Rick Saldan's Motivational Magic - Motivational Speaker & Master Magician

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 Fear Factor
Author: Sharon Davis

© Copyright 2001 Sharon Davis
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My brother-in-law is in the process of starting a home business. In fact, he's been in the process of starting it for over 2 years now.

It seems that Bill (that's not really his name, but I don't want to embarrass him), is afraid to take the big step.

He wasn't afraid to take the first step. He's taken lots of steps. He's going to be selling a product, so he's done some really important (and expensive) groundwork like designing his product, testing it, getting a patent, getting a business license, setting up his accounting procedures and even designing his website.

Bill spent alot of time on his website (he's a bit of a perfectionist). I've offered to get him up and running on the web, submit it to the search engines, and basically handle the website administration for him.

About 2 months ago, his site was all set and I've been waiting for his go ahead to "go live" ever since. Whenever I ask him if he's ready, he has a vague reason for not going ahead: "I need to make more of model x" or "I've decided to redesign a few things on the website".

It has become clear to me that Bill is afraid of failure (or even his own success).

This is an all to common situation among would-be business owners. Let's face it-- it's a pretty scary thing to be completely responsible for your own livelyhood. In fact, this fear is often the one thing that keeps a person from realizing their dream of having a home business.

There are some good reasons to be nervous, too. The Small Business Administration estimates that 33% of small businesses fail within the first year, 50% fail within the second year and 60% to 70% will fail within their first five years of operation.

People have all kinds of reasons that keep them from starting a business:

__They're afraid they'll lose money
__They're afraid of what their family and friends will think of them if they fail.
__They're fearful of the enormous responsibility that comes with owning a business.
__They think it's too hard, or that they don't have enough time.

But should we really let fear come between us and our dreams?

In this past year, we've learned that we have tremendous strength within each of us-- whether we knew it or not. And lots of people *are* successful. Why shouldn't Bill be one of the ones who succeeds? I believe that he has it in him to be successful, but he just has to get past the fear factor and take that next step.

And if you're planning to start a home business then do your homework, find something that you feel passionate about, plan your business, but don't let fear keep you from achieving your goals.

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Sharon Davis is the owner of 2Work-At-Home.Com, the Editor of the site's monthly ezine, America's Home and mom to two girls. In her spare time she reminisces about what it was like to have spare time. To subscribe to her free ezine, visit http://www.2work-at-home.com/ezine/subscribe/ezines.shtml

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