One of the best ways to gain clarity about your life is by journaling your thoughts and feelings. Especially if you’re feeling conflicted or confused about certain situations, writing your thoughts out can be incredibly enlightening! You don’t have to be a “writer” to journal effectively. In fact, your writing skills don’t have to be…
Could a journal actually lead one to health and well-being? This is a question I’ve given lots of thought to. As it turns out, I’m not the only one. Upon further research, there’s been a considerable amount of press given to the idea that your journal could be a path to health and wellness. In…
Writing a journal is a good tool for writing your speeches. As you write down the minutiae of the day, you may come across an event that will spark your creativity for a speech. For instance, perhaps someone spilled the milk and the cat licked it up, or perhaps one of the kids lapped it…
PAUSE AND POWER The true business of the literary artist is to plait or weave his meaning, involving it around itself; so that each sentence, by successive phrases, shall first come into a kind of knot, and then, after a moment of suspended meaning, solve and clear itself. —George Saintsbury, on English Prose Style, in…
Change of Tempo Produces Emphasis Any big change of tempo is emphatic and will catch the attention. You may scarcely be conscious that a passenger train is moving when it is flying over the rails at ninety miles an hour, but if it slows down very suddenly to a ten-mile gait your attention will be…
Here are the top 5 strategies you can use to make sure every presentation is a showstopper. 1. Realize 90% of Nervousness Doesn’t Even Show The audience usually can’t see the telltale symptoms of nervousness. The butterflies, the shaky hands or the sweaty palms. The key is for you to not focus on them either. You…
Do you have just 2 minutes? That’s all the time it takes to read the following article. But if you’re really short on time, just read the first paragraph. It summarizes the whole text. Enjoy! Free article no. 134 DEALING WITH SELF-INDUCED STRESS by J.A. Gamache Third place Champion at the 2001 Toastmasters International World Championship…
Use your breath flow to support your voice – Breathe properly, with the assistance of the entire trunk of your body. – Beware of your posture: don’t slouch when sitting/standing so that your air passages are aligned/not compressed and allow for free passage of breath. – Keep your upper chest, shoulders, neck and throat relaxed…
Fifty Basic Quick Tips for Speakers Do both you and your audience dread every time you make a speech? Are speeches an awful chore that you avoid like a plague? Do your speeches evoke yawns rather than enthusiasm? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be in trouble. What is the…
First, if you are looking for a persuasive speech topic, you must know that the more controversial the speech topics, are the more response you will get from your audiences. The topic sentence has to be short, declarative sentence that states the central idea of your speech. Your persuasion speech topics should zero in on…