Do you have ideas you’re trying to convey to others, and you just can’t seem to express yourself? Do you ever feel like you can’t even tell a story? You could be in the middle of telling a story, and you keep overexplaining and using way too many words. Or you never can get to …
Do you have ideas you attempt to convey that don’t come out the way you need them to? You’re in a meeting, you have something brilliant to say, and it doesn’t come out right. You may have spoken too fast, forgotten what you wanted to say, or the words just came out wrong! Or how …
Stress levels have been skyrocketing recently–to an exponential degree. Look back to 20 years ago. We thought we had stress then! The stress isn’t healthy for us, mentally or physically. What are the current solutions for stress? Well, you can get a massage, but that relief doesn’t last long. We can take prescription or non-prescription …
Why do the words not come out as they sound in my head? “I had it all figured out in my head. I knew exactly what I was going to say! Practiced it over and over in my head! But for some reason, it didn’t come out anything like I’d practiced! Why can’t I articulate …
People get furious at themselves when they don’t speak well in a meeting! Or if they don’t get their message across perfectly. People actually think they should be incredible communicators in high-stakes situations. The truth is they shouldn’t be excellent speakers. Unless they learned the techniques and learned how to put them into practice. “I’m …
The first part of this article addresses the fact that over-articulation, 5 dollar words & choppy speech doesn’t make you sound smart. I got a bit of negative feedback from that article! Some people took the title literally & told me just how much they love the Oxford comma! I want you to keep the love! …
Did you know that they used to teach children communication skills up until about 200 years ago? Yup. It was a priority. Children learned to make their case, the art of conversation (small talk), how to introduce themselves and others, and much more. Ever wonder why you have a hard time giving a presentation? Why …
It’s more complicated than you may think to speak clearly in all situations. So don’t be hard on yourself if you’re not always communicating well. Have you ever felt like you talk too fast or use too high of a pitch? Or maybe you use too many words and end up getting the glaze over, or your spouse gets …
Do you ever find yourself with good (or even brilliant!) ideas that you want to share, but when you try to articulate them, your message doesn’t come out as mellifluously as you imagined? Did you ever finish your presentation, sit down & later realize you forgot an important concept you wanted to deliver? Have you …
Let me tell you something right now: no one is born an incredible speaker. Even today, no one is a perfect communicator. The art of speaking is something humans are still mastering. Our species has only been speaking for about 50,000 years—a blink of an eye in the grand timeline of human evolution, which stretches …
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