Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.

Speech Smarts - Humility

Pride works for you when you work for the respect of others.

Speech Smarts - Pride

Interdependence is of greater value than independence.

Speech Smarts - Interdependence

A logical argument is not always the most logical thing to use.

Speech Smarts - Arguments

May the gift of your accent become a fixed feature in the heart of your audience.

Speech Smarts - Accent

Craft your messages like sunlight, warm and bright.

Speech Smarts - Sunshine

When your presentation ends, with your audience looking up to you and thunderous applause echoes in your ears, you have successfully found the silver lining and the way through the storm.

Speech Smarts - Storms

The experience of kindness is one of the supreme social pleasures.

Speech Smarts - Kindness

Wealth is the accumulated display of your values.  It is what you have at the end of the day that you can choose to share, save or squander.

Speech Smarts - Wealth

Charity offered as a hand up instead of a hand out transforms pity into dignity.

Speech Smarts - Charity

Speech Smarts are weekly themed presentation tips for aspiring presenters and inspiring public speaking. The guiding principle is a presentation is a conversation.

Greed is the insatiable desire to have more than you need.  The sin in greed is seeing everything and everyone as something to possess.

Speech Smarts - Greed

Have you ever told a lie? Never. Oh, really?

Speech Smarts - Lying

Learning how to create civility by respecting rights and expressing duties is essential for every civic minded citizen who wants to exercise their first amendment right effectively.

Speech Smarts - Civics

Sooner or later you are going to stick your foot in your mouth.  Something is going to slip out you wish you had stayed in.

Speech Smarts - Reaping

To be outstanding in your field, it is best to grow your own gifts.    You may never know who will benefit from the seeds you sow.

Speech Smarts - Sowing

Elocution is a big word which seems to betray its meaning: the art of speaking clearly and well, with correct enunciation.

Speech Smarts - Elocution

How many times have you heard that we fear speaking in public more than death?

Speech Smarts - Execution

What you feed your audience, how you exercise their attention, and how often you let them rest determine the health ...

Speech Smarts - Health

Draw out your audience with emotion, purpose and knowledge and they will remember the lessons and they will remember you.

Speech Smarts - Education

Lose the “ado's” and other clichés so when you lead the applause, the speaker can step up, not stumble over your introduction.

Speech Smarts - Introductions

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Anger is an emotional epic, an inextricable part of you and everyone you know.  Its expression and influence are powerful and seductive, and often overwhelming.  The Achilles heel of anger is your ability to choose how, if at all, to present it.

Speech Smarts - Anger

Why does public speaking inspire so much fear? Your answer depends on what flavor of fear you prefer.

Speech Smarts - Fear

When you commit to the future, resolve what not to do and congruently blend the present and the past, you can create resolutions worth seeing and realizing.

Speech Smarts - Resolution

The voice of your best self maybe subtle and easy to ignore but it is never mistaken.

Speech Smarts - Self Esteem

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