Thursday, September 6, 2007
Almost most of us wish Good Luck to each other whenever some need arises. All students appearing for the examinations get Good Luck wishes from well-wishers. Anybody appearing for an interview will get his/her share of good wishes. We wish those who are going for surgery. Good Luck wishes have become very common and they connect us with the cause of one who we are wishing. What we are saying is this - Please go ahead. I want you to get success and I am with you in this. My wishes are with you. I wish that you succeed. Please view some Good Luck ecards here - Good Luck Ecards, All The Best eCards and Free eCards.
Do wishes work? For example, if thousands of people wish that a person recovered from a serious disease, will that work? These wishes are like small prayers. Most of the religions believe that prayers are heard and answered. Recently, in a scientific study it was concluded that prayers might not be working. But how far is every scientific inquiry accurate? Don't scientists change their opinions?
Wishes and prayers give a great strength to everyone. It is a method of telling - You are not alone. We all are also with you. The almighty is with you and will surely hear our prayers and help. Imagine a student appearing for an examination. He/she has received many Good Luck eCards and is feeling happy that so many people wish that he/she succeeded. Will that not help? Good Luck ecards help in many ways and at various mental levels. Please use them as frequently as possible. Whether, it is a friend, a neighbor or a business associate, send one. You will be helping them and making friends for life. You will also feel very good after sending the ecards. Whenever we give something without expecting any return, we feel good. Use Good Luck ecards and bring a cheer on some faces.
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Test Your Impatience
Patience is said to be a great virtue. How many of us are patient? For example, you need immediate medical attention and you reach your Doctor after calling him/her up. You find that you will have to wait for one hour. What would be your reaction/ would you take a magazine and begin reading or walk around impatiently?
All of us lose our patience at some point of time in our life. Some of us do it very quickly. For others it needs something big to disturb otherwise they are patient all the times. What is your patience? Have you thought about it? Certain ties in life, we can do nothing, but we still act impatiently. That does not help at all. It may hurt us.
What if you are stuck in a traffic jam? You want to reach for a meeting, but the traffic refuses to move because of some mishap ahead. Will acting impatiently help? No. It would be better to get cool and listen to some music or make notes of your work or plan of other things. Take this time as a gift and use it positively. This depends on us. Find out about your personality with these tests and quizzes - Are you short tempered?, Are you an analytical thinker? and How well do you handle a crisis?
Success comes easily to those who understand their emotions and don't let the emotions overwhelm them always. One who is always driven by emotions meets failures from time to time. We have to apply our mind and analyze every situation. We have to react after that. We have been given the ability to react by nature. Touch any hot object and you will get away immediately. That is natural. But reacting immediately in every situation can be bad for our career and home life. Patience plays a very important role in that.
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How Certain Mental Preparation is Vital in Improving Your Speech
1. General Knowledge. An ideal orator is necessarily a man of extensive knowledge.
According to the ancients he should be well-grounded in religion, law, philosophy,
history, logic, and numerous other subjects. Cicero, in speaking of the incredible
magnitude and difficulty of the art as a reason for the scarcity of orators, says: "A
knowledge of a vast number of things is necessary, without which volubility of words
is empty and ridiculous; speech itself is to be formed, not merely by choice, but by
careful construction of words; and all the emotions of the mind, which nature has
given to man, must be intimately known; for all the force and art of speaking must
be employed in allaying or exciting the feelings of those who listen. To this must be
added a certain portion of grace and wit, learning worthy of a well-bred man, and
quickness and brevity in replying as well as attacking, accompanied with a refined
decorum and urbanity. Besides, the whole of antiquity and a multitude of examples
are to be kept in the memory; nor is the knowledge of laws in general, or of the civil
law in particular, to be neglected.''
Modern writers on this subject, however, do not demand so much of an orator.
Bautain says: 'The orator's capital is that sum of science or knowledge which is
necessary to him in order to speak pertinently upon any subject whatever; and
science or knowledge is not extemporized. Although knowledge does not give the
talent for speaking, still he who knows well what he has to say, has many chances of
saying it well, especially if he has a clear and distinct conception of it."
2. Memory. An orator should have a good memory. If naturally defective, it can be
greatly improved by judicious exercise. There are numerous systems for training the
memory, but only a few suggestions can be offered here.
Correct methods of study and observation will produce a good memory. The habit of
careful selection should be cultivated, as only a limited amount of new material can
be assimilated at one time. To read large amounts of matter one does not care to
remember is harmful to the memory. The aim should always be to secure distinct
images and ideas. There should be a deep interest in what is read. Committing to
memory lines of prose and poetry will do much to strengthen a weak memory.
3. Rhetoric. An orator must have a thorough and practical knowledge of rhetoric.
Cicero says that writing is the best and most excellent modeler and teacher of
oratory. "For," says he, "if what is meditated and considered easily surpasses sudden
and extemporary speech, a constant and diligent habit of writing will surely be of
more effect than meditation and consideration itself; since all the arguments relating
to the subject on which we write, whether they are suggested by art, or by a certain
power of genius and understanding, will present themselves, and occur to us, while
we examine and contemplate it in the full light of our intellect; and all thoughts and
words, which are the most expressive of their kind, must of necessity come under
and submit to the keenness of our judgment while writing; and a fair arrangement
and collocation of the words is effected by writing in a certain rhythm and measure,
not poetical, but oratorical.''
Doctor Channing, in suggesting the use of the pen, says: "We doubt whether a man
ever brings his faculties to bear with their whole force on a subject until he writes
upon it. ... By attempting to seize his thoughts, and fix them in an enduring form, he
finds them vague and unsatisfactory, to a degree which he did not suspect, and toils
for a precision and harmony of views, of which he never before felt the need."
One should aim to acquire a wide vocabulary. There is intrinsic pleasure in the study
of words and their finer shades of meaning. The consciousness of a thorough
mastery of language, too, gives confidence to the speaker, while adding force and
accuracy to his utterance. Webster's masterly style is due in large measure to his
daily habit of studying the dictionary. For rhetorical and oratorical improvement, one
should read and closely analyze the writings of the best authors, then endeavor to
write out in one's own words what has been read. Reading aloud every day passages
from the masters of oratory will gradually cultivate an oratorical style.
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