Technique #31 Use Jawsmith’s Jive

Whether you're standing behind a podium facing

thousands or behind the barbecue grill facing your

family, you'll move, amuse, and motivate with the

same skills.

Read speakers' books to cull quotations, pull pearls

of wisdom, and get gems to tickle their funny bones.

Find a few bon mots to let casually slide off your

tongue on chosen occasions. If you want to be notable,

dream up a crazy quotable.

Make 'em rhyme, make 'em clever, or make 'em

funny. Above all, make 'em relevant.Naturally I got a pretty swollen head over this performance

and fancied myself an eminent poetry reader. I decided to reward

the passengers on the next cruise (which was a cruise to the

Caribbean and didn't go anywhere in the neighborhood of

England) with my spectacular reading of the English love poems.

WHAT A BOMB! Passengers avoided me on the deck for the rest

of the cruise. "How did you bore me? Let me count the ways."