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Putting the 'WE' back in POWER By Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey, 2011 Spirit of CAPS Recipient By now, many of you know I was blown away when CAPS President Ravi Tangri, CSP announced my name as the 2011 Spirit of CAPS recipient last November in Toronto. At least those in the audience saw the stunned look on my face when my name was announced and I choked back the tears on my way to the stage. I was madly thinking, "What do I say?" as I walked up to the stage. Thankfully, we took time to take pictures which allowed me to catch my breath and to collect my thoughts before speaking. I didn't remember what I said. I ordered the DVD so I could actually see what people heard. At the time, it felt warm and comfortable and focused as I talked. Guess that was truly being in the moment! One of the amazing things about this award was how many people from around the globe were so pleased that I received it, some even more so than myself. It was tweeted and on Facebook before I even left the stage. Part of what was said in my acceptance
speech was, "I cannot accept this award... by
myself!" I went on to explain that many of Ravi's kind
words on my accomplishments were directly related to asking for help
and the successes were shared with those who said 'yes' when
asked.
I believe the power in success
is asking for help and knowing who to ask. We fail in isolation, but
we seldom succeed there.
My friend David Gouthro, CSP picked 'Better Together' as his 2012 CAPS Presidential theme. He is right on the money in sharing this concept, as this is how we created CAPS and have both grown it and sustained it since our inception in 1997. For those who know him, he models this concept in his life. One of the success secrets to the many areas where we made progress was in the 'ask'. I have found that people are more willing to help than I am to ask. People like being a part of 'WE' and that provides the power to change organizations, like ours, and lives through our members. A few examples and gratitude:
I could go on, but hopefully
you get the point. I have been fortunate to leverage the
power of WE in my business and personal relationships as well. Being
open to ask has allowed me the privilege to travel the world and see
my Ideas At Work in the lives, publications, and organizations I am
fortunate to serve.
I wish each of you a successful 2012. I
wish too for each of you to experience more success than you can
even ask for... but ask anyway! The power of WE is in the
ask.
Talk with you next
month.
Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey
Archives of past issues are
available on our www.ideaman.net website. 7 years of Point to Ponder will be the resource for a new motivational book we have started work on... working title: Prepare Yourself to WIN! My intent is to have it
ready to publish in May when we return from Australia.
I am also working on an
idea to collaborate with some of my fellow Accredited Speakers...
with the formation of a joint website, perhaps a book, and other
promotional ideas. I have had the website for many years: www.AccreditedSpeakers.com
There will have
several sections on the proposed joint venture site;
In addition, some of us
will be co-operating to create part of it as a promotional tool to
let Districts know they can bring us in to do programs as well as
corporate clients to encourage them to hire one of the Toastmasters
professionals. We will most likely add a resource or store section
as well.
A few of us have been
talking about working together over the years. It looks like it will
finally come to fruition. Yeah!
Last Minute News
January was a fairly busy and
productive month moving into my role
as President for our CAPS Edmonton chapter. Fortunately we have a
good board who are willing to work (within their schedules) to take
on the role of serving our members. I am confident that we will be
successful in meeting and exceeding our goals this year.
 I had the pleasure of spending an
evening with young people from Boys and Girls clubs (Big Brothers
and Big Sisters) and sharing some tips and techniques to help them
become better speakers. They had asked their co-ordinator for some
training in this area and I was pleased to respond.
Irene was surprised with flowers from
her daughter in Australia for her birthday; as well as a few
trinkets from her loving hubby and dinner with her folks. All
around, a great way to start her birthday week. Not Cuba or Paris,
but still special. Plans are coming together for
our trip to Australia at the end of March with stop overs
to play tourist in Hong Kong. Even have an afternoon session
of Speaking for Success booked for Saturday April 14th in Perth,
WA.
 Finished my revamp and update of
Speaking for Success and am waiting for the 2nd
proof copy to return from Amazon's Print on Demand company next
week. 1st proof came in and we are making some changes to the cover
due to color bleed.Doing a 1 hour tele-seminar for CAPS
Toronto on Product development on Feb 7th. Will be doing a longer, 2
hour version in person for CAPS Ottawa in May.
Decided to revamp Speaking for Success
primarily to see how the process worked so I could talk about it
first-hand for these two seminars.
The bonus will be in creating something
that can be offered for sale at three events, 2 of them in March and
the 3rd in April while in Australia. I will also take it with me to
Ottawa.
We are working
to revamp our Speaking for Success CD/DVD set -
re-packaging it as a companion piece for the book. We will be
creating it as a part of a success package with the book, a 2 disc
set, and a new (to be done in next month) on-line Speaking for
Success series similar to what we've done with our Secret Selling
Tips and our Secret Leadership Tips series.
If you know
anyone in the Edmonton area who is interested in being a better
speaker, let them know about our Speaking for Success speakers mini-boot camp on
Friday March 9th. It will be
great and seating is limited.
Thanks for
reading Bob 'Idea Man'
Hooey would be pleased to be a part of your success team
and to work with you to help make your conference, meeting, or
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in the lessons we acquire along the way. Pictured here with my Russian Rotarian friends
Andrei and his wife Irena when they were
in Edmonton last month. They are amazing folks. We are
discussing how to get me back to Russia to speak at his
convention when he is District Governor in 2013.
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