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Travel Tips From A Professional Speaker


I am a professional speaker and have been traveling every week for over 30 years. Here are some of my favorite Travel Tips: 

I use potato chip bag clips to clip curtains, (They are much better than clothes pins) I also carry duct tape to tape the right and left edges of the curtains to the walls. I also use it to go over the clock and other little white lights that seem to be on the light switches, floor plugs, lamps and all over hotel rooms these days. I hate them.

I carry a hot pink velour tract suit jacket to keep warm and to put over the bed side lamp, to keep the horrible blue light bulb light from keeping me awake and to give my hotel room a nice, soft pink glow. It's lovely. I also carry the red piece of plastic from Wal Mart to tape over other blue lights.


Even though I ask that my hotel room bill NOT be put under my door as it wakes me up!!! Hotels still do it. So I tape a note on the outside bottom of the door of my hotel room. With a drawing of the bill under the door with a circle and a cross through it. By the way, they still untape the sign sometimes and ram the bill through!!!

Sometimes the hotel room air is very, very dry and hard on my voice as I am a professional speaker.  There are too many germs in the shower to run the shower steam and that wastes water, so I take a wash cloth and soak it in hot water and breathe that steam and hot water in and sometimes lay it on my face and lay down for a moment, so it's also calming.

I work out when I travel and if I strain anything I either use the dry cleaning bag and fill it with ice to wrap say a strained knee or my shower cap! The ice bucket liner, the dry cleaning bag in the closet or my shower cap can also be used to pack a wet bathing suit or spilled make up or shampoo.

Because I have hacked the ice bag trick so many times I also pack a few gallon zip lock freezer bags. Freezer bags or the ice bucket lining can be used to go over the channel changer so you don’t have to touch that germy device. I don’t typically watch TV when I travel, but sometimes I need to comment on the body language of some public figure so I have it ready.

I carry a pumice stone it can take off magic marker and other stains from your hands if you are very gentle in a pinch so can a cardboard nail file.

I have a little photo of me with my family taped to a bent piece of cardboard that I put on my bedside table in the hotel room. It's wonderfully comforting.

I ask the bellman to unplug the mini fridge for me as the sound drives me crazy, but I have figured out how to get behind almost any cabinet to unplug it myself.

I take the sheet from the second bed or get a sheet from house keeping to lay on top of the bedspread as the bedspread may be "germy" and I want to be able to pull it up and use it.


Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.
     

Character Assassination And Smear Campaigns, What Is Character Assassination? How Character Assassination Is Being Used Against The Parkland

The NRA is powerful. We know that it is being funded in part by gun and military weaponry manufacturers.
Far be it for the NRA to have any sense of moral decency the children from the Parkland School Shooting were victims of a terrible tragedy. They took off the mask of the NRA and the NRA chose to attempt to assassinate the character of children so they wouldn't be able to criticize them. 
and evil way to destroy someone who sees you for who you really are, who want to unmask you and show the truth is to attempt to destroy their character through vicious lies.

It works. In persuasion theory the first message sticks, any defense to clear your name is difficult if someone heard something bad about you and accepted it any information including the fact that the lie they believed was a lie will be difficult to "Unthink" as it caused cognitive dissonance, You have to admit not only that the information was false, but that you believed it and that might make you look stupid or foolish or gullible and your brain fights against that, often by holding on and defending the lie!!

And if the lie is perpetrated by a member of your tribe, be it religious tribe, political tribe or friendship tribe the resistance is stronger, as you might fear that changing your mind and believing the truth would get you kicked out of the tribe, or simply that you would have to believe something bad about a fellow tribesman. The fear of being abandoned  by your tribe is strong so people tend to stick

Wikipedia says that Character assassination is a deliberate and sustained process that destroys the credibility and reputation of a person, institution, organization, social group, or nation.[1] Agents of character assassinations employ a mix of open and covert methods to achieve their goals, such as raising false accusations, planting and fostering rumors, and manipulating information.
Character assassination is an attempt to tarnish a person's reputation. It may involve exaggeration, misleading half-truths, or manipulation of facts to present an untrue picture of the targeted person. It is a form of defamation and can be a form of ad hominem argument.
For living individuals targeted by character assassination attempts, this may result in being rejected by their communityfamily, or members of their living or work environment. Such acts are often difficult to reverse or rectify, and the process is likened to a literal assassination of a human life. The damage sustained can last a lifetime or, for historical figures, for many centuries after their death.
“To assassinate someone means to kill, to take life in an underhanded way. To assassinate someone’s character means to kill or damage their character by any means possible.







Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.
     

Kourtney Kardashian & Scott Disick’s Body Language Through The Years Shows Huge Changes



https://www.elitedaily.com/p/kourtney-kardashian-scott-disicks-body-language-through-the-years-shows-huge-changes-8511247


     

GIGI And Zayne...Couple Body Language




A different interview I did on GIGI and Zayne. As I said in another post the Journalist didn’t tell me they knew the couple was breaking up when I did the body language read.

https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/amp19423502/gigi-hadid-zayn-malik-relationship-body-language/

Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.
     

zayn-malik-gigi-hadids-body-language-Zayne and Malik Gi Gi Body Langauge, Couple Body Language



This was exactly interesting read because none the journalist I worked with said they had Intel the couple was breaking up so I was just doing a “cold reading” of the photos

https://www.elitedaily.com/p/zayn-malik-gigi-hadids-body-language-indicates-they-may-have-been-headed-for-a-breakup-8492589

Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.