Do you often get sleepy before you speak? Then you didn’t speak good? Maybe you’re not speaking with passion. And here are 7 tips to speak with passion. These tips are surely good.

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1. Make Your Own Style and Talk about It

Even if you don’t have any “special” skill, you can try to make your own style. Your own style becomes your “special” skill. You can start with a 60’s suit, with 60’s stage theme, and 60’s intro music--unique and retro-ism, right?

If you’re crazy enough, you can mix and match different and contradictory things into one, your style. You can wear prehistoric fur coat on a futuristic chromatic stage. But remember that strange and WEIRD things become popular in a short time, and they fall down in a short time too. So, try to make something unique, but not weird.

If you’ve already made and use your style on stage, you can try to talk about it to your audience. Maybe they’re not noticing your uniqueness. And talking about your unique style with audience is a great time to get feedback and critic for your unique style.

Please use a style you like, and ask feedback to your closest friends and families first, improve, and you’ll get your passion.

2. Make Sure You’ve Got Enough Rest

There is no doubt that your physical condition is the most influential aspect of your presentation. No one of the tips here will work for you if you’re not well-rested. You may experience sleepiness, dizzy head, and the consequence is that your mind isn’t there. Your mind is somewhere, far away from your real world, trying to make you fall asleep.

Make sure you’ve got enough rest.

3. Loose Your Mind

My dad once told me, “when you’re in vacation, loose your mind from those pressuring things like school work and anything. Just enjoy this moment.”

This is one of the most beautiful secret of confidence. Just try to live in this moment, in this second. Loose your mind, get rid of those pressuring things like homework, any kind of things to do. Then you’ll enjoy every second of your life.

Note: I recommend you to use only few hours of your life to think about your future. You can manually schedule it. Maybe sometimes before you sleep. Then you can save the rest to do and to think about present life.

4. Be Nice to Everyone

Think that everyone here--I mean, on and around the stage--is a great person who loves to discuss something, and always has something to share with you, no matter whether he is your enemy, your girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend or something. Then, be nice to everyone. Talk about things passionately. Everyone will loves you, because you love them back.

5. NEVER Get Embarrassed

Whether you’ve slipped in a front of thousand audiences, don’t get embarrassed. This will psychologically lower your confidence and destroy the entire show. Actually, people still like you when you do embarrassing things.

So, when you’ve slipped in a front of thousand audiences, please don’t get embarrassed. Indeed, laugh with the audience. Share this moment with others. And maybe then you can say sorry, and laugh, and say that was an accident, but it was funny, tough. Then you and the audience laugh again.

6. Give Credit To Everyone in Charge

Respecting other is the fastest way to get respected. Giving credit to everyone who had helped you in your presentation is a way to respect others. Of course they (at least some of them) will respect you back. Do you know how it feels when you get respected by someone? It is relieving, and it increases your confidence.

7. This Presentation Is Not A Job To Do

Every great public speaker never do a presentation like a job. They do it passionately, a.k.a. just for fun. They know they’ll get fame and money, but they somehow still speak just for their own fulfillment. And I recommend you to do the same.

Yeah, that’s all the tips to speak passionately. Remember that everything you do must come with passion. Great things come from great works.

Thanks for reading!