A little new year’s cheer for you…

  Happy New Year from Ignite CSP! We can’t wait to see what 2020 brings!

2020 theme: Curiosity

What does curiosity give us? How can we bring it into our lives more intentionally? Ignite CSP coach Neela Muñoz has a few thoughts!   Learn more about Neela here!  

The very next thing

When you know something well, it’s hard to see what won’t make sense to someone else. I notice this when people are giving me directions. They start with what seems like a good starting place to them, for example, “head out of here and go toward the highway.”   If I’m not sure where I …

Smile.

When I’m preoccupied or nervous, the last thing on my mind is smiling. But here’s what happens when I remember to smile.   First, because I don’t really feel like smiling, I have to pause. I take a break from whatever is making me nervous. I have to remember what smiling feels like, and how …

Anticipation!

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.” ― Khaled Hosseini     “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.” –-Andy Warhol     A quick Google search of “anticipation quotes” yields pages and pages of results, most of which fall into …

Grab a tarantula

We watched “Home Alone” last night, the perennial Christmas favorite pitting spunky 8-year-old Kevin, accidentally left home alone, against two baddies who want to burgle his house.   The pinnacle of the movie is the face-off between Kevin and the robbers. Kevin has set up an ingenious series of booby traps, and the robbers walk …

How to know if you need more practice

If you haven’t thought:   That’s not how I want to say that This part will work better in a different place I need to pause That phrase worked better on paper than when I said it out loud Let me try this again   Then you haven’t practiced enough.   Ignite can help you practice! …

Notes or music?

When you go to a concert, do you want to hear the notes, or do you want to hear the music?   When we come to your speech, we don’t want to hear the words, we want to hear the ideas.   Let Ignite help your next speech come to life! Click here to read …

Thinking makes it so.

When something out of the ordinary is going happen soon, how do you think about it?   Do you think about everything that may go wrong? All the reasons to be worried? Does it seem to you to be implicitly bad? Does it entice you with opportunity? Do you wish it were over? Do you …

How can I practice public speaking without speaking in public?

Lately I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole on the website Quora. Have you seen this? Anyone can ask any question, and people from all over the world chime in to answer it. It’s fascinating.   I did a search for “public speaking,” and the list of questions went on for pages. They covered pretty much …

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