Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

LEARN TO SPEAK ON YOUR FEET
If you have any fears about public speaking, you should make a
plan, right now, to get over them. Your ability to make a presenta-
tion to a small group or to stand up and give a talk or chair a meet-
ing for a larger group can do more to bring you to the attention of
people who can help you than almost any other thing you can do.
Fortunately, public speaking is a skill you can learn with prac-
tice. I have urged people over the years to take a Dale Carnegie
course or to join Toastmasters International. They are both open to
everyone and available everywhere.
When you sign up or join one of these fine organizations, lead-
ers will train you thoroughly in how to speak on your feet. They will
teach you how to design a talk—with a beginning, a middle, and an
end. They will show you how to speak in a variety of different situa-
tions. And the better you get at speaking, by the Law of Attraction,
the more you will attract people and opportunities into your life to
speak to more and larger groups.
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