You are doing more and more webinar conferences and meetings online now—
Are you happy about your presence on camera?
This is the way of the world today—online—if you have a job in business or tech anyway!
But clearly there is a steep learning curve to this “video conference” thing! Not everyone. knows how to use the camera, and set themselves up for success in a video call.
Great! I can help you look brilliant with little or no investment in new gear!
I’ve been delivering this training to teams of leaders and entrepreneurs for the last year every other month, but now it’s available to you too!
Basically, with a group of attendees we go through what it takes to present yourself well online in a webinar, video call or any kind of home office video system really.
What does it take to look good in a webinar?
LIGHT – People need to see you, but you don’t need to get studio lights. And you don’t have to deal with fluctuating window light or looking green or pale. Those are common problems, but I’ll show you why and how to get around them.
CAMERA – Your webcam might not be the best, but you don’t have to invest in top tech to get a great look on Zoom! The camera behaves a certain way, and there are a few things you can do to convince it to make you look good! Really!!
ACTION – It matters how you sit and position yourself on camera, what you do, and more importantly, it matters WHY you position yourself or behave in certain ways on camera! You can build trust quickly, set peoples mind at ease, or loose trust altogether on a call and I’ll show you how!
(Hmm.. that’s a good slogan for this training: Light, Camera, Action! I wonder if I can trademark that… – jk!)
Let me help you look good, sound good, feel good and impress your audience, without ugly studio lights and ring lights. without big bulky microphone booms—And if you like the studio and mic boom, feel free, it’s a brand look that’s not for everyone. They work, but…
You know there is something better! You can simply be brilliant on your home video and still have a great looking office space without all the gear.
No need for a studio in your home, or a movie production quality camera.
You can apply these top eight great mindset health tips starting today!
Being a leader means people trust and follow your decisions. Keeping your mind alert is of great importance, not just for your own well being, but also for your followers, your family, your team, and any group that you lead. These 8 mindset health tips are great reminders of how you can keep your mind sharp and be the leader people respect and need.
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ADOPT A NEW SIMPLE MINDSET HEALTH TIP EVERY DAY!
Start by picking one to work on and set a goal to improve in that area. Taking care of your mind will help you to be ready to make decisions, take action, and lead with confidence.
1. LEARN LESSONS
With every failure or struggle there is a valuable lesson. Recognize what they are and then LEARN YOUR LESSONS. What is past doesn’t matter but to prepare you for what is next. YOUR ATTITUDE about the past MATTERS. So when things don’t go well, it is your time to grow. Your Mindset health tip number one is to focus your thoughts on the opportunity given by struggle and learn something new. You will do your mind a favor to NOT give the loss power over how you feel, but rather focus on what can be gained and how you are getting stronger and smarter. It’s a growth mindset.
2. GET SLEEP
The rest your body needs significantly affects your mind. So SLEEP. Average sleep needs vary based on age and other factors, but general medical consensus is that most of us don’t get enough. Do you get enough sleep? What you eat, or don’t, plus activity and exercise can help you sleep better. And improving your sleep lets your mind regenerate and last longer through the day. Mindset health tip number 2 is to SLEEP.
3. TAKE BREAKS
Mental fatigue can happen when you have to decipher too many messages or make many small decisions. The third mindset health tip is to TAKE FREQUENT UNINTERRUPTED BREAKS from watching news and social media, people that cause you extra stress, meetings, and answering emails.
4. EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN
Like a muscle or any other organ, your brain needs to get out and exercise. Get it out of your regular pattern or box by doing something creative and EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN. Try to engage in remembering things before you look them up, tell stories and and allow moments of creative activity regularly. If you are alone all day you can doodle, build a puzzle, learn a new trick or play an instrument. Great creative and engage your mind in exercise for a healthy happy life.
5. FINISH SMALL TASKS
Finishing is like dropping a weight. It doesn’t matter how big or how small, you notice that you’ve dropped it, and you make room for something else in your hand – or our mind. When you COMPLETE a SMALL TASK such as making your bed in the morning, you are finishing something and your brain gets a healthy dose of release and satisfaction. Even when you complete a routine task every day, your brain gets positive reinforcement that you are stable, in control and finishing one thing to begin the next. The one simple act of finishing can help train your mind to find satisfaction in completion. Instead of being bored and distracted, you will have more focus to finish a project, and then more focus for something new.
6. BE TRUTHFUL
BEING HONEST with others and with yourself gives your mind rest. It is taxing on your brain, and can be negative to your whole nervous system to tell a lie. It puts your brain automatically into a heightened state of fear. I don’t encourage being mean or always saying what you feel, just because it’s true! But when you choose to be kind in a truthful manner you will gain trust with others. The practice helps you think more positive encouraging thoughts instead of negative. Telling the truth with kindness is truly a great healthy mindset habit.
7. LET GO
Everyone gets hurt or offended sometimes. But for your own mind’s sake, LET IT GO. You will immediately feel relief when you forgive, or let something go that was bothering you. And the act of forgiving makes you stronger so things don’t bother you the next time. It also improves your relationships and most importantly, frees up your mind for more important things. Yes, some hurts are real, and require some sort of action or remedy, but that doesn’t mean that you need to hold onto the hurt on the inside. You can LET IT GO
8. LET YOURSELF FEEL
You don’t have to ignore emotions or shame yourself for what you feel. Emotions are valuable. They alert you to what is around you and to your own mind and body experience. Mindset health tip 8 is to LET YOURSELF FEEL – at least acknowledge the feelings. However you don’t have ot let your feelings rule or make a hasty decisions just based on feeling. Simply admit to yourself how you feel, even admit it out loud. And consider why you feel that way—right or wrong. Emotions are a vital and often overlooked part of clear thinking. So listen, let yourself feel, and then you will be able to make a clear decision—feelings being just one part of the equation.
These are my top 8 Mindset Health Tips! These have been adapted for other blogs, but are important to share with my audience. And there are many more ways to keep your brain at peak performance! Like getting fresh air outside on a regular basis, and hopefully some sunlight at the same time, both of which can help your mind stay alert.
What’s your favorite daily mindset health tip to keep your creative mind sharp?
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Our mistakes my be overlooked or ignored, a spelling error or conversational gaffe. But eventually we have that one big mistake that can hold us back.
Have you failed to meet a major goal? Gotten fired? Or lost a business? Your mistake may be big enough that people are talking about it in your family. For years my family was defined by a mistake—a mistake big enough to be in the news!
I’m not going to tell you to feel guilty.
I’m not going to say you can simply get over it.
I want you to understand you can redeem it, get value from it, and you can—
WIN WITH YOUR BIG MISTAKE!
One big mistake can define you – but it doesn’t have to.
I said, we all have that one big mistake. It defines some part of our life and frames our thoughts and feelings, mostly in a negative way. And the advice people sometimes give to “get over it” is not only useless, but it’s a waste of your time to try!
In the training I provide to young leaders, I will often mentioned the thousands(?) of steps Edison took to claim ownership to the first working light bulb. Of those steps, none produced a lightbulb that was functional. It’s debated if the last one—the basis for his patent—was even functional. But he did not stop! All of those “failures” were discoveries, they were hard earned steps. But altogether his efforts to produce a lightbulb were a mistake… until he produced a lightbulb! Looking back we see clearly that each mistaken step, each investment of more time and money into a failed attempt, was an investment. Each step Edison took may not feel as big as the one failure that owns some part of your personal psyche, but you can—
RENEW YOUR THINKING.
Consider your failure. Think about your big mistake. Look at the steps it took you to get there. It was not just one event in your life, it was a series of choices and decisions leading you to where you are today. If you reframe the failure in your mind, attach real value to each step and look at the lessons you learned during and afterward, you will see it was no different than every try at the lightbulb.
DON’T EVER GIVE UP.
Now with all of the experimental learning you’ve done, you can move forward. When a new aspect or feeling comes up from that same failure, look for the learning in it. Unpack it with renewed perspective. After a short amount of time, you’ve made what used to be your biggest mistake, holding you back from success, into a solid foundation that you can build on for your next new creation.
Don’t quit until you reach that one success that is the result of your learning. Then you will understand what it was all for. Your success is the natural next step resulting from what looks like failures.
WE ALL FAIL. KEEP GOING!
Redeem your mistakes, what you used to think was a failure. Value the lessons you learned. Learn new lessons as you look back at it. See failure as the necessary steps to discover what works and you will change your future.
RENEW YOUR MIND.
by Daniel RG Crandall, NolensvilleBrands (Original content like this article by Daniel of NolensvilleBrands may be purchased for publication on your Website. Ask for details!
