Eagles are a US based hard rock brand best known for their number one hit Hotel California, it won the Grammy Awards for the band. Success is also very strange as in this case. The Hotel California is the most played song across the world and even now the band itself would have been tired of playing it on request. It is difficult when a particular performance, act or song becomes a niche and is viral so as to make the artists say at times, today I will play something else.
They are a great band and have given us such wonderful songs, thanks to them for their soulful compositions. Dedicating this post to Glenn Lewis Frey who left us this year in January and created a void amongst us.
My Connect
I saw an advertisement featuring the song Hotel California where it said you can check in any time but you can never leave; I don’t exactly recall the advertisement but it definitely led me to them.
My Pick
My pick for the band is Take it Easy, very soothing sound and it upfront gives you mood uplift:
(All April I will be posting about my favourite music artist, songs or bands and my memories around them and this will help us connect and discover new artists and music genres.)
B is for Bee Gees and B is also for the baritone voice which differentiated them from the masses.
Bee Gees is a band compose by brother Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. They shot in fame with the Staying Alive from the Saturday Night Fever which also featured John Travolta and established and presented disco to the international arena and suddenly Bee Gees and John Travolta became talk of the town topping all charts. As on date Barry is the only survivor of the band; it is sad for him that his younger brother has left him. I believe they are never going to die and will always remain immortal in our mind, heart and soul with their music.
My Connect
I was not even born when all this happened, so how do I relate to the story, obviously I read it and feel the aura and the times it would have been. The better question is how did I start to follow them?
Intel was and is always creative and one fine evening in the 90’s I saw the intel ad featuring a scientist, server room and everyone were dancing in the tune of Stayin Alive. So I was curious and I wanted to know about this song and artist. Only I know how difficult it was at that time for me with no internet and a society in which people mostly followed Bollywood. I thank my Dad and a music house that had a big collection of Audio cassette and CD/DVD, he helped me out and bought me the cassette. The English one was costly to afford so I always thank my Dad as he never cut my hands for the bucks.
My pick:
You must have heard the popular tracks so sharing one of my personal favorite from Bee Gees which is Alone from the album Still Waters:
I so love Robin’s voice in all the songs….
Keep pouring in your thoughts and have a great weekend.
Amongst the many fears that co-exist in our life is the fear of Glossophobia. It is is the fear of public speaking or speaking in discussions. People are reluctant and find it hard to lead the conversations, get involved into conversations or coin their opinion. Largely one of the reasons is their introvert nature which would confine them in getting involved or beginning a conversation.
Going by the popular quote it is true that speaking is an excellent attribute in both personal as well as professional life. It requires you to take initiatives by leading the talk. One can easily practice and change his ways to be an effective speaker and gather attention. In my opinion to begin with this, the key is to start socializing, talk to more people around you and try to do small chit chat when you reach office, rather than landing at your desk and leaving on time and talking to your restricted few with whom you feel comfortable. You will realize that there is a wide world waiting to be explored around you, you might discover someone who shares the same passion on photography like you. Just break the jinx.
Presenting trainings and seminars over the past few years has taught me a lot in starting them, dealing with the audience and to closing it successfully.
After attending one of the programs I was not satisfied with the training; I decided to create my own tailored program on the subject and coordinated with the stakeholders regarding my plans and rolled it out. It was a huge success and after 2-3 sessions of 4 hrs I started full day sessions. The biggest success lies in the fact when people leave the program with a value add and satisfaction and it is always good to gather their thoughts and next steps after the session.
I learned a lot over all these years since then and have been leading many programs with enthusiasm.
The following aspects should be kept in mind when you plan to take up trainings/seminars or lead the talk:
Be a master of your topic
Break the ice and engage the audience
Listen patiently
Interact with people
Don’t let the session run out of your hand, interrupt where required.
Take feedback and monitor value add and work on continuous improvement based on it. It also opens another window of ideas from the participants.
A lot of passion! – If you are not passionate in the topic you are handling you will definitely mess it up.
When I started seminars, I was always comfortable to speak to an audience with all strangers, so the song from Pink Floyd Is there anybody out there, always used to jingle in my mind. There was definitely a sense of strange fear and anxiety when I saw a known face sitting in the audience. However as you progress it does not come in between and after some experience it ceases to exist.
Doctors know this feeling very well as they are more confident when they operate a patient not known to them rather when someone close to them is under the knife.
Thanks for reading, share your opinions too would be good to read about it and explore everyone’s view, love you all, lots of kiss and hugs.
I love to take challenges and so many people do, remember the Ice Bucket Challenge which stormed the internet and social media a few days back.
What type of person like challenges? Are they special, are they super powered or they are destined.
Challengers are:
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Determined to prove and succeed.
They are looking out for wider areas to explore.
They are chasing their passion
They are ambitious.
They believe in “Never give up”
They are consitent.
Failure or success does not bother them, it is the learning and unlearning process they carry ahead.
So what do you think about yourself, are you the one is going to pick up the gauntlet when thrown at you or be like the last letter of the English Alphabet which is always sleeping.
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