Loud Thinking

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Never let your past harm your future. Your past can’t be altered and your future doesn’t deserve the punishment.

If your past calls, don’t answer ! It has nothing new to say.

Go where you are celebrated, not where you are tolerated.

People aren’t against you; They are for themselves.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently

– Henry Ford

“Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

— Goran Persson

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

—William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Author, Educator, Motivational Speaker

Have a Strategy for Speaking to a Small Audience

Presentations don’t always involve standing in front of an audience. Many meetings and pitches involve fewer than 10 people in a room where everyone stays seated while someone talks through a slide deck. But even when you’re sitting down, you need to be conscious of how you can deliver your best. You want to work from the same printed deck (with the same page numbers) as the audience. Make it easy for people to follow what you’re saying by guiding them to each page and using highlights or sticky notes to emphasize important sections. Don’t just read from your notes; make it conversational. You can stand for the formal portion of the pitch and then sit to field questions. And it helps to bring an item that everyone can look at together. For example, rather than printing a small map on each deck, unfold a large map for everyone to gather around.

Adapted from “How to Present to a Small Audience” by JD Schramm.

Whither sanctity of the parliament?

Mr. Ishaq Dar, you owe an explanation to the nation that despite your promised statement on the floor of the house, at the time of budget debate that your government will not burden the people with any mini budget, during the financial year, why you have imposed additional 5% GST on the petroleum products, to be effective from 1st January 2015?

“Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.”

—Rachel Naomi Remen