Rick Saldan's Motivational Magic - Motivational Speaker & Master Magician

Rick Saldan is an excellent inspirational speaker who tailored the seminar to the needs of the individual students being instructed. This office thanks the Mayors Office of Information Services for having such a vendor.

Timothy K. Lynch

Office of Fleet Management

City of Philadelphia

Rick has a magical approach that provides a clear and concise message specifically designed to the needs of his audience. Rick will provide all the motivational magic you will ever need, propelling your organization to the next level of greater success.

Thomas Mulhern

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!

Dr. Rob Gilbert, Sport Psychologist,

Montclair State University

Rick Saldan has the wit, wisdom and sorcery of a wizard. He has a dynamic personality, and all will enjoy his captivating stories, comedy and magic!

Dennis Slaughter
Credit Suisse First Boston

Rick Saldan delivers a first-class show! A pro in every sense of the word. Funny, unique, entertaining and polished.

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!

Jack Murray, President
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.

Andres Lara, President

Inspiration Times Magazine

Forgive and Forget
Author: Jerry Lopper

Someone did you wrong and you’re angry; you’re not just angry, you’re plotting a way to get even.You can’t wait to see that so-and-so, and turn the tables on him.

Nations do that, too, on a larger scale; Israelis attack Palestinians in retaliation for a Palestinian attack which was revenge for an Israeli attack, which was payback for a Palestinian reprisal, which was...You see where this is going.

We read about similar escalations frequently; perhaps you’ve been a party to an extended personal battle with someone. If so, who won? Not who was the last person standing, but who benefited and who lost as a result of the payback cycle?

No one won, if the definition of to win is to feel joy, peace, calm, or any loving emotion. The best we can feel while participating in a continuing cycle of payback is a brief touch of self-satisfaction-nothing like joy. To feel any of the strongly positive emotions requires forgiveness.

What does it mean to forgive? We usually think of forgiveness as a generous act which pardons another person for wrongdoing. In this context, forgiveness is directed toward another, as in "I forgive you for saying hurtful things to me yesterday." The forgiver then feels magnanimous having granted a pardon to the sinner. Often we forgive only after the sinner has contritely apologized; sometimes we forgive expecting the apology.

However, one meaning of forgive is to give up resentment or claim to retaliation. In this context, forgiveness is not about another person-it’s about us. When I realize that I feel better when I give up anger and vengeful thinking toward another, it makes sense that forgiveness is something I give to myself, not something I grant to another. What better gift might I give myself than peace, calm, and serenity? We cannot simultaneously feel anger and peace. We cannot be serene while planning revenge.

This definition of forgiveness-to give up resentment-gives meaning to "turn the other cheek." It’s not a passive acceptance of more wrongdoing, it’s a turning away from the event altogether. When we give up our resentment and anger, we withdraw energy from the event-without energy, every human act shrivels and dies. That’s the meaning of the phrase, "what you resist, persists."

When we forgive a perceived wrongdoing by giving up resentment and anger, we withdraw our energy from the past event and preclude a continuing sequence of revenge, retribution, payback, and reprisal-we literally starve the process before it escalates.

Forgiveness is more than a magnanimous act of charity. Forgiveness is a gift to ourselves-a gift of peace, calm, and serenity. Forgive and forget allows us to move on to activities with positive potential-activities with the possibility of joy.

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TITLE: Forgive and Forget
AUTHOR: Jerry Lopper
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COPYRIGHT: ©2004 by Jerry Lopper. All rights reserved

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