Many years ago, there is a man wants to dating with me. When he knew I can play golf, he tried to create a connection between him and me. He told me that he always went to driving ranch to practice. I was so happy and curiosity that we have same interest we can talk about. I ask him which golf club is his favorite golf club, he was speechless. He doesn’t know there are many golf clubs in one set. Actually, he doesn’t know anything about golf. Therefore, I never went out with him again.
Ladies and Gentlemen
When I first learn how to play golf, I started learning from how to hold my golf club and tied and feel comfortable. Then I start to learn how to swing my body from top to bottom, let it looks like a semicircle shape. Then try to aim and hit the little white ball. In the first month, I did the same practice over and over again. Due to the practice, the opportunity of hitting ball becomes grater from 10% to 80%. Are the entire ball well hitting by me? Of course not. Most of the ball I hit was ground ball. Next step I learn is to practice different # of golf club. I try to adjust my stand position little by little to suit the different golf clubs, because each clubs has different height and different angle. After I learn the skill of hitting ball, I started to add power when I swing my body and hit the ball. How long have I spent on this process? 1 month? 3 months? 6 months? I spent a year to learn the basic skills. But I am still not qualified to go on golf course. I admire Tiger Woods. He started to learn golf since he was 5 years old. He is ranking #1 professional golf player in the World when he was 22 years old. He is still continuing to practice, to attend golf tournament.
Thomas Alva Edison said “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration”. Being successful, there is no short cut way, you must do it, review it, and improve little by little. Apply to the Toastmasters; first, you must step out your comfort zone. Stand on the stage, tried to conquer y our nervousness, tried to speak out to 20 people. It’s just like how to hold your golf club tie and feel comfortable. Second, you have to follow the manual to learn how to sell out yourself to audience. Third, you need a good opening to attract audience’s attention. Then, you have to pay attention on the eye contact, facial expression, body language, gestures, voice volume, voice pitch and emotion while you are speaking. It’s just like practice different # of golf clubs, try to adjust your position to suit the gold club. Think back my C1 speech in 2005, I actually fail it because over time. A year later, I did my C2 speech, I finished it on time, but I saw my script most of time. When I heard my evaluator giving comments, it’s hurt but will help me getting better. However, we still need to do C3, C4 and go on. But you need to beware the eye contact, body language, voice volume to present a well speech. It’s just like add power when I hit little white ball. I want to let the little white ball fly far and fall into right position. It really takes times to practice to achieve this goal.
In the beginning, you may shake your hands and legs; you may have shake voice; you may have unstable eye contact; you may have unorganized speech. It’s alright. It’s just like you can hit the little white ball 50 yard at first time, 80 yards at second time, over 100 yards after third time. See yourself getting better and better each time. You take one step forward, it shorten the distance to your goal. There is no short cut way to success. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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