Mesmerizing Bagel Talk

I feel exultant this morning (Sunday, October 7)!  I attended the Bagel Talk Toastmasters Club this morning at 9:30 AM. I was one of the 3 speakers scheduled for today. The word of the day was "exultant."

In order to bring history to life I performed a dramatic speech, entitled Franz Anton Mesmer, A Magnetic Personality. I mistakenly thought that everyone knew who he was. All the hypnotists that I am acquainted with know that he is considered the father of hypnosis. For more info, please see my other blog, Musinglog, entitled "A Mesmerizing Personality"(I changed the title). So I learned something today, never to assume people know something.

Even so, it went well, and I won the Best Speaker Award for today! That's way I started out with feeling exultant!

I was working on being more dramatic and flamboyant, like Mesmer was. That's what I love about Toastmasters. You can learn so much and have a blast doing it. But you have to actually speak in public in order to get more confident speaking in public. I dropped Speech when I was in college, because I was afraid to do a 3 minute speech. Now I truly enjoy it. Yes, I enjoy it!

If you want to develop your own unique voice, come to Bagel Talk on sunday morning at 9:30 at

Inn on the Pond

in Clearwater Florida!