Presentation by Richard Rowe

1. Are you a puddle or an Ocean? Creating ripples in our lives…are you selling or telling 1 Presentation by Richard Rowe

2. When we are born… • The book of our lives is new and unwritten. • Young minds are like sponges: • 0 – 8 Programming • 8 – 12 Hero • 12 – 20 Peer 2 Presentation by Richard Rowe

3. The puddle… • A small pool of water, usually a few inches in depth. • Limitations of influence on its surroundings. • Puddle = minimal 3 Presentation by Richard Rowe

4. The Ocean… • A vast body of water that covers three quarters (71%) of the earth's surface. • Apparently limitless in quantity or volume. • Ocean = limitless 4 Presentation by Richard Rowe

5. Understanding Influence… • Influence is the direct or indirect effect on actions. We all have influence over those around us. • Learned response – how do we influence others? 5 Presentation by Richard Rowe

6. Ripple effect… “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” -Mohandas Gandhi • Nothing happens by accident… • Newton’s third law – law of reciprocal actions… 6 Presentation by Richard Rowe

7. Ripple effect cont… • “Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” - Robert F. Kennedy 7 Presentation by Richard Rowe

8. Ripple effect... • What ripple are we creating? Remember… 8 Presentation by Richard Rowe

9. Cause and Effect… • We create the conditions in our lives and must start to identify cause and effect… • Blaming others for what happens… Giving away the power... • Ripples can be simple or complex – motion is a law… 9 Presentation by Richard Rowe

10. Cause and Effect… “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” - Mother Teresa 10 Presentation by Richard Rowe

11. No such thing as luck… • We create names to explain what we don’t understand. • There is no such thing as good luck or bad luck – ripples are a direct result for success or failure. 11 Presentation by Richard Rowe

12. No such thing as luck… “I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.” - Oprah Winfrey “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.” - Oprah Winfrey 12 Presentation by Richard Rowe

13. The Golden Rule – is it new? • We can see the idea of the Golden Rule in over 22 different religious faiths. • Epictetus, Kant, Plato, Socrates, Seneca – the great philosophers understood. 13 Presentation by Richard Rowe

14. Golden Rule… “Self-sacrifice is never entirely unselfish, for the giver never fails to receive.” - Dolores McGuire • It comes to four simple words: Do The Right Thing -- DTRT‏ 14 Presentation by Richard Rowe

15. Golden Rule… “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” - Zig Ziglar 15 Presentation by Richard Rowe

16. Oceans in the movies… • We can see examples from Hollywood – • George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life • Glenn Holland inMr. Holland’s Opus • We can even see TV shows (MASH) 16 Presentation by Richard Rowe

17. “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” - Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life 17 Presentation by Richard Rowe

18. Oceans – past and present… • The ripple we create or influence we have can be ether positive or negative. • Whose life is an ocean? • Think about Irena Sendler... 18 Presentation by Richard Rowe

19. Oceans – past and present… • Because of Irena over 22,500 people are here today. Talk about a ripple. “The world can be better if there’s love, tolerance and humility.” - Irena Sendler 19 Presentation by Richard Rowe

20. Responsibility – Who me? • What responsibility do we assume for our actions? • Responsibility is a duty, obligation, or burden… • Embrace the chance to influence someone else’s life. 20 Presentation by Richard Rowe

21. Responsibility… “Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility.” - Albert Einstein “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” - Johann Von Goethe 21 Presentation by Richard Rowe

22. Responsibility… • We choose to accept responsibility (obligation) or not… “No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.” - Napoleon Hill 22 Presentation by Richard Rowe

23. Make a Choice… • Choice – the mental process of thinking involved with the process of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them for action. 23 Presentation by Richard Rowe

24. Make a Choice cont… • Only you can determine – puddle or ocean “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” - Kahlil Gibran 24 Presentation by Richard Rowe

25. Make a Choice cont… “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.” - Jean Nidetch “There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” - Denis Waitley 25 Presentation by Richard Rowe

26. Make a Choice cont… “Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.” -Chelle Thompson 26 Presentation by Richard Rowe

27. Final thought - “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” - Mother Teresa 27 Presentation by Richard Rowe