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Bring to mind a special moment you’ve experienced with your horse when there was an effortless “oneness” about something you two did together. During that special moment, do you remember what was going on in your mind?

Chances are, your mind was quiet. Because, as the best athletes know, such peak-performance moments never come when you are consciously thinking about what you are doing. Instead, your mind is so focused, so concentrated that it is still. You experience a quiet consciousness that keeps you very aware and present in the moment. Your mind and body are functioning as one. And you trust yourself to perform the goal you have chosen for your body to seek. Athletes refer to this state as “being in the zone.”

However, if you attempt to exercise control over this peak-performance state, it slips away.

But it doesn’t leave you. Instead, you leave it–because performing at your best only takes place when you are in the present. As a child, accessing the present was easy for you to do. But as you grew and became increasingly dependent upon words, there was more and more to distract your mind, including thoughts of the past and worries about the future.

For example, while busy working with your horse, perhaps you’ve experienced having an internal conversation start up in your mind.

When you become aware of such mental chatter, understand it for what it really is–an attempt by your verbal left brain to interfere with your natural learning process. Although your word-oriented left brain would rather you remained convinced otherwise, you are not dependent upon it for learning new skills.

In fact, because that part of your mind tends to pull you away to fret about mistakes of the past and worry about the what ifs of the future, your verbal left brain is really in the way.

Your horse needs you to remain in the present. It’s the only way you can be fully aware of and responsive to his moment to moment needs. Therefore, whenever you hear chatter going on in your mind, shine the spotlight of your attention on the words you hear. By exposing them for the distraction they are, you melt away their importance and free yourself to return to the present–unburdened by thoughts of the past or worries about the future.

Over the years, I’ve noticed that whenever I can get horsemanship students to quiet their minds and move away from their dependence upon words, they need little or no instruction. Instead, they are focused and participate fully in the present.

They practice an intense, yet relaxed, form of concentration. They are poised, confident, and trust themselves to explore, experiment, and make adjustments. They are keenly aware of the horse and the situation. They choose a path to pursue, using the horse to guide them. They know what to do without thinking–their actions come right out of the inside of the horse and right out of the inside of themselves. These students are teaching themselves–not through words, but by doing. I simply stand by and marvel as the process unfolds.

Each of us is hard-wired to do this type of pure, innate wordless learning where our body and mind are in harmony. This ability is there inside, ready for us to tap into–but first we must free ourselves from the words that so often block our way.

As you know, Powerpoint is a software developed by the Microsoft company. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on several operating systems. Powerpoint is used to make slides for presentations, in which you can put multimedia resources, such as text, sound, graphics, video, interactive elements, etc.

* The “slide” analogy is a reference to the slide projector.

Create a presentation:

Here is how to create a new blank presentation. This option is typically used when the person who generates the presentation has experience on it. In fact, Powerpoint has a lot of templates incorporated in the Microsoft Office suite.

1. Create a blank presentation:

To create a blank presentation, follow these steps:

- Displays the “Office Button“.

- Select the “New” option.

- In the “New Presentation” dialog box, click on the “Blank presentation” (select it) and click the “Create Button“.

That’s how you can get a blank presentation. You have a slide and two boxes of text to add a title and a subtitle.

Now we need to give content to the slides or add more slides to make everything that we need for the presentation.

2. Creating a presentation with a template:

To create a presentation with a template, follow these steps:

- Displays the “Office Button“.

- Select the “New” option.

- In the “New Presentation” dialog box, click on the “Installed Templates” category. You will see a dialog box.

- Select the design template that you like. In the right part you will see a preview of the template you have chosen.

- Once you find the template, click the “Create Button“.

Remember that you can always find more Powerpoint templates from the box “New” dialog box:

- The templates that you download will be installed in the templates category.

- You can also find more templates in the Office official website or search the Web.

Remember that you can also find more free Powerpoint templates at the FPPT site.

3. Save a presentation:

Here’s how to save a presentation. It is important that from time to time changes to keep our presentation so that in case of system failure lose the least possible changes.

4. Saving a presentation:

To save a presentation can go to “Office Button” and select “Save“.

If this is the first time you save the presentation, we will see a window with the three directory of the files system. In fact, you can save also through Ctrl+S (Save).

The format of a Powerpoint presentation is the extension ppt, and in the new versions of Microsoft Office, the extension is pptx.

If you want to save a presentation with another name (for example, we want to create a new presentation using a presentation that we already have) will deploy the “Office Button” and select “Save As…“, then the same window of the files system appears. When using this option, we have the final two presentations: the initial one, and the same with the new name.

5. Save a presentation as a Web page:

To save a presentation as a Web page which can be viewed with a browser, click on the “Office Button” and select “Save As...”

Selecting this option will appear the same window as we’ve seen so far. The difference in this case is that now we select the Web page format (HTML) to keep our presentation as a file that can be viewed with a browser.

6. Distribute a Powerpoint presentation:

You can use the Powerpoint Viewer software, that is a program used to run presentations on computers that don’t have Powerpoint installed.

In life, there are some situations that you will be called on to negotiate in order to get what you want / need. However, there will also be situations in which you have the time (and the budget!) to reach out and get outside help.

Getting outside negotiating help can be especially critical if the type of negotiation that you are preparing to start is of a very technical or detailed nature. If you can find someone who has “been there, done that” you can significantly improve the odds of being successful in the negotiations. Now the big question is just how does one go about hiring a negotiator?

The challenge in interviewing someone to do negotiating on your behalf is that negotiation is a very difficult job to do. The reason that negotiating is such a challenge is because it doesn’t just require one or two specific skills, but rather a whole collection of skills that we really don’t find in business.

At a very high level, a good negotiator has the ability to show good business sense while at the same time displaying a deep understanding of how people think and act. It is a rare thing indeed to find both of these qualities in a single individual. Couple that with any special knowledge or experience that you are looking for and choosing the wrong negotiator to represent you can appear to be all too easy.

The following 10 characteristics of a good negotiator are what you should be looking for when you are interviewing possible candidates. It’s going to take some probing on your part to uncover these traits, but it will be worth the effort:

1. Must have the ability to negotiate well with members of YOUR team. If the candidate can’t win the confidence of your team, how can you expect him to succeed in the negotiation with the other side?

2. Must show that he/she has the ability to construct a plan and the commitment to follow it through. The ability to realize that not all information may be available before the negotiation starts and the willingness to check facts and alter plans as new details emerge are also critical.

3. Did I mention the need for sound business sense? The ability to see through the fog of negotiations and identify the issues that will have an impact on your bottom line is key.

4. The ability to deal with both ambiguity (both before and during the negotiations) as well as conflict during the actual negotiations.

5. The willingness to aim high when setting goals for the negotiations.

6. The ability to realize that a negotiation is a process and the patience to wait for the other side to reveal more so that the process can move forward.

7. The ability to personally connect with both your team and the other side. Yes, negotiation is a business process, but the personal touch can make all the difference when it comes to closing the deal.

8. A realization that his / her personal integrity is what matters above all else.

9. The ability to, no matter how heated a discussion gets, listen with an open mind to what the other side is saying.

10. The self-confidence that is needed to see a negotiation through from start to finish.