stripes will also be trendy in Spring/ Summer 2012 season. Such prints look interesting and unique and wearing them you will definitely make a stand out.
Top New Year’s Resolutions for Speakers
To kick 2012 off to a good start, public speakers need to take stock just like everyone else. Following are my top New Year’s resolutions for speakers. What have you vowed to change this year?
1. Resolve to use more video.
This is the year to lose the Power Point, the clip art, the photos of your dog, and the cheesy jokes. Get some high quality video clips to help tell your story. With good video, you can bring the rest of the world (and recent history) into your speech and galvanize the audience.
2. Resolve to stop the throat clearing.
Most speakers begin their speeches with nervous chatter thanking the group that invited them, telling the audience how glad they are to have sat in a cramped, grubby airplane seat for hours and slept in a strange bed in order to be with them in Anywhere, Planet Earth. That’s throat clearing and it means you’re stalling for time. Give the audience what it wants – start with a bang. Start with something they’ve never heard before. Tell them a story, a startling stat, ask them a question – whatever. Just get going with something attention-grabbing.
3. Resolve to stop dumping data on the audience.
Too many speakers think that giving a speech means telling the audience everything they know about the topic in question. After all, the speaker was invited to regale the audience with his or her expertise, right? Wrong. The speaker was invited in to take the audience on a journey, respecting the audience’s need to hear the right things in the right order. Audiences can only handle small amounts of information. What they can handle is large amounts of insight and attitude.
4. Resolve to lose the traditional format.
Too many speeches begin with a joke, then an agenda slide, then an introduction explaining the speaker’s expertise and background, and then a commercial for his or her services. We’re 15 minutes into the speech, and I haven’t learned anything I couldn’t find out from the program or the speaker’s web site. Shake it up, mix it up, change it up. Lose all that expected stuff and give us some surprises. Think an action movie – imagine if it began with an introduction of the actors and an agenda. Ridiculous, right? Action movies begin with an explosion, a chase, a spectacular murder. And they continue to deliver the unexpected for two more hours. Do you the same.
5. Resolve to find your passion.
Too many speakers play it safe and say the expected, the ordinary, and the obvious. 2012 is the year to find your passion, and say something that no one else can say. I hear that each human is unique, so share that with us. Don’t give us received opinions, bland platitudes, and what we already know. Life is too short, and plane rides too long. Find your unique voice. Here’s to a spectatular 2012!
Celebrity New Year’s resolutions: weight loss
Two words on lots of people’s lips in the New Year: weight loss. While many average folks worry about what number’s popping up on the scale, for celebs, it’s an obsession. Here are a few who are taking it to the extreme in 2012:
Jennifer Hudson: The American Idol singer, 30, just came out with a book, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down (Dutton, $25.95). It briefly touches on the Oscar winner’s’s journey from Chicago’s South Side, where she grew up “curvy,’’ to the glare of the spotlight, but seems more like a giant ad for the weight loss company, for which she became an “ambassador’’ in 2010. Despite a penchant for Mexican food, Hudson lost a total of 80 pounds and looks amazing. In a new, very cool digitally enhanced ad for WW, she sings to her old, bigger self. For fans seeking information about her family tragedy — losing her mother, brother and nephew in a 2008 shooting — they won’t find it. What you will learn is about how to stay within your “Points,’’ and eat healthy foods like turkey burgers from the Cheesecake Factory and grilled chicken from Texas de Brazil.
Charles Barkley: Not just women worry about the “lbs,’’ as evidenced by a new commercial starring the basketball legend, also a pitchperson for Weight Watchers. “Lose weight like a man,” he says. At his highest, the 48-year-old retired athlete was 350 plus. Weight Watchers Online for Men is an extension of the 45-year-old plan, which includes a points system and support meetings. As for Barkley, he told People last month that he had shed 27 pounds in 10 weeks. No more pizza or cookies for him, and filling food like oatmeal for breakfast is a must.
Mariah Carey: Twins may be the double the pleasure, but being pregnant with them wasn’t always so fun for the singer, who experienced gestational diabetes and edema, swelling of the legs. Since Monroe and Moroccan’s birth in April, Carey has managed to drop 30 pounds with the help of Jenny Craig. A new TV spot shows the much slimmer diva singing her latest song, Make It Happen. “I wrote that song from personal experience,’’ she says. Other Jenny success stories: Carrie Fisher and Valerie Bertinelli. And we hear Jessica Simpson just signed on; she’ll start checking calories as soon as her bambino is born in the spring.
Janet Jackson: Right before the holidays the singer debuted her ads for Nutrisystem’s new custom plan, called Success, chatting about her frustrations with her body and lifelong battle with the bulge: “I have a message for anyone that’s ever struggled with weight loss,’’ she says. “Get on it.’’
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/06/2574859/celebrity-new-years-resolutions.html#storylink=cpy
101 New Years Resolutions Ideas – Print Your Goals
1. Spend More Time with Family & Friends
2. Print an Exercise Plan
3. Quit Smoking
4. Enjoy Life More
5. Quit Drinking
6. Get Out of Debt
7. Learn Something New
8. Help Others print
9. Get Organized print a to do list
10. Clean your printer at least every two months
11. Eat chocolate often
12. Send flowers to near & dear ones
13. Have a positive bent of mind
14. Don’t pretend
15. Think beyond the given conditions and the present
16. Smile more often
17. Clean the bedroom, at least weekly
18. Write and continue writing diary
19. Respond to all emails
20. Listen to music regularly
21. Print one love letter a week
22. Chat with common sense and honesty
23. Be yourself
24. Listen to your heart
25. Gift yourself you are worth it!
26. Print your own letterhead
27. Beg pardon.. after burping
28. Print Sudoku games
29. Change socks daily
30. Don’t run out of printer ink
31. Recycle paper
32. Drink more…..WATER
33. Accept your flaws
34. Print your own cards
35. Wear an attitude, not pride
36. Talk more.. sms less
37. Don’t litter
38. Make a Scrapbook
39. Print labels for everything at home and at the office
40. Print Coupons
41. Write letters
42. Print your own maps
43. Call friends
44. Listen to Jazz
45. Get a Pen Pal
46. Print your own postage stamps
47. Make Birthday cards and send them out
48. Create out-of-the-box ideas/designs for business cards 49. Become more reliable
50. Benefit from local resources
51. Print your own gift boxes
52. Check emails less and close IM’s when working online
53. Reorganize your office space
54. Print recipes and store them to share
55. Trust your gut feeling more
56. Spend more time with family and less time working on the weekends
57. Print time sharing schedules
58. Be more consistent with daily work habits
59. De-clutter your entire house or business inside and out
60. Reuse, Reduce and Recycle
61. Print your own calendars
62. Think Green when purchasing
63. Dare to be different; find what your niche is missing and fill in the gap
64. Print your own T-shirts
65. Resolve to Relive Childhood
66. Learn a Less-Than-Useful Skill
67. Break a World Record
68. Print your own photos
69. Adopt a New Vice
70. get comma problems under control
71. read and memorize more poetry
72. Print gift certificates for loved ones
73. learn the names of flowers
74. Count to 10, 20, 100 whatever you need to blow it off
75. Use recycled materials
76. Remanufactured cartridges are recycled materials
77. Print your own concert tickets
78. Got to a concert with your printed tickets
79. Print in draft mode when possible
80. Print in both sides of the paper
81. Live . . . Love . . . Laugh MORE!
82. Print Thank You cards often
83. Don’t print unless you review first
84. No longer waste time relieving the past, instead I spend it worrying about the future.
85. Do less laundry and use more deodorant.
86. Try to figure out why You *really* need nine e-mail addresses
87. Share your printer with others
88. Don’t tell the same story at every get together
89. Don’t worry so much.
90. Print at least once a week if you have an inkjet printer
91. Be more imaginative.
92. Start being superstitious
93. Save on Ink and Toner cartridges always visiting us at Inkjetsuperstore!
94. Spend more time watching TV / movies
95. Start buying lottery tickets at a luckier store
96. Always “check for paper” before and after leaving a public restroom.
97. Always check for “paper” before you hit the print button!
98. Learn what the hell “resolution” means.
99. Sleep whenever possible
100. Stop having mock cell phone conversations to avoid talking to or acknowledging people
101. Have fun at all times and in all places!
Will 2012 be the Year You Start a New Business?
Will 2012 be the Year You Start a New Business? http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/222570
Vouge meets Vague
“Vogue meets vague” Vogue is defined as popular, pronoun & prominent. Vague is to be cute outward and empty inward. What do you prefer?
Show Stoppers
Show Stoppers cause people to stop. Halt for a moment, be sure your show isn’t designed for selfish gain and sneaky motives. Stop and take a look at what you do and why. Make a real difference!
Esther 2:15-17 Amplified Bible
15Now when the turn for Esther the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her as his own daughter, had come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s attendant, the keeper of the women, suggested. And Esther won favor in the sight of all who saw her.
16So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
17And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the maidens, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Top 5 Bags For Spring/ Summer 2012
Bags are as important as clothing, shoes or any other items of the wardrobe. They reflect your style, show the world who you are and make you look unique. So, it’s essential to be able to choose the piece that is close to you. And it is as important to stay in trend. So, we offer you to get acquainted with our list of TOP 5 Bag Trends for Spring/ Summer 2012 fashion season.
Bag Trend #1: Large clutches. While clutches are usually small and fancy those designers offer us to carry during Spring/ Summer 2012 are large enough to hold all necessary stuff a woman needs daily. Such clutches come both in neutral colors to be good for office wear and in brighter hues for less formal outfits.
Bag Trend #2:Knitted bags. Just as shoes come knitted in Spring/ Summer 2012 season, so do bags. Knitting looks unusual and stylish but you should be sure you have the right clothing to pair it with.
Bag Trend #3: Printed bags. We are normally rather practical and choose bags which are more or less versatile. But designers advise us to be bolder during Spring/ Summer 2012 fashion season and invest into bags which are not ordinary, those which feature interesting patterns.
Bag Trend #4: Foldover bags. Foldover bags have been popular for a couple of seasons already and they will stay in fashion for the entire Spring/ Summer 2012 season. Foldover bags come in a great variety of sizes, colors and prints.
Bag Trend #5: Small shoulder bags. Shoulder bags have always been in vogue. But in Spring/ Summer 2012 only small shoulder bags will be trendy. And despite they are called ‘shoulder’ bags they can as well be carried in hands.
Winter 2012 Scarf Trend #1: Snoods
Snoods are very trendy this season. They are warm, comfortable and look good. Choose brighter colors to freshen up your outfit or go for pastel tones to make your look elegant.
Snoods can come knitted or made of fur, worn around the neck or as headwear. Versace snoods come in a variety of bold colors and are worn more as a stylish accessory than a practical item.
Christian Dior snoods look luxurious and are perfect for wrapping to protect from winter cold and winds.
Hermes brand offers us to wear snoods as headpieces.
Winter 2012 Scarf Trend #4: Pastel and dark colors
During Winter 2012 pastel colors as well as dark brown and black are very trendy. These tones are neutral that makes them really multifunctional. No matter what your outfit’s color is such a scarf will finish it ideally.
Empowering Women 