Put chutzpah in your life.

Every session I end with something new in my mind to think about. Maybe a speech, an expression or a word. This week I found chutzpah. That word was one that made me think about a lot on my way home. As we said in another article, the wings of the butterfly are still moving and creating that continuous movement and is moving on to unknown places. It is the opportunity to acquire that needed fuel that can ignite your energy every day.

There are times that if you stay too much in your comfort zone, time will pass away and also opportunities would not visible for you and never be back again. Staying out of that zone will bring different ideas and results and you might correct, confirm or change your point of view. Speak in front of an audience and don’t let the fear of criticism control you.

Sometimes when you stand in front of an audience it is the most feared thing in life. It is known as, Glossophobia, fear of public speaking. At those situations, we try to do our best and improve every time.

We think that we perform very well in our professional lives, and maybe we do, but feedback on how was our performance is something that usually never happens and often it comes only from our bosses when they are firing us.

A toastmaster group can help you to find the nerve to stay on the stage and speak every time with more confidence and working on the weak points. The methodology it has is a proven one that once followed will take you to unthinkable situations you never thought.

So if you feel that when you speak to an audience you feel very confident and without any anxiety for the results of the talk, also Toastmasters can help you to polish and learn of tools and strategies to captivate the audience with a stronger and effective message.

I came to some of these thoughts after seeing, again, an old film; “The Wizard of Oz”.

The cowardly lion said; Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?