All Posts

COMMAND the Attention of Your Audience… PLAY!

GREETINGS!!!!

The previous two entries discussed the 1st Annual Jacksonville Women in Business Expo. Both lead up to how I was able to COMMAND the attention of my audience in such a way that I was nearly intimidated by the SUCCESS of my very unorthodox approach!!! Want to know what I did??!!!

How did I COMMAND the attention of my audience?!

I simply asked my audience to LISTEN

(and I also requested that they ask their neighbors to do the same)!

Talk about audience participation! WOW! That approach blew my socks off! You wannna know why???

Preparing for the Jacksonville Women in Business Expo

So! The 1st Annual Jacksonville Women in Business Expo went GREAT! My manager and I had a WONDERFUL time attending, and I am SO fortunate to have had her present that day as most everything I was able to accomplish was purely as a result of her selflessness and… STUBBORNESS! (Shhhhh… don’t tell her I said that!) She is SUCH a JOY to have around as I embark on this journey! Words simply cannot relay the pure humility and EXTREME gratitude I feel for being blessed to have her on #TeamD!!! Her value is immeasurable!!! There is no other way to put it!

I mentioned to you within the prior post that

1st Annual Jacksonville Women in Business Expo

CoachDNicole! at the 1st Annual Jacksonville Women in Business Expo
CoachDNicole! at the 1st Annual Jacksonville Women in Business Expo

This past Saturday, I had the distinct honor and privilege to serve as a vendor for the 1st Annual Jacksonville Women in Business Expo! It was a VERY welcome and unexpected opportunity. I am truly and undeniably humbled at the chance to highlight myself, my services and my expertise within such a setting! An EXPO! WOW!

Without moving ANY further within this post, I would like to give a HUGE huge 

PUSH YOURSELF!!!

I went running today.

As I was running, I noticed that my focus was off. (I can usually tell by my lack of proper breathing and lack of clarity.) I hadn’t been running in a while. It has surely been over a month since my last run, and I had been looking forward to getting back out there. Motivation was not the problem–FOCUS was.

Often, especially when it comes to running, I’ll take an unforeseen break and when I come back, I want to hit the pavement right where I started from… LITERALLY! I want to go back to running a 10 minute mile or a 30 minute 5k as if I had never left! The motivation was there! Admittedly, I wasn’t even concerned with focus. The harsh reality of it all was the fact that I was hardly being PRACTICAL! I made up my mind to skip the couch-to-5k app that I typically run with as I opted for my Nike+ Running app that would let me schedule my own run on my own terms versus following the paced instructions of the more practical #c25k app. I wanted to run a mile straight without having been mile-prepped for weeks!!! So, I ran…