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1. Hello Friends!
2. Are you the man with the fifty-dollar bill?
3. Preparing Oral Presentations
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1. Hello friends!

I hope you and your family are healthy and well.

Summer is typically an off-time for professional speakers because most groups and organizations do not schedule events due to vacations. But not to worry, the members of Fine Speakers Bureau continue to be available for speaking engagements and other programs.

Here are some updates from Bureau members.

On April 20, I had fun presenting "How to Prepare and Deliver Effective Speeches to Get What You Want" at the Mid-Atlantic Region Safety, Health and Wellness Expo in Atlantic City, NJ. A few days later, on May 12, I was back in A.C. again doing the same presentation at the annual conference of the New Jersey Water Environmental Association. And I am scheduled to do it again In Atlanta, GA on September 12 at the annual conference of the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals.

Deborah Clark attended the Henderson Writers Group Conference in Las Vegas last month.. While there she had a session with several writers to help them prepare for their Sales Pitch session with prospective publishers. This month she  presented an inspirational workshop on personal development featuring her book "Life Choices" at the Toastmasters District 83 Spring conference in  East Hanover, NJ.

Ritu Chopra was just booked for two keynote speeches. The first one, entitled "Mastering Life," draws from her experience and wisdom which she shares in the book of the same title. It will be presented in June at the Emmanuel Cancer Foundation in Scotch Plains, NJ. The second one will be about managing emotions and change, to be presented in August at the district conference of female correctional officers in Jacksonville, FL.

Richard Paino will be presenting a program on July 10 for a group of professionals.

Best regards,
...Prokopis Christou
2. Are you the man with the fifty-dollar bill?
Excerpt from "Helps to Happiness," by Nicias Ballard Cooksey, 1916

One summer day, between the hours of twelve and one, a large crowd of people were seen to gather in front of one of the leading retail stores in St. Louis. So great was the crowd of excited men that they blocked the street out as far as the street-car track. The crowd all wore new straw hats of the same make, and judging from the excited manner in which they all ran at each other and interrogated each other, one might have concluded that some lunatic asylum had suddenly emptied itself into that street. They were all running about in the most frantic manner and asking each other the question: "Are you the man with the fifty-dollar bill." A reign of pandemonium prevailed as the crowd rushed madly at each other and screamed: "Are you the man with the fifty-dollar bill." One might have well concluded that they were all raving crazy over the money question, but they were not. They simply had an eye to business and were following a very general desire to get something for nothing.

That store management had advertised to give a genuine fifty dollar bill to any man or boy who would come there at that hour and ask the man who had the fifty-dollar bill for it. Of course they could not tell which man had it, so they asked every man they met, hoping thereby to secure the money.

This uproar had continued for about a half hour, when a young student noticed a man rushing about asking the question with unusual vim, so he rushed up to this person who seemed so anxious to get the money and asked him if he were the man with the fifty-dollar bill. The man suddenly stopped, took the student into the store, and gave him the fifty-dollar bill as they had promised to do in their advertisement.

That proved to be a successful advertising scheme, and it made one person very happy, but hundreds went away feeling a degree of disappointment. There is a very large class of such people who are always looking for a chance to get something for nothing and they are generally disappointed.

A mistake made by many is that of expecting to get money for nothing. They wait for something to turn up that will make them independent, instead of getting out and turning up something by which they can realize the desired money. If men would have money, they should expect to earn it, for as a rule that is the only way to get it.

Some may be surprised when we say that money is helpful to happiness, for they have the impression that Scripture condemns the use of money. It does nothing of the kind. It says, "The love of money is the root of all evil," but it does not say that money is evil. If men love money to the sacrifice of principles, such love is an evil, but the money itself is not evil.

That money properly used is a very great blessing and a great help to happiness is a fact well established by the experience of mankind. There are many physical and intellectual wants of man that can be satisfied in no other way but by the use of money, and these wants being unsatisfied men cannot be perfectly happy.

The unfortunate thing about this money question is that so many people rely upon money alone for happiness. This is a fatal error, for there are many needs of man that money cannot supply. Many wear out their bodies and distract their minds to accumulate a certain amount of money, supposing that thereby they will be perfectly happy. Many times they give up in despair, but when they succeed they are disappointed to find that money cannot give perfect happiness.

Man has a spiritual nature which must be satisfied in order to be happy, and money cannot provide for spiritual wants. Happiness is not altogether a matter of external surroundings, but is largely a matter of internal conditions. Money can benefit only the outward man, while the wants of the inward man must be met in other ways, as we shall notice more fully elsewhere.

MONEY IS HELPFUL TO HAPPINESS
3. Preparing Oral Presentations
Three common elements to successful oral presentations are:

Matching the message to the audience begins with analyzing the needs of the audience. After you determine the “who, what, when, where, and why” aspects, it is easy to determine the right message and the most effective delivery.

Two common types of presentations are informational and motivational. To determine which type is appropriate, ask: Am I relying on facts or shaping opinions?

Informational presentations:

Motivational presentations:

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