Presentation Skills and
Storytelling in Business
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“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.”
Abraham Maslow

In these challenging economic times, it feel like we need to hammer harder to get anything to happen. I have felt the pressure to push harder, to try harder, to work harder. And it has made me crazy, frustrated and at time depressed.

I just went away for ten days and sat on my 35 acres of land south of Walsenburg, Colorado. I needed to stop hammering away at my perceived problems and shift my mental energy, to change my thinking.

I sat there in my trailer with my laptop, my thoughts and mother nature. I took walks in the woods. I worked on creating a new audio product. And all of a sudden it hit me. I wouldn’t be sitting here in my trailer, on my land, getting to do this creative rejuvenating self-reflection, if I was running around the planet giving speeches right now.

In a blinding flash of the obvious, I shifted from frustration to gratitude. Everything was suddenly in perfect order. I was right where I needed to be doing exactly what needed doing. I put down the hammer.

Are you getting exhausted pounding your hammer? Perhaps you too need to shift your thinking. Put down your hammer.

All my best,
Doug