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FEAR IS A FOUR LETTER WORD

When it comes to the fear factor, it's an activity not unlike bungee jumping, sky diving and rock climbing, only it's a bigger challenge and provides a more intense adrenaline rush. Just thinking about it can cause your stomach to tie itself into knots, your knees to knock, your hands to shake uncontrollably and your brow to drench in marble-sized beads of sweat. In the face of it, many a lesser man or woman have cringed in fear so excruciatingly intense that it borders on abject hysteria. Most of us have seen others do it. We stare in slack-jawed amazement and admiration at these elite few, and their seemingly fearless execution of a deed that causes most of us to cower in fear. As we applaud their feat and how easy they made it look, we, in a moment of faux courage, may say to ourselves "there, but for the opportunity, go I."

Behold, the opportunity and the challenge are here, and unlike bungee jumping, sky-diving and rock climbing, there is virtually no risk of injury or death; so for those of you with families and friends, your doing it won't make you the posthumous subject of an unplanned family gathering. If you take the challenge, you'll be doing it with others of like courage and tenacious commitment to wrestling with their own fear. Others whose desire to help you to excel is equaled only by their own desire to achieve excellence and conquest over their own fear.

"Well, golly-gee-willikers," you say with feigned nerdiness, eager for a challenge, but justifiably, you're just a little bit apprehensive. After all, you want to see what you may be getting into, before you make any commitment to subject yourself to something many people fear more than death itself. "Where can I go to see it?" you ask, knowing that disciplining yourself to do the difficult not only initiates the coveted adrenaline high, but also produces the personal growth and confidence that will set you apart from your peers-from the mortals.

Get your guts and your grits together and come to the Grand Terrace City Hall, for It is there where you can see it in person, every Friday, from 7:00 a.m. to 8:15 a.m., for it is there that the Grand Terrace Toastmasters meet. A place where fear in its rawest form is conquered. A place where you can learn to subjugate your own fear, and in so doing, eventually reach the summit of your own Olympus of confidence and personal growth, a place where the mortals dare not go. Dare you?

Larry Jones
Past V.P. Public Relations


	FEAR IS A FOUR LETTER WORD When it comes to the fear factor, it's an activity not unlike bungee jumping, sky diving and rock climbing, only it's a bigger challenge and provides a more intense adrenaline rush. Just thinking about it can cause your stomach to tie itself into knots, your knees to knock, your hands to shake uncontrollably and your brow to drench in marble-sized beads of sweat. In the face of it, many a lesser man or woman have cringed in fear so excruciatingly intense that it borders on abject hysteria. Most of us have seen others do it. We stare in slack-jawed amazement and admiration at these elite few, and their seemingly fearless execution of a deed that causes most of us to cower in fear. As we applaud their feat and how easy they made it look, we, in a moment of faux courage, may say to ourselves "there, but for the opportunity, go I." Behold, the opportunity and the challenge are here, and unlike bungee jumping, sky-diving and rock climbing, there is virtually no risk of injury or death; so for those of you with families and friends, your doing it won't make you the posthumous subject of an unplanned family gathering. If you take the challenge, you'll be doing it with others of like courage and tenacious commitment to wrestling with their own fear. Others whose desire to help you to excel is equaled only by their own desire to achieve excellence and conquest over their own fear. "Well, golly-gee-willikers," you say with feigned nerdiness, eager for a challenge, but justifiably, you're just a little bit apprehensive. After all, you want to see what you may be getting into, before you make any commitment to subject yourself to something many people fear more than death itself. "Where can I go to see it?" you ask, knowing that disciplining yourself to do the difficult not only initiates the coveted adrenaline high, but also produces the personal growth and confidence that will set you apart from your peers-from the mortals. Get your guts and your grits together and come to the Grand Terrace City Hall, for It is there where you can see it in person, every Friday, from 7:00 a.m. to 8:15 a.m., for it is there that the Grand Terrace Toastmasters meet. A place where fear in its rawest form is conquered. A place where you can learn to subjugate your own fear, and in so doing, eventually reach the summit of your own Olympus of confidence and personal growth, a place where the mortals dare not go. Dare you? Larry Jones Past V.P. Public Relations