If you want to be a speaker, you have to speak.

If you want to be a speaker, you have to speak. Sitting in a Toastmasters meeting won’t make you a speaker any more than sitting in a hen house will make you a chicken. You have to speak!

When I was a young boy, I wanted to learn to ride a bicycle. I would get my bike out of the garage and try to ride it in the driveway. I’d make it a few feet and fall off. I’d do this for a half an hour, get tired of falling off and then put the bike back in the garage. I did this for weeks and I never learned to ride my bike...more