Frame your presentation.

Ask the audience for help.

         “Can you help me,” she asked the audience.

         They responded with head nods and a very positive “Yes.”

         “Woo,”she felt a sigh-of-relief, the hard part of her presentation was over because what is harder than asking for help?

         What did she need or want; only that they listen, pay attention and allow her to deserve that attention.

         Speaking fearlessly means to have the realization that we all need help, AND we are scared or embarrassed or “too-oh-so-important” to ask for what we want.

         In the sales world, where we all live, you cannot G-E-T until you A-S-K.

         On stage, in a meeting, or just with those significant others in your life, few of us are mind-readers, but we ALL want to help each other.

         Every network group that meets, when the entrepreneurs stand to tell what they do it begins with “I want to help people….”

         So let the elephant out of the room, be honest. You and I need help. It’s why we are here to give and receive help.   

         ASK.

 

Commitment

Your level of success in anything is directly related to your level of commitment.

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
           Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!'

This quote is from Faust written by Goethe and also refers too:

                   “Then indecision brings its own delays,
                   And days are lost lamenting over lost days.
                   Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;
                  What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
          There is a longer quote, attributed to Goethe that often shows up in New Age seminars, goal setting and motivational classes it may have come from  W. H. Murray in The Scottish Himalaya Expedition, 1951. The text goes:
           'But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money--booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

Need help keeping Momentum Going?

         This level of commitment begins to actualize when the head, the idea center, let’s go and let’s the Gut take over and acts.

         Just decide and let your body go to it!

         As William James, the father of modern psychology said over a hundred years ago, “Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”

         It begins with commitment.

Practice completing small tasks. For speakers it means participation. As my favorite teacher said, “With little or no doubt, I said yes.” And he meant it.

        

         Call me-Gary C Smith 510-914-0279, 510-722-3212

*An outline of mind mapping skills is available by request. 

Gary C. Smith
Speaking Coach