KEY NOTES : Earth Hour...Join the Party

23 March 2013

Earth Hour...Join the Party

I was compelled to make one more post this week to share one of my annual observances. Turn off the electricity. Do something non-technical for an hour! Free your brain. Reconnect with your people! Support the Planet.

1 HOUR! 8:30 to 9:30 PM anywhere on earth!

KG

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson

www.earthhour.org

March 23, 2013 - 8:30 PM
Anywhere on Earth!

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KEY NOTES: A Blog Project

Featuring the selected wisdom of Peter Urs Bender: Canadian Presentation Guru and Business Leader http://www.peterursbender.com/fullbio.html

A Blog Project. A new adventure! Writing! Creativity! My first reaction, when I discovered this was one of the graded projects for Business Communication was, “This is going to be great! Now I’m going to be able to know how to do that!”. My nephews and nieces, who have a very good opinion of me generally, think I really need to buff up my tech skills, ditch the clamshell cell phone for a new model, and “Please, A.K.", = Aunt Karen (I don’t know when I was issued my text messaging shortcut handle), “….please get connected to social media somehow so we can track you down when it’s convenient for us.” That’s what I heard. And I took a step back and decided not to do it. A cell phone # and an email address are more than enough, and I write a letter to send through snail mail more than twice a year. They’re covered.

So, back to the Blog Project, now that I’ve shaken out my nerves in my first paragraph, there’s nothing more to be done but to jump in and get started. I’ll push to the back of my mind while writing, that in addition to my classmates, my words could be read by thousands…O.K., I’m with you already, that number is spectacularly small for this conversation! And that only the people who really know I am writing a blog will even find me…naïve…O.K., I’m with you there too…

...I’m back – I took a break to mull those first two paragraphs over to consider my approach. I’ve realized that all I need to do is to follow the system that my Blog topic author Peter Urs Bender devised for himself and his audiences. A great deal of his public speaking and presenting skills can be adapted to this adventure just as easily. I realize that I can choose to follow that system…“Be positive about presenting…Be enthusiastic. Be open minded. Be persistent…Don’t apologize” (Bender, 1991, p. 36) and then he got me with this quote often associated with the German writer, Goethe. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can…begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” What can I do now, but just begin and see where this goes…
KG

About my Blog: Each post will feature a theme tied to a Keynote message. And will feature Peter Bender's written work. It might be advice found in one of his books, or a short excerpt from one of the feature articles written by, or about him. I hope you enjoy my interpretation of each of the topics. I love feedback and I invite you to comment!

References:
Bender, P.U.(1991). Secrets of Power Presentations (4th Ed.). Toronto, ON: The Achievement Group.
Guffey, M., Rhodes, K., and Rogin, P. (2011). Business Communication Process and Product (6th Canadian Ed.). Toronto, ON: Nelson Education Ltd.

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