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

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SPEAK ON YOUR FEET
I have worked with countless executives who have taken my 
advice and joined Toastmasters International or taken a course
from the Dale Carnegie organization. Within six months, they 
tell me that they are completely different people. From being 
shy and self-effacing at meetings and in presentations, they be-
come calm, confident, bold, and even eloquent in expressing their
points on their feet with other people. And their careers take off
as well.
When you can speak on your feet, you appear to be smarter and
more competent than a person who cannot. Many executives, both
men and women, have seen their careers take off, their incomes in-
crease, and their responsibilities expand as they faced their fears by
speaking over and over again and until they became very good on
their feet.
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