Public Speaking

10 Tips For Successful Public Speaking

Feeling some nervousness before giving a speech is natural and healthy. It shows you care about doing well. But, too much nervousness can be detrimental. Here's how you can control your nervousness and make effective, memorable presentations:

1. Know the room. Be familiar with the place in which you will speak. Arrive early, walk around the speaking area and practice using the microphone and any visual aids.
2. Know the audience. Greet some of the audience as they arrive. It's easier to speak to a group of friends than to a group of strangers.
3. Know your material. If you're not familiar with your material or are uncomfortable with it, your nervousness will increase. Practice your speech and revise it if necessary.
4. Relax. Ease tension by doing exercises.
5. Visualize yourself giving your speech. Imagine yourself speaking, your voice loud, clear, and assured. When you visualize yourself as successful, you will be successful.
6. Realize that people want you to succeed. Audiences want you to be interesting, stimulating, informative, and entertaining. They don't want you to fail.
7. Don't apologize. If you mention your nervousness or apologize for any problems you think you have with your speech, you may be calling the audience's attention to something they hadn't noticed. Keep silent.
8. Concentrate on the message -- not the medium. Focus your attention away from your own anxieties, and outwardly toward your message and your audience. Your nervousness will dissipate.
9. Turn nervousness into positive energy. Harness your nervous energy and transform it into vitality and enthusiasm.

Gain experience. Experience builds confidence.

Friendship Building

Friendship Building

Introduction
The following provides suggestions for building new friendships.

Friendships don't just happen. Although one person may start a friendship, both partners will need to contribute to the building process. You can initiate a friendship by moving toward a prospective friend and starting a conversation. You will probably have very few friends if you wait for them to come to you.

Remember that initial relationships with others are generally a little awkward. Allow yourself some time to feel comfortable with the beginning of a friendship--the initial awkwardness is natural and will lessen as you get to know each other.

Following are some tips to help you get started making new friends.

Involvement
Be where other people are. You can't make friends if you aren't in the situations where there are people. Involvement entails both COMMUNICATION and LISTENING. Share feelings, ideas, opinions and activities, and listen -- listening to both the speaker's words and feelings conveys your interest.

Send Friendly, Non-Shy Signals to Others
It helps both you and them loosen up. Try these suggestions from Dr. Arthur Wasamar, author of Making Contact, a system he calls SOFTEN. Soften breaks down this way.

Smile
It shows you're friendly and would enjoy the other person's company.

Open Your Posture
Uncross your arms and legs; you'll look more relaxed.

Forward
Lean toward the person, or move closer to show you're attentive to what he or she is saying.

Touch
A hand on another person's arm is a welcome gesture (make sure you don't touch too much, however.)

Eye Contact
This shows that you don't want to miss what's being said.

Nod
A nod communicates that you understand what's being said and you're interested in keeping the conversation going.

20 Ways to Improve Your Relationships

For this month's article, I've decided to create a list to help strengthen your relationships. Remember, it's equally important to have a good relationship with yourself. Therefore, many of these suggestions can be done alone as well as with others.

1. Don't engage in petty arguments. Is bickering over things that have no effect on your relationships helpful? Of course not.

2. Play a game. Any kind of game: Board game, sport game, etc. If it helps, don't make it competitive.

3. Watch something you both like on TV. Television builds relationships? Hey, if it's all you're able to do- then yes, it most certainly does.

4. Compliment others. It can be as simple as "I think that's a nice shirt."

5. Accept compliments. You accept compliments by saying "thank you." Then you allow the praise to lift your spirits. This should motivate you to become even better.

6. Listen. Listening develops empathy. It causes you to think 'what is it really like to be such-and-such'. How do you listen? By simply not talking so much.

7. Spend some quality time by yourself. Sometimes healing yourself is the best path to healing others. Don't be afraid to be selfish when spending time with yourself, because that's really the point of it.

8. Tell jokes. Laughter equals healing. We can be very depressed. However, as soon as we hear something funny, we completely forget what was upsetting us.

9. Listen to relaxing music. Music helps clear our cluttered heads. By listening to soothing tunes, we're able to 'sweep out' all those garbled thoughts.

10. Volunteer at a community organization. You have very talented skills that could be useful to many people less fortunate.

11. Do a brief exercise in the morning. Yes, ten minutes of exercise helps. Much more than you probably think. Not hitting the snooze button on your alarm clock will make time for this if you have a busy schedule.

12. Write a journal about you or you and the person you want to build a relationship with. Record daily everything you did and how you felt. Later on, compare what you did with how you felt and see if you can connect anything. Moreover, check to see if you're making overall progress.

13. Spend time with your pet and/or children. Animals and children are both very similar. They're innocent, easily amused, and extremely thankful that you're giving them attention.

14. Write a personal success story. It doesn't matter what we've done or what we will do, we've all accomplished things that we're proud of.

15. Draw. Paint. Do something artistic. It doesn't matter if it's 'good', because you're not obligated to show anybody and art is subjective anyway.

16. Write down three good qualities about that one person you just can't stand. You may be surprised to see that you have more in common with your 'nemesis' than you realized.

17. Try something that you've never tried before. The possibilities are endless. For best results, continue trying new things.

18. Help without making it seem like help. In other words, don't try too hard. Build positive relationships the way you want to.

19. Do a 'random act of kindness.' Help somebody out without telling them that you're responsible for it. Keep the concept of Karma in mind when doing this!

20. Say 'hi' to people more often. We frequently forget how a simple greeting can mean so much to us.

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