Speech Smarts

Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.

Pride works for you when you work for the respect of others.

Interdependence is of greater value than independence.

A logical argument is not always the most logical thing to use.

May the gift of your accent become a fixed feature in the heart of your audience.

Craft your messages like sunlight, warm and bright.

When your presentation ends, with your audience looking up to you and thunderous applause echoes in your ears, you have successfully found the silver lining and the way through the storm.

The experience of kindness is one of the supreme social pleasures.

Wealth is the accumulated display of your values. It is what you have at the end of the day that you can choose to share, save or squander.

Charity offered as a hand up instead of a hand out transforms pity into dignity.

Greed is the insatiable desire to have more than you need. The sin in greed is seeing everything and everyone as something to possess.

Have you ever told a lie? Never. Oh, really?

Learning how to create civility by respecting rights and expressing duties is essential for every civic minded citizen who wants to exercise their first amendment right effectively.

Sooner or later you are going to stick your foot in your mouth. Something is going to slip out you wish you had stayed in.

To be outstanding in your field, it is best to grow your own gifts. You may never know who will benefit from the seeds you sow.

Elocution is a big word which seems to betray its meaning: the art of speaking clearly and well, with correct enunciation.

How many times have you heard that we fear speaking in public more than death?

What you feed your audience, how you exercise their attention, and how often you let them rest determine the health ...

Draw out your audience with emotion, purpose and knowledge and they will remember the lessons and they will remember you.

Lose the “ado's” and other clichés so when you lead the applause, the speaker can step up, not stumble over your introduction.

Anger is an emotional epic, an inextricable part of you and everyone you know. Its expression and influence are powerful and seductive, and often overwhelming. The Achilles heel of anger is your ability to choose how, if at all, to present it.

Whoever denies that he possesses vanity, generally, possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes in its presence, so as not to have to look down upon himself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Love and hate are more like kissing cousins than distant relatives. Indifference, just not caring at all, is the opposite of love. When you speak ‘indifference' should be your greatest concern.

Why does public speaking inspire so much fear? Your answer depends on what flavor of fear you prefer.

When you commit to the future, resolve what not to do and congruently blend the present and the past, you can create resolutions worth seeing and realizing.

The voice of your best self maybe subtle and easy to ignore but it is never mistaken.

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected

Motivation is like bathing it is best to do it daily.