Use This Successful Strategy To Improve Your Speech

We people who have to prepare to speak before other people often find themselves in a place of gridlock. The fear of being repetitive and boring stares you in the face. I constantly am working on preparing free sermon outlines. So I understand what its like to deal with brain freeze in speech preparation.

How do you put this fear in its place and develop a speech that is unique and dynamic. May I suggest that you use your senses to help you describe whatever it is you are talking about. I’ll spend more time on the first one and then you can apply it to the rest where I will just share an example or two.

1. The Sense of Sight

When you are making your speech, think of how you can visually describe what you are wanting to get across. Let’s use an example throughout this article to help illustrate the points. Let’s imagine you are giving a speech about how to deal with stress.

In what way could you visually describe stress so that it becomes something your audience can see.

If stress were a car, what kind would it be and what would it look like? Stress could be a NASCAR car with its engine maxed out going over 200 MPH dodging and darting through traffic and one wreck after another just trying to survive and win the race while doing it.

Stress could be dump truck going up a long steep incline loaded to the axle, downshifting every few yards trying to make it to the top.

You can think of other examples. By employing these word pictures, your audience will connect and enjoy thinking of something so common in a new way.

This really helps me in my free online bible study. Try using this method and see if your verbal barrages begin to improve.

Go ahead, play with it! Stress could be an insect. Stress could be a favorite toy. Stress could be a soft drink. Knock the socks of your boredom and use your eyes to describe stress.

2. The Sense of Smell
The same is applicable to the other senses. Think of how you can describe your topic in terms of smell.

You can make it a favorite perfume or something that stinks. To stick with the example, how would you describe stress in terms of scent.

Stress is like driving by a dairy farm (visual) and then the scent comes into the car. It begins as a slightly discomforting smell and then proceeds to gag you, so you speed up to get through it. Similar to day a work!

You can come up with other examples, you get the drift, pun intended.

3. The Sense of Sound
Stress is like an alarm clock set on snooze, the longer it goes on, the more disturbing it becomes. It also begins to annoy everyone else in the house.

4. The Sense of Taste
Stress is like eating jalapeno peppers. At first it doesn’t seem like it’s too bad. But keep at it and you’ll be up all night paying the price.

5. The Sense of Touch
Stress is like grabbing onto a live wire. You know its going to kill you if you don’t let go, but you can’t. You need help!

This little tactic can go a long way to breaking you out of the gridlock of boredom.

For the self discovery - read about emotional freedom technique.