Summary: An ability to split a speech to components and look at each of them separately makes you not only a better evaluator, but also a more experienced speaker. If you can see what other speakers do well and not so well in their speeches, you can easily see it in your own ones. Each time you prepare a new speech look at it from the evaluator's perspective. What did you do effectively? What could you have done better? Follow your own recommendations and your speech will be world-class even if you are giving it for the first time.

Summary: You've just taken the first steps to storytelling success, and the road ahead of you is filled with new experiences, friends and touched lives. Who knows - you may simply fulfill the desire you have to tell your stories, but you may become a world-renowned speaker in your own right. Whatever happens, remember to keep learning. There are many, more expansive books on the subject out there. Grab a hold of as many of them as you can. And remember the story of how you began your journey of becoming a better storyteller - you may want to tell it in turn.