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March 31, 2005

New Books, TJ Walker’s “Media Training A-Z”
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“Presentation Training A-Z” http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/presentaz.html

Smile Your Way to Speech Success

You are about to give a big speech and you are understandably tensed up. You are thinking and thinking and memorizing, and focusing, focusing, focusing. If you were any tenser you’d break in two.

You know this and you feel this, but don’t show your audience. Remember, your audience can’t read your mind or see inside your knotted stomach. They will never know about your sorry psychological state if you wear a mask. You don’t have to buy a rubber Halloween mask or take a trip to Africa for a wood carved one.

Instead, simply smile.

A smile is the only mask you will ever need when you speak. Nervous people rarely smile. So if you smile, you will fool your audience into thinking you are comfortable and relaxed—even if you aren’t. Just make sure your smile isn’t too big, too phony, or too consistent through out the speech. If you consciously vary your smile throughout your speech, it will seem real. Additionally, you will actually become more relaxed throughout your speech if you smile consistently. It is much harder to stay uncomfortable while smiling—smiling has a calming affect.

So if you find yourself staring at the face of speaking death, smile back and you will conquer all.

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TJ Walker
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