Monday, 13 February 2012<\/p>\n
Most of the time, this blog lives in the present. Sometimes, it lives in the past. But today, let’s go boldly (see how I didn’t split the infinitive there?) to the future.<\/p>\n
Next week, Toastmasters is holding a speech-a-thon, They’ve held them before, but the idea to have this particular one was my idea. So, last week, when the sign-up sheet went around, I felt I would’ve been remiss had I not signed up for a speech.<\/p>\n
Actually delivering the speeches isn’t a problem. And, in general, concocting ideas for speeches isn’t difficult for me, either. In fact, I have probably ten ideas for speeches just floating around in my head right now, all ready to go for when an appropriate opportunity arises.<\/p>\n
The problem, for me, is when I can’t seem to figure out a what to do for a given assignment.<\/p>\n
My next speech is my ninth one in Toastmasters. That means I’m working on “Persuade Your Audience.” Here are some details from the Competent Communicator<\/em> handbook:<\/p>\n The general types of persuasion are: Inspire, Convince and Call them to action.<\/p>\n So here’s the help I need: WHAT SHOULD I TALK ABOUT?<\/p>\n I’ve only got nine days here, and I usually start working on the speech by now. It’s supposed to be 5-7 minutes in length. I don’t want to talk about anything too controversial, or too banal. Since I don’t have too much time, I can’t go into depth will all sorts of reasons why or why not someone should do something.<\/p>\n Discussing vegetarianism is quite a good idea. But a fellow club member just gave an excellent speech on such a subject. And, since I’m not technically a vegetarian, there’d be a bit of hypocrisy I wouldn’t be comfortable with.<\/p>\n Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, 13 February 2012 Most of the time, this blog lives in the present. Sometimes, it lives in the past. But today, let’s go boldly (see how I didn’t split the infinitive there?) to the future. Next week, Toastmasters is holding a speech-a-thon, They’ve held them before, but the idea to have this particular one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2872,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n