"You and me, helping you get better"
Yes faithful listener, this is our 100th show. Thanks for your support. You're in for a great show today!
Jim Cathcart, author, speaker, coach, and mentor sat with Mark to talk about his most recent book, The Self Motivation Handbook. Jim's a world traveler and has a thousand stories, we only had time for a few, and they were great.
There was a lot of ground covered in this conversation, including:
• How he's managed to write 18 books (see entire list here)
• His 4th-grade teacher, Ms. Waters
• Being an advisor at California Lutheran's School of Management (805conversations' sponsor)
• Buzzword Bingo: Applied Behavioural Science
• His mentor: Earl Nightingale, from Arkansas
• His tips for preparing to give a presentation
• Review what you already know
• Emails, brochures, all your interactions
• Go over your presentation
• Have a meal alone and consider your talk in your head
• Engage their mind
• Trick for engaging the audience: look at their eyes and look at the tops of their heads, that means that they've tilted down to write a note about something you just said
• Zig Ziglar
• Why should the audience care about you?
• Thomas Merton - another guiding light for Jim
• Audience engagement trick #2: Who has the 2nd question - no one wants to ask the first question
• His fascinating story about the founding of the National Speakers Association (NSA)
• 1989 - becoming president of the NSA
• His personal memory tricks for people giving presentations
• Link to his new book, The Self-Motivation Handbook
• 68 Ways to Motivate Yourself
• 268 One-minute Lessons in Self-Motivation
