{"id":910,"date":"2009-02-15T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=910"},"modified":"2021-10-02T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:45:50","slug":"wake-up-move-your-heart-from-your-chest-to-your-mouth-and-into-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/02\/15\/wake-up-move-your-heart-from-your-chest-to-your-mouth-and-into-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up! Move Your Heart From Your Chest, To Your Mouth, and Into the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Written & Contributed by Bill Boulton<\/strong>
\nof The Speaking Husky<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“I have faced it, a life wasted and I’m never going back again.” – Pearl Jam<\/h2>\n

I wasted a few decades of my life.<\/b>I was sleep walking. Here’s why\u2014I was afraid of what \u201cthey\u201d might think. It was as if I were on an assembly line where some skilled mechanics had installed my lower body, and then the skilled mechanics bolted my upper body in place. Next, the expert mechanics put “what they thought” into my brain, and the fear of what \u201cthey might think,\u201d if I went against what \u201cthey wanted me to do.\u201d In the words of the Saints and poets of many cultures and creeds, I needed to \u201cwake up.\u201d To the possible horror of a Saint or 83, I \u201cwoke up\u201d at a Doors Of The 21st Century<\/i> concert. When my blog launches, I will tell you the full story, and no\u2026 I was not on any drugs, legal or illegal<\/b>. :)<\/p>\n

When I woke up from my nightmare,<\/b> I realized that I knew what I wanted to do with my life. After I wiped the sleep out of my eyes and drank a cup of strong tea, I began learning everything I could about the communication arts<\/b>. After giving many speeches for my Toastmasters group, several community groups, and training with motivational speaker, Kevin Bracy, a protege of Les Brown, I\u2019ve learned to share from my heart, despite what \u201cthey might think.\u201d Here\u2019s a few things I\u2019ve learned that will help you move your heart from your chest, to your mouth, and out into the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are serious about being a great communicator, you should join Toastmasters.\u201d – Kevin Bracy<\/h2>\n

My ultra-brief paraphrase of\u00a0 Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s excellent book, Outliers<\/i>, is this \u2013 \u201cPracticing whatever your passion is helps you get close to perfect, and 10,000 hours of practicing your passion makes you damn near perfect!\u201d Toastmasters is the best place<\/b> to do the practice that will make you a great communicator. In Toastmasters, point of view isn’t relevant. Constructive suggestions for improving speeches are given based on presentation not opinion. This no judgement of opinions rule helped me learn to say what I believed no matter what \u201cthey might think.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.\u201d – Will Rogers<\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s how I apply the wisdom of Will Rogers to my speaking\u2014I watch many videos on YouTube<\/b> of speakers whom I would like to emulate. Here are a few of the smarter speakers I hang out with: Martin Luther King Jr., Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Steve Jobs, and President Barack Obama. Who inspires you? Mother Teresa? President Ronald Reagan? Paul Hawken? Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher? Bill Gates? Someone else? It doesn\u2019t matter who it is as long as the speaker is positive, and the speaker inspires you! :)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had six hours to chop down a tree, I\u2019d spend the first four sharpening the axe.\u201d – Abraham Lincoln<\/h2>\n

All of us have spent our \u201cfour hours sharpening our axes\u201d on something close to our hearts. You may want to ask yourself this question\u2014What is the speech that I have spent all my life preparing for? Below this post, I have included links to three speeches that I believe are great examples of life preparation message speeches.<\/p>\n

If I can help you, please let me know<\/a>. I am always open to a great conversation about the communication arts. Was April 4th-5th, 1968 one of the greatest 24 hours of public speaking in the last century? I think it was. :)<\/p>\n

1968 \u2013 Martin Luther King\u2019s Prophetic Last Speech
\n Robert F. Kennedy On The Death Of MLK
\n Robert F. Kennedy On The Mindless Menace Of Violence<\/p>\n

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Written & Contributed by Bill Boulton<\/strong>
\nof The Speaking Husky<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“I have faced it, a life wasted and I’m never going back again.” – Pearl Jam<\/h2>\n

I wasted a few decades of my life.<\/b>I was sleep walking. Here’s why\u2014I was afraid of what \u201cthey\u201d might think. It was as if I were on an assembly line where some skilled mechanics had installed my lower body, and then the skilled mechanics bolted my upper body in place. Next, the expert mechanics put “what they thought” into my brain, and the fear of what \u201cthey might think,\u201d if I went against what \u201cthey wanted me to do.\u201d In the words of the Saints and poets of many cultures and creeds, I needed to \u201cwake up.\u201d To the possible horror of a Saint or 83, I \u201cwoke up\u201d at a Doors Of The 21st Century<\/i> concert. When my blog launches, I will tell you the full story, and no\u2026 I was not on any drugs, legal or illegal<\/b>. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}