You
have a
message
for your
speech.
You know
what you
want to
achieve
with
your
presentation,
but
you’re
stuck,
trying
to find
powerful
ideas
and
material
that
will
give
your
points
life?
Where
will you
find the
stimulus
to
develop
your
ideas?
The
answer
is right
there in
your
daily
life.
Here are
five
ordinary
places
that
will
yield up
gems
that
will
make
your
speech a
runaway
success.
Things
that you
do and
see and
say and
think
every
day will
provide
the
material.
It’s
just a
case of
articulating
what you
want to
achieve
and then
of
deliberately
looking
in these
places
with
that aim
in
mind.
The
Internet.
Obviously!
Enjoy
your
surfing,
but
let
it
wander
along
the
lines
of
the
main
aim
of
your
speech.
You
may,
in
fact,
be
taken
into
different
directions,
to
discover
even
better
ideas
and
themes.
Follow
links
that
look
interesting
or
promising.
Use
search
engines,
and
include
databases
and
blogs
in
your
searches
and
surfing.
Opinions
in
the
blogs
will
give
you
some
ideas
for
your
own
message,
and
the
links
will
lead
you
to
other
opinions,
and
sources
of
support
material.
Books.
You
are
reading
already.
Just
look
at
the
books
in
the
light
of
your
speech.
Think
about
books
you
have
read
in
the
past,
and
how
they
might
relate
to
your
themes
and
points.
Search
online
suppliers
like
Amazon.
Scour
the
local
library
–
reference
books,
fiction
and
non-fiction.
When
you
are
browsing
the
bookshops
and
second-hand
book
suppliers,
again,
keep
you
speech
ideas
in
the
front
of
your
mind
and
books
will
leap
out
of
the
piles
to
lead
you
to
things
you
can
use.
Magazines.
Again,
you
are
reading
these
already.
Look
at
them
from
the
slant
of
your
speech.
And
look
with
new
eyes
at
the
racks
in
the
newsagents,
the
library
and
the
train
stations.
If
you
are
speaking
regularly,
you
will
develop
the
habit
of
collecting
material
on
your
subject
areas
–
articles
from
magazines
or
the
internet,
quotes,
sayings
and
anecdotes.
Keep
a
paper
file
of
notes
and
save
useful
websites
in
your
favourites
file
or a
tagging
system
like
del.icio.us.
People.
Talk
with
them
about
the
subject
of
your
speech
in
your
ordinary
conversation
and
you
will
get
all
sorts
of
opinions
and
information.
You
cannot
interview
a
website
or
book
for
clarification
or
for
a
quirky
perspective
that
just
might
give
you
the
winning
angle
on a
topic.
Your
own
experiences.
Using
your
own
life
and
its
stories
is
one
of
the
most
powerful
tools
of
public
speaking.
Use
humorous
or
poignant
anecdotes.
Find
experiences
that
have
affected
you
or
your
friends
to
support
points
in
your
presentation.
Again,
you
can
look
back
to
the
past
for
examples.
But
looking
at
your
life
and
the
lives
of
the
people
you
know
and
see
and
interact
with
through
the
lens
of
your
speech
will
bring
out
all
sorts
of
relevant
and
thought-provoking
material.
There
are so
many
places
that
will
yield up
brilliant
ideas
for a
speech.
It’s
just a
case of
looking
– while
you are
surfing
the net,
while
you are
in the
library
or
reading
magazines,
while
you are
chatting,
and at
life in
general.
Create a
strong
picture
of where
you
might go
with the
speech
and let
it lead
you on.
Your
natural
creativity
will use
all of
these
sources
to put
together
a great
speech.
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