It’s a hot summer night and I’m doing the dishes. During dinner, I spent a few minutes reading through Twitter Power, by Joel Comm. Musing about how to use Twitter and being a little bored with doing dishes, the thought crossed my mind that it would be fun to collect one-liners or short snippets of conversation from movies by posting this question on Twitter. I like to use movie one-liners and quotes in articles, teleclasses and speeches to liven up my content. Here are a few of my favorite one-liners and I’d love for you to post yours by commenting on this post. I’ll also post the question on Twitter and then upload one-liners and quips here.
Favorites from Jerry Maguire:
- "If this [pointing to his heart] is empty, this [pointing to his head] doesn’t matter." – Dicky Fox, Jerry Maguire’s mentor
- “You had me at hello.” Dorothy
- “Help me help you.” Jerry
Others:
“You are the only authority on what is not possible for you.” Vince Freeman, Gattaca
“Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Yoda, Star Wars Character
Post your favorite movie one-liners by commenting on this post – clean, preferably funny or inspirational.
Meanwhile, enjoy your summer and get out there and have some fun.
Kathy Garland offers programs that awaken the soul of women leaders to enhance their wealth, balance and freedom, www.kathygarland.com.
Recently, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Dr. Minette Riordan, radio host and publisher of North Texas Kids. We talked about raising young women to be fearless leaders. You can listen to the podcast at http://northtexaskids.podbean.com/ by scrolling down to find Show #13 on June 3.
As grown women, we have a responsibility to our younger counterparts, whether they be our daughters, nieces, Scouts or young women in our workplace or neighborhood.
Any time I talk to a client who works with women or coaches women, they confide in me that having confidence is still a problem for women. Having confidence is a key to being fearless. Being fearless comes from knowing who you are and being certain where you are going.
Why is it important to be fearless? Being fearless means that we offer our best, we don’t hold back, we say what we need and don’t over-think what we know is right to do. By being fearless, we impact not only our own sense of being, but also our self-reliance and confidence as well as the results we create.
How do we raise our daughters and mentor other young women to be fearless? I talked to my daughter, Jenny, who is 29 and asked her what she learned growing up. She said that since I exhibited confidence, she learned from that. She also said that we let her explore her own interests. That’s important for a young person growing up to be able to develop her own interests even if it is something you don’t know about. She wanted to join the swim team and it was a pivotal experience for her. Not something I had done in school or could help her with, but encouraged her all the way. She eventually became one of the co-captains of the team.
Two of the best ways to mentor young women to be confident and fearless are to step into that confident space for yourself and encourage them to explore their own interests and contribute their ideas.
Doing those two things will go a long way toward raising young women to be fearless and stepping into their true potential.
Kathy Garland offers programs that awaken the soul of women leaders to enhance their wealth, balance and freedom, www.kathygarland.com.



