HOW TO PREPARE YOUR TALK

                                                      STAGE SPEECH

WHAT TOPICS OUGHTYOU TO SPEAK ON DURING THE SESSIONS OF THIS COURSE?

     ANYTHING THAT INTERESTS YOU. IF POSSIBLE, CHOOSE YOUR OWN TOPICS; YOU WILL BE MORE FORTUNATE STILL IF YOUR TOPIC CHOOSE YOU. HOWEVER, YOU WILL OFTEN HAVE TOPICS SUGGESTED FOR YOU BY YOUR INSTRUCTOR.

      DON'T MAKE THE ALMOST UNIVERSAL MISTAKE TO TRYING TO COVER TOO MUCH GROUND IN A BRIEF TALK. JUST TAKE ONE OR TWO ANGLES OF A SUBJECT AND ATTEMPT TO COVER THEM ADEQUATELY. YOU WILL BE FORTUNATE IF YOU CAN DO THAT IN THE SHORT SPEECHES THAT ARE NECCESITATED BY THE TIME SCHEDULE OF THIS COURSE.

       DETERMINE YOUR SUBJECT A WEEK IN ADVANCE SO THAT YOU WILL HAVE TIME TO THINK IT OVER IN ODD MOMENTS. THINK IT OVER FOR SEVEN DAYS; DREAM OVER IT FOR SEVEN NIGHTS. THINK OF IT THE LAST THIN WHEN YOU RETIRE. THINK OF IT THE NEXT MORNING WHILE YOU ARE SHAVING, WHILE YOU ARE BATHING, WHILE YOU ARE RIDING DOWNTOWN, WHILE YOU ARE WAITING FOR LIFTS, OR LUNCH, FOR APPOINTMENT. DISCUSS IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS. MAKE IT A TIPIC OF CONVERSATION.

       ASK YOURSELF ALL POSSIBLE QUESTIONS CONCERNING IT. IF FOR EXAMPLE, YOU ARE TO SPEAK ON DIVORCE, ASK YOURSELF WHAT CAUSES DIVORCE, WHAT ARE THE EFFORTS ECONOMICALLY, SOCIALLY. HOW CAN THE EVIL BE REMEDIED? SHOULD DIVORCE BE MADE IMPOSSIBLE? MORE DIFFICULT?EASIER?

       IF YOU STAND UP AND THINK CLEARLY AND KEEP GOING FOR TWO OR THREE MINUTES, THAT IS ALL THAT WILL BE EXPECTED OF YOU DURING YOUR FIRST FEW TALKS. A TOPIC, SUCH AS WHY YOU ENROLLED FOR THIS COURSE, IS VERY EASY; THAT IS OBVIOUS. IF YOU WILL SPEND A LITTLE TIME SELECTING AND ARRANGING YOUR MATERIAL ON THAT TOPIC,YOU WILL BE ALMOST SURE TO REMEMBER IT, FOR YOU WILL BE SPEAKING OR YOUR OWN OBSERVATIONS, YOUR OWN DESIRES, YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES.

         ABOUT ALL ELSE, DON'T MAKE YOUR TALK AN ABSTRACT PREACHMENT. THAT WILL BORE US. MAKE YOUR TALK A REGULAR LAYER CAKE OF ILLUSTRATION AND GENERAL STATEMENTS. THINK OF CONCRETE CASES YOU HAVE OBSERVED, AND OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS WHICH YOU BELIEVE THOSE SPECIFIC INSTANCES ILLUSTRATE. YOU WILL ALSO DISCOVER THAT THESE CONCRETE CASES ARE FAR EASIER TO REMEMBER THAN ABSTRACTIONS; THEY ARE FAR EASIER TO TALK ABOUT. THEY WILL ALSO AID AND BRIGHTEN YOUR DELIVERY.

         SOME MEN,IN SPEAKING OF THEIR BUSINESS, COMMIT THE UNFORGIVABLE ERROR OF TALKING ONLY OF THE FEATURES THAT INTEREST THEM. SHOULD'T THE SPEAKER TRY TO ACCERTAIN WHAT WILL ENTERTAIN NOT HIMSELF BUT HIS HEARNERS? SHOULDN'T HE TRY TO APPEAL TO THEIR SELFISH INTERESTS? IF FOR EXAMPLE, HE SELLS FIRE INSURANCE, SHOULDN'T HE TELL THEM HOW TO PREVENT FIRES ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY? IF HE IS A BANKER, SHOULDN'T HE GIVE THEM ADVICE ON FINANCE OR INVESTMENTS?

       WHILE PREPARING, STUDY YOUR AUDIENCE. THINK OF THEIR WANTS, THEIR WISHES. THAT IS SOMETIMES HALF THE BATTLE.

        IN PREPARING SOME TOPICS, IT IS VERY ADVISIBLE-IF TIME PREMETS-TO DO SOME READING, TO DISCOVER WHAT OTHERS HAVE THOUGHT, WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ON THE SAME SUBJECT. BUT DON'T READ UNTIL YOU HAVE FIRST THOUGHT YOURSELF DRY. THAT IS IMPORTANT-VERY. THEN GO TO THE PUBLIC LIBERARY AND LAY YOUR NEEDS BEFORE THE LIBERARIAN. TELL HER YOU ARE PREPARING A SPEECH ON SUCH AND SUCH A TOPIC. ASK HER FRANKLY FOR HELP. IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE HABIT OF DOING RESEARCH WORK, YOU WILL PROBABLY BE SURPRISED AT THE AIDS SHE CAN PUT AT YOUR DISPOSAL; PERHAPS A SPECIAL VOLUME ON YOUR VERY TOPIC, OUTLINES AND BRIEFS FOR DEBATE, GIVING THE PRINCIPLE ARGUMENTS ON BOTHS SIDES OF THE PUBLIC QUESTIONS OF THE DAY, THE READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE LISTING THE MAGAZINE ARTICLES THAT HAVE APPEARED ON VARIOUS TOPICS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY, THE DAILY MAIL ALMANAC, THE ENCYCLOPAEDIAS, AND DOZENS OF REFERENCE BOOKS. THEY ARE TOOLS IN YOUR WORKSHOP. USE THEM. 

 

STAY PATIENCE

                                      PLAY PATIENCE WITH YOUR NOTES

       MAKE NOTES. HAVING GOT YOUR VARIOUS IDEAS AND ILLUSTRATIONS DOWN ON SCRABS OF PAPER, PLAY PATIENCE WITH THEM- TOSS THEM INTO SERIES OF RELATED PILES. THESE MAIN PILES TO REPRESENT, APPROXIMATELY, THE MAIN POINTS OF YOUR TALK. SUBDIVIDE THEM INTO SMALLER LOTS. THROW OUT THE CHAFF INTIL THERE IS NOTHING BUT NUMBER ONE WHEAT LEFT-AND EVEN SOME OF THE WHEAT WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO BE PUT ASIDE AND NOT USED. NO MAN, IF HE WORKS RIGHT, IS EVER ABLE TO USE BUT A PERCENTAGE OF THE MATERIAL HE GATHERS.

       ONE OUGHT NEVER TO CEASE THIS PROCESS OF REVISION INTIL THE SPEECH HAS BEEN MADE- EVEN THEN HE IS VERY LIKELY TO THINK OF POINTS AND IMPROVEMENTS AND REFINEMENTS THAT OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN MADE.

        A GOOD SPEAKE USUALLY FINDS WHEN HE FINISHES THAT THERE HAVE BEEN FOUR VERSIONS OF HIS SPEECH: THE ONE THAT HE PREPARD, THE ONE THAT HE DELIVERED, THE ONE THAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAID THAT HE DELIVERED, AND THE ONE THAT HE WISHES, ON HIS WAY HOME, THAT HE HAD DELIVERED.

                                                                       REHEARSE

              TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO, HORACE WROTES:

        " SEEK NOT FOR WORDS, SEEK ONLY FACT AND THOUGHT,

           AND CROWDING IN WILL COME THE WORDS UNSOUGHT."

          AFTER YOU HAVE IDEAS FIRMLY IN MIND, THEN REHEARSE YOUR TALK FROM BEFINNING TO END. DO IT SILENTLY, MENTALLY, AS YOU WALK THE STREET, AS YOU WAIT FOR CARS AND LIFTS. GET OFF IN A ROOM BY YOURSELF AND GO OVER IT ALOUD, GESTURING, SAYING IT WITH LIFE AND ENRGY. AS YOU PRACTISE, IMAGINE THERE IS A REAL AUDIENCE BEFORE YOU.

         IMAGINE IT SO STRONGLY THAT WHEN THERE IS ONE, IT WILL SEEM LIKE AN OLD EXPERIENCE. THAT IS THE REASON WHY SO MANY CRIMINALS ARE ABLE TO GO TO THE SCAFFOLD WITH SUCH BRAVADO, THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE IT SO MANY THOUSAND TIMES IN THEIR IMAGINATION THAT THEY HAVE LOST FEAR OF IT. WHEN THE ACTUAL EXECUTION DOES TAKE PLACE, IT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH VERY OFTEN BEFORE.

     

SELF CONFIDENT DURING PUBLIC SPEAKING

                         START WITH A STRONG AND PERSISTENT DESIRE

      THIS IS OF FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU PROBABLY REALIZE. IF YOUR INSTRUCTOR COULD LOOK INTO YOUR MIND AND HEART NOW AND ACCERTAIN THE DEPTH OF YOUR DESIRE, HE COULD FORETALL, ALMOST WITH CERTAINLY, THE SWIFTNESS OF THE PROGRESS YOU WILL MAKE. IF YOUR DESIRE IS PALE AND FLABBY, YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS WILL ALSO TAKE ON THAT HUE AND CONSISTENCY. BUT, IF YOU GO AFTER THIS SUBJECT WITH PERSISTENCE, AND WITH THE ENERGY IF A BULLDOG AFTER A CAT, NOTHING UNDERNEATH THE MILKY WAY WILL DEFEAT YOU.

        THEREFORE, AROUSE YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR THIS STUDY. ENUMERATE ITS BENEFITS. THINK OF WHAT ADDITIONAL SELF-CONFIDENCE AND THE ABILITY TO TALK MORE CONVINCINGLY IN BUSINESS WILL MEAN TO YOU. THINK OF WHAT IT MAY MEAN TO YOU SOCIALLY; OF THE FRIENDS IT WILL BRING, OF THE INCREASE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFLUENCE, OF THE LEADERSHIP IT WILL GIVE YOU. AND IT WILL GIVE YOU LEADERSHIP MORE RAPIDLY THAN ALMOST ANY OTHER ACTIVITY YOU CAN THINK OF OR IMAGINE.

         IT IS AN ATTAINMENT THAT ALMOST EVERY PERSON OF EDUCATION LONGS FOR. AFTER ANDREW CARNEGIE'S DEATH THERE WAS FOUND, AMONG HIS PAPERS, A PLAN HIS LIFE DRAWN UP WHERE HE WAS THIRTY-THREE YEARS OF AGE. HE THEN FELT THAT IN TWO MORE YEARS HE COULD SO ARRANGE HIS BUSINESS AS TO HAVE AN ANNUAL INCOME OF FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, SO HE PROPOSED TO RETIRE AT THIRTHY-FIVE, GO TO OXFORD AND GET A THROUGH EDUCATION, AND "PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION AND PLEASURE IN PUBLIC".

        THINK OF THE GLOW OF SATIFFACTION AND PLEASURE THAT WILL ACCURE FROM THE EXERCISE OF THIS NEW POWER. THE AUTHOR HAS TRAVELLED ROUND OVER NO SMALL PART OF THIS TERRESTIAL BALL; AND HAD MANY AND VARIED EXPERIENCES; BUT FOR DOWNRIGHT, AND LASTING INWARD SATISFACTION, BE KNOWS OF FEW THINGS THAT WILL COMPARE TO STANDING BEFORE AN AUDIENCE AND MAKING MEN THINK YOUR THOUGHTS AFTER YOU. IT WILL GIVE YOU A SENSE OF STRENGTH, A FEELING OF POWER. IT WILL APPEAL TO YOUR PRIDE OF PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT. IT WILL SET YOU OFF FROM AND RAISE YOU ABOVE YOUR FELLOWMEN. THERE IS MAGIC IN IT AND A NEVER-TO -BE-FORGOTTEN THRILL. "TWO MINUTES BEFORE I BEGIN", A SPEAKER CONFESSED, I BEFORE I FINISH, I WOULD RATHER BE SHOT THAN STOP.

          IN EVERY COUSE, SOME MEN GROW FAINT-HEARTED AND FALL BY THE WAYSIDE, SO YOU SHOULD KEEP THINKING OF WHAT THIS COURSE WILL MEAN TO YOU UNTIL YOUR DESIRE IS WHITE HOT. YOU SHOULD START THIS PROGRAMME WITH AN ENTHUSIASM THAT WILL CARRY YOU THOUGH EVERY SESSION, TRIUMPHANT TO THE END. TELL YOUR FRIENDS THAT YOU HAVE JOINED THIS COURSE. SET ASIDE ONE CERTAIN NIGHT OF THE WEEK FOR THE READING OF THESE LESSONS AND THE PREPARATION OF YOUR TALKS. IN SHORT, MAKE IT EASY AS POSSIBLE TO GO AHEAD. MAKE IT AS DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE TO RETREAT.

         WHEN JULIUS CAESAR SAILED OVER THE CHANNEL FROM GAUL AND LANDED WITH LEGIONS ON WHAT IS NOW ENGLAND, WHAT DID HE DO TO INSURE THE SUCCESS OF HIS ARMS? A VERY CLERVER THING, HE HALTED HIS SOLDIERS ON THE CHALK CLIFF OF DOVER, AND LOOKING DOWN OVER THE WAVES TWO HUNDRED FEET BELOW, THEY SAW RED TONGUES OF FIRE CONSUME EVERY SHIP IN WHICH THEY HAD CROSSED. IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY, WITH THE LAST LINK WITH THE CONTINENT GONE, THE LAST MEANS OF RETREATING BURNED, THERE WAS BUT THING LEFT FOR THEM TO DO: TO CONQUER. THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT THEY DID.

         SUCH WAS THE SPIRIT OF THE IMMORTAL CAESAR. WHY NOT MAKE IT YOURS, TOO, IN THIS WAR TO EXTERMINATE YOUR FOOLISH FEAR OF AUDIENCES.

YOUR CHECK

                                     WRITE A CHECK TO YOURSELF

          IT'S EXTREMELY POWERFUL TO FORMULATE IMAGES OF SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES- COMES-AND TO RUN THEM THROUGH YOUR MIND. BUT, THERE'S ANOTHER TECHNIQUE YOU CAN USE TO ACCELERATE YOUR SUCCESS. YOU CAN CREATE VISUAL AIDS TO MOVE YOU TOWARD WHAT YOU WANT.

        IN 1990, WHILE HE WAS STILL RELATIVELY UNKNOWN, COMEDIAN JIM CARREY WROTE A CHECK TO HIMSELF WAS POSTDATED. THANKSGIVING 1995. AS CARREY EXPLAINED, IT WASN'T ABOUT MONEY. HE KNEW THAT IF HE WAS MAKING THAT MUCH, HE'D BE WORKING WITH THE BEST PEOPLE ON THE BEST MATERIAL.

       CARREY EARNED ABOUT $ 800,000 FOR HIS WORK IN ACE VENTURA AND THE MASK. THEN, IN LATE 1994, HE WAS PAID $MILLION FOR HIS ROLE IN DUMB AND DUMBER. IN 1995, HE EARNED MANY MORE MILLIONS AND IS NOW GETTING $20 MILLION PER MOVIE!

         JIM CARREY, "POSTDATED CHECK" EXERCISE IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE POWER OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO ACTUALIZE A GOAL THAT IS HELD WITH DEEP CONVICTION AND FEELING. THINKING ABOUT YOUR GOAL AND FORMING IMAGES IN YOUR MIND WILL GO A LONG WAY TO CREATION THE SUCCESS YOU DESIRE. HOWEVER, WHEN YOU ALSO USE A TANGIBLE REPRESENTATION OF YOUR GOAL(SUCH AS A CHECK), YOUR CHANCES OF SUCCESS ARE EVEN GREATER!

          NOW, I'M NOT SHARING THIS EXAMPLE SIMPLY BECAUSE IT'S AN INTERESTING STORY ABOUT HIM CARREY. THE SAME TECHNIQUE CAN WORK FOR  YOU, TOO!

        WHY NOT TEAR OUT ONE OF YOUR CHECKS RIGHT NOW AND POSTDATE IT THREE OR FIVE YEARS FROM NOW WITH THE AMOUNT THAT YOU WANT TO EARN FOR "SERVICES RENDERED"? MAKE SURE TO LOOK AT THAT CHECK AT LEAST ONCE A DAY.. AND BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE MOVING TOWARD THAT GOAL.          

THE REAL WORLD

                                                THE WORLD IS YOURS

    " THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

       IS ONLY A STUBBORNLY PERSISTENT ILLUSION"

    " IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE ONLY PROBABILITIES 

     THE UNIVERSE COULD ONLY COME INTO EXISTENCE IF

     SOMEONE OBSERVED IT. IT DOES NOT MATTER THAT THE

     OBSERVERS TURNED UP SERVERAL BILLION YEARS LATER.

     THE UNIVERSE EXISTS BECAUSE WE ARE AWARE OF ITS" 

      I WANT TO TAKE YOU BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE WORLD YOU SEE, BECAUSE MUCH OF WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT AS REAL AS YOU MAY THINK IT IS, A FEW ADVENTUROUS STEPS INTO THE INVISIBLE WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THE WORLD, AND IT WILL SET YOU FREE TO RECEIVE AN UNLIMITED LIFE.

    MOST OF THE THINGS YOU MAY CURRENTLY BELIEVE ABOUT THE REAL WORLD ARE NOT TRUE. YOU ARE MUCH MORE THAN YOU MAY REALIZE. LIFE AND THE UNIVERSE ARE MUCH MORE THAN YOU MAY REALIZE. YOU MAY THINK THERE IS A LIMITED AMOUNT OF MONEY, HEALTH, AND RESOURSCES, BUT IT ISN'T TRUE. THERE IS NO LACK OF ANYTHING. QUANTUM PHYSICS TELL US THERE ARE INFINITE PLANET  EARTHS AND INFINITE INIVERSE THAT EXIST, AND WE MOVE FROM ONE RALITY OF PLANET EARTH AND UNIVERSE TO ANOTHER, EVERY FRACTION OF A  SECOND. THIS IS THE REAL WORLD EMERGING THROUGH SCIENCE.

       " IN OUR UNIVERSE WE ARE TURNED INTO THE FRQUENCY

        THAT CORRESPONDS TO PHYSICAL REALITY. BUT THERE ARE

        AN INFINITE NUMBER OF PARALLEL REALITIES COEXISTING

       WITH US IN THE SAME ROOM, ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT

        TUNE INTO THEM"

    YOU MAY THINK THERE'S A SHORTAGE OF TIME IN THE REAL WORLD, AND BECAUSE OF THAT YOU MAY LIVE YOU LIFE RUSHING AGAINST TIME, BUT THE GREAT SCIENTIST ALBERT EINSTEIN TOLD US THAT TIME IS AN ILLUSION.

      YOU MAY THINK THAT THE REAL WORLD IS MADE UP OF LIVING THINGS AND DEAD THINGS. BUT IN THE UNIVERSE EVERYTHING IS ALIVE AND NOTHING IS DEAD. THE STARS, SUN, PLANETS, EARTH, AIR, WATER, FIRE, AND EVERY OBJECT YOU SEE IS SEETHING WITH LIFE. THIS IS THE REAL WORLD THAT IS EMERGING.

   " THERE IS A SENSE IN THE TREE WHICH FEELS YOUR LOVE AND 

     RESPONDS TO IT. IT DOES NOT RESPOND OR SHOW ITS PLESURE

     IN OUR WAY OR IN ANY WAY WE CAN NOW UNDERSTAN"

WHAT DO U BELIEVE

                                                    BELIEVE YOURSELF

                                 "FOR AS HE THINKETH IN HIS HEART, SO IS HE"

    THERE ARE AMONG THE GREATEST WORDS OF WISDOM EVER GIVEN BUT WHAT DO THEY MEAN, "FOR AS HE THINKETH IN HIS HEART, SO IS HE?

   WHAT YOU THINK IN YOUR HEART IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE TRUE. BELIEFS ARE SIMPLY REPEATED THOUGHTS WITH STRONG FEELINGS ATTACHED TO THEM LIKE, I CATCH COLDS EASILY, I HAVE A SENSITIVE STOMACH, I FIND IT HARD TO LOSE WEIGHT, I' M ALLERGIC TO THAT, " COFFEE KEEPS ME AWAKE ", ALL THESE ARE BELIEFS, NOT FACTS. A BELIEF IS WHEN YOU HAVE MADE UP YOUR MIND, THE VERDICT IS IN, YOU'VE NAILED THE DOOR SHUT ANDTHROWN AWAY THE KEY, AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION. BUT WHATEVER YOU BELIEVE AND FEEL IS TRUE WILL BE TRUE FOR YOU, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE AND FEEL IS TRUE WILL BE TRUE FOR YOU, WHETHER YOUR BELIEFS HELP YOU OR HARM YOU. WHATEVER BELIEFS YOU GIVE OUT, THE LAW OF ATTRACTION SAYS YOU MUST RECEIVE BACK.

      MANY PEOPLE HAVE MORE FEARFUL BELIEFS ABOUT DESEAS THAN THEY HAVE GOOD BELIEFS ABOUT HEALTH. IT'S NOT SURPRISING BECAUSE OF THE ATTENTION THAT IS GIVEN TO DISEASE IN THE WORLD, AND YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY THAT EVERY DAY. IN SPITE OF ALL THE ADVANCES IN MEDICINE, DISEASE IS INCREASING BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY, FEARFUL OF DISEASE.

      DO YOU HAVE MORE GOOD FEELINGS ABOUT HEALTH THAN YOU HAVE NEGATIVE FEELINGS ABOUT DISEASE? DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIFELONG HEALTH MORE THAN YOU BELIEVE IN THE INEVITABILITY OF DISEASE? IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOUR BODY WILL DETERIORATE WITH AGE AND THAT DISEASE IS INEVITABLE, YOU ARE GIVING OUT THAT BELIEF, AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION MUST RETURN IT TO YOU CLOTHED AS THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND STATE OF YOUR HEALTH AND BODY.

        " F0R THE THING I FEAR COMES UPON ME, AND WHAT

           I DREAD BEFALLS ME"

  

CREATE NEW PICTURES

                                                          PERCEPTION

  

      WE CAN CREATE NEW MENTAL MOVIES WHENEVER WE CHOOSE TO DO SO. AND WHEN WE DEVELOP NEW IMAGES THAT EVOKE POWERFUL FEELINGS AND SENSATIONS, WE'LL ACT IN WAYS THAT SUPPORT THOSE NEW PICTURES! SO, THE FIRST STEP IS TO CREATE AN IMAGE OF YOUR DESIRED OUTCOME. YOU ARE LIMITED ONLY BY YOUR IMAGINATION.

     AS YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE ARE TERRIFIED ABOUT PUBLIC SPEAKING. IN SURVEY, IT IS LISTED AS THE 1. FEAR THAT PEOPLE HAVE-RANKED AHEAD OF THE FEAR OF DEATH! SO, WHEN MOST PEOPLE ARE ASKED TO EVEN CONSIDER MAKING A SPEECH, WHAT KINDS OF PICTURES DO THEY RUN THROUGH THEIR MINDS? THEY SEETHEMSELVES STANDING NERVOUSLY IN FRON OF THE AUDIENCE. PERHAPS THEY'RE HAVING TROUBLE REMEMBERING WHAT THEY WANT TO SAY. RUN THESE IMAGES OVER AND OVER ON YOUR MENTAL SCREEN AND YOU CAN BE SURE THAT YOU WON'T HAVE MUCH SUCCESS AS A SPEAKER!

           INSTEAD, FORM A PICTURE IN YOUR MIND IN WHICH YOU'RE CONFIDENTLY GIVING YOUR PRESENTATION. THE AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE LISTENING TO YOUR EVERY WORD. YOU LOOK SHARP. YOUR DELIVERY IS SMOOTH. YOU TELL A FUNNY STORY AND THE AUDIENCE IS LAUGHING. AT THE END, YOU GET A WARM ROUND OF APPLAUSE. PEOPLE COME UP  AFTERWARD TO CONGRATULATE YOU. DO YOU SEE HOW THESE KIND OF MENTAL IMAGES CAN HELP YOU TO BECOME A BETTER SPEAKER?

      REGOGNIZE, HOWEVER, THAT THE PICTURES IN YOUR MIND ARE NOT FULFILLED OVERNIGHT. BUT, BY BEING PATIENT AND BY PERSISTENTLY FORCUSING ON THESE MENTAL IMAGES, YOU'LL AUTOMATICALLY START ACTING IN WAYS THAT SUPPORT YOUR VISION.