Hey friends! Delatorro here. Just wanted to share a recent interview that I was on with The Daytime Show. I hope you enjoy. If you don’t already have the new book. Go get it today, everywhere major books are sold.

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In late January, I had the wonderful pleasure to meet and interview with News Anchor and Television Personality, Gayle Guyardo of WFLA - Channel 8 News, which airs on NBC. Gayle is an absolutely wonderful human being, and a profound communicator and business professional. We talked extensively about my new book, Caught Between a Dream and a Job, which she loves and has even read portions of, to her daughters! Gayle and I created a powerful tag-team and look forward to doing many more wonderful projects together in the future. Stay tuned to Gayle’s segments on Channel 8 News during the month of February to see various segments that we taped together.

Love and Blessings,

Delatorro

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Empowered New Year Friends!

I am committed to helping as many people as I can to Create an absolutely GREAT 2008. And as we all embark upon this journey of greatness together, I would like to highly recommend to you that one of the greatest keys to experiencing the type of year that you want to have, is to put top quality people in and around your life! One of my new mentors and friends George Fraser is an expert at not only networking, but helping people, businesses, and organizations to CLICK! Hence his new book, which will be out in stores everywhere on January 14th. Please watch this powerful video below and get the book. I know it will bless your life tremendously in this new year, and for many years to come.

God Bless,
Delatorro

Order the book that everyone is talking about!
Delatorro’s much anticipated 5th book project, Caught Between a Dream and Job: How to Leave the 9 to 5 Behind and Step Into the Life You’ve Always Wanted. If your DREAM is bigger than your job, you must experience this book. If you are tired of the 9-to-5 rat race, this book will open the door and set you free! Endorsed by many of the top personal and professional development experts from around the world, this book helps you powerfully transition from job living to dream living! When you order this powerful new book directly from DWE, you also get a FREE BONUS JUMPSTART CD valued at $15.

Section and Chapters Titles Include:

Section 1: Identifying Your Destiny and Purpose and the Need For a Transition

Chapter 1: There is a Place called “There”
Chapter 2: Whoever Told You to JOB?
Chapter 3: My Story: A Life by Design
Chapter 4: Your Life’s Purpose: The Catalyst to Your Dreams
Chapter 5: Utilizing Your Occupation to Explode Your Potential

Section 2: Hiring Yourself and Landing Your Real Dream Job

Chapter 6: It’s Time to Transition
Chapter 7: Harnessing the Power of the Dream Job

Section 3: TIPS for Stepping Powerfully Into Your Dreams

Chapter 8: Attitude TIPS
Chapter 9: Spiritual and Emotional TIPS
Chapter 10: Social and Relational TIPS
Chapter 11: Time Mastery TIPS
Chapter 12: Financial and Entrepreneurial TIPS

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In order to succeed at any goal or dream, it requires FOCUS!
Below are 7 quick ways to help you Master your Focus!

1. Determine what you really want. Most people are very unfocused and unproductive because they don’t know what they want. Take the time to decide what you really want (in all areas of your life), not what you don’t want. Be clear. The more clear you are the better focused you will be in taking any action - be it mental or physical. Your goals and dreams will be achieved much more powerfully when you know with crystal clarity what your goal looks like. Clarity is power, so determine what you want. Fixate yourself on the target!

2. Determine the price that you will have to pay to acquire the things that you want. Please understand that many times this is not money. Many times it will be overcoming fears, failures, disappointments, and disadvantages. Many times the price is taking a step of faith or trying something new, or stepping out of your comfort zone.

3. Surround yourself with people who will protect your focus. The average employee in America has about 40 different interruptions in a day. Begin to protect your focus by concentrating your time and energy on task-oriented assignments. Find people who do masterfully well, the thing you want to do, and have them mentor you. Additionally, put people around your life, career, business, ministry, goals, dreams, and aspirations who are gatekeepers. Folks that keep “time-wasters” from getting to you. These people may be in your family or they may be close friends. Teach people how to respect your time, by respecting your time yourself enough to not do the things or go the places that “time-wasters” do and go.

4. Understand and implement The Laser Principle. The only thing that makes a laser more powerful then regular sunlight is the fact that the laser beam is focused in one point. Stop trying to be a “jack of all trades” and start becoming a “master of one.”

5. Realize that people don’t hire jacks, they hire masters! What is the one thing that you are willing to master? What type of expert are you willing to be? The average human being has over 600 talents and abilities, but normally only a few that they utilize to the fullest in order to create their destiny. You are a unique individual. Be like a stamp, and stick to one thing…until it delivers!

6. Start each morning with a To-Do List. Put only 7 things on it, in order of priority. Don’t work on #2 until #1 is done. Stay committed to your greatness! Don’t reply to email and voicemails at all times during the day, protect your focus. Give yourself several specific times to reply throughout the day, and dedicate the rest of your time towards accomplishing your 7 goals for that day.

7. If you use a computer alot like most of us do, clean up your desktop. Don’t have 20 or 30 icons on your desktop. That sends a message to your brain that you are comfortable with clutter and an overabundance of unnecessary items. If your desktop is cluttered, your mind and life are probably cluttered too. Also, while working on your computer, close any and all programs that you are not using in the present moment. Keeping multiple programs open that you are not using slows down your computer processor first of all, but second it keeps your brain thinking about other things you could be doing in those programs that you don’t need to focus on because as soon as you do, you get off task. So, if you are working in PowerPoint, shut down Word and Excel for a while. If you are researching on the Internet, close down other programs that don’t have anything to do with your present research. Protect your focus!

In truth, there are TONS of ways that you can improve your and enhance your focus. However we don’t change our lives by doing a million things right at one time. We change by doing a few things very well, turning those actions into healthy habits, and then progressively adding new actions. Master your focus, and live your dreams!

Delatorro L. McNeal, II

People from various walks of life often ask me for my advice on how to get starting building and improving their public speaking and presentation skills. It inspires me to see people who want to better themselves so I am always eager to help. Interestingly enough, I often find myself giving the same advice over and over again, so I decided to write a blog about it so I could duplicate my advice for the thousands that seek it. Below are a few great, easy, and affordable ways to immediately begin the journey of mastering your speaking and presentation skills.

1. Speak often! The only way to get better is to do it more often. Most people who complain about not being effective speakers and presenters also don’t do that often, which reveals the problem. Repetition is the mother of skill, so you’ve gotta start speaking regularly to become a better speaker.

2. Join your local Toastmaster Club and excel within it. Toastmasters International is a worldwide public speaking and presentation skills development organization that has chapters in nearly every city in America and across the world. Through Toastmasters, you can learn to deliver many different types of presentations in various ways, while being evaluated by a group of caring and constructive peers who only want to see you succeed. Many clubs are small in number which enables you to get better in a small group environment, which for many people is often less intimidating. Visit www.Toastmasters.org to find a club near you.

3. Go to my website eStore and order Presenting Your Way to Greatness - 9 DVD Speaking Mastery Success System. It is awesome, and it is designed specifically for people just like you who want to learn how to master public speaking and professional speaking. Check out the YouTube Video below for more powerful information about this system, which can easily shave 5+ years off of your development time as a speaker and presenter!

4. Practice what you learn from my DVD system in your Toastmasters meetings. Once you feel a level of confidence from attending Toastmasters, get out there and speak to as many groups as will listen and make sure you speak to groups both inside and outside your comfort zone.

5. If you are serious about Professional Speaking and/or Speaking as a career field, I highly recommend that you research and attend the National Speakers Association. NSA is the leading professional association for speakers, providing resources, relationships, and education designed to advance the skills, integrity and value of its members and the speaking profession as a whole. Visit www.nsaspeaker.org to learn more about NSA. It’s one of the best organizations for helping you develop and implement your business model as a speaking professional and expert. I am a member and have been for several years, and it truly has impacted my career for the better!

6. Sign up for any and all of my Coaching Programs designed to cut your learning curve and rapidly give you the results you are looking for in your speaking. Either one-on-one, Lunch with Delatorro, or through Teleclasses and Webinars make sure you sign up for one of these powerful opportunities to Grow your Greatness.

7. Consider a Professional Speaking Boot Camp of some sort. There are many out there, and I in fact conduct them periodically as well. Attending the right boot camp can teach you over a weekend what it takes the average person 5 to 7 years to learn, just without all of the introductory bumps and bruises. Having attended boot camps and conducted boot camps myself, I am a strong believer in the power of boot camps, and suggest that you do your research in considering which one to become a part of. The goal is to learn from someone who is much further along then you are, as well as someone with whom you feel a genuine connection.

May Only Abundance and Wellbeing Abound,

Delatorro