Archive for January, 2010

Preparing an Effective Introduction for public speaking

The introduction to a speech should arouse your listeners’ interest, establish your credibility, and focus and preview your message. Some useful ways to introduce a speech include involving the audience, relating your subject to personal experience, asking rhetorical questions, creating suspense, telling a story using humor, beginning with a quotation, using a presentation aid, or startling the audience. As you build credibility, you also make possible identification between yourself and the audience.

Instill A Desire To Give Back

My daughter and I was inside the restaurant eating our snacks after we watched a movie. Suddenly, I noticed that my daughter was looking outside.
I did not asked anything about it but when we get out of the restaurant, I found out that she brought the left over food we ordered. Before she get inside the car, I saw her giving the left over food to the beggar. I was touched by her gesture to help the needy.

I remember my father in her. My father always impressed on us a social and moral responsibility over all the comfort we were blessed with in our lives.
He used to tell us then that “To whom much is given, much is expected from.” While your children are young introduce them to philantrophy.
Take time to do volunteer work. Teach them the importance of sharing and the personal rewards it brings.Set up foundations,
scholarship grants, and give to charitable institutions.

Children should know that not all rich and successful people started out that way — someone just believed in them and gave them a break.

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