TWO CENTS
Once a week, we select your best comments and ideas, and incorporate them into a new feature called TWO CENTS. It will be your writings (edited only if they make no sense as written) and posted here for all in the world of cyberspace to see. Not that this will make any of you a bigger star than I- but it certainly is a crumb that I humbly feel (as a once-mighty media-giant) I should be doing in order to get any of the extra Karma crumbs emanated from this huge and courageous gesture.
Today's TWO CENTS was sent from an off/on blog regular, Choolie. I like it because she shows me in a nice light.
Laquidara on (gulp) Public Speaking
If you're like me, and get knots in your stomach at the thought of speaking publicly (whether it's a wedding toast, a eulogy for a dear friend or family member, your turn to say "grace" in front of 12 dinner guests, or a play which you have somehow been cast in) you might appreciate the advice our Humble Blog Host gave me in a recent e-mail- I asked Charles how to keep it under control in front of a crowd. This is what he replied, and I think it'll help me next time I've gotta stand up there... maybe it'll help you, too.
-choolie
"Choolie:
Anyone who says they are not scared is lying. The best thing I can tell you is the truth. Think about it this way: When you, yourself, are deeply engrossed in a movie, do you give two shits if the actor is or is not nervous? I think not. No one really cares about you and your personal inadequacies or lack of confidence. So, just put your head in the best place you can, and know that everyone out there is not really thinking about YOU- but the character you are playing, and the storyline they are watching unfold, and the movie they are trying to follow. All they ask is that you don't let your scared little ego get in the way of the ride they're on. What was that Nike ad?
"Just do it. "
Then get the fuck off the stage."
-Charles