Personal Improvement

Ten things to let go of to enhance you’re speaking

• Ending your presentation with Heather Small or anything by 'M' People.
  I have found my hero inside and I have a list a mile long of things I have done today to make me feel proud.
• Cheesy ten year old photographs.
  Grow old gracefully and admit to having less hair than you had when you started out.
• Sending your information to bureaus and agents
  and sitting back waiting for them to call you. They won't. They don’t want you until you don't need them.
• Marketing leaflets that you cleverly knocked up using 'Microsoft Publisher'.
  If you want a client to cough up more than a grand for your time, send them something that cost you more than ten pence to produce.
• Crappy 'free' email addresses.
  (See No. 4)
• Trying to be funny if you are just not funny.
  Remember what Gene Wilder said. "If the thing you are doing is genuinely funny you don't have to act funny to do it."
• Starting a sentence with "We (or I) 'specialise' in..."
  and following it with a list a mile long. 'Specialising' in ten things is an oxymoron.
• Selling old products at discounted prices just to get your money back.
  If your product doesn't represent who you are or what you do now it doesn't represent you at your best. Let it go...
• Thinking that working abroad is the 'be-all' and 'end-all'.
  Three days paid work in Dubai takes at least five days out of your diary. Having said that, it is a beautiful place...I should know I have been there nineteen times in two years to work.
• Saying ridiculous things like "I won’t leave the house for less than three grand a day!"
  (yes someone said it to me!) Dave Thomas and I used to risk our lives as fire-fighters for a grand a month. £750 a day is a lot of money!