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Public Speaking

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Most people think of public speaking as delivering a written speech.  But its also thought of in a broader term.  Its also delivering a message or a point you want to get across. In business, it is so important that business owners know the subject matter in which they are going to be speaking on.  They should also have a passion for their service or product. 

Lighten Up!

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Kick Start Your Attitude A sense of humor can help you keep perspective. It can also help you cheer yourself on. Did you know that there are two gold balls on the moon? On February 6, 1971, wrapping up his team's successful Apollo 14 moon visit, Commander Alan Shepard attached a gold-club head to the handle of a dust-sample scooper and batted two golf balls across the creaters. golfer Shepard thought this would be a good way to show TV viewers the effects of the moon's weak gravity (the balls flew six times as far as they would have on earth). It was instructive, but it was also fun! Ten years earlie, Shepard had become the first American to blast into space. NASA had chosen him over more than 100 other test pilots to ride a 75,000-pound Redstone rocket out of the atmosphere. To prepare, he'd endured months of physical and technical training, taking the historic assignment 100% seriously. Yet when the rocket took off, Mission Control was impressed by Shepard's heart rat...