There is an interesting lesson we learned in our early elementary school years that has managed to cause more negative results than the positive results for which it was intended.  In 2nd or 3rd grade, our teachers taught us to wait until we came to the end of the sentence before taking a breath, thereby ensuring smooth-flowing sentences.

Admittedly, many young children audibly breathe throughout their sentences resulting in choppiness when reading out loud.

While good...

Sometimes your voice is really deep and has bass in it, especially when you just get up from sleep. You can notice, when I talk to women with such a deep voice, they react immediate!

Unfortunately it's not like this all the time for most people! As far as I'm concerned you can't ever talk deep enough as a guy! What are the best ways to deepen your voice so it sounds really good to listen to? Well, this is million dollar question.

1-As you may already know, while we...

How many times have you heard about the Hidden Laws of Attraction and The Secrets of Deliberate Creation, but still never found out what they are?  The truth of the matter is that the Laws of Attraction are always at work, but no one ever really breaks the laws down so that they make sense.

There are 11 Primary Hidden Laws of Attraction and the first 6 of those laws are the Secret of Deliberate Creation. Let’s look at the first 6 Laws one at a time and I’ll give...

You have to understand that if you are a professional speaker, you are not just in the speaking business. You are in the business of marketing your speaking services.

Your public speaking skills can only take you so far but it is not until you learn to become an excellent marketer that you will reap the awesome financial rewards of public speaking. The key to acquiring engagements is through networking and employing appropriate marketing strategies.

So if you want to get...

As a voice specialist, I have known for many years that a good voice improvement course can be an excellent means of accent reduction.  Yesterday, I received an email from a Taiwanese man studying in Boston.  His 1st language is Mandarin Chinese; and, he has been enrolled in an accent reduction course for the past 4 months.  He noticed, however, that something was still missing:

1. his inability to increase his volume without his accent returning; and,

In the world in which we leave in today, people will normally judge you according to so many different factors. However, your voice tone is one of the most noticeable things which people unconsciously access what a kind of person you are. The way your voice sounds can say a lot about a person's personality and how they are feeling at the given time of talking. That is why speaking voice training has become so important these days.

There a number of deep voice training...

If you are searching for tips to developing a deep voice , then this article may help you out somehow. First things first: why do people want to deepen their voices in the first place? What is so special with deep voices that voice deepening have become really so popular in recent years?

It is really simply to answer this question. More and more people have realized that people with deep voices have an edge over people with normal or squeaky voices. 98% of women for example,...

OrHow to Meet People on the Internet or Anywhere Else Ever {Part 2}

Last post we talked about some reasons why you might not want to go up to random people on the street. Today I plan to tell you about how to avoid these fears and allow yourself to start conversations.

You need to take a deep breath

Some people are naturally kind of wary when going up to new people. You should work on calming yourself down before you make your move.

The best way to...

What is the most important thing you should do at the lectern, in the boardroom, or at a sales presentation?  Is it to know your material?  No.  Is it to have the most thoughtful, well-planned script?  No.  Could it be to use facial expression and body language in your delivery?  No.  Perhaps it is to be yourself?  No.

For most people in public speaking, the one thing we never do, never think to do, and don’t know how to do properly is...

Talking is my drug of choice. Wanna chat? I always do. I can talk folks into complete submission and numbness on a good day (which is most days). I'm a notorious over-sharing TMI sort of person. And, when I go over the edge, it's not really communication, it's blasting away with a bullhorn.

That's all well and good, but it means I have to become an adroit listener too. That's the hardest part of communication: being a good listener. Some days I am better at it than others. But,...