This is a valedictory speech by a student who feared public speaking.
“I’d literally have sweaty palms and a pit in my stomach at the thought of being called on to answer a question in class. The worst part was that I thought I’d always feel that way but thank goodness I finally figured out how to get rid of it and I’ve never felt better about speaking publicly.”
Watch him as he waits through his introduction. It is still evident. Watch, though, as he makes his speech and know that this is one inspirational human being.
He still has a way to go with his speaking, but with an attitude like that, he should go far.
I would love your comments on this speaker and his presentation in the comments below. Especially I would like to hear what advice you would give him on his speaking. I think he would appreciate it.
So What? How to communicate what really matters to your audience
Mark Magnacca
The people a business tries to communicate with, sell to, or convince don’t really care about the business. Nor do they care what it is offering them—until they understand exactly how it will benefit them. In this book, world-renowned sales consultant Magnacca shows explains how to answer the “So What?” question brilliantly, every time. => http://bit.ly/Zxn7TI
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
– William F. Scholavino
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
––Frank Lloyd Wright
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
-Abraham Lincoln
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do
with what there is.”
-Ernest Hemingway
“If you don’t take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you.”
— Eric Allenbaugh
“Light tomorrow with today!”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“One thing I feel most passionately about: love of invention will never die.”
-Karl Benz
