On the contrary, there may be some distractions that take the audience’s attention off what you are speaking. Here is a list of distractions that a good speaker should strictly avoid:
1. Rattling keys or coins in your pocket
2. Using ums, uhs, and ya knows
3. Sucking the teeth
4. Twisting a ring
5. Stroking a beard
6. Lip licking
7. Lip biting
8. Tugging your ear
9. Cracking your knuckles
10. Pushing your glasses back on the bridge of your nose
11. Playing with a watch
12. Drumming your fingers
13. Bouncing a pencil on its eraser
14. Blowing hair out of your eyes
15. Popping the top of a marker
16. Extending and retracting a telephone pointer
17. Twirling hair
18. Playing with beads, gold chains, or other jewelry.
Instead of doing the gestures mentioned above, you should have a natural resting place for your hands, as by your side or with the elbows slightly bent and hands at waist level in preparing for your next gesture.