Motivational Speaker Mike Lipkin gives you his recipe for personal presence. Through all Confusion and Change, Inspire Others With Your Presence.
Read moreThrough all the Confusion and Change, Inspire Others With Your Presence
Beware of the slump becoming the new normal. It`s so easy to lose it. Be on-purpose. Act deliberately.
Listen to this blog post Watch the video Toronto, Sunday, May 31 2009, 8.30pm I`m a little ashamed. Actually more than a little. It`s been four weeks since my last blog. I`m the champion of disciplined consistency, and I`m the one who falls off the wagon. Typical. How many people do you know who used to be disciplined, but they lost their passion? Or how many people do you know who used to be great, but they faded into mediocrity?…
Read moreYour Resilience & Idealism will set you free. Or your Cynicism & Fatigue will kill you.
Toronto, May 5 2009, 11.OOam Here’s Lipkin’s Paradox: The quieter the times, the louder you need to be. In quiet times, the majority of people go quiet. When demand is low, their morale is low. Crushing times crush people’s spirits. The work isn’t diminishing but people are being diminished by the work. Just look around you. Listen to the prevailing dialogue. You won’t hear the language of freedom and possibility. You’ll hear words of desperation, complaint and blame. So here’s…
Read moreNo matter how fast you go, there is no shortcut.
Toronto, April 25, 9.30pm Give Yourself More Time For The-Things-That-Will-Create-More-You The Main Thing is to do the thing the way the thing is meant to be done. The more skilled you become, the faster you may be able to do the thing. Or not. There is a gestation period for everything. Sometimes the gestation period can be accelerated and sometimes not. If you’re producing another human, no matter how skilled you are, the process is going to take as long…
Read moreI see my light come shining (with credit to Bob Dylan)…
Toronto, April 13 2009, 10.20pm I won’t lie to you, it’s been a tough few weeks. I’ve questioned myself. I’ve questioned my power. I’ve questioned my business model. I’ve questioned my future. Although about 6.5 billion other people are being impacted by the global economic meltdown, it doesn’t make it any easier for me to know that. This is a struggle that is as individual as it is collective. It’s a struggle that brings us face to face with the…
Read moreLipkin’s Top Ten Ways To Win in 2009
Toronto, Monday March 30 2009, 9.00am Watch me talk about this blog post on YouTube Listen to me speak more about this blog post on my podcast It’s been one heck of a month. In March, I spoke to almost 10 000 people in Europe, America, South Africa, UK and Canada. All of them are wrestling with a single critical question: How can I win in these unprecedented times? Here’s my response: there is no one right way to win.…
Read moreWhen Nothing Is The Safest Option, Luck Favours The Brave
Toronto, March 18, 10.13pm The Call To Inaction is growing louder by the day. “When in doubt, do nothing” is the new mantra. Hesitation, equivocation, indecision, fence-sitting, hedging, and avoidance are becoming habitual responses to the Economic Crisis. Survival Instincts are smothering bold initiatives. Wherever I go (and I go to a lot of places) I’m hearing the vocabulary of contraction: save, wait, suspend, cancel, refrain, hold, delay, postpone, downsize, rationalize, lay-off, wait-and-see. Dr No rules. Doing nothing has become…
Read moreTake the Right Path by following the Signs: Lipkin’s Seven Omens that will shape your success in 2009
Toronto, March 1 2009, 11.00pm The Ides of March are almost upon us. January and February 2009 are already history. How did the heck did that happen? A week is the new day. They just flash by. And that’s great news. It means that the gathering of the bears will soon morph into the running of the bulls. The global meltdown is already re-forming itself. Nothing lasts forever. This too shall pass. It already is. Every day, I see signs…
Read moreCreate Happiness. Protect people from fear by putting yourself at risk. They will reciprocate.
Toronto, 11.30am, Sunday, February 15 2009 Life is good. It’s a gorgeous, sunny day. I’ve just taken my two terrier/poodle mongrels for a walk. My wife made me a delicious brunch of cheddar-cheese omelette on freshly baked wholewheat bread washed down with a bold Starbucks blend. I’m about to attend a coaching session by an Apple Genius on how to produce a Hollywood quality iMovie. Then I’m going for a one hour swim at the Toronto Athletic Club. Then I’ll…
Read moreIn The New Intensity, Unleash your Personal Intensity To Win
Toronto, Wednesday, February 4, 8.14pm It’s been a wild week. Last Wednesday I was in Vegas speaking to 500 Limousine company owners. Then I flew to Nassau to talk to 350 Franchisees and General Managers from Harvey’s. Then, this morning, I spoke to 200 trainers and staff from the Cambridge Group of Health Clubs in Toronto. Each session was more intense than the previous one. Each session demanded a whole new level of pre-eminence. Good enough wasn’t good enough. Even…
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