Matthew Cossolotto, Creator of PEPTalks and Make A Promise Day (May 4th — May The Fourth Be With You!), Unveils New PEPTalk Titled “What The ‘H’ Happened?”
Stop The Snap! Expanding lineup of PEPTalks, Cossolotto’s new Personal Empowerment Program is designed for delivery toward the end of a conference or training seminar to help attendees guard against backsliding into old, disempowering habits and mindsets.
Apr 07, 2011 – Matthew Cossolotto (aka The Podium Pro) is expanding his lineup of Personal Empowerment Programs (“PEPTalks”) with a new presentation specifically designed for delivery toward the end of a motivational conference or training seminar. He calls this new PEPTalk “What The ‘H’ Happened? – Harness Your HabitForce, Avoid Backsliding, and Snap the Rubber Band Syndrome.”
“Here’s the post-conference scenario that my ‘What-The-H’ presentation is designed to prevent,” Cossolotto explained. “I ask the audience to project a couple of weeks into the future. It was a great conference. Individual attendees or the sponsoring organization spent lots of money and invested precious time and energy. People were all fired up, motivated, inspired, ready to implement those empowering new ideas or techniques they learned about. But a few weeks later, most participants feel like Al Pacino in Godfather III. You know … just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. ‘They’ refers to your old habits. That’s also the ‘H’ in the title… what I call HabitForce. Far too often, after we attend a motivational seminar or even read an inspiring book, we snap back into our old, familiar, comfort zone of habits and mindsets. In short, you go back to being who you were BEFORE the seminar. This presentation provides the tools people need to guard against snapping back into old, disempowering patterns. Put simply: I want to Stop The Snap!”
Snap The Rubber Band Syndrome: If this backsliding scenario sounds familiar, Cossolotto says you’re not alone. We’ve all been there, done that. Despite the best of intentions, most of us tend to snap back to our familiar patterns of thought and behavior. Cossolotto calls this “The Rubber Band Syndrome.” During a seminar — or even while reading a self-help book – we stretch the rubber band a little bit. But after the conference is over, the band tends to snap back to its original, tension-free shape. Think of this slack state as the rubber band’s Comfort Zone.
As Cossolotto explains: “Your personal Comfort Zone is the sum total of your routine habits and mindsets. I call this HabitForce and I wrote a book about it. If you attend a seminar then slide backwards… if you’re feeling stuck… if you set goals and fail to reach them… if you’re falling short of your potential… if you feel like some irresistible, negative force is holding you back … don’t give up. Help is on the way. I know exactly what the “H” is happening. Your personal operating system has a glitch. You need to reprogram your HabitForce software so it works for you, not against you. And that’s what my ‘What-The-H’ presentation is all about.”
In this empowering, end-of-conference presentation, participants will learn how to:
• Use the Three Rs — Recognize, Reject and Replace — to reprogram your HabitForce;
• Employ the Six Axioms of Personal Empowerment to achieve your goals, keep your promises, and reach your potential
• Replace disempowering FAILURE habits with their SUCCESS counterparts
• Reject finger-pointing and take responsibility for your life
• Stop undermining yourself with negative self-talk
• Use positive affirmations and promises to reinforce SUCCESS habits
• Harness the Ebenezer Effect and the Power of Making a Promise.
Earlier this year, Cossolotto announced the launch of a new lineup of Personal Empowerment Programs (PEPTalks). He is now offering these uplifting and empowering presentations to various audiences locally and around the country including corporations, colleges, nonprofits, and government agencies. To book Cossolotto as a guest speaker for your next event, visit http://www.ThePodiumPro.com or email BookMatthew@ThePodiumPro.com.
In addition to “What The ‘H’ Happened?” Cossolotto’s series of PEPTalks includes:
• The Power of Making a Promise: Make A Promise. Keep Your Word. Change Your Life. Transform The World.
• The Joy of Speaking: Turn Stage Fright Into Stage Delight and Speak Your Way to the Peak.
• Success Is An Inside Job: Avoid FAILURE Traps, Get on the SUCCESS Track, and Reach Your Peak Personal Potential.
Cossolotto’s multifaceted communications career includes working for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and senior-level speechwriting and executive communications positions at GTE (now Verizon), and Pepsi-Cola International, and MCI. Since 1996, Cossolotto has been providing clients with a range of executive communications and media relations services, including speechwriting, speech coaching, and PodiumPower! workshops. On May 4th 2010, he launched the first annual “Make A Promise Day.” Visit http://www.MakeAPromiseDay.com.
Cossolotto is working on a new book about The Power of Making a Promise, featuring a foreword by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. In his foreword to Cossolotto’s forthcoming book Canfield writes: “Contributing the foreword to this book and being associated with Matthew’s inspiring ‘Make-A-Promise’ project is totally aligned with my life’s purpose.”
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About Matthew Cossolotto. Matthew Cossolotto (aka “The Podium Pro”) is an author, guest speaker, CEO-level speechwriter, and speech coach. A former aide to House Speaker Jim Wright and Congressman Leon Panetta, Matthew is the author of HabitForce! and All The World’s A Podium. Matthew brings his Personal Empowerment Programs — “PEPTalks”– to colleges, associations, and corporations. Follow Matthew and “Make A Promise Day” on Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/MakeAPromiseDay. “Make A Promise Day” greeting cards and other exciting gift items are available for convenient online purchase by visiting Matthew’s Zazzle store: www.Zazzle.com/TheCoz.
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Make A Promise. Keep Your Word. Change Your Life. Transform The World.
Here I am with my mother, Virginia Hope Butler, in Paris a few months before her cancer diagnosis and about a year before I made a promise to her on her deathbed that I would finish writing a book we had been discussing and dedicate it to her memory. Details below.
Welcome to the “Make A Promise Day” blog. Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Be sure to check out the main “Make A Promise Day” website — www.MakeAPromiseDay.com. You should also check out my main website: www.ThePodiumPro.com. Also, we’ve created some cool “Make A Promise Day” gift items — coffee mugs, t-shirts, poster, greeting cards. More gifts to come! Visit our online Zazzle store: www.zazzle.com/thecoz.
What’s “Make A Promise Day” all about? It’s the only “holiday” specifically dedicated to personal empowerment, integrity enhancement, and goal achievement. This blog and the main website are dedicated to spreading the power of making a promise to millions of people as a way to jumpstart their personal change journey.
Many people are frustrated with gridlock and broken promises in Washington and on Wall Street. In our personal lives we have trouble reaching goals and keeping commitments. We see high-profile leaders, sports figures, and would-be role models embroiled in various scandals. It’s time to increase the level of integrity in society – one person and one promise at a time. That’s one reason I launched the first annual ‘Make A Promise Day’ on May 4, 2010.
One goal is to popularize the idea that we should turn important goals into heartfelt promises. Making a promise to someone you care about unleashes an irresistible force that will help you do follow through. Unlike normal goals or objectives or resolutions, with a promise your integrity is on the line and you’re much more accountable. You have some real skin in the game. As John Assaraf said in an interview for my forthcoming book, “We are neurologically wired to keep our promises.”
Who am I and why am I going on like this about the power of making a promise to someone you care about? Well … in the photo above you see me sitting in a famous sidewalk cafe in Paris with my mother, Virginia Hope Butler. Just a few months after this trip — her first and only trip to Paris — mom was diagnosed with cancer. Within a year of this photo she had passed away.
But not before I made a fateful promise to her. Just a few weeks before she died I promised her that I would finish writing a book she and I had been discussing for some time and that I would dedicate it to her memory. Her face lit up and she said: “You do that, Matthew. You do that.” I knew when I made the promise that failure was not an option, that I had crossed the proverbial Rubicon, there was no turning back or making excuses any more. I HAD TO FINISH THIS BOOK AND DEDICATE IT TO MY MOTHER’S MEMORY! What had been simply an idea or a vague goal had miraculously morphed into a magnificent mission.
I’m proud to say I kept that promise. The resulting book is HabitForce! — “The User’s Guide for Your Personal Operating System.” Signed copies of HabitForce! are available visiting my main website: www.ThePodiumPro.com.
The dedication to my mother in my book HabitForce! reads as follows:
In loving memory of my mother, Virginia Hope (Ludascher) Butler
I did it, Mom! Finally. I can honestly say that this book would never have been completed had I not made that promise to you at home in Gasquet, California, a few weeks before you passed away. This vividly demonstrates the power of making a promise, especially to your mother!
In the spirit of that dedication, I’m on a magnificent mission to spread the power of making a promise to millions of people around the world. I launched the first-annual “Make A Promise Day” on May 4, 2010, the only “holiday” that celebrates personal empowerment, goal achievement, and integrity enhancement. I often say a promise is like a goal on steroids and I encourage people to turn important goals (and New Year’s Resolutions) into heartfelt promises. I sum up my message in four simple, mantra-like sentences: Make a promise. Keep your word. Change your life. Transform the world.
Foreword To My Book By Jack Canfield: I’m writing a book about the power of making a promise with a foreword by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. The working title is: The Power of Making a Promise. Here’s just a sampling of what Jack Canfield writes in his uplifting and very generous foreword:
When Matthew first told me about the heartfelt promise he made to his mother and that he was launching a special day called “Make A Promise Day” on May 4th, I was hooked. You could say he had me at “I promise.”
There was something very attractive, almost magnetic, about this concept. And I say that as somebody who has been intimately involved in the personal development field for many years. I’ve seen and heard just about everything …
With a promise your heart and emotions are fully engaged. Because of this, a promise is what I call a personal empowerment ‘twofer.’ It combines The Power of Intention with The Law of Attraction. And that is a very powerful combination indeed …
Contributing the foreword to this book and being associated with Matthew’s inspiring “Make-A-Promise” project is totally aligned with my life’s purpose. I applaud Matthew for collecting and celebrating these uplifting stories about promises made and promises kept.
I experienced firsthand the power of making a promise to someone you care about. And now, by launching the first annual “Make A Promise Day” on May 4th and by speaking and writing about The Power of Making a Promise, I am sharing this personal empowerment “secret weapon” with others. In the process, I hope to elevate the level of integrity, accountability, and personal responsibility in society generally. How? It’s a pretty simple formula really. Promises made and promises kept.
Thanks again for visiting and subscribing to this “Make A Promise Day” blog. I’ll keep you updated on developments. Please follow me on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/MakeAPromiseDay. Please submit a true personal story you have about a promise made and a promise kept. What promise did you make to somebody else and what impact did that promise have on your life? Keep your story brief and send it to Matthew.Promises@Gmail.com. The idea is to compile compelling stories about the power of making a promise into a series of books to spread this positive message to millions of people.
PEPTalks and a Promise
On Make A Promise Day (May 4, 2011) I made a public promise to donate 10% of my guest speaking fees to Study Abroad Alumni International to foster study abroad opportunities and global awareness and understanding. I offer several Personal Empowerment Programs (PEPTalks) to a variety of audiences including schools and colleges, corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits.
Here are the titles of my top three PEPTalks:
• The Power of Making a Promise: Make A Promise. Keep Your Word. Change Your Life. Transform The World.
• The Joy of Speaking: Turn Stage Fright Into Stage Delight and Speak Your Way to the Peak
• Success Is An Inside Job: Harness Your HabitForce and Reach Your Peak Personal Potential
I look forward to hearing from you … and speaking to your college, nonprofit, or other organization!
Many thanks for your interest and support. May The Fourth Be With You!
To Your Promise!
Matthew Cossolotto
Creator, Make A Promise Day
A Little Bit More About Matthew Cossolotto
Author … Guest Speaker … Speechwriter … Coach … Matthew Cossolotto spent eight years on Capitol Hill working as a speechwriter and special assistant to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Jim Wright and as legislative assistant to Congressman (now CIA Director) Leon Panetta. Matthew’s multifaceted communications career also includes senior-level speechwriting and executive communications positions at MCI Communications, GTE, and Pepsi-Cola International. Since 1996, Matthew has been providing clients with a range of executive communications services, including speechwriting, speech coaching, and Podium Power workshops. In the course of his career, Matthew has developed speeches and/or coached speakers for a variety of prestigious venues, including the Economic Club of Detroit, the National Press Club, Houston Forum, Cleveland City Club, The World Economic Forum, and the UN General Assembly. Author of The Almanac of European Politics, HabitForce!, and All The World’s A Podium, Matthew is working on a new book with a foreword by Jack Canfield about The Power of Making a Promise. Matthew offers his Personal Empowerment Programs — “PEPTalks” — to colleges, associations, nonprofits, and corporations. Visit http://www.ThePodiumPro.com.
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