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5 Tips to Reinventing Your Career (No Matter What You Do For a Living!)

It’s becoming a national nightmare for the working class in this country. According to a recent survey — ONLY 45 percent of today’s employees are satisfied with their work. Not surprising, this was the lowest level ever recorded by the Conference Board research group in more than 22 years of studying the issue. Economists and experts blame soaring health insurance costs…fewer employees consider their jobs meaningful or interesting... not to mention many feel their pay is not keeping up with inflation.

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Peter Fogel's "How to Use a Story to Engage Your Audience!"

Preparing your speech and writing appropriate stories can be a challenge at the best of times, but the real challenge is in using and writing those stories in such a way that they really engage your audience. First, think about how other speakers and presenters manage to grab your attention. Sure, their stories about themselves may be amusing but as with anybody who is all about "me me me", you can find your concentration drifting. What really grabs your attention, and keeps it, is when the presenter talks about things that relate to you… so it's more "you you you" tha "me me me".

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Peter Fogel’s “Are Energy Vampires Sucking You & Your Creativity Dry?”

Different governments, officials, environmental agencies exhort us to conserve the energy we use in order to save the environment and sustain our continued existence on the planet. On a personal level, if you are serious about reinventing your career and life, then I think that you also need to know how to conserve, focus, and maximize our own personal supply of energy so you can reach your goals!

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Peter Fogel's 4 Compelling Reasons to Use Public Speaking to Get Clients!"

If you're like most people having a colonoscopy might be a more pleasurable activity than giving a public speech. However, this activity will rapidly become one of your favorites when you let it give your career the huge boost it has given mine. If you're an author, consultant, trainer, life coach, small business owner, or any client based business owner--- you know better than anyone that the success of your company will hinge on how you market and get your branded message out to your targeted audience.

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Public Speaking Entrepreneurs Seminars and Workshops

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Peter Fogel's "How to Rid Yourself of a Little Flaw That’s Holding You Back from Attaining Career Success!!”

When transitioning from my former career as a stand-up comic into my new one as “The Reinvention Guy,” I realized that one of the things that had been holding me back from accomplishing my goals was the desperation of wanting success too badly. I swore that once I transformed myself, I would do my best to get rid of it (the desperation)! Sure, I would still have tenacity. But I would pull back more, give people a chance to get to know me, and not be a jackhammer in trying to land engagements.

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Peter Fogel’s “10 Ways to Kick The Procrastination Butt Habit!”

If you are thinking of changing careers or reinventing yourself at your present job, (and you don’t think you’re up to the task), well here’s a survey you should know about. According to the University of Chicago study done on achieving goals — it was shown that those who relish challenge are more likely to live up to 10 years longer than those who spend their lives inhibited by timidity. (Apparently, this proves wrong the adage of working one’s self to death!)

Primary topic: Public Speaking

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Peter Fogel's "How to NOT to Compete With Food While Delivering a Speech or Presentation!"

This truly could be the bane of any speaker's existence. Just think: You have to WOW your audience (who might never have seen you before)…. you have to deal with the set of the room (location of chairs and tables near platform) and NOW, you have the nightmare of having to deal with food that is being served. That said, when preparing to give a formal speech at a banquet (or any large gathering focused around a meal), experience has taught me you have make "a few adjustments."

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More Effective Story Telling Tips & Tactics That'll Make You a More Persuasive Speaker! (Part II)

As I mentioned in Part I, being specific sells and makes a story more personal. Give your audience a place to envision by telling them the specific location of your joke or story. For instance, say you were in Tommy's Diner in Hoboken, New Jersey -- as opposed to just saying New Jersey. Your audience will have a specific place to think about and will become more engaged. Here are some more tips.

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Public Speaking

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Peter Fogel's "Speaking Engagement from Hell! (Or Was It!?)"

One of the reasons I like writing articles is that I can test out real world public speaking techniques and then share my results to you. Which brings me to a recent speaking engagement that was… how do I say this delicately …well, NOT the ideal speaking situation. In fact, for any humorist or speaker it might not be ideal. It was certainly a challenge, to say the least. In over 30 years of either speaking or doing stand-up comedy -- this was an engagement that tested me, my ability and confidence.

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Public Speaking

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Peter Fogel's "How to Be a More Effective Public Speaker!"

Have you ever really sat down or studied what it takes to become and effective speaker? Well, to begin, you should first determine where you are in the speaking world. Do you want to be a professional speaker who makes this your livelihood? Are you a weekend warrior who does this part-time to make a few bucks and sell some product? Or are you a sales person or an executive who was asked to speak at a company meeting? No matter what type of speaker you want to evolve into -- you should determine what your dedication to the art is.

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Public Speaking

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Peter Fogel's "What Steps Have You Taken Today Towards Your Reinvention!?"

I don't know how to say this any clearer: But most people are lazy. (Not you, of course, I am talking about other people who are reading this article.) And being lazy is part of human nature. A body at rest; stays at rest… a body in motion yada, yada, yada… Anyway, the reaso I am asking is that I want to know what you are doing today towards reinventing yourself? I know, you have family commitments… work commitments… people tugging at you… and all you have want to do sometimes is to be left alone so you can work on what's vital to reaching your goals.

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