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TODAY'S TRIVIA - - -
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Do a mother and fetus share the same blood during gestation?
How did Frank Baum come up with "Oz" as the name for his
mythical kingdom?
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ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA - - - -
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When does a fetus have fingerprints?
Fingerprints develop early in gestation. A three-month-old
fetus already has them.
What Mark Twain character studies fingerprints as a hobby?
Pudden'head Wilson, the title character in Twain's novel about
switched babies, is regarded by the townspeople as a fool
because of his hobby of collecting finger impressions on glass.
His strange pastime, however, leads to his identification of a
murderer and his revelation of an incident where two babies,
one the son of a slave and one the son of a slaveholder,
were switched.
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2. TITLE ARTICLE - - -
(Continued From Tuesday)
Turn Your Speech Into A Leadership Talk
by Brent Filson
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN by Karin Henderson
Head Aches Or Headaches...Why?
PART 5 of 7
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4. THE SAGA OF PINEHILL by Ken Darby
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STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
The 1988 move "Big," which was directed by Penny Marshall.
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TITLE ARTICLE - - -
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(Continued From Tuesday)
Turn Your Speech Into A Leadership Talk
by Brent Filson
There are plenty of presentation and speech courses
devoted to the first two methods, so I won't talk about
those.
Here are a few thoughts on the third method. Generally
speaking, humans learn in two ways: by acquiring
intellectual understanding and through experience. In
our schooling, the former predominates, but it is the
latter which is most powerful in terms of inducing a
deep sharing of emotions and ideas; for our
experiences, which can be life's teachings, often lead
us to profound awareness and purposeful action.
Look back at your schooling. Was it your book learning
or your experiences, your interactions with teachers
and students, that you remember most? In most cases,
your experiences made the most telling impressions upon
you.
To transfer your motivation to others, use what I call
my "defining moment" technique, which I describe fully
in my book, DEFINING MOMENT: MOTIVATING PEOPLE TO TAKE
ACTION.
In brief, the technique is this: Put into sharp focus a
particular experience of yours then communicate that
focused experience to the people by describing the
physical facts that gave you the emotion.
Now, here's the secret to the defining moment. That
experience of yours must provide a lesson and that
lesson is a solution to the needs of the people.
Otherwise, they'll think you're just talking about
yourself.
For the defining moment to work (i.e., for it to
transfer your motivation to them), the experience must
be about them. The experience happened to you, of
course. But that experience becomes their experience
when the lesson it communicates is a solution to their
needs.
(3) CAN YOU HAVE THE AUDIENCE TAKE RIGHT ACTION?
Results don't happen unless people take action. After
all, it's not what you say that's important in your
leadership communications, it's what the people do
after you have had your say.
Yet the vast majority of leaders don't have a clue as
to what action truly is.
They get people taking the wrong action at the wrong
time in the wrong way for the wrong results.
A key reason for this failure is they don't know how to
deliver the all-important "leadership talk
Call-to-action".
"Call" comes from an Old English word meaning "to
shout." A Call-to-Action is a "shout for action."
Implicit in the concept is urgency and forcefulness.
But most leaders don't deliver the most effective
Calls-to-action because they make three errors
regarding it.
First, they err by mistaking the Call-to-Action as an
order. Within the context of The Leadership Talk, a
Call-to-action is not an order. Leave the order for
the order leader.
Second, leaders err by mistaking the Call as theirs to
give. The best Call-to-action is not the leader's to
give. It's the people's to give. It's the people's to
give to themselves. A true Call-to-action prompts
people to motivate themselves to take action.
The most effective Call-to-action then is not from the
leader to the people but from the people to the people
themselves!
Third, they error by not priming their Call. There are
two parts to the Call-to-Action, the primer and the
Call itself. Most leaders omit the all-important
primer.
The primer sets up the Call, which is to prompt people
to motivate themselves to take action. You yourself
control the primer. The people control the Call.
The primer/Call is critical because every leadership
communication situation is in essence a problem
situation. There is the problem the leader has. And
there is the problem the people have. In many cases,
they are two different problems. But leaders get into
trouble regarding the Call-to-action when they think
it's only one problem, mainly theirs.
For instance, a leader might be talking about the
organization needing to be more productive. So, the
leader talks PRODUCTIVITY.
On the other hand, the people, hearing PRODUCTIVITY,
think, YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE ME MORE WORK!
If the leader thinks that productivity is the people's
problem and ignores the "more work" aspect, he/she's
Call-to-action will probably be a bust, resulting in
the people avoiding committed action.
Let's apply the primer/Call dynamic to the productivity
case. The leader talks PRODUCTIVITY: but this time
uses a PRIMER. The primer's purpose is to establish a
"critical confluence" ? the union of your problem with
the problem of the people.
In this case, the leader creates a critical confluence
by couching productivity within the framework of MORE
MEANINGFUL WORK.
The primer may be: LET'S GET TOGETHER AND SEE IF YOU
CAN COME UP WITH AN ACTION PLAN THAT WILL ENSURE THAT
THE PRODUCTIVITY GAINS YOU IDENTIFY AND EXECUTE WILL
ENABLE YOU TO WORK AT WHAT'S REALLY MEANINGFUL TO YOU.
Note what we've done: The primer is LET'S GET TOGETHER
AND SEE IF YOU CAN COME UP WITH AN ACTION PLAN.
The actual Call is from the people to themselves: LET'S
INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY BY WORKING AT WHAT'S MEANINGFUL.
With that Call, the leader moves from just getting
average results (YOU MUST BE MORE PRODUCTIVE: i.e.,
you're going to solve MY problem) to getting great
results (YOU COME UP WITH WAYS TO TIE PRODUCTIVITY INTO
MEANINGFUL WORK: i.e., you're also going to solve your
problem.)
So, here's what the leadership talk Call-to-action is
truly about: It's not an order; it's best manifested
when the people give themselves the Call; and it is
always primed by your creating the "critical
confluence" -- they'll be solving their problem as well
as yours.
The vast majority of leaders I've worked with are
hampering their careers for one simple reason: They're
giving presentations and speeches -- not leadership
talks.
You have a great opportunity to turbo charge your
career by recognizing the power of leadership talks.
Before you give a leadership talk, ask three basic
questions. Do you know what the people need? Can you
bring deep belief to what you're saying? Can you have
the people take the right take action?
If you say "no" to any one of those questions you
cannot give a leadership talk. But the questions
aren't meant to be stumbling blocks to your leadership
but stepping stones. If you answer "no", work on the
questions until you can say, "yes". In that way,
you'll start getting the right results in the right way
on a consistent basis.
2005 © The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. All rights
reserved.
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The author of 23 books, Brent Filson's recent books
are, THE LEADERSHIP TALK: THE GREATEST LEADERSHIP TOOL
and 101 WAYS TO GIVE GREAT LEADERSHIP TALKS. He is
founder and president of The Filson Leadership Group,
Inc. ? and has worked with thousands of leaders
worldwide during the past 20 years helping them achieve
audacious results. Sign up for his free leadership
ezine and get a free guide, "49 Ways To Turn Action
Into Results," at http://www.actionleadership.com
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - -
by Karin Henderson
Head Aches Or Headaches...Why?
PART 5 of 7
Some external causes could include too much heat
(sunstroke) or too little (hyperthermia). Clothes might
be too restrictive, cutting off circulation or blood
flow to the brain. (Collar or clothes too small?) Could
your hairdo or hat be too tight? You also might want to
recognize that if you change the outside, it may affect
the inside. For instance if you pulled your hair into a
very tight shape or wore a hat that was much too small,
the underlying structures would naturally find another
path to follow. (Just like throwing a huge boulder into
a small river. The water flow changes immediately, but
it still needs to flow.) Without all the right elements
going to the brain, it needs to adjust the rest of the
body’s activities to balance out its important
functions. All this is done “behind the scenes” so you
aren’t even aware of it. However a quick and correct
response to a possible problem usually saves this
situation and a normal brain gets back on track right
away.
Let’s look at possible internal causes. These can be a
bit trickier.The most common ones are a lack of
nutrients, water, or oxygen. Your body’s cells are made
up of a lot of fluid and for our purposes, let’s call
it water. If an individual cell is normally made up of
80% water, it stands to reason that it NEEDS that much.
So it must have it. Your tissues float in it, are
surrounded by it, and are filled by it. They are kept
alive by this fluid. Your circulatory system uses it as
the main transportation method. If your body has enough
fluid/water, it is said to be well hydrated. A “lack”
is known as dehydration. And if you are drinking lots
of fluids (replenishing) to bring it back to a healthy
state, you are re-hydrating your body. “Water is a
combination of hydrogen and oxygen; it is the basis for
the fluids of the body”
Medline.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/
article/002471.htm
If you recognize that all nutrients are “floated”
throughout your body by water, you can see how a lack
of fluid might impact your brain. This is also the
mechanism by which waste products are removed.
Therefore anything interfering with this exchange could
well mean an overabundance of waste products in the
cells. That could lead to other problems. Waste is
waste. It is an accumulation of unwanted products that
your body has no further use for. As soon as you
interfere with the fluid “management system” of the
body, you invite a concentration of solids and
imbalances of your entire body. Many people get
headaches in these situations. Of course this could be
a result of some more serious pathology or disease
happening in the actual brain. Chances are it is a
direct result of something pretty basic and simple.
Most unhealthy conditions give you hints along the way
that something isn’t right. You may choose to ignore
these signals, but they still exist if one was to look
more closely. The body leaves all kinds of clues. And
in most cases, this will be ongoing and more pronounced
as time goes along. But here you are searching for
something that gives you an ache once in a while. So
your investigation needs to go to the very
basics...looking for something pretty obvious: inside
of outside.
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Karin Henderson is a registered nurse and is thePEBBLE's
columnist for our MEDICAL COLUMN.
We appreciate her input very much. Thanks Karin.
You can send Karin questions at
mailto:kflh@shaw.ca
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THE SAGA OF PINEHILL
by Ken Darby
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Eloise Henry, age 18 when the story began
and David Wylie, age 20, were selected by a
stranger in town to take a dangerous trip,
together. The idea was that each was to take
only the clothes on their back and go
anywhere in the world where the stranger
took them. They were to be left there to find
their own way home. They had no money,
no identification, and no idea where they
were. If they arrived back home, there
would be a million dollars waiting in each
of their bank accounts
The story deals with their adventures along
and leads to the only way they could survive.
The story leads to many friends, many
adventures and many places.
As you read enjoy. It continues . . . . . . .
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It was dark and the village appeared deserted
except for the huge light and the noise coming
from the community fire.
Mae and Susan had arrived ten hours later in
the day than when they had started. When they left
China it had been near noon and here it was ten in
the evening.
The pair of them walked casually into the fire
circle, amongst the dancers and navigated their
way to where they usually sat.
A loud cheer went up. The music stopped. All
the villagers came over to speak with them.
Everyone was excited to have them back. Everyone
wanted to talk with them. The excitement was
contagious. Soon the music began again but this
time it was much livelier and more animated. There
was singing, dancing and many of the ladies took
off to go prepare food. This was cause for a real
celebration.
Mae and Susan sat down with David, Pam and the
kids. They had earlier hugged so many people Mae
could not remember if her family was among them.
She leaned over and gave them all a hug. She never
finished answering questions. Everyone wanted to
know about their trip.
It took nearly two hours for things to settle
somewhat. When that began to happen Maz and Eloise
came over. "Welcome home Mae. Welcome home Susan."
Eloise and Maz gave each of the ladies a big hug.
"It's good to see you again. We have missed you
two. I hope things are going well for you on your
journey. When you have some spare time tomorrow
come over and fill us in on the trip."
"Thanks Missy. We will. This has been an
exciting homecoming. It's nice to be back for a
while." Mae answered.
With that Maz and Eloise returned to their
seats, permitting the villagers access to Mae and
Susan once more.
Tonight the fire burnt long into the small
hours of the morning. All the village wanted to
know of Mae's and Susan's trip. They were
especially interested in the story about the storm
they just left. No one in the village had seen
snow, and certainly had no concept of what
temperatures of -40C were like. They all listened
with the fascination of children. It was as if Mae
and Susan were weaving a fictional story but one
that thoroughly captured the imagination of all.
Mae, Susan, David and Pam finally made it home
for some sleep by around four in the morning. It
was a long night.
About three in the afternoon the following
day, while Maz and Eloise were sitting around
their own fire circle chatting with Boolanga, Mae
and Susan walked up. "Hello you guys. Gee it's
nice to see you. We've been away too long. Next
time we'll come back for a visit sooner."
"Are you still going to go back?" Eloise was
asking.
"You bet. We are only about half way through
what we wanted to do. Winter has set in good and
solid and we thought we would take the time to
come home for a visit. I think we'll likely be
here a month. Susan wants to go up to Pinehill to
see if her house is still standing, and I want to
spend my time here with you guys and the
grandchildren."
"It is good to have you back Mae, Susan. We
have all missed you. Oh, we knew you were all
right, but we missed you nonetheless. Come, sit
and tell us about your trip." Eloise stood to get
them some cups and poured each a beverage.
It took nearly the rest of the afternoon for
Mae and Susan to relate the story of where they
had been, what they had seen and what they had
done. All the while they were telling the story a
crowd was gathering, many wanting to hear more.
Soon there were so many gathered around it was
almost claustrophobic in the center of the circle.
Mae and Susan enjoyed relating the story. It
was clear the audience was wholly attentive and
wanted to hear. A good time was enjoyed by all.
Finally they came to a place to stop. Then the
questions began, a hundred at once. The ladies
took them one at a time. The questions went on for
another two hours. Many missed supper, just
wanting to hear more. Mae's and Susan's adventures
captivated the village.
There was another fire that night and more
dancing. This one did not last quite so long. It
would be two to three days before Mae and Susan
would be left alone, all the villagers having
heard their stories.
"I think I'm going up to Pinehill today. There
must be some business I have to attend to." Susan
was now thinking of going home. While she had no
children to pull her home she still wanted to get
up there, tend to the house and see Sam and Alewka
Henry.
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TOMORROW - - - Susan is home again
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Something's wrong but I surely can't figure it
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