that it is almost too easy for me to take my student’s money when I reveal it to them.
But, like Tiger, I have no difficulty in taking the money.
The secret I speak of is not in Tiger’s approach shots.
The secret is in Tiger’s mental approach to the game of golf.
For you see, Tiger plays golf as if he has seen every shot in his mind before he ever arrived at the golf course that day.
You have no doubt heard of the quarterback who saw the game winning pass before he threw it.
The hitter who saw his winning hit bouncing in the lush green grass of the outfield, rolling to the wall and clearing the bases, before the pitcher even threw the pitch.
The ice hickey player seeing his wrist shot beat the goalie’s desperate flop as the red light flashed behind him.
The basketball player seeing the game almost come to a slow motion stop, as the winning shot revealed itself and her arcing shot floated into a perfect trajectory and ripped the net strings as the buzzer sounded.
These are all examples of athletes who have experienced the power of making movies in their mind to help them to excel at their sport.
Tiger Woods is a master of the mental game.
Not because he is more focused.
Not because he appears to want it more.
And most of all, not because he is more talented than the rest of us.
He packages that talent with the most prodigious mental approach ever witnessed in the game of golf since Jack.
And as he approaches this 2007 season, no longer sneaking up, but making a full frontal assault on Jack’s long standing 18 major championships (Master’s PGA, US and British Open), I suggest you study Tiger the way I study champions.
Not for the way they play the game, but how they prepare for it before the playing ever commences.
You can take a minimum of 5 strokes off your game by learning how Tiger sees his round of golf in his mind before he ever takes the first tee.
I can teach it to you.
You might not be able to win a Grand Slam like Tiger.
But you can learn how he thinks.
And it will make your game a whole lot better.
And improve your life on the way.
Steve Tarde is a CPA and has taught athletes, entrepreneurs, students, parents, coaches, teachers and leaders around the world his amazing technique of making movies in the mind.
Contact him at stevetarde@yahoo.com
You watch Tiger play and you no doubt wonder what makes this guy so good.
The swing appears flawless and you have to laugh to yourself when he hits a wayward shot because on even super slow motion replays, breaking his swing down to stop action frames, it still seems perfect to almost all of us.
Other players on tour can hit the ball farther and Tiger is often penalized for his proclivity to be too aggressive on certain holes.
So what is the secret to his game?
Is there anything that we can learn from his utter dominance of the game?
A comedian might come in at this point and deliver the punch line.
We can learn that Tiger is Tiger and the rest of us are not.
But still, it gnaws at many of my golf students.
What can we learn from Tiger to help us in our game?
And the fact is, you can learn a lot.
I have studied Tiger’s game, as well as made a study of champions in all sports.
These champions have one thing in common that the garden variety weekend athlete doesn’t have.
In fact, this ingredient is so easy for me to teach that it is almost too easy for me to take my student’s money when I reveal it to them.
But, like Tiger, I have no difficulty in taking the money.
The secret I speak of is not in Tiger’s approach shots.
The secret is in Tiger’s mental approach to the game of golf.
For you see, Tiger plays golf as if he has seen every shot in his mind before he ever arrived at the golf course that day.
You have no doubt heard of the quarterback who saw the game winning pass before he threw it.
The hitter who saw his winning hit bouncing in the lush green grass of the outfield, rolling to the wall and clearing the bases, before the pitcher even threw the pitch.
The ice hickey player seeing his wrist shot beat the goalie’s desperate flop as the red light flashed behind him.
The basketball player seeing the game almost come to a slow motion stop, as the winning shot revealed itself and her arcing shot floated into a perfect trajectory and ripped the net strings as the buzzer sounded.
These are all examples of athletes who have experienced the power of making movies in their mind to help them to excel at their sport.
Tiger Woods is a master of the mental game.
Not because he is more focused.
Not because he appears to want it more.
And most of all, not because he is more talented than the rest of us.
He packages that talent with the most prodigious mental approach ever witnessed in the game of golf since Jack.
And as he approaches this 2007 season, no longer sneaking up, but making a full frontal assault on Jack’s long standing 18 major championships (Master’s PGA, US and British Open), I suggest you study Tiger the way I study champions.
Not for the way they play the game, but how they prepare for it before the playing ever commences.
You can take a minimum of 5 strokes off your game by learning how Tiger sees his round of golf in his mind before he ever takes the first tee.
I can teach it to you.
You might not be able to win a Grand Slam like Tiger.
But you can learn how he thinks.
And it will make your game a whole lot better.
And improve your life on the way.
Steve Tarde is a CPA and has taught athletes, entrepreneurs, students, parents, coaches, teachers and leaders around the world his amazing technique of making movies in the mind.
Contact him at stevetarde@yahoo.com
Monday, February 05, 2007
Did I tell you Manning Makes Movies?
The Super Bowl Champions arrived back in Indy today after beating the Chicago Bears last night in rainy Miami.
If you had read my Blog back on January 21, last night's game wouldn't have surprised you.
I don't make money in the sports advisory business.
But as you can tell from my January 21 Blog, those who read me and take action, might have won a bundle.
I am too busy teaching the power to be a tout.
But Movies of the Mind would make me a good one.
Maybe, someday.
If you had read my Blog back on January 21, last night's game wouldn't have surprised you.
I don't make money in the sports advisory business.
But as you can tell from my January 21 Blog, those who read me and take action, might have won a bundle.
I am too busy teaching the power to be a tout.
But Movies of the Mind would make me a good one.
Maybe, someday.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Moviemaker's Pledge
THE MOVIEMAKER’S PLEDGE
I make Movies of the Mind.
I have to find my own way.
In discovering the power of Movies of the Mind I have the freedom to script and produce my own movie.
The freedom in this power provides me with an untapped source of energy which is boundless.
Each day I will add to my movie, live my life in my unique way and pursue my destiny.
Throughout my journey, I will seek to use my power and talents to attract only the good and avoid the bad.
I will use the power to make decisions where my movies and my instinct lead me in the right direction.
I recognize the awesome power I have learned and how utilizing it daily adds to the power of attraction within the universe.
I recognize that it would be selfish to enjoy this power for only myself.
Therefore I pledge to study, activate and finally to mentor Movies of the Mind.
I will make use of it in my life and then spread it to as many in society as I can reach in my lifetime.
In this way, I am changing my life and then changing the lives of others.
Today, I start changing my own life through movies.
Tomorrow, I teach the power to another.
I make Movies of the Mind.
I have to find my own way.
In discovering the power of Movies of the Mind I have the freedom to script and produce my own movie.
The freedom in this power provides me with an untapped source of energy which is boundless.
Each day I will add to my movie, live my life in my unique way and pursue my destiny.
Throughout my journey, I will seek to use my power and talents to attract only the good and avoid the bad.
I will use the power to make decisions where my movies and my instinct lead me in the right direction.
I recognize the awesome power I have learned and how utilizing it daily adds to the power of attraction within the universe.
I recognize that it would be selfish to enjoy this power for only myself.
Therefore I pledge to study, activate and finally to mentor Movies of the Mind.
I will make use of it in my life and then spread it to as many in society as I can reach in my lifetime.
In this way, I am changing my life and then changing the lives of others.
Today, I start changing my own life through movies.
Tomorrow, I teach the power to another.
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