The Challenges Of Public Speaking

In the eleven chapter of A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking, the authors talk about

Being a socialize person, I have always believed that public speaking is not a problem for me at all. However, I realize I was completely wrong as I had to deliver a lot of speeches in front of class, which was a quite a struggle for me. Even though my English accent has gotten a lot better throughout the year, yet it would always get terrible during my speech as I was mispronouncing words constantly. Fortunately, I have came to realize that my accent would not be so bad if I memorize the speech instead of reading it out loud like how I usually would.

When it comes to public speaking, I tend to fumble my words. I do not always communicate my thoughts as I would like. In the past, I was hindered from public speaking due to my intense stage fright. Oddly enough, I am heavily involved at my church, and they have asked me to speak on several occasions over the course of this year. I did not ask for this, but I suppose it is God’s calling for me. I preached my first sermon at age seventeen in front of over 700 people. Shortly after, my high school asked me to speak in chapel for over 400 students around my age. Those are a few examples that have gotten me to this point, today. I have had very little professional instruction with public speaking, so I anticipate learning a great amount this year, including: word flow, different tactics, memorization, and gaining more confidence. I do not enjoy public speaking but I feel it is necessary for my career. I truly am a living, breathing paradox.

There is no question that after giving about four speeches, I have become a much better overall public speaker. In the beginning of the semester, I would tend to get nervous during some of my speeches and consequently the delivery of my speech would be greatly affected. If I had made a mistake, my level of nervousness would drastically increase and I wouldn’t know how to correct it. Although today I have improved on these aspects. Normally in order to control my nerves I try to think as positively as possible. This is critical because when I start to think even a little bit negatively then I severely hurt my chances of giving a good speech. Instead today, my main priority is to stay very confident and tell myself that I’m going to perform fine.

Whether I like it or not I been given the opportunity to talk to large crowds like a squadron or just a couple of people in the class. My problems have always been the same getting shy, anxiety, and even sweating. Learn to analyze the size of the audience, I want to be able to captivate my audience and overall I just need to find the confidence in myself to do it.

Depending on the words you choose for a speech it can change the perspective of the audience. Make sure you choose wisely. You never know what you may accidently create it could be war or peace. You can still speak your mind but, you need to be careful how you present it. If there was a roomful of Catholic people you would not go into the room and mention how you hate God and that he or she is the worst thing to believe in. You should stick appropriate material for speech for the audience. You do not have to believe in God to present a speech to a group of Christians. It is a powerful statement when the book refers to “that all the threads of the tapestry are equal no matter what their color.” Page 37 The Public Speaking Playbook By Gamble.

The third chapter of a Pocket Guide to Public Speaking is about anxiety in relations to

Through my four years of high school I have achieved many goals, and one goal would have to be the time I got chosen to be Vice President of Health Occupations Students of America at United High School. This achievement brought a positive effect to my family and I. Many might say that applying for this position was a piece of cake, but in reality it was a long process to be where I am right now. Till this day this organization has been lifted and will still continue

Public speaking is a fear faced by over 75% of the Earth’s population. In fact, 5.3 million of Americans today face social phobia and speech anxiety. Commonly referred to as “glossophobia”, speech anxiety is fear people face when delivering speeches and/or lectures to large audiences. The article, “Conquer Fear of Public Speaking through Emotional Intelligence”, written by Gleb Tsipursky, provides people with expert advice on how to conquer their speech anxiety. As someone who presents ideas and projects on a daily basis, I have started to conquer my speech anxiety. When I first moved to Hillsborough in 2013, I was petrified when delivering my student council speech. No one knew me, and I only had a scant amount of friends. I patently remember being extremely

There are two major accomplishments that I consider important. One is the successful completion of military service. The two years I served in the 2nd Infantry Division gave me an unparalleled experience that cultivated me with a capacity for duty, respect, courage, loyalty, and integrity, but most importantly, I learned to pursue my goals relentlessly with great discipline. Another is recently completing a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies. The program equipped me with knowledge and skills to use interdisciplinary approaches and systems thinking in analyzing environmental issues.

An accomplishment I have made is winning first place at my local first aid and CPR competition and then I advanced to regionals.

Experience: My proudest accomplishment was the time I was volunteering at the hospital in the ER neuro department. A stroke patient came in and after I finished doing my scope of the analysis on the patient the family called me over and they had a few questions and seemed to be worried. I told them what the doctors had described and helped console them and that made the whole family feel much better. I still feel proud for+ doing this because I could understand their pain and I wanted to provide them comfort as seeing your loved ones in pain is a very hard thing to endure. It made me feel very happy knowing that they were able to experience some relief.

An accomplishment to me was getting on the varsity football team. I decide to play football towards the end of summer practice so I had to work hard to get on varsity. I was really out of shape compared to everyone else. I was put in the JV locker room so I knew i had to work very hard to get go varsity. The day everyone was getting there pads coach told me I was going to be in the JV locker room since I came late. Coach wanted me to go for varsity center It’s not what I wanted to play. He said i was in a fight for that spot.So i moved my stuff into the varsity locker. The next following a boy on JV got mad that I was on Varsity and called his mom so I had to go back in the JV locker. For the next 3 weeks I worked really hard on learning

My friends said to me where do I see myself in 10 years? This made me really have to think to myself and really give it some time to sink in what I really wanted to do. I came to the conclusion that I wanted to prove to my family and

to graduate. The thing was I trying to work around my everyday schedule, making sure I did all