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LESSON 7 · From Mumbling to Commanding

Your Pace-Pause-Punch Workout

Build rhythmic mastery with these daily drills:

  • Pace variation: read a paragraph at three speeds — slow (100 wpm), medium (150 wpm), and fast (push past your comfort, ~180+ wpm)
  • Pause practice: deliver three sentences with a full two-second pause between each, and resist filling the silence
  • Punch drills: take one sentence and say it five times, hitting a different word each time
  • Recording review: listen to a one-minute clip and mark where pace, pause, and punch worked versus where they fell flat.