Stressed Speech
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Attention Getter
Picture this... you have to put a speech together for your class, and write an outline for it; at the same time deal with your annoying boyfriend/ girlfriend because all week they’ve been wanting to spend time with you, but since you’ve been caught up with your speech... oh and let’s not forget work! You begin to question yourself if you can really live up to the standards of what is expected. With that a feeling starts to develop and we’ve all had the feeling before. Your stomach is in knots. Your mind thinking a million different things. Your muscles are tense. You feel defeated. You feel low and unhappy. When you try to think of a solution, or of a way out, you go blank. The main reason for all this... stress!
B. Reason to Listen
It’s the one thing in this world that can really change a person’s daily attitude and also affect the people around a person. When you’re stressed it like carrying a “sumo” wrestler on your shoulders, and if you guys look at me... obviously I wouldn’t be able to carry one... so you get the idea.
C. Speaker Credibility
One of the biggest decisions I ever made in my life was becoming an independent person and moving to Los Angeles county from Orange County a couple years back to pursue my self independence. I grew up in a very strict household, so just the agonizing stress of that was tremendous. So when I decided I wanted to move to Los Angeles to be closer to my friends and to prove to everyone back at home I could make it without them I knew it wouldn’t be an easy and would be stressful, but here I am before you today giving this speech knowing that even though I’m still stressed because of the issues I face in life, there are ways of accepting it and dealing with it, or else this girl you see before you, would be a smushed girl by that “sumo” wrestler.
D. Preview
1. First I would like to discuss what stress is exactly and how it is caused.
2. Second I will cover coping
A. Attention Getter
Picture this... you have to put a speech together for your class, and write an outline for it; at the same time deal with your annoying boyfriend/ girlfriend because all week they’ve been wanting to spend time with you, but since you’ve been caught up with your speech... oh and let’s not forget work! You begin to question yourself if you can really live up to the standards of what is expected. With that a feeling starts to develop and we’ve all had the feeling before. Your stomach is in knots. Your mind thinking a million different things. Your muscles are tense. You feel defeated. You feel low and unhappy. When you try to think of a solution, or of a way out, you go blank. The main reason for all this... stress!
B. Reason to Listen
It’s the one thing in this world that can really change a person’s daily attitude and also affect the people around a person. When you’re stressed it like carrying a “sumo” wrestler on your shoulders, and if you guys look at me... obviously I wouldn’t be able to carry one... so you get the idea.
C. Speaker Credibility
One of the biggest decisions I ever made in my life was becoming an independent person and moving to Los Angeles county from Orange County a couple years back to pursue my self independence. I grew up in a very strict household, so just the agonizing stress of that was tremendous. So when I decided I wanted to move to Los Angeles to be closer to my friends and to prove to everyone back at home I could make it without them I knew it wouldn’t be an easy and would be stressful, but here I am before you today giving this speech knowing that even though I’m still stressed because of the issues I face in life, there are ways of accepting it and dealing with it, or else this girl you see before you, would be a smushed girl by that “sumo” wrestler.
D. Preview
1. First I would like to discuss what stress is exactly and how it is caused.
2. Second I will cover coping
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