Sign up for his newsletter and get one of Rick's ebooks for free!
Rick Saldan is an excellent
inspirational speaker who tailored the seminar to the needs of the
individual students being instructed. This office thanks the Mayors Office
of Information Services for having such a vendor.
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
audience. Rick will provide all the motivational magic you
will ever need, propelling your organization to the next
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
sense of the word. Funny, unique, entertaining and polished.
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
the scene today. Funny, fun loving and highly energetic. If you want to
make your next event into an extraordinary one, then invite professional
speaker Rick Saldan and his amazing Motivational Magic.
Andres Lara, President
Inspiration Times Magazine
The Top Ten Things to Know About Optimism Author: Susan Dunn, M. A.
1. Optimism is learned.
If it's learned, it can be changed! If you don't feel you're optimistic and would like to be, put yourself around someone who is and observe and listen, or work with a coach.
2. People who are optimistic have learned to modulate their inner states.
According to Dr. Susan Vaughan, people who are optimistic can tolerate extremes of both pleasure and sadness without getting stuck. They know they'll bounce back, so they do. They're resilient.
3. Optimists are looking at life through a special filter!
Remember the song about the cock-eyed optimist? The rose-colored glasses? The way we experience the external world is a direct reflection of our feelings about things. Our emotions, and the thoughts that accompany them, influence how we see and interpret the people, places, and events of the present, past and future. What you see is what you get!
4. Pessimists are more often right, but optimists accomplish more.
This is kind of like "would you rather be right, or in relationship?" Being "right" has its downside. Think of the Wright Brothers who were just sure airplanes could fly, so they kept trying. There weren't a lot of people who agreed with them at the time.
5. Optimism and pessimism rule.
In mood congruence studies, if researchers induced sadness in a person and then tried to teach them happy and sad words, the subjects learned the sad words more effectively. Hostile people will pick out the angry pictures from a spread. Anxious people will remember anxious events from childhood. Depressed people will zero in on distressing headlines in the newspaper. Whether you're optimistic or pessimistic, it will be a force field that influences your whole life. If you can change that, why wouldn't you?
6. Optimists view bad events as transitory and random.
Optimists view bad events as passing things that just happened as a fluke, that had nothing to do with them, and probably will never happen again. Pessimists, on the other hand, see bad events as permanent, pervasive, specific to them, and bound to recur. And the converse is true about about good events.
7. Being optimistic alone isn't enough, but it's like the leavening in the bread.
You need the flour, water, shortening and salt, but look what the yeast does! When combined with qualities such as solid values, passion, intelligence, and empathy, optimism greases the wheel and provides momentum. Like a catalyst, it provokes or speeds significant change or action.
8. Life is better for optimists.
According to Dr. Martin Seligman, one of the experts in the field, optimists are resistant to depression, likely to achieve their potential, persistent in the face of adversity, enjoy better health than pessimists, and get the maximum pleasure out of their successes because they think they caused them and that they'll have more of them. Which should make them all the more optimistic, right?
9. The essence of optimism isn't the happy side.
The essence of optimism is avoiding the downward spiral into negative thoughts and feelings. Optimists do something pleasurable after a distressing event to distract themselves from it. They start dating again immediately after a breakup or divorce. They go out and celebrate the end of the school term after they flunk a final. They don't let one bad apple spoil the bunch. They don't punish themselves. They don't dwell.
10. Optimism is somewhat sustained by a kind of benign illusion about things.
A case in point would be Mozart's incredible optimism and exuberant self-confidence. By the end of his life, which was short, when he suffered the deaths of four children, serious illnesses and repeated professional and financial disasters, a psychological analysis of his correspondence by Professor Steptoe of St. George's Hospital Medical School showed that his optimism actually rose.
Susan Dunn, M.A. is a personal life coach who helps her clients succeed by developing their emotional intelligence, understanding their strengths better, and doing the inner work. You can visit her on the web at http://www.susandunn.cc
