Honored to be a Keynote Speaker
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After I deliver a keynote speech I want to ask my audience…”So, how do you view your life now?”
I want them to be filled with possibility for the life. I want their candle of the dreams and hopes to flame into a torch. I want to invite them to ask profound questions about themselves. Has the flicker in me grown into a flame? Is the fire burning more brightly as I leave this place and consider the keynote speech
? “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community…
as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life, for its own sake. Life is no brief
candle to me; it is a splendid torch, which I’ve got hold of for the moment. And I want to make it burn as brightly as possible, before handing it on to future generations.”
This quote is very important in my speaking career. I carry this with me to each keynote speech and it was featured in my first book, “I’m on Fire, watch me Burn”. I want my words to have encouraged each audience member to burn their torch just a little brighter. I want to be thankful for each listener for those reading my books. For opening their mind, and for desiring to live life to its fullest. I am honored each time I get to be the Motivational Speaker and share my life with those in listening to me. Thank you for allowing me this opportunity.
Public Speaking Jobs
Are you laughing and having fun in your public speaking job ? Do you love to make other people laugh? Timing is an indispensable quality of all performances and especially in your public speaking jobs, and is so essential in all the conversational arts. For comedians, timing is the sine qua non (“without which is nothing”), and there is no faster way to build this art than by watching others do it well. I study comedians because we share a similar profession as public speakers- we are entertainers.They say it’s harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry.
So, whenever I get a chance, I visit the local comedy clubs. My purpose is not so much to steal jokes (though I confess to having “borrowed” a few), or even to have some good laughs (though have them I usually do). I’m there to study how a comedian makes an audience laugh or, if he bombs, to discover why he fails. I want to observe how he develops rapport and how he establishes mood and intimacy with the audience. I’m even interested in what they do after a joke bombs. I think of Rodney Dangerfield’s, “It’s murder up here, I tell ya’.” Special notice is focused on their presentation techniques: hand gestures, facial gestures, volume shifts and, most of all, the timing.