It’s false you know. . .

A   PICTURE   IS   NOT   WORTH   A   THOUSAND   WORDS. . .

It’s   E N D L E S S.           .           .

Not a Thousand words. . .

not a Hundred-Thousand Words. . .

not a Ba-Zillion Words

or even an Infinity amount of Words.        .        .

Go ahead.        .        .

look at the picture again.      .      .

or have you NOT stopped looking?

I usually dress like this when I do a Presentation entitled:

DID YOU HEAR WHAT I DIDN’T SAY

My question to my audiences is now my question to Y O U:

HAVE      YOU      EVER      FELT      LIKE      I      LOOK ?

Seriously,

L O O K        V E R Y        C L O S E L Y

at that picture of me again.

Is there anything that matches?

I mean LOOK:

Those glasses are literally the glasses I wore in my Senior Year at High School. They were broken during a basketball practice.

That was way before Duck Tape.      .      .

that’s electrical tape,

because of my dad’s school teacher and coach’s salary there was no Eye Plan.     .     .

wore them my whole Senior Year,

graduation included.

Whoa, Cowboy, it doesn’t stop there, does it.

Check out THAT  vest.

My daughter, Zoey refused that I wear it to one of our Father/Daughter dances,

even though it was a Country-Westhern Theme.     .     .

Imagine that!

The shirt certainly is a one of a kind and those pants.       .       .

THOSE   PANTS–

makes   G Q   keeping my phone ringing 24/7 wanting to replicate them and my ensemble.

The hat?

Well come on, I grew up in Pittsburgh. . .

I’ll always be a Pittsburgh Steeler Fan,

even though I’ve lived in Cleveland, OH since 1987. . . .

Again:  H A V E      Y O U      E V E R      F E L T      L I K E      I      L O O K E D ?

Have you ever heard of these statistics:

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IS ONLY 7% VERBAL AND 93% NON-VERBAL (THE NON-VERBAL IS ACTUALLY 55% BODY LANGUAGE AND 38% TONE OF VOICE)

But wait a second.     .     .

maybe you should even take at least a minute or a couple more for this one.      .      .

These stats were actually never based on giving a presentation or a speech,

but information that could be communicated in a

S      I      N      G      L      E             W      O      R      D !

Maybe. . .Maybe Mark Twain was actually right:

“THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF LIES:

LIES,      DAMNED LIES      AND      STATISTICS.”

DID    YOU    HEAR    WHAT    I    DIDN’T    SAY ?

s o m e t i m e s

W H A T ‘ S    N O T    S A I D,    S H O U T S    T H E    L O U D E S T !

L I S T E N

with more than just your eyes,

or you may never HEAR

what needs to be heard

but never quite

S A I D !

L I S T E N. . .

N     O     T        to       r e p l y

but to actually  h e a r

Did you hear what I didn’t say. . . ?