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Office of Fleet Management

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Frontier Communications

 

 

Rick Saldan is a compelling and absorbing motivational speaker and magician.  I have been to five of his Motivational Magic presentations and it is amazing how he keeps our college audiences on the edge of their seats. A highly entertaining performer with great comedy flair. Rich content to increase students' productivity, peak performance and motivation. If you need an outstanding motivational speaker for colleges, Rick is definitely one of the world's greatest speakers and magicians!


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Montclair State University

 

 

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Credit Suisse First Boston

 

 

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Brian Letscher, Actor

Hawaii Five-O, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order and The Mentalist.

 

 

Rick Saldan is a wonderful combination of master magician, comic improviser and first class speaker. The audience loved his program, which was music to our ears. If you love celebrity motivational speakers such as Tom Hopkins, Dale Carnegie and Zig Ziglar, then you'll love Rick!

Dottie Burman, President
Burtley Productions, Inc.

 

Rick Saldan is an incredibly talented performer and motivational speaker with great insight. He shares many powerful motivational messages that will enhance your life for the better!

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Dream Illusions

 

Rick is one of the best inspirational speakers on the scene today. Funny, fun loving and highly energetic. If you want to make your next event into an extraordinary one, then invite professional speaker  Rick Saldan and his amazing  Motivational Magic.

 

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Inspiration Times Magazine

 
 

Bow to Failure (It? Not What You Think)
Author: Molly Gordon, CPC

If you're like most folks, failure comes with negative judgments, and you have a variety of ways to dodge both the judgments and the bad feelings that come with them. You hunker down, often hunching your shoulders, pulling your energy in, and perhaps adopting an apologetic posture as if to say, "Don't kick me." Perhaps you adopt a studied casualness, pretending you don? care. Neither is a very powerful position.

How would it be, on the other hand, if you greeted failure with a circus bow? Try it now. Take a proud, wide legged stance, throw your arms up in a broad V, fingers spread and palms facing inward. Paste a big smile on your face and take a bow. Wow. You did it! You failed, and guess what? You made it look terrific.

Feel silly? Try it again. And again. Then try it while saying, "I failed!" Keep checking in with your body, making sure you have adopted the victory stance, that you are still smiling with pride, that every fiber of your being is saying, "Hurrah. You may applaud me now."

How's that for reframingfailure?

Now, how are you when your colleagues, employees, family and friends fail? Are you afraid their failure will rub off? Secretly relieved that it wasn't you? Do you feel a flicker of pleasure about how good you look by comparison? Notice how these responses, whether pleasurable or not, cut you off from the person who has failed, effectively breaking the web of cooperation and community.

How would it be if, instead, you witnessed failure with enthusiastic applause? Not denial, but fully felt and expressed appreciation for learning-in-progress. Imagine how your teams and work groups might change if failures were recognized as the springboards for future successes.

Think about how you respond to failure: your own and that of others. Then think about how much time could be saved if saving face were not an issue. How much energy might be released if playing full out became the norm? How much creativity? How much joy?

This week, I challenge you to teach the Failure Bow to everyone you work with. Teach it to your children. Teach it to your friends. Change your culture around failure and you will change your life.








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