Newsletter archive - Is your Handbrake on by Nigel Risner:

Good Morning

We are having record number of people joining the newsletter
Welcome to you all.
Over the coming months, I urge you all to think what's one thing in your life that is holding you back?
Then make a commitment to deal with it.

We are all like cars.
We need an M.O.T
We need to be looked after
and most important, operate with the handbrake down.

Two weeks ago I wrote about Barnsley Football club winning a football match.
Whilst Im not the biggest fan of football, and I know lots of the readers aren't too, this little club continued in their winning ways by beating Chelsea yesterday.
Why then am i writing about it again?

Because it my opinion there are some great lessons.
Lots of people said It was luck.
Then when the draw was done, everyone said they will never match there last game.
Well, the critics were wrong.
The Barnsley team were majestic.
They played as a team.
They wanted it.

What has suprised me, is the venom towards the Chelsea manager.
I always want to tell people that he isn't on the pitch
The 11 players are the one's who need to up their game
The pitch wasn't up to scratch.
Amazing that winning teams never complain
I wish Barnsley all the best in the semi-final.

This week play every moment like it was your biggest game

Nigel's Two New DVD's

We have had such demand for the DVD'S that we have extended the deadline.
I am really pleased to let you know that I have developed two new DVD presentations; How to be a Peak Performer and Live the life you deserve (based on the IMPACT code).
They can be purchased together at a special price for £79inc p&p or £50 each. If you buy the two I will also send you a copy of the impact code .
Please email Alison@nigelrisner.com and they will be sent out by return

Quotes

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -- Jeremy Kitson

"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." -- Walt Disney

"In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them." -- Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain

SPEAK IN PUBLIC I'D RATHER STICK A PENCIL IN MY EYE

Due to the demand we are doing another one on October 7th

The April date is now full so we have decided to give you plenty of notice for the next one.
I have decided to run some presentation skills training's
This is for people who either want to or have to speak in public.
THIS DAY WILL BE INTERACTIVE.
It will give you skills to help you with the phobia's you think you have
It will be fun
It will be held in London on the 7th October 2008 Maximum of 16 people
If you are interested email Alison@NigelRisner.com

Made me laugh

Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets.

I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider", looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said "OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.

A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."

I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk."

Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier & proceeded to make five "blank" copies.

I was in a car dealership a while ago, when a large motor home was towed into the garage. The front of the vehicle was in dire need of repair and the whole thing generally looked like an extra in "Twister." I asked the manager what had happened. He told me that the driver had set the "cruise control" and then went in the back to make a sandwich.

My neighbour works in the operations department in the central office of a large bank. Employees in the field call him when they have problems with their computers. One night he got a call from a woman in one of the branch banks who had this question: "I've got smoke coming from the back of my terminal. Do you guys have a fire downtown?"

Police in Radnor, PA interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and it should be fine. The mother says, I just gave him some ant killer..... Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency room!

have a great week
All my love
Nigel

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