Imagine for a moment that you're standing in front of me right now and we are just talking to each other. When I said, we are ‘talking’ to each...
Month: July 2020
Love Them Before It’s Too Late
Encourage Storytelling “Praveen stop making stories”, my mom always used to say this to me, but at public speaking Academy, we encourage students to...
Psychology of Helping Others
Imagine for a moment that you are driving a car and then you see someone standing on the road, waving a hand for a lift, will you stop. I think I...
Public Speaking Is Not A Born Talent, Here Is Why
Are You A Born Speaker? This especially for those people who strongly believe that your ability to speak in front of people is either a blend of...
To Smoke Or Not To Smoke?
Oh, you don't become a smoker when you smoke for the first time. Because the first time you just take one cigarette from your friends, one or two...
What I Learned When I Had A Fight With My Wife
There are so many incidents in my life and I'm learning a lot. And as a storyteller, whenever I learn something, it's my responsibility to take this...
What Makes Us Happy And Healthy?
What can keep you happy and healthy when you go through your life? If you have to invest now in your future best, where you will put your time...
What To Do When You Don’t Know The Answer?
If I asked you a question and if you don't know the answer, will you still try to answer? Or will you say I don't know? What Do You Do? Now, I...
How To Increase Your Daily Work Productivity?
I always think, how can I increase my productivity? Daily Productivity Now, when I'm talking about productivity, I'm talking about daily...
How Not to End a Presentation
Traditional Ways of Ending Presentations “How much time I have?” “Is my time over?” “I think I'm running out of time.” How many times have you...
Happiness Is A Choice, Let’s Choose It
Tragedy Struck Friends, There's a girl at my office. Her name is S*** and she's just 30 years old. And three months ago she lost her husband,...
Formula For Guaranteed Success
90% of People Living An Average Life Do you know why many, many people are not achieving their goals in their life outside because they are living...
Do You Have An Attitude To Learn?
This happened just a few weeks ago. After two to three months, my parents had visited my home. They stay in Nashik. I'm in Mumbai and they came...
Do We Blame Others When We Fail? How To Manage Failure?
They say, those people who are exceptional, they are lucky. They are just lucky. They are just one in a billion. We are normal people. You are...
Discovery I Made About Myself While Trekking In The Himalayas
I remember while I was trekking in Sikkim, Himalayas, Asia’s 3rd toughest track, there's a place there at 16,500 feet. And to reach there, you have...
Defining Praveen Wadalkar
If I had to define myself in one line, I'll use the quote from Dhananjay Hitarachi, who is from Sri Lanka. I follow him, he is a world champion of...
Decode The Fear Of Public Speaking
In the next few minutes you are going to decode the fear of public speaking and when you do that, you become a little more calm, composed and...
Attitude Is Everything
PS: This is an old video but still relevant for the topic Lesson I'd Like To Share Hey guys, we're on the way to my base camp. From 14,600 we're now...
Are You Scared Of Public Speaking
Going To An Exam Without Preparation Many times, people say that going in front of the public or doing public speaking is just like going for an...
How To Stay Happy By Climbing The Inner Mountains (of Life)?
Outside Mountains Vs Inside Mountains Well, sometimes in your life, you don't have to go on mountains to climb the mountain. I'm actually a...
Why It’s Important To Know Your Weakness To Achieve Your Goals?
Strength or Weakness? Can I ask you a question? If you want to achieve your goal; what is more important to know, your strengths or your weaknesses?...
When You Fail In School, Remember This
PS: This is an old write-up but still relevant in today's time. Passed? Congratulations! Now results of board exams got revealed recently and we are...
Should We Take Decisions For Others?
Listen To Your Heart What I strongly believe is well, when it comes to taking some major decisions in our life, when we take decisions that can...
What Is Your Perspective On The Increase In Petrol Prices.
People Are Complaining About Petroleum Prices I need your perspective on this because even your money is involved here. I was just watching the news...
Are People Really So Bad?
Are People Really So Bad? Note: Recorded this video long back on a solo trip. An Event At Public Speaking Academy We used to do a small activity at...