Know your material. There is no substitute for being well prepared and in command of the subject matter of your speech. Pick a topic that interests you. Tell stories, use humor where appropriate and speak in a conversational tone.
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Practice your presentation. Try speaking before a mirror to check your body language, gestures and facial expressions. Keep rehearsing aloud until you sound and look natural and relaxed. Time your address so you know how long it runs and can adjust to your material to fit the allotted time.
• Step 3
Work the room and know your audience before your presentation. Greet people you know, and introduce yourself to a few you don’t know. It’s easier to speak to a room full of friends and acquaintances than to strangers.
• Step 4
Visualize your audience clapping and smiling approvingly. Imagine yourself speaking in a strong, clear, confident manner. This boosts your confidence before you begin speaking.
• Step 5
Try to relax when you step up to deliver your speech. Pause, smile at your audience and take a deep breath before you begin speaking. It may help to count to three silently before beginning. Greet your audience before plunging into your material and remember to slow down and avoid rushing through the speech.
• Step 6
Realize that people want you to succeed. The audience wants to hear a good talk, and they want to be informed and entertained. Most of them believe you have something worthwhile to say or you wouldn’t be talking to them.
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Don’t apologize for being nervous. They probably won’t even notice it if you don’t call attention to it.
So open mic at Chesterfields was wonderful. I haven’t had fun like that in a long while. I used to be an entertainer, and it was so refreshing being a clown for awhile and not having to worry about delivering a message.
I get an endorphin rush whenever I get a chance to entertain in front of a live audience. It is so good for my immune system for me to just break loose and have fun for a little while. I felt so energized yesterday, and I am still working on the residue boost it gave me today.
To anyone interested in a little comic relief. I am doing an open mic night 1/31 at Chesterfields in Huntington. It should be a good time for all and a chance for me to try some new material.
Chesterfields Blues and Jazz Lounge-330 New York Ave,Huntington 631-425-1457
Preparing for this was fun. There is no one way to be funny. Writing my own material for this was a painful process, but I think in the end I’ve got myself a solid set.
It seems that everyone and their sister has a book out today. The disturbing thing to me is the lack of content and professionalism going into the writing of these books. It seems some writers are in such a rush to be seen as someone that matters that it doesn’t matter what is included it just matters that they’re published. As if being published is enough to propel them into the spotlight.
I wish to matter and as such have been taking great pains to make sure my book covers my topic fully. When it hits the presses in April I want it to be seen as the gold standard in presentation and public speaking. I want it to be the model that others are held to.
I’ve read so much on this topic lately to see if anyone has something new for me and all I see is the same points reiterated over and over and other important topics never touched. It is these never touched topics that all professionals know that I am going to highlight. When people are done reading what I’ve written I want them to be able to do what I do and to do it well.
On Tuesday I took a one hour conference call with Annie Jennings: 9 Secrets of Wildly Successful Speakers and was shocked that this PR person said she could book me without a book. She could have me on TV as an expert with just want I knew now. Why? For the same reason I’ve given above, the lack of content and expertise being put forth in book form that it is really no longer necessarily seen as anything special anymore to be published.
I still want to be published. It is a goal I’ve had set for myself all my adult life. Life has away of getting in the way of plans and has laughed at my idea until now. The current economic market has given me a chance to follow my dreams and pursue full heartedly my goal of teaching others self confidence and the art of presenting themselves and their topic to their target audience. In the process I hope I give Annie Jennings something good to read.
I would imagine the stink crazy horses would make is probably very similar to that of osmium tetroxide. The atomic number for osmium is 76 and The Osmonds were huge in the 70’s. And with 47 gold and platinum records The Osmonds are the logical choice for a metal that is added to make record player needles harder.
Donny on that keyboard slide combo thingy I believe he may have invented, Jay singing lead and taking a break from the drums, Merrill singing and playing the bass, Alan and Wayne playing guitar. Merrill sings his absolute heart out on this, and Wayne just wails away on that guitar. One of my all time favorite rock songs. Makes me wish The Osmonds would have rocked out like this more often.
Osmium is primarily recovered during the processing of platinum and nickel ores. Osmium tetroxide smells bad and is very poisonous. Osmium is primarily used to make very hard alloys. Osmium alloys can be found in ball point pen tips, fountain pen tips, record player needles, electrical contacts and other devices where frictional wear must be minimized.
