Motivation

The Future is Yours to Create!
1 hour
Hey, wake up! This is your life we're talking about here! Do you find yourself going through your classes, relationships, leadership positions, etc. in the "uninterested student position" where you assume the "Check me off, I've shown up" personality ? Do you need a little "kick in the butt?" to re-energize and re-focus on those things in life that are important to you? This session is about YOU and what it takes to motivate yourself into action. Through a host of self-exploration and interactive exercises you will be challenged to consider the meaning IN your life not the often sought after and never found meaning OF your life. You will even be taught the "interested student position" that can change your entire outlook on life. Watch out.... you've got potential!

The Future is Yours to Create! A Look at Life and Leadership
1 to 8 hours
Life and leadership go hand in hand. It's all connected. This extensive training experience will focus on the individual as well as the group. Through the use of interactive exercises, self-explorations, group discussion, inspirational music, individual skill building exercises and a host of other FUN training techniques participants will learn about what it takes to lead, contribute and make a difference. Essential to this mission is a discussion of one's content of character. This program also includes a six minute video, "The Future is Yours to Create." (Depending on the amount of time desired topics to be included through out this training experience might include creativity, group development, program planning, public speaking, communication skills, time management - just to name a few.)

Laughter, Living, and Learning: The Use of Humor
20 minutes to 1 hour
"What's so funny?" If you work in education the answer to this question is simply..."Plenty" Learning the role of humor in significant and often serious situations is a valuable (and often under used) method of finding clarity, opening lines of communication and identifying a potential source of creative solutions to complex problems. This inspirational talk will explore the concept of humor and discuss how having a sense of humor can enhance the profession of education. Tips on how to have serious fun will be shared.

Life by Design
1 to 2 hour
Based upon the speaker's first motivational book, Life by Design, this extended session is about YOU and YOUR life! It is about where you see yourself now (point a) and where you'd like to see yourself in the future (point b). Using a "life" to "house" analogy, the original concepts presented will assist you in identifying your definition of "having it all" and what changes you need to start working on NOW to achieve a "dream" life that for YOU is fulfilling and meaningful. Are you really content with your relationships, communities, job, health, family, financial situation, or career choice - to name a few? Do you control your destiny or do you feel that you're going through the motions - living everyone else's definition of "having it all?" Self-exploration techniques will be presented that will assist you in figuring out HOW to make the desired changes in your life not IF you will ever make them. Be careful, there just might be some work to be done on your life!

Staying Motivated to Work in Higher Education
1 or 2 hours
Does the "Just Expired" sign go up on your forehead every time a student or colleague (maybe even friend, spouse, boss, etc. ) walks into your office? Is it frustrating when you recognize that the methods, practices and policies that used to work effectively just don't get the same results? Has the push for providing better "customer service" left you wondering where "student development" fits in? This session is designed to allow participants to become re-energized by providing motivational strategies, information about reaching today's college student and tips on being student consumer oriented. You make a difference.

Taking Care of Business: Motivating Strategies for Life
How's your life going? Parenting, working, running, shopping, dealing with difficult people... the stresses of every day life. Are you in need of a reality check? Take an evening to get into the moment and focus on what needs to be repaired, remodeled, renovated or rebuilt in your life. This "do-it-yourself" approach to bringing back the balance in your life is offered by the author of Life by Design: A Do It Yourself Approach to Achieving Happiness. In an upbeat, inspiring yet content driven program, a five phase process of living the life you want will be shared along with fun self-assessment opportunities and humorous takes on life. Let's face the first reality - if you aren't happy or content with your life, odds are you are making the people around you miserable. It's time to take care of business!

Viva' the Volunteer!
1 to 2 hours
Keeping civic group members, alumni volunteers, other type of volunteers inspired to make a difference in light of the many other demands on their time is a challenge, it's also a skill. This session recognizes the volunteer and teaches them how to recognize what they do and why they do it. Team building and committee productivity can be included in this session. The latest research on what truly motivates is translated into practical tips for rewarding, motivating and recognizing volunteers.

How to Zing! Your Life and Civic Leadership
Gandhi said, "WE must be the change we wish to see in this world." His words don't suggest we sit around talking about making a difference in the world, they call us to act. Zing! is the energy it takes to override competing forces to positively influence others towards a greater social good. Leadership is the making of a difference. Zing! represents a mind set for productive, intelligent and compassionate involvement by citizens of all ages, races and beliefs with the reminder one's vision of the world must be 20/20. Using personal explorations, interactive experiences, stories and shared gifts, audience members will learn what Martin Luther King, Jr. meant when he said, "There comes a time when your silence is betrayal." Various strategies for thinking globally and acting locally will be presented along with the inspiration to change the world... one person at a time. It's always Zing! time.