A Woman's Place

"A woman's place is in the house ... and in the Senate, " the T-shirts and buttons proclaim at women's political events.  "A Woman's Place Is in Uniform," trumpets a book about women in the military.  "A woman's place is at the typewriter," declared Fortune magazine back in 1935.  That was convenient for the economy and so it was decreed. A few years later a woman's place was in the factory or in the nursing corps because that was essential for the war effort.  Then a woman's place was in the home.  And now?  A woman's place is anywhere she wants to be. So what is a woman's place?  For most women, it's many places, different places at different times.  For almost all women, it's the place of nurture, whether for the planet or one small creature on it. We learned from our mothers, both in word and in deed, we teach it to our daughters in the knowledge that they must carry on the culture and care for it.  Even as they go forward into the next millennium, knowing things we never knew, they will be connected back to those women in Marathon, Greece.  From that continuity they will derive the strength to make their place wherever they think it should be.   Author Cokie Roberts

Targeting Marketable Topics and Titles

Speakers are actually in the information business.  As you develop your subject, study it, write articles about it, and come to new conclusions, your body of knowledge becomes more valuable and salable in many other formats.  You can create videos, audio albums, workbooks, consulting sessions, CD ROMs, training materials, reports, calendars, posters, T-shirts, hats and even toys based on your expertise.  These products are the valuable offshoots of the body of knowledge in your speeches.  They not only add significantly to your speaker's income, but are also reminders that leave a trail that prospects follow back to you. Sales of speaker products can do more than boost your level of income.  Creating excellent products also add credibility and prestige to your position as an expert.  You're much easier to publicize when you are the author of professional products. Product is cited over and over by every successful speaker we know as one of the best marketing tools and sources of income for your speaking career.Studies that people only absorb and remember ten percent of most presentations.  We learn best through repetition.  Products provide that repetition and help attendees retain the knowledge you give them.  They can continue learning from and enjoy your expertise - at work, at home, while driving in their cars, as they jog, etc.
Author - Dottie and Lilly Walters

Speaker Products: Triple Your Income

Speakers are actually in the information business.  As you develop your subject, study it, write articles about it, and come to new conclusions, your body of knowledge becomes more valuable and salable in many other formats.  You can create videos, audio albums, workbooks, consulting sessions, CD ROMs, training materials, reports, calendars, posters, T-shirts, hats and even toys based on your expertise.  These products are the valuable offshoots of the body of knowledge in your speeches.  They not only add significantly to your speaker's income, but are also reminders that leave a trail that prospects follow back to you. Sales of speaker products can do more than boost your level of income.  Creating excellent products also add credibility and prestige to your position as an expert.  You're much easier to publicize when you are the author of professional products. Product is cited over and over by every successful speaker we know as one of the best marketing tools and sources of income for your speaking career.Studies that people only absorb and remember ten percent of most presentations.  We learn best through repetition.  Products provide that repetition and help attendees retain the knowledge you give them.  They can continue learning from and enjoy your expertise - at work, at home, while driving in their cars, as they jog, etc.
Author -  Dottie and Lilly Walters

Wings and Weights

Applying the 'wings and weights' concept to grief, sometimes grievers need to cut the cord, at least for a time, and release particular people or habits as they focus on mere survival.  The separation may or may not be forever - but at least for now, it may be necessary for the griever's own mental health and ability to cope.  If weights are bringing us down and hindering our situations instead of helping, we need to let go, in a gentle, loving way. Conversely, some people hold us up in remarkable ways - and if ever there is a time we need wings, it's now.  Make every effort to be around the people who lift you up.  Keep them close.  These unforgettable people will help you get through the difficult times. Especially right now, do what is necessary to take care of you.  Think about your relationships.  Think about the people you know.  Think about your interests and activities.  Be aware, and make healthy choices in light of your well-being.

We remember the people who laugh with us.

And we especially remember the people who cry with us.

But more than ever...

We remember the people who pray with us.

                                                                                                                 Judy Brizendine