Humor Boot Camper®, put it into action right away!
By Darren | May 5, 2010
Love to get testimonials like this:
Darren,
I’ve got to tell you!
Thank you for providing tools and techniques to use right away! In fact, I think I used them without thinking about it because you implanted them in my mind so well!
Today was the first day I presented as Education Coordinator for our BNI chapter (Business Networking International). (2-3 mins) Everyone loved it and laughed more than I expected they would!
I didn’t think I could be funny but I got laughs!
For example, Sergio is the realtor with the mostest. (they laughed). he has the most credentials, the most passion, and the most ambition. (I tried to use the power of 3, and change the last one to be different, and though it didn’t work, they loved the “mostest”)
and I ended with:
I am from Kansas, I am not she but think about Dorothy, There’s no place like home…. There’s no business like your business!
Thanks again, Darren!
Keeping it fun!
Deborah Reisdorph aka “ladylawca”
Proud EDGE member, and Humor Boot Camp Survivor
Love to hear this…
Stage time,
Darren LaCroix, World Champion of Public Speaking
PS: Get the same secrets in Get More Laughs By Next Week
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Creating information products
By Darren | May 4, 2010
What is it like to create information products? Years ago as a professional speaker, you could live off the fee alone. Now to even get started you must live off the CDs and MP3s. It is the fastest and most important “value add” you can have. It can also be profitable too!
Look “behind the scenes” as I create Get More Laughs By Next Weektm.
Stage time,
Darren LaCroix, Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking
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Get More Laughs is coming…. warmer…warmer…
By Darren | April 30, 2010
I’m going to do a huge launch of this new learning tool in June! I will be looking to get some testimonials from people who are serious about humor and offer an incentive to be one of the first to check it out. I’m only doing a limited run for this. If you want to be the first to check it out, and be in this exclusive group, go to:
Get More Laughs By Next Week.com
Stage time,
Darren LaCroix, Toastmasters World Champion of Public Speaking
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Same coaching applies to a political speech!
By Darren | April 29, 2010
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STAGE TIME: Moving Towards the Bigger Goal
By Darren | April 29, 2010
What is your dream? Are you moving towards it? MORE importantly are you keeping your eyes pealed for an even bigger goal?
This past weekend I was in California speaking less than a mile from where I won the World Championship of Public Speaking. I started getting “sappy” when I took the stage at the conference. It felt like the circle of life… As I come within a month of retiring from speaking at Toastmasters events, I was speaking just down the road form where it all began.
I was giving my speech, Humor and Hope. Lately, after that speech, I’ve had several people come up to me, excited — but bummed-out — saying, “I don’t have a dream.” This time was no exception. A woman walked up to me and said, “I have too many goals, so I’m not really making progress towards any. What can I do?”
I thought back to my own experience. My first dream was to make people laugh. I thought that “becoming a comedian” was the only path to that goal. I pursued that relentlessly. I took every class I could, got all the stage time I could, and become a best student of any mentor I could find.
Then, while attending a seminar, I met humorist, Rosemary Verri. A humorist? What’s that? A professional speaker? What’s that? I joined Toastmasters and National Speakers Association.
Let me get this straight… the audiences are sober, want a message, speeches are in nicer location, I don’t have to be as funny, and they are going to pay me ten times as much as comedy? I’m in! That was not the game-changer though.
Although I couldn’t afford it, I attended my first NSA conference and was blown away by a speaker and POW, Captain Gerald Coffee. I walked dumbfounded to the pool and wrote a seven-page letter to my mom. For the first time in my life, I found out where I belonged. I had found my home. I knew this was what I would do — in some form — for the rest of my life.
Had I not pursued my original goal relentlessly, I never would have discovered an even bigger dream that I didn’t even know existed! That dream became my passion. At first, it was to become a comedian. Then a professional speaker. Next was to become World Champion. Then it was to become the greatest speaker coach. Now, it’s to become the best Vegas headliner.
These thoughts all happened in an instant. I looked at this bewildered attendee and suggested, “Life is short, choose one and pursue it. If you don’t put a destination into the GPS, you’ll just spend your life driving aimlessly from gas station to gas station (or home to work). Yet, if you pursue the one you are most passionate about, you may just find an ever bigger dream that today you do not even know exists. What could be waiting for you?”
What do you think?
Have you ever discovered a bigger goal while you were pursuing a smaller one?
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