Monday, July 6, 2009

SPEAKER'S ANXIETY: part four

HIT THAT MAN IN THE MOON

I had a little league coach who used to have us close our eyes, during practice and before each game, and ask us to imagine that we hit a homer so far that it clipped the face of the man in the moon.

Well, though I only hit one home run during my short lived career, I did pick up something from that six foot four skinny man.

Visualization is an important element to success.

If you visualize yourself, in your mind's eye, delivering a wonderful speech, with the audience smiling, nodding their heads in agreement, laughing at your jokes, and giving you a standing O, you will less likely be nervous at all while presenting it, and you will more likely hit that man in the moon squarely in the jaw.

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