Anyway in the main my plan worked really well to keep the examples used in the talk to things that they would be interested in so things like relationships, dating, Nintendo DS and Playstations etc……even opened the talk telling them about when I spoke for Ann Summers earlier in the year.

Now the thing is it worked too well at times, because when speaking at schools there is a fine balance in speaking about things that interest them, but will not distract them into lots of whispers and giggling because of something that has been said.

They did brilliantly though, I must say, a real credit, at 16 or 17 if I’d been sent to sit in a hall for an hour and listen to someone talk about anything I’d have been thinking “What’s the point?”.

However I know some of them took the messages on board and hopefully over the coming days and weeks others will too as they encounter things in daily life that remind them of my talk.

As I said to them at the start, you’ve not got to learn anything from me, I’m not going to tell you things you need to learn, I am going to tell you what you need to forget and unlearn.

You see we are all born without limiting beliefs and comfort zone issues, and we all live in the moment in our early years, no fear of failure or what others may think. We learn bad ideas and bad habits, and bad ways of thinking from those around us.

That’s why I always say to my audiences that a 3 year old could do my job, and would be better at it than me! They live for the moment, in the moment and are curious about everything.

I really do wish someone had shared such messages with me at school in the 6th form, although I do wonder even if they had would I have noticed?

Mark Rhodes

I really wished I’d got exposed to this sort of information when I was at school. I wonder if times have changed because I am getting asked to speak in schools more and more, or was it that my school was one of the few that didn’t do this all those years ago?

Based on feedback from my audiences over the years saying “I wished we had got this 30 years ago at School”, I suspect most schools didn’t cover any aspects of mindset and personal development when I was younger.

Feel free to share your experiences.

Thank You

Mark Rhodes.

I can’t remember where I heard this or where I read this but what I discovered was that inside us we hold a mental picture of what we look like. When we see ourselves in a photograph often it doesn’t quite look right because the photograph and the image don’t match exactly – why?

Well our faces are not 100% symmetrical and we only ever see our own face in a mirror or reflection which is swapped left to right, whereas everyone else see’s us in a normal alignment that matches the photograph.

I think there is some truth in this, certainly for me, as I have often found I like my picture more when I open it in some image software and then flip the image so it is a mirror image and therefore must match my internal picture of myself better.

I’d be interested in others thoughts on this, maybe take a picture you are not sure about and flip it and see if it appeals more.

Mark Rhodes

It seems like only yesterday he looked like this:

Eddie at 6 Weeks Old

Mark Rhodes