Spice Your Speech!

By Kenneth Boemah

Do you experience stage fright, or are you not confident about where to begin or even what to say when called upon to deliver a speech?

If you experience any of the above then this book is a must-read for you. For some, stage fright can be completely devastating and nerve-wracking.

Public speaking has often been thought of as a gift – but with this book as a companion, anyone and that means truly anyone, can become a confident, crowd-pleasing and effective public speaker.

The book anchors you and provides you with a starter, in the form of quotations and anecdotes on perseverance, courage, leadership and inner strength from world experienced speakers and motivators. These anecdotes could be described as “strategic messages” that will help you have an easy take off when delivering a speech since getting started is the most challenging part of speech delivery.

The book prepares you to deliver a speech on any platform, be it social, educational, political, sporting, church and many more.

Certainly, you will find this book a formula for success as far as public speaking goes.

Dr Kenneth K.K. Boemah has been a teacher, a civil servant and also worked in the corporate world. It is his passion for excellence in whatever he does and having seen speakers challenged locally and on his overseas trips, that ushered him into coming up with this compendium to help readers deliver speeches effectively.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kenneth Boemah
• Release date: May 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463620403

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Spice Your Speech!

Spice Your Speech!

Kenneth Boemah

Copyright © 2019 Kenneth Boemah

Published by Kenneth Boemah Publishing at Smashwords

First edition 2019

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Foreword

The enthusiasm to engage in this work, which is predominantly the collection of speeches, quotations and proverbs, dates back to my boyhood days when I was growing up under my father’s tutelage.

My dad prepared a chalkboard and titled it ‘Every Day’s Quotation’. It was my singular duty to look around for quotations, from magazines, newspapers, books and what have you, and write that quotation of the day on the board each morning, before I even had a bath.

This practice continued until I reached middle school and had to leave for boarding school. This was a habit I acquired as a child, so it became a part of me even into my teenage years. The spill-over effect is what culminated in this work, titled Spice Your Speech.

As I became an adult, I have been privileged to have read and listened to several motivational speakers, like Dr Myles Munroe, Les Brown, Anthony Robbins, Dr Tibane and many others. Inspired by the writings and talks of other great personalities, I started thinking of how one could put all these people’s ideas into one book to make for easy access and reference, particularly when one has to give a speech. It is this thought that finally gave birth to this work. Though the collection forms a very minute part of the dream, I still believe this collection will make some impact.

The work contains incredible success stories from some of the most famous people who turned their failures into extraordinary successes, against all odds. As one reads some of these stories, one will discover that success is possible for anyone and I say anyone despite the challenges or circumstances. Furthermore, it includes lessons on leadership, teamwork, change and perseverance.

I cherish the hope that this collection will travel the globe so that the purpose for which it was compiled will be realised, thereby fulfilling my childhood dreams as well.

Acknowledgements

I have, in many ways, tried to give my own perspective on the quotations cited.

I wish to acknowledge the following authors whose works I have used and people whose stories were told to me personally and have found their way into this collection: Frank Furness, Napoleon Hill, Joyce Meyer, Martin Luther King jnr, Jerome Edmondson, Chuck Norris, Sunday Times (RSA), Giovann Garcia, Craig B Larson, Joel Weldon, J McIntosh and Rev. JoAnn (Ananda Polito), Dr Myles Munroe, Chritianity.about.com, Erica Jong, Glen Hopkins, Tom Zeleznock, Dr Mani, Rev. OJ Tselapedi, Dr Nomusa Mthembu, The Guardian, G.R Fisher, Malcolm X, Napoleon, Dr Phil McGraw, King James Version of the Bible, Christopher Morley, Alexander Graham Bell, Robin Sharma, Colin Powell, Robert Kiosaki, Albert Pine, Johann W. von Goethe, Robert Reich, JF Kennedy, Mahatma Ghandi, Alan Clarke, Henry Kissinger, Helen Keller, Margaret Thatcher, Bernard Shaw, Dr Myles Munroe, John Maxwell, Gloria Allred, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt, David J Lieberman, Jonne Donne, Dr Randy Pausch, Red Allen, Kohima Epitaph, Washington Irving, George Bernard Shaw, Nelson Mandela, JJ Rawlings, Walt Whitman, George Fisher, Isaac Newton, John Maxwell, Albert Einstein, Jim Collins, Pastor Joel Austin, Stephen R Covey, Henry W Longfellow, Thomas Morton, Abraham Lincoln, L. Stephens Richardson, Asiedu Nketiah, James Allen, William G Jordan, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, Desmond Tutu, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, Henry Ford, Joel Weldom, Robert Half, President Tubman, Franz Fanon, and Lao Tse.

Their books and their personal stories told to me have, in many ways, made me a different person. For this, I am supremely grateful.

Dedication

This work is dedicated to my daughter, Sela