You’d better watch out
You’d better not cry
You’d better keep cash
I’m telling you why:
Recession is coming to town!
It’s hitting you once,
It’s hitting you twice
It doesn’t care if you’re careful or nice
Recession is coming to town!
It’s worthless if you’ve got Shares
It’s worthless if you’ve got Bonds
It’s safe when you’ve got Cash In Hand
So keep Cash for Goodness Sake, HEY
You’d better watch out
You’d better not cry
You’d better keep Cash
I’m telling you why:
Recession is coming to town!
High Notes are just confusing
Minibonds are just so vague
The Banks all make YOU bear the RISK
So keep out for Goodness Sake, OH
You’d better watch out
You’d better not cry
You’d better keep Gold
I’m telling you why:
Depression is just down the line!!

For Your Future Presentations

In the immediate future there isn’t much you can do to improve your speaking skill. But for presentations project in the next weeks, months and years, there are many ways you can eliminate nervousness and increase your confidence.

Treat it as a typical project, schedule your speaking when there are opportunities. Here are some suggested ways that you can approach.

1. Join Toastmasters. This organization has been really helpful for myself in improving my public speaking. Not only does it provide a supportive environment with friends, but it offers detailed and constructive advice to improve on.
2. Practice the Art of Pauses. Your audience needs pauses. Speakers who speed-talk for an hour aren’t likely to leave an impact on their audience. Boosting your confidence starts by becoming comfortable leaving silence. When you’re nervous, your instinct will be to fill any dead air with words. Resisting that urge over the long run makes you a more confident and competent speaker.
3. Avoid the Powerpoint Crutch. Most people use Powerpoint as a way of directing attention away from them and onto a screen. While it may be less frightening to have the audience stare at your poorly worded bullet points, it destroys your speeches and lowers your speaking ability. Training yourself to speak without a “slideshow” forces you to become more entertaining and confident as a speaker.
4. Work on Posture and Body Language. In Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink, he points out studies where researchers discovered that moving their face into smiling or frowning positions actually made them feel differently. This has been reflected in other research and I believe it applies to your body language on stage. Adopting a confident stance and posture can take training to form as a habit, but it will eventually reduce your nervousness at the podium.
5. Fail Often. I’ve made a few speeches that absolutely bombed. The jokes were met with silence and I didn’t get the results I intended. While you’d think these experiences would increase my nervousness, I’ve found doing them enough actually reduces it. When you realize that the worst that can happen isn’t that bad, it zaps your butterflies for good.
6. Attend some professional speaking workshops, courses. The trainer will guide you on how to improve your speaking skill at a personal level. Course should include

- Do’s and Don’t to do in a speaking assignment.
- How to fight the fear devil in you
- How to fly the butterflies in your stomach in formation
- How to gestures with impact
- And more.

Once you had fulfill any of the above steps, you should be able to reduce some of the speaking stress.

There was another case of a bailing out issues in Singapore. It is the Marina Bay Sands. The Marina Bay Sands development is scheduled to open in Singapore by the end of 2010. Now, there is a great stress for US gaming giant Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands chairman and chief executive.

“Completing and opening Marina Bay Sands is the number one priority for our company,” he said in a statement. Adelson affirmed the company’s commitment to its Singapore casino after a filing with US regulators sparked doubts about its financial health. It is a huge project for Las Vegas Sands. The company is having multiple casino projects simultaneously.

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson has doubled down on his half-billion dollar bet this fall on Las Vegas Sands Corp. in a plan intended to keep the company from defaulting on its debt and falling into bankruptcy.

Apparently, project execution is still in the midst. Because of the recent financial turmoil, funding is a key issue in this construction project. The firm said, however, that it would continue work on the planned Marina Bay Sands casino resort in downtown Singapore, which is expected to cost nearly $5 billion.

The board also said Las Vegas Sands will invest about $500 million in additional equity to ensure the Singapore project is completed.