Page 32 - April 2020

VIABILITY AMID THE VIRUS

Lee Coyne, ATMS

Like a lightning bolt it struck suddenly. None among us
was amply prepared. I refer to the advent of the Coronavirus.

Most of us were living in a cocoon of daily routine. We
had built in predictability. Then our structure came utterly
apart.
Today we face the ultimate challenge of flexibility. Yet

we can assuredly respond..with finding new meaning in our
internal toolboxes. Let’s look for buried treasure.

RETROSPECTIVE

Our prior lives inevitably had several surprises. What were
those episodes? How did we manage to cope?
Here’s the chance to pull together those patterns of the
past and then decide which are obsolete and which still

manage to function.
Weave those into speeches ready to go post pandemic.

NARRATIVE FOR KIDS

Ah yes . . . let’s regress a tad. We can become overnight
storytellers by telephone as we keep social distance. Let’s do
a conference call to four kids of fellow Toastmasters. Have
a pre-teen adventure book set to awaken the imagination.

Here’s your path to new skills. Voice variety needed. Take
full note of the grammar. View the story’s organization. Ad
lib as necessary. With young ones out of school you’ll find
a very different audience.

You’ll confirm you won’t go stale. We term it Flex Appeal.

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