My music industry students at USC used to beg me not to use PowerPoint which I define as the only thing that can put a student with two lattes in them right to sleep.

I always heeded their advice instead putting my notes online to those who actually attended each class.

I have toyed with PowerPoint at my media conferences and have concluded, they hate them too.

But I promised you the PowerPoint presentation that will change your life.

And it is the one I make vividly in my own mind many times a day when I review “slides” of things I want to do and want to accomplish.

• Why am I working today? I slap a slide up in my peripheral vision that has no words only a picture of say – a vacation in Vermont’s mountains. Warning: a dollar sign will not motivate you no matter how badly you need money.

• Who do I want to be? My father was one of the most honest people I have ever met. A straight arrow. Guess what flashing a picture of my dad in his military uniform in the memory of my mind does to me?

• What’s my biggest gift? No, not to crow about it but to use it. So if you are good with people, why not use that gift, for example, to help them break the ice?

• What’s my biggest challenge? I have a few personal ones I hope to share with you one day soon but I can tell you now that dissolving to a slide with an image that represents that challenge helps bolster me for it.

• And what do I fear the most? I could probably do 50 slides on this one but just to focus on the one that comes to mind first as I write this – the fear of not being relevant. Once I see the slide, it opens my mind, motivates me to pay a price and directs me to a place where I can attain my goal. The next time, another fear will rise to the surface and I will give it the same treatment.

• Add a few of your own slides here. Try it if you like. Seeing the life you have, the life you fear and yes, the life you want in a daily slideshow of the mind is so powerful I’ll bet you share it with someone you care about.

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