Toastmasters Speech 1: The Ice Breaker
Fear is the key
--- Rishi Verma
Hello, Toastmasters! I went through the manual and figured out that it mainly talks about building confidence to speak and getting rid of stage fear. To be succinct it talks about “Start”.
That made me inquisitive about the simple word “Start”, In fact it opened a new realm of understanding the word start. Before I talk about that, What comes to your mind or how do you feel, when you think about word “Start”. (Let the audiences get involved)
Well if I will marshal these thoughts of all of you,
It means Fear for someone of us, may be fear of the unknown in the equation when I am starting something new, marriage, relationship or may be a new job. For some it might mean Excitement, to do something new , actually try something new, try a new car, try a new cuisine. Well it makes you feel filled with sanguinity and vigor from top to bottom. You feel your heart pumping blood fast, you feel excited ( Motivate and make the audiences feel the pitch). You feel +ve energy all around you. You feel that moon of the night which makes you feel cool is in your nerves along with morning sun which makes you perfectly warm..not hot not cold.. you feel that..I feel that. This, energy when properly channelized works wonders. How many of you have felt that before ?
Lets talk about Fear, Most of us feel that too. I talked about fear of talking, fear of trying something new. Fear of speech, fear of job etcetera etcetera. Can you guys connect? Can you guys feel the paucity or uncertainty over finances which drives some of you to come to job daily. The fear which stops you to try a new relationship. I hope all of you must be well connected (Change the voice and smile).
Let us try, in this way. How many of us like sweet and salty food may be like lime soda? Cool...
Obviously, you know that sweet is Excitement and salt is... (let the audiences answer) , today we gonna consider opposite. Well, we must surpass the world where people used had the cliché, The glass is half filled with water and don't visualize it as half empty. Well obviously it shows a lots of positivity to say half filled of water. Reason, half filled if “+ve”! However, who said it is only half filled? Well its half filled with water and half filled with air. And my fellow Toastmasters “Air” was never negative! In fact it 100 times more essential than water. But we compared “Air” with negativity/fear. Was it right? If you take me, I am a similar kinda person who likes to takes things positive around myself.
What are we missing here? We need to understand, that actually fear is an integral part of life and its not negative. Fear is at par with excitement! So next time you are in a situation of conundrum, take fear as more essential one than excitement. Rate it sweet! Make it as a driving factor and don’t take fear or dilemma as negative. It was never negative! Since a person missed the train, does it makes the train negative? So, if you have to try a new job and you are fearful of that. Wh`at is negative in this? Job , you or something else. Frankly, speaking nothing is -ve here. Its only about touching upon all flavors of life as that keeps us satiated. That's what I am doing now, I am trying to enjoy my fear of stage and I am pretty excited to speak here. I am not a “Mozart of this trade”, However, you can for sure take it as a advice for all of you hesitated to stand up, we need to start and speak!
And that’s all which describes me. I am a person of the same nature,,,
Thanks a lot, You guys are such a wonderful audiences.
