長途電話

周六早上

接獲澳洲的N 來電

難得剛沒外出

興奮互換近況

原來她在已打了3針下 

中了COVID

自我隔離了7日

現已康復

大家又談天說地

回望舊日一起走過的日子

近來發覺

說話不多的自己

表達及溝通能力要加把勁

日常交往的通電話早已被留言取代

互動的對答在沒有眼神交換下

更是少之又少

主動致電又懶

多謝老友來電

其實最近都有掛念遠方的好友

忙是生活

念是友情


10 Habits That Will Positively Improve Your Life Forever


(0:50) Create a morning ritual. (1:46) Follow the 80/20 rule. (2:16) Learn to single-task. (3:21) Appreciate more. (4:26) Go for a social media detox. (5:23) Exercise often. (6:45) Invest in self-care. (7:25) Read Books. (8:53) Create social connections with positive people. (10:32) Practice Minimalism. (11:45) Determine your priorities.

 

Speak like a leader | Simon Lancaster



 Simon Lancaster is one of the world’s top speechwriters. He started working as a speechwriter in the late 1990s to members of Tony Blair’s Cabinet and now writes speeches for the CEOs of some of the biggest companies in the world including Unilever, Intercontinental Hotels and HSBC. He is a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, Henley Business School and author of two best-selling books on communication: Speechwriting: The Expert Guide and Winning Minds: Secrets from the Language of Leadership. His award winning workshops on the language of leadership have been run to great acclaim around the world: for more information, see www.bespokeleadershipdevelopment.com.

6 techniques
(three breathless sentences, three repetitive sentences, balancing sentences, exaggeration, metaphors, and rhyming)


The 110 techniques of communication and public speaking | David JP Phillips |


 

The five top skills are: 1) always keep an open body language, 2) move forward instead of backward when talking about positives, 3) do functional gestures (but do not lock your hands), 4) a slower pace of speaking feels more important, and 5) use pauses to emphasize your important bits (and never do "eeh", "aah", or alike).

Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change


 https://www.amazon.com/

What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life? What helps them make smart decisions? The answer is surprisingly simple: They know how to ask the right questions at the right time.

Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways of doing things. But few of us know how to question in a methodical way. Emmy-award-winning journalist and media expert Frank Sesno aims to change that with Ask More.


From questions that cement relationships, to those that help us plan for the future, each chapter in Ask 

More explores a different type of inquiry. By the end of the book, you'll know what to ask and when, what you should listen for, and what you can expect as the outcome. Packed with illuminating interviews, the book explains:


  • How the Gates Foundation used strategic questions to plan its battle against malaria
  • How turnaround expert Steve Miller uses diagnostic questions to get to the heart of a company's problems
  • How NPR's Terry Gross uses empathy questions to dig deeper
  • How journalist Anderson Cooper uses confrontational questions to hold people accountable
  • How creative questions animated a couple of techie dreamers to brainstorm Uber

Both intriguing and inspiring, Ask More shows how questions convey interest, feed curiosity, and reveal answers that can change the course of both your professional and personal life.

澳門路環雅憩花園餐廳




只知是星期天

又是母親節

每周路環行

在市中心見彩旗處處

心想明天公眾假期佛誕節

回家後才知今天是一年一度的佛誕節

亦即譚公廟誕

午餐於路環雅憩

很熱鬧的氣氛

多謝蟹后的宴請

還有餐後的熱辣辣葡撻

又是一個難得的日子