Answer: Watch this inspiring TED video by Earnesto  Sirolli for some ideas:

Want to Help Someone? Shut Up and Listen:

Answer: Watch the inspiring TED video You are Not Your Body by Janine Shepherd:

Pronation serve:

ball toss

Drop shot: part 1

Overhead smash

half volley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPxLGHjCatU

forehand return of serve

two-handed backhand return of serve – video 1

two-handed backhand return of serve – video 2

one-handed topspin backhand return of serve

backhand slice

backhand topspin rhythm

one-handed topspin backhand

footwork of the first volley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5kLW_ucJWs

weight transfer in volley

first move in backhand volley

first move of forehand

forehand non-hitting hand

forehand follow through

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK7RzSQcTgg

mastering the slot in the forehand

how to handle pack-pedalling of forehand

inside in / inside out forehand

Answer:

exuberance = fearlessness + exploratory + curious + playful + wanting to sing and dance and laugh and smile + feeling goodwill towards others + feeling close to others + optimistic + enthusiastic + feeling a passion  for life + creativity + having high energy + having high mood + having a heightened sense of being alive.

Children are often exuberant. Why aren’t we adults  often exuberant?

How to punt for time before committing to a request:

“Punting” is a useful tactful way to ask for time before committing. The person making the request obviously is keen for us to say yes on the spot and we don’t want to disappoint them, but we also don’t want to rush in and say yes to things we don’t want to do or have no time to do. Tell the person you need to think about their request and that you’ll get back to them.  In the meantime, you can figure out what you want to do. If you don’t want to do the  task, you have time to practice saying no.

Your immediate “punting for time” response:

“I’m really flattered that you thought of me. Let me check my schedule and see if it will be possible. I’ll call you back in a day or two.”

Your final response, a day or so later, after you’ve thought it through carefully:

“I really appreciate being asked but I find that my schedule is over-committed right now. But please  consider me again in the future.”

(from David Burns’ The Feeling Good Handbook, p 434)

Cosmos – Carl Sagan – 4th Dimension

1. The body scan: systematically scan your body for points of tension while meditating (as discussed in Daniel Siegel’s Mindsight book)
2. The value scan: assess the positive and negative values of an idea, using the 6 value medals de bono describes in his book –gold for human values; silver for organizational values; steel for quality values; glass for creativity and  simplicity values, wood for environmental and other people affected values and brass for other people’s perceptions values.
3. The 7 rocks audit: (Stephen Covey’s idea)
4. The 6 thinking hats: de Bono’s technique for breaking down how we think about a problem, either on our own or in a meeting with others.
5. The mind sweep –  David Allen of Getting Things Done demonstrates this technique for getting stuff out of our minds and down on paper in this podcast:Guided Mind Sweep
6. Eastern Mindfulness
7. Ellen Langer Mindfulness
8. procedure checklists as described by Atul Gawande
9. What went well — an end-of-day review of good things as described by Martin Seligman and other Positive Psychology folk
10. How am I feeling right now? – a regular check-in (using random signal generator?)of my primary emotions, as described by Daniel Siegel in his book Mindsight
11. Random signal generator that directs us to check on what I’m doing, thinking or feeling right now.
12. Being fully present while someone is talking to me– I direct my attention to what that person is saying, the possible motivation behind teh words, the feelings behind the words, etc.
13. What’s the next action? another GTD idea for working out what I need to do next.
14. Important check-in questions to ask myself e.g. Is this the best way to spend my time right now? What is the right thing to do here?
15. Mindful eating. Savoring the taste.
16. Re-visiting good memories–either in my mind or telling others. This way I extract extra value from the good things that happen.
17. Deliberate practice.  Identifying skills I want to strengthen and making myself practice them over and over.
18. Recalling what I’ve just learned. Trying hard to dredge up everything I’ve just learned about something is cognitively hard and unpleasant, but well worth the effort.
19. OPV focus. Forcing myself to try to see another point of view other than my default setting’s point of view is very difficult but again, well worth the effort.
20. Other person focus–directing more of my attention to the other person in conversations.
21. Tuning into my micro-emotions. Regularly checking in to how I’m feeling “right now”.

Answer:  Watch this video for some ideas: