Of Public Speaking

 Once upon a time, I used to feign sickness whenever I had to speak in class. I recall one particular instance where I was called upon by one of my primary school teachers during an afternoon mental session to recite something. I think it was the arithmetical table. 

This teacher had observed that over some period of time, I had always taken ill suddenly when we had to recite anything in class. And he wasn't going to let me off the hook this fateful day. Oh my, oh my!

Apparently, I was confident in my knowledge of the time table figures until I was called. It is as if when you stood up, all your ideas and answers went down.  

So here I was standing in front of the class. Long story short. I burst out in tears because I couldn't recall it. It was such a shame. 

It broke my confidence to its lowest degree. But I gradually grew strong because some other teachers gave me the opportunity to speak in class and I got better with time. 

At some point, I developed an affinity for words. I would often write new word I learnt and put them into practice immediately. 

I felt I was on cloud nine each time I used them to express myself correctly until one day I used a word wrongly in front of my seniors. 

Your guess is as good as mine. They laughed at me on that day and every other day until I was shy to even speak again. 

But would that stop me? NO! I took every opportunity the teachers gave me. I recall preaching in class or teaching my class whenever a teacher was out of class. Of course, they instructed me to do such. 

And after many years of teaching and preaching and speaking I can do it effortlessly. Actually, I have been doing it over a decade officially. I have had the chance to grace many conference, church and campus stages and  learnt the tricks, tactics and techniques and I want to teach you on May 11th, 2019. 

Why not sign up and learn from a seasoned speaker? I will be willing to coach you into greatness. Be my guest.