Am I asking you to stop senseless consumerism? Try it.
Am I asking you to stop senseless consumerism? Yes.
Yes. What direction does that go in?
Yes goes up.
It goes up and down. Yes.
It goes up and down. So, uh huh. Again.
Because otherwise it would sound like this:
Am I asking you to stop senseless consumerism? Yes?
And then it sounds.
Like a question.
Am I asking you to stop senseless consumerism? Yes.
Now it sounds like a statement. Yeah. Okay. Good. Yes. Yes.
If we voluntarily decrease our consumption, go ahead.
If we voluntarily decrease our consumption. What's happening on consumption?
The intonation goes up, consumption.
And back down. Up and down.
Again, up and down.
Unless you're making a list. Unless it's a yes, no question.
I mean, if it's in the middle of a sentence like this,
if it's in the middle of a sentence, like this,
the focus word goes up and then down.
And if it's at the end of the chunk,
it goes up and down?
It goes down at the end, unless, the focus word goes up and down,
unless it's a part of a list. Like if I say, you know,
I'm going to bring apples, bananas, pineapples,
and bananas. So up, up, up, down.
Up, up, up, down. But in this case, it's not a list.
It's just up and down on the focus word.
If we voluntarily decrease our consumption.
So if we voluntarily decrease our consumption. A little higher,
consumption. Consumption. If we voluntarily decrease our
consumption.
Yes. We can experience more of what we have.
We can experience more of what we have.
Our environment has suffered enough.
Let's finally think about the world we live in.
The world we live in. The world we live in. Just put a little, two spaces.
In between the world and we. It doesn't have to be long.
Just the world we live in. Again,
because it's relating back to this idea of the environment and the headline of
what you're talking about. Right? You're coming back to the point here.
My call to you? My call to you?
Make your notes so you don't forget. It goes up here. Doesn't it?
Uh huh, it goes up.
Stop consuming. Now,
when you say stop consuming, it's a command. You're telling me what to do.
Do you think it should go up at the end?
Up and down. Up and down.
And let's together think about our planet.
You have to pause after together or make it a separate chunk.
So, stop consuming.
Stop consuming, and let's together think about our planet.
Yeah, but don't let the word planet fall off like in a quiet whisper.
Planet, so planet. And let's together.
And let's together think about our planet.
Think about our planet.
Now let me tell you what happens at the very end of the thought of the
whole speech.
When we get to the end of the last focus word,
we don't use as much melody. So listen to the two ways I'm going to do it.
First I'm going to do it with more melody and then I'll do it again where I'm
really finished and you know I'm finished. Listen.
And let's together think about our planet. One.
Here's the second. And let's together think about our planet.
Think about our planet. Our planet.
So you see how I'm just bringing it to a close.
Uh huh. Uh huh. So you make it sound like it's an end of your -
and let's together.
And let's together think about our planet.
Think about our planet.
And it doesn't have to keep going down, it could stay flat.
And together let's think about our planet.
And let's together think about our planet.
Yeah. As long as you keep the breath support and the word,
and let's together think about our planet.
And let's together think about our planet. Right.
It's just a way to show people vocally that you're
finishing.
So the last focus word is less, how do I explain.
I'm trying to understand what to write as a command.
Basically we call it pacing. Okay? So when we get to the end,
we slow down. And when we slow down,
we don't always use lot of melody. Okay? You know,
you slow down and you keep the melody flat.
You keep the melody low. I don't have to say flat, but low.
It's like this. When we give presentations and we have slides,
when the first slide comes up,
we're using a lot of energy and our voice is high.
And we talk about the planet and the environment.
And then when we get to the end,
we start to slow down and bring the melody down.
Then we change the slide. The next slide comes up. Our energy's higher,
voice is higher, we're using intonation. We talk about the environment.
We say what we want to say,
until we get to the end and we start to slow down and bring the melody
down. And then we bring the next slide up.
Okay. Got it. Awesome.
This is fantastic. I want you to read the whole thing one last time.
Okay. Now I'd like to talk to you about our environment.
How many of you in this meeting, in this meeting,
think this is important? Let me see a show of hands.
Think about your home or your garage.
Is there a bunch of unnecessary junk?
What do you do to ensure a sustainable environment?
Ask yourself about the things you keep collecting.
Remember to make your pauses a little longer, okay?
Because they're not long enough.
You keep collecting. Ask yourself about the things you keep collecting.
Prioritize, prioritize them.
Get rid of unnecessary things.
Am I asking you to stop senseless consumerism? Yes.
If we voluntarily decrease our consumption,
we can experience more of what we have.
Our environment has suffered enough.
Let's finally think about the world we live in. My call to you?
Stop consuming. And let's together think about our planet.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Now there's two things that I'll tell you you can do to take it one step
further. Make sure that the pauses are longer. And number two, make
sure some of the phrases are faster. So, you know,
because there's a lot of short phrases,
sometimes you can start to get into a rhythm or a flow that is the same.
And when you do that, you create a pattern of
the same that can put someone into a lullaby. Right asleep.
So you want to get some speed. I would say, for example,
let me just read the whole thing for you. Okay? And then you can start to.
Analyze it for moment.
Now I'd like to talk to you about our environment.
How many of you this meeting think this is important?
Let me see a show of hands. Think about your home or your garage.
Is there a bunch of unnecessary junk?
What do you do to ensure a sustainable environment?
Ask yourself about the things you keep collecting. Prioritize them.
Get rid of unnecessary things.
Am I asking you to stop senseless consumerism? Yes.
If we voluntarily decrease our consumption,
we can experience more of what we have.
Our environment has suffered enough.
Let's finally think about the world we live in.
My call to you? Stop consuming.
And let's together think about our planet.
Thank you. Yeah.
Try to notice the places that I get that speed. You know,
even if you just look at, how many of you in this meeting? How many of you in,
how of you in. How many of you in? Okay.
That's it. I think if you can really nail what
I just did, do you know that expression, to nail something?
So if you can really nail what I just did,
then you're going to master the variation of the speed and the variation of
the pause. Okay? So what you've done here is so complete.
You've thought through the reductions,
you thought through the types of words that matter,
you thought through the pauses, you really thought through.
Now this next step will be to master it. So do that for homework.