2008 – The Year to Really Communicate!

If you’re like me, each new year that dawns provides an opportunity to start fresh, begin again. We make new resolutions, structure new goals, and look optimistically to the year ahead.

It’s my hope that those of you with communication challenges and goals will find this site useful as you strive to meet each challenge.

Visit the Books page to preview my public speaking book and my study skills guide. If you need a voice for a website or voicemail, click on Sue’s Voice to connect you to a demo. I’m also available for workshops and speaking engagements tailored to the needs of your group.

Let me leave you with a quote I found on the cover of my 2008 planner – “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” Andre Gide

May 2008 be your best year ever!

Just to Remind You

As I review my notes to present another “Safety Valves” talk, I leaf through one of my resources – Kenford Nedd’s book, Power Over Stress. He talks about the importance of building hardiness both physically, emotionally, and spiritually in order to achieve power over life’s stressors. Here are seven key points he makes in helping build that resilience:

1. Know your purpose in life.
2. Connect with your inner Spirit.
3. Choose a positive mental attitude – in all situations.
4. Develop an acute emotional awareness.
5. Develop a sense of hope for the future.
6. Learn how to get along with others.
7. Create physiological calm and harmony in your body.

As you practice the strategies above, not only will you experience more serenity, but those around you will as well. Could there be a better way to move our planet toward peace? Now take a deep breath and relax!

SPEAKING – Our Greatest Adventure!

Where would our world be if we couldn’t talk? Every parent looks forward to the day his or her child speaks that first word. (Parents often change their minds about this when their kids reach age two and all they hear is No! No! No! and why? why? why?)

Human beings communicate in so many different ways – verbally, using gestures or sign language, through facial expressions – and don’t forget all the written forms of connecting, such as this website.

The purpose of this site is to share what I’ve learned about communicating. Whether you need to ask for a raise, have to present in front of an audience, or simply want ideas about networking or small talk, I’m here to help.

Together, we’ll have a grand adventure!