Writes and speaks about living a good life, overcoming our limitations and what makes it worthwhile. He produces live events and uses what ever means possible to tell a good story. He loves a laugh, and lives in Melbourne Australia.
OWEN THOMAS
Writer | Speaker | Producer
Writes and speaks about living a good life, overcoming our limitations and what makes it worthwhile. He produces live events and uses what ever means possible to tell a good story. He loves a laugh, and lives in Melbourne Australia.
Writes and speaks about living a good life, overcoming our limitations and what makes it worthwhile. He produces live events and uses what ever means possible to tell a good story. He loves a laugh, and lives in Melbourne Australia.
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“Best Supporting Actress”
It is essential to understand where we are in the current comedy of life and play our part. Whether that be the leader, a star, a walk-on part or a supporting actor or actress. We may also be asked to play supporting roles driven by needs and the world’s circumstances, the people around us or those we love. Michael Caine has often quipped that “I got paid the same for a bad film as a good one, one film I made, so I could buy a house for my mother.”
We may not like the role, but fate nonetheless asks us to play it.
Let’s get into it.
Three Fundamentals
Interviewers have numerous techniques for getting the guests to talk, and it begins with how they ask questions. One trick they learn is to refrain from asking questions that only require a yes/no response; they end up where they started with no conversation and the risk of “dead air”.
Hence a prepared interviewer will avoid this at all costs. One of their most common techniques is to ask the list type question. What music would you take to a desert island? Top three books you read this year? And on it goes…
Considered Trust
Trust is one of the essential foundations of human society. It holds families and worlds together, and when broken, disaster follows. Families can fall about, and countries can go to war. We often see trust as a black and white concept. We can either trust or not but perhaps considered trust is a mature option. Something to ponder…
All I Want for Christmas Is Five Cherries?
We all have the opportunity to ask life for a return. What do you want? How do we deal with poor choices.
Caesars’s Magic Success Secret
A Life Success Secret That All Great Leaders Use to Gain the Upper Hand.
Geldof Never Set Out To Be A Hero
Who knew that sitting down to watch the nightly news on an autumn Saturday night in 1984 would change the world in six months.
Myths and Symbols
“Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand dollars per annum is what you should earn, at least at the start. We will pay for the setup, finance the business, it will be your show, but we will be the foundations if you need it. We want this set of clients, and you are one of the few people with the skill level we would trust to make this happen.”
The Fast Three
Fast and Furious – Three Short Fast Bits to Change Your Life that pack a punch.
Gold Dust & Ashes
The past in a handful of ashes – there is not much left after the years. How do we turn it into gold?
