When I first joined Toastmasters in 2010, I thought I’d learn how to mentally force myself to have zero butterflies before getting up to speak.
But that never happened.
Speaking while nervous is how I got through the 10 prepared speeches in my Toastmasters Competent Communicator speaking manual.
I use a 1-2-3-punch combination of:
It’s important that the combo starts with inhaling. This combo acts as a re-set back to confidence.
For more than half of my life I HATED drinking plain ol’ water. It was tasteless and boring as fuck!!!
Then, 21 years ago, Bill Phillips’ Body-for-Life challenge convinced me that water was one of the secret ingredients to bodybuilding and fat-lose.
I was NOT happy. Water sucked. But I started each day with 2 cups of plain ol’ water. And it sucked. I hated it, but drank the water while bitching about drinking the water.
The goal was 8 cups of water per day – with no sweetener. An IMPOSSIBLE task for me at the time. Now, it’s like clockwork.
Check what the muthafuckin’ record just said, man.
Slip to the books chump, betta find another can.
Killin’ muthafuckas just tryin’ a throw a juice, man?
Spreadin’ to the head blast, record for the devils’ can.
Kiss, cut, cry, kill; muthafuckin’ bullet fill.
Dabble death, trigger will, betta shot, betta kill.
Muthafuckin’ asshole, betta chill the fuck show.
Never know the time of day, bullet finds its own way.
You are not my happiness, but I have joy from you.
You are not my stability, but I have balance from you.
You are not my confidence, but I have strength from you.
You are not my lover, but I have romance from you.
It’s too rare an emotion,
too rare a friendship,
too rare an understanding.
Few moments in life are worth crying with,
but you are definitely one of them.
And when the time comes
that I can no longer hold your hand
and tell you I love you,
my heart will cry with pain
and my skin will grow cold,
and I will quietly die.