Presentation: The Big Picture and Big Decisions Title: The Big Picture and Big Decisions Speaker: Ransom Stephens, Ph.D. “Helped me rediscover myself.” Dan Nguyen Description It’s easy to get caught up in day-to-day life – the alarm clock, the bills, what’s for dinner – and overlook the long-lasting impact of simple decisions. By combining unique approaches to thinking about time and money, death and taxes, careers and dreams, “The Big Picture and Big Decisions” has helped thousands of people confront and realize their most authentic desires even when faced with tremendous challenges. When we think of life in the context of a month, then a year, a decade, and, finally, as a single unit of time, serious Responsibility contrasts with petty responsibility, the Big Decisions come clear, and it’s easier to confront where we’re going with where we’ve been and where we all end up. “Challenged me to really evaluate myself as a professional…very strong, dynamic orator.”-Lennox Ginn This speech will help participants understand: • That life is a sequence of phases that are linked by decisions. • That it’s harder to recognize paradise than it is to find and that painful transitions are the only path from one paradise to the next. • That our lives form a continuous story and how that realization can help us navigate the future • The nature of “luck” and its role in the power of positive thought. “Outstanding REAL stuff to ponder. Loved the pace, humor and content.” - Pat Malone Topics covered include: • What do you want, why do you want it, how can you get it? o The role of visualization and time scale in decision making • Money and mortality o Income and aging. • Building a career – the genius of the ten-year-old • Timescale o What do you want your world to look like one, two, five, 10, 40, 60 years in the future? • Luck as a random process o The Placebo effect and the power of positive thought • The illusion of job security and the future of employment o Leveraging expertise • Defining goals o The role of visualization o The dreaming is the hard part • The price of Choice o Slavery and credit o responsibility and Responsibility • Death and taxes o Resilience “Great new way of looking at The Situation.” – Sandeep Saxena Details Available as a 50 or 75 minute keynote speech, two hour workshop, or half-day master class. Each presentation is customized to address the specific needs of the audience. “Very cool, funny and enlightening.” Tom Gibson, C6 About the speaker Ransom Stephens, Ph.D., writer, physicist, and public speaker, has worked on experiments in laboratories across the United States and Europe and discovered a new type of matter and was on the team that discovered the top quark. As an engineer, he directed advanced technology for a wireless-web startup and led an engineering commando team to solutions of complex technical and marketing problems for a Fortune 100 high tech corporation. As a high tech consultant he helps Silicon Valley electrical engineers solve their most difficult design problems and then communicate the value of those solutions. “One of the most entertaining and thought provoking speakers we’ve had.” –Doug Neeper, Leadership team, CPC Job Connections. “Lots of energy! Good audience participation! Getting us to commit to a path, wow, time flew by through presentation.” -Tom Diola, ProMatch © Ransom Stephens, 2012. Like a dragonfly - darting from task to task and mastering every one. Made with Xara Download the PDF file