Stop Mumbling: Improve Your Speech with This Technique

Stop mumbling. Now, how do you tell if you do mumble? Well, let's back up a minute. Let me do that same thing again, but this time I'll do it. Mumbling. Stop mumbling. Now you see the difference? When I was mumbling, my volume went down. My tone became completely even. I didn't gesture, I didn't move my face. I didn't have changes in tonality. Everything was low. Nothing is moving, no facial expression. That makes it harder for people to understand what I'm saying. They're not getting visual clues. And because my volume was low, it's much harder to hear it, harder to differentiate sounds because all the tones were the same. It was boring. Now, how do you know if you're a mumbler? Well, today you're in luck because I'm going to diagnose you. Yeah, I mean, actually, you. If you think there's a chance that you are a mumbler, then here's what I want you to do. Record yourself speaking. Record it on video. It can be a YouTube channel, it could be a Google Drive, it could be Facebook. And then put a link to your video right here in the comments section of this video. If you are one of the first 10 people to do that in the first 10 days of this video going live, I'm going to give you a critique at absolutely no charge. Now the other thing you can do is look in a mirror. If you see yourself speaking and you're kind of speaking like this and there's not much movement and your facial expression is sort of blank and you sound very even keeled in monotone. Guess what, you're a mumbler. If you want to get away from that, you need to see your face actually moving. Your eyebrows need to move, your head needs to move. You need changes in volume and pitch and pace and speed. You need this variety. That's what makes someone interesting to listen to. That's what makes someone interesting easy to understand. If you're mumbling, you are destroying your ability to communicate and projecting an image to the world that you lack confidence.