There’s nothing like the start of a fresh, new year to reinvigorate and inspire. The Christmas break gives us all a chance to take stock, evaluate the year just passed and look ahead to where we want to be going.
As well as pledging to start health and fitness regimes, you may wish to make a few New Year resolutions for your professional life. To help you do just that, we have compiled a top 10 of inspirational talks.
Here you will find everything from advice to improving your self-image and processes for being more productive, through to over coming criticism and changing the world! Enjoy.
1. Bill and Melinda Gates at Stanford University
Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, alongside his wife Melinda, have given away billions of dollars to philanthropic causes through their charitable foundation. In this speech at Stanford University in America, they tell graduates how optimism can help to address inequality and innovation can make a difference to the world.
2. How to Believe in Yourself: Jim Cathcart
“If you want to create great acorns think like an oak, not like an acorn,” so says Jim Cathcart, one of the world’s leading business keynote speakers and author of 16 books. An average student from a working class family with no athletic or special skills, Jim expected an unremarkable existence. But one radio message in 1972 changed the direction of his life and his belief in his potential.
3. Self-Image – The Amazing, Absolute Key To All Personal Growth
According to Leo Gura our self-image defines how we feel about ourselves and our potential in the world. Every experience we have, whether we remember it or not, impacts our self-image, and these subconscious beliefs can hold us back from making the changes we want in life. Learning how to change these beliefs is a powerful transformative tool.
4. Getting in Control and Creating Space: David Allen
Want to improve you productivity levels? Management consultant and executive coach David Allen talks on the “five phase natural planning model” we all already use that he says can take anything from impulse to reality.
5. Bruno Mars’ Inspiring Speech
When ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ singer Bruno Mars was invited to perform at the Super Bowl (an annual American football game that determines the champion of the National Football League) the New York Times wrote he wasn’t ready. “It was too big for him, he couldn’t do it,” they said. Here Bruno tells Ellen DeGeneres how he overcame the criticism.
6. The Key to Transforming Yourself: Robert Greene
A boss from hell? A business relationship that’s turned ugly? A promotion that never came? Why do we fixate on the things we can see immediately when we should be focusing on the bigger picture? In this passionate talk Robert Greene shares the key to transforming ourselves and also talks about his own personal transformation and his path to becoming a bestselling author.
7. Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Daniel Amen
Innovation, says neuroscientist Daniel Amen, depends on the physical health of your brain. This TEDx talk presents revelations based on studying 63,000 brain images across 90 countries over 20 years and shows how what we eat and drink has a direct impact on the function – and potential – of our brains.
8. Living Beyond Limits: Amy Purdy
Do you daydream about travelling the world? Living wherever you want? Being free? Amy Purdy did before she was struck down with meningitis and lost her legs. Here she talks about the power of imagination and explains how our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but by the choices we make. Imagination allows us to break down borders, to move beyond our circumstances, to create and constantly progress.
9. The Good Life: Robert Waldinger
What makes us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you want to follow the path to happiness, where should you put your time and energy? Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and Zen priest, answers these questions with lessons learned from a 75-year-long study of adult life that started in the late 1930s and continues to this day.
10. How to Find and Do Work You Love: Scott Dinsmore
Motivational speaker Scot Dinsmore died last September after being hit by a rock climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. He was only 33. While this is totally tragic, at least he died doing what he loved. Following his passions was hugely important to Scot, who became a career change strategist after a demoralising experience at a Fortune 500 job. Here he talks about his quest to understand why 80% of adults hate the work they do, and more importantly, to identify what the other 20% were doing differently.
Conclusion
Whether you want a complete change of career or simply want to be more motivated and creative, these 10 talks will help propel you to action in 2016!
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