Effective Public Speaking Tips

If you are anything like me, you’ve read dozens of books and listened to countless programs on public speaking.  One common thread that I tend to find in all the info out there on public speaking, is that “research shows that PUBLIC SPEAKING IS THE #1 FEAR OF MOST PEOPLE.”

Now let me ask you a question: if I (or heck, anyone) held a gun to your head and and said “You’ll need to give a public speech in three months on a topic of your passion or a topic that you know really well.”  What would you say?  My halucination is that you’d NOT say “Go ahead, pull the trigger,” but rather accept the challenge and do that speech.

I underlined the above because that’s what ussually happens: 1) you have plenty of time to prepare; and 2) you can usually speak on a topic that you are either passionat about or one that you know really well.  And when you present such topics, only one thing can happen: perhaps start out with some butterflies in your stomach, but as you go on with your presentation, you get sucked into your topic, you connect with your audience, and all your fear dissapers…

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When I started thinking about becoming a speaker – which by the way was just a wild dream and I knew I could never possibly accomplish it – I used to literally get close to passing out after only a few seconds of speaking.  My knees would shake buy augmentin really, really hard, and felt like butter; I’d have a very strong cramp in my stomach, my heart would beat so hard that you could probably see it through my jaket, I’d feel that in any moment now I’ll pee in my pants (I’m not kidding – in fact, a few times I did do a little mess); and if I’d go on speaking for about 2 or three minutes, my thoat would start getting really “narrow” and in less than a minute I’d choke up and break down and cry.

It’s the 100% truth, and the above does not do justice to how terribly I felt each time I had to speak in public.  The most embarasing was when I had to do my college public speaking speeches.  I had A’s in all my other classes and I wanted an A in public speaking cheap amoxicillin

What happened?

Well, with a combination of education and practice I started getting better and better at it.

Education: I learned that people do not come to see you thinking “G, it’ll probably be a great show: the speaker will probably step on a banana pill, throw up, mess up his/her PowerPoint slides, etc.”  No, that’s not what happens.  buy levitra Most people come to hear you speak for one of four reasons: to get Online Viagra entertained, to get persuaded to do something or not do something, to get educated (or instructin on something), and to inspire.

Once I learned the above “truth”, combined with some easy-to-master public speaking techiques, I slowly slowly became one of the best speakers in my college, and ended up taking all the public speaking classess that they provided, even the advanced ones, including poetry (which I used to dislike strongly).  I just grew to love public speaking so much that I did not want to stop.

And, of course, now I’m a member of Toastmasters International for about 5 years and I really enjoy the opportunities to practice my speaking skills I’m gettign through them; and the improvement I got through them (and boy, did I have room for improvement)…

So, relax!  Public speaking is a skill like any other (actually much simpler than many other skils — it’s much Cialis easier than flying an airplane or fixing a car; and way easier than riding a bull :) )  Just keep practicing… watch other speakers do it… post your questions, concerns, success stories, and horror stories on our chat board (www.PaidSpeaker.TV)… and grow into the speaker you always wanted to be…

Later I might even teach you how to make some money with your public speaking skills.

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