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Timothy K. Lynch
Office of Fleet Management
City of Philadelphia
Rick has a magical approach that provides a clear and
concise message specifically designed to the needs of his
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level of greater success.
Thomas Mulhern
Frontier Communications
Rick Saldan is a compelling and absorbing motivational speaker and
magician.I have been to five of his
Motivational Magic presentations and it is amazing how he keeps our
college audiences on the edge of their seats.
A highly entertaining performer with great comedy flair. Rich content to
increase students' productivity, peak performance and motivation. If you
need an outstanding motivational speaker for colleges, Rick is definitely
one of the world's greatest speakers and magicians!
Dr. Rob Gilbert, Sport Psychologist,
Montclair State University
Rick Saldan has the wit, wisdom and sorcery of a wizard. He
has a dynamic personality, and all will enjoy his
captivating stories, comedy and magic!
Dennis Slaughter
Credit Suisse First Boston
Rick Saldan delivers a first-class show! A pro in every
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Brian Letscher, Actor
Hawaii Five-O, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order and The Mentalist.
Rick Saldan is a wonderful combination of master magician, comic
improviser and first class speaker. The audience loved his program, which
was music to our ears. If you love celebrity motivational speakers such as
Tom Hopkins, Dale Carnegie and Zig Ziglar, then you'll love Rick!
Dottie Burman, President
Burtley Productions, Inc.
Rick Saldan
is an incredibly talented performer and motivational speaker with great insight. He shares many powerful
motivational messages that will enhance your life for the better!
Jack Murray, President
Dream Illusions
Rick is one of the best inspirational speakers on
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make your next event into an extraordinary one, then invite professional
speaker Rick Saldan and his amazing Motivational Magic.
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Inspiration Times Magazine
Lessons About Life from the Apple Author: Susan Dunn, MA Psychology, The EQ Coach
We transform ourselves and our lives when we look at things differently. Take a new look at THE APPLE and what it can teach us. "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World," (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375760393/susandunnmome-20 ) is a delightful book full of fascinating facts as well as profound truths.
1. Apples don’t grow true to seed. It's grafting makes the Braeburn or the Gala.
2. The experimental Geneva Orchard contains incredible varieties.
Apples that taste like bananas and pears; spicy apples and sweet ones; yellow, green, spotted, russet, striped, and purple.
3. Apples can be small as a grape or weigh more than a pound.
4. Johhny Appleseed was planting apple orchards for the cider, the alcohol.
5. Not until prohibition, did the apple industry come up with the slogan, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," to promote them for their health qualities.
6. The tremendous original variety has been all but killed off by the dominance of a few commercially important apples
Apple breeders, “locked in a kind of sweetness arms race with junk food,” lean heavily on the genes of the Red and Golden Delicious.
7. Apples originated around Alma-Ata, in Kazakhstan. "Alma-Ata" means "father of the apple."
8. Evidently there are almost as many ways to be an apple, as there are to be a human being!
"I saw apples," writes Pollan, "with the hue and heft of olives and cherries alongside glowing yellow Ping- Ping balls and dusky purpose berries. I saw a whole assortment of baseballs, oblate and conic and perfected round, some of them as bright as infield grass, others dull as wood. And their taste -- imagine sinking your teeth into a tar potato or a slightly mushy Brazil nut covered in leather. On first bite some of these apples would start out with high promise on the tongue… only to suddenly veer into a bitterness so profound it makes my stomach rise in recollection."
9. The apple tree is no longer evolving, but the viruses, bacteria, fungi and insects who love it are.
Pollan continues: "In the wild a plant and its pests are continually coevolving in a dance of resistance and conquest that can have no ultimate victor. But coevolution ceases in an orchard of grafted trees, since they are genetically identical from generation to generation. The apple tree is no longer evolving, but the viruses, bacteria, fungi and insects who love it, are. The domestication of the apple has gone too far, to the point where the species' fitness for life in nature (where it still has to live, after all!) has been dangerously compromised.
Now here’s the EQ question -- Are you changing enough to keep up with the -- figuratively and literally speaking -- viruses, bacteria, fungi and insects that live in your world? Or have you “domesticated yourself” to the point where you are no long fit?
Keep evolving. Become a master of change, i.e., resilient. It’s an Emotional Intelligence competency.
