Words Women Use

Words Women Use

Fine

This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

Five Minutes

If she is getting dressed, this is half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given 5 more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

Nothing

This is the calm before the storm. This means "something" and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with "nothing" usually end in "fine".

Go Ahead

This is a dare, not permission, DON'T DO IT!

Loud Sigh

Although not actually a word, the loud sigh is often misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you over "Nothing".

That's Okay

This is one of the most dangerous statements that woman can make to a man. "That's Okay" means that she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

Thanks

This is the least used of all words in the female vocabulary. If a woman is thanking you. Do not question it, just say you're welcome and back out of the room slowly.

Positive Approach

Positive Approach

Father approaches his Son.

Father: I want you to marry a girl of my choice.

Son: 'I will choose my own bride!'

Father: 'But the girl is Bill Gates's daughter.'

Son: 'Well, in that case...OK'

Next Day….

Father approaches Bill Gates.

Father: 'I have a husband for your daughter.'

Bill Gates: 'But my daughter is too young to marry!'

Father: 'But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank.'

Bill Gates: 'Ah, in that case... OK'

Finally Father goes to see the President of the World Bank

Father: 'I have a young man to be recommended as a Vice-President.'

President: 'But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!'

Father: 'But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law.'

President: 'Ah, in that case... OK'

This is how business is done!!

Moral

Even if you have nothing, you can get anything. But your attitude & approach should be positive.

Lesson on Life

Lessons on Life

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.

The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted.

The second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.

The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen.

The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season.

The essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral:

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.

Don't judge life by one difficult season. Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come some time or later…

Power of Oratory / Speech

Barack Obama has it but Mr. Brown doesn’t.

Tony Blair does, George Dubya doesn’t.

It’s inspirational charisma and it’s perhaps best seen in speech making. From so many of our politicians, ex-lawyers or school-teachers etc…, why only few of them make an impact, while others, a laughing stock?

It’s about the power of Oratory

Everyone remarks on Obama’s “soaring” speeches.

Trained in the Evangelic tradition, he clearly knows about the P-words

Pitch, Poetry, Pause and Pace. He understands metaphor and repetition.

A speech is a talking show. Speech-writing is an art, but so is speech delivery.

Ronald Reagan spoke his lines well. He knew about the C words

Confidence, Cadence, Conviction and Colour. It’s performance, and the performer needs to be inebriated with zeal and exuberance.

Speech making is pure theatre.

The Orator has to be at once proud and humble, powerful and powerless. It needs to be both visceral and intellectual. Most of all it needs to be personal and emotional, exclamatory and climactic.

Television has changed oratory. By and large it has been made more difficult!!

Close-ups mean every small eye-movement, every drop of sweat; every wrinkle is seen and commented upon. The orator is up-close, intimate. This is not Nuremburg Rally stuff of great spectacle. Sound-bites dictate the ultra importance of catch-phrases. Speeches are rehearsed and timed. Speech writers revise up to the last moment.

The crowds have plants that clap, yelp and holler at the right time. Euphoric, orchestrated hand-clapping. The cameras know when the speaker moves; gestures have been synchronised with speech. Cuts to the crowd are pre-planned.

But as we can see with Bush and Brown, training and tricks still don’t work that well. They don’t seem able to do that audience connection thing and the same is true of some business leaders. The paradox, of course, is that authentically and naturalness cannot easily be taught. Speeches have to be clear, simple and genuine– but that’s the problem. It takes a lot of effort to be natural.

What are speeches for?

To inspire action, often just to vote. But also to feel good about the leader, the cause and yes, oneself. Speeches are about articulating dreams. They are, as Bush Senior memorably said, “the vision thing”. They are not full of numbers but of passionate conviction.

Leaders need to be “one of us” to all their listeners.