PUBLIC MOVES

As you practice, imagine your audience in front of you. Begin practicing from your full outline, then move gradually to your key word outline as the other becomes imprinted in your mind. Maintain eye contact with your imaginary listeners, just as you will during the actual presentation. Look around the room so that everyone feels included in your message. Try to be enthusiastic about what you are saying. Let your voice suggest that you are confident. Strive for variety and colour in your vocal presentation avoid speaking a monotone, which never changes pace or pitch, Pause to let important ideas sink in. Let your face, body, and voice respond to your ideas as you utter them.

Form the habit of scheduling all that you have to do each day. On a big pad paper, write down ALL tasks you have to complete or wish to do. Opposite each task, place the deadline or ideal time. Make sure you listed every task you could think of. Then re-arrange these tasks into a day-to-day set of schedules, one piece of paper each. On each paper, write down all the morning tasks, then afternoon tasks and the evening tasks. II1CILIdC your classes and home chores at given hours. Fill in every hour with self-assigned activities. Make sure it makes sense. If you are going to class, for example, do not assign a morning task at any other time.
Check or OK a task as you accomplish it. You will get a satisfactory feeling each time you do this, and it will serve as encouragement for you to accomplish the rest. What you are unable to finish up to evening should spill over to the next day. Do not lose your task schedules when you make a week’s schedule or when reconciling tasks. Whenever you have the chance, do a whole month’s task schedule and piece this into weekly schedules and incorporate each task into the daily schedules, wherever they fit. In time, this will form into a clever task-organizing habit that will prove very helpful in your studies and in the performance of any other task, whether within a deadline or at free time.