Only you can prevent bad presentations in 2025!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For New Year’s Day I traditionally post appropriating the Smokey Bear slogan that “Only you can prevent…” and tell people to do better presentations by planning.  My first image comes from a 1794 cartoon by Robert Dighton.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A second has a portrait of orator Anna Elizabeth Dickinson from around 1860.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A third has a cartoon of Bourke Cockran by George Yost Coffin from 1896. (All three images came from the Library of Congress).

 

There is a long article by Charlotte Hilton Andersen at the Reader’s Digest on November 21, 2024 titled 50 New Year’s Resolutions You’ll Want to Keep. Her twelfth is to Do something that scares you:

 

“Make a list of things that scare you: public speaking, skydiving, holding a spider, eating Brussels sprouts, asking your boss for a raise, calling your crush. Now, pick one thing on the list and find a way to do it.”

 

There is another long article from ElegantLivingEveryday titled 76 New Year’s Resolution Ideas for a Fulfilling 2025. Number 14 is to take a public speaking course to boost confidence.

 

Last year I posted about how In 2024 only you can prevent bad presentations, and linked to my previous posts.