Think journaling is old fashioned? Think again. Are you having a hard time getting started on your article writing? Combine writers block with journaling to spark your article writing frenzy. Journaling is a powerful tool for brainstorming ideas, keeping your writing skills sharp, and for storing ideas and notes for future article pieces. “Keeping a…
Most of us have trained at one part in our lives. Chances are if you’ve ever taken your training seriously you’ve used a training journal or a training log. The main difference between training journals and training logs, is what you document in them after each workout or day, etc. Training journals are just that….
When considering the benefits of journal writing, it is important to set a few parameters. First, there is no age limit to using journals. There are distinct benefits for children of all ages, but journal writing is equally valuable to adults. The reason for this is journal writing is an act of personal reflection. Whether…
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…
By Sims Wyeth Sims Wyeth is a speech and presentation coach. He writes speeches, works with executives on their content and delivery, runs presentation-skills workshops, and gives speeches about speaking. His most recent… Full bio @simswyeth President, Sims Wyeth & Co.@simswyeth In my mind, there are two kinds of attention: neck down, and neck up. Neck-up attention…
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…
Our English has changed with the years so that many words now connote more than they did originally. This is true of the word monotonous. From “having but one tone,” it has come to mean more broadly, “lack of variation.” The monotonous speaker not only drones along in the same volume and pitch of tone…
Presentation Skills: A New Puppy Can Learn an Old Trick by Darren LaCroix, CSP Do you look for presentation tips everywhere you can? There are lessons all around you if you look. With my passion for teaching presentation skills, sometimes it is hard to turn that part of my brain off. My friend’s stepdaughter was…
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…
When asked, the majority of people would claim that their greatest fear is getting up in front of a crowd and giving a speech. People in business often don’t know how to address a group of people who are wanting to learn more about their product or service. So why are we so afraid of…