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		<title>Table toast:  Unique wedding or big event toast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need a new idea to make the wedding or big event special? Here is one I just did and it worked better than I even hoped. Instead of having one person make a few minute toast to the whole room, to be inspiring, funny and more, say this. &#8220;I need each table to give it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueplanet.org/2011/04/table-toast-unique-wedding-or-big-event-toast/</link>
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		<title>Introducing a character</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you introduce a new character, it helps to give at least two brief sentences, one with physical unique traits and one with personality traits. You are successful when the audience can form a picture in their mind of the character. If I talk about my daughter, I have not yet told you enough to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueplanet.org/2011/02/introducing-a-character/</link>
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		<title>How to overcome nervousness once it happens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several techniques you can use, if you are very nervous speaking in public. The best method I have found is simply letting go of whether you matter and focusing on the audience. Throw yourself into your content and your audience and let go of self. But if nervousness does occur, what do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueplanet.org/2011/02/how-to-overcome-nervousness-once-it-happens/</link>
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		<title>Why does eye contact work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s approach from the opposite angle first. When a speaker doesn’t make eye contact with the audience, the audience generally doesn’t like that, why? In part because it feels like we are not the focus, we are not important. The speaker is into themselves and we may not even have to be there. So what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueplanet.org/2011/02/why-does-eye-contact-work/</link>
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		<title>Change creates energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What causes a thunderstorm? Nothing more than a rapid change in temperature and pressure systems. The crackling energy of your presentations comes from rapid changes as well. A change in tone. A change in speed. A different location. Ask yourself, what can you change this time? If you started your last meeting with a quote, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueplanet.org/2011/02/change-creates-energy/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Answer the questions the audience does NOT ask.  In the order they do NOT ask them.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a little zen for starting a blog, isn&#8217;t it? What does it mean? When you put your focus on the audience instead of yourself, you become attuned to what they are thinking. You are reading them while you are speaking. Keep asking yourself, if I was them listening to me, what would I be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blueplanet.org/2010/12/answer-the-questions-the-audience-does-not-ask-in-the-order-they-do-not-ask-them/</link>
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