Here's another tip for you if you want to have a lot fewer fears when it comes to speaking and giving presentations, I want you to cheat. That's right, you heard me I want you to cheat. So many people spend all this time of memorization staying up late at night, and over and over to try to memorize why that's a lot of work. Now, I'm not suggesting you sit there and read your whole speech or read bullet that puts everybody to sleep and destroys icontact. But I do want you to have a cheat sheet by that I mean, one and I mean, literally one sheet of paper, preferably a half a sheet of paper that has your note, I mean, this has everything I say for the entire course. This is my outline.
You need an outline for your presentation by having it on a single sheet of paper. You don't have to pick it up and turn pages. You can put it down on a lectern. on a table next door, the glass of water is no one will know they'll think you're just so smart, so confident, because you're speaking to them. But you're not memorizing things you're following the outline. But if you did what I asked you to do, which is narrow your presentation down to five points, and have a story, an example for each one, then you really shouldn't have more than about 10 bullet points on your piece of paper.
And take a few seconds to make the font large that way. You don't have to stop put on glasses and kind of if you could just be walking by putting your glass of water down, glancing at it. And you can appear to be supremely confident, knowledgeable and authoritative. How many times have you seen a profile of some rising politician or CEO, and it's obvious the journalists really liked the person and they say, and so and so spoke for an hour Without notes, as if this makes the person a genius and a confident genius. Well, maybe they spoke without notes, but maybe they had notes the whole time, but because they never touched them, and they didn't stop and put their head down like that. It wasn't noticeable to anyone.
I can tell you, I give speeches, presentations all over the world, sometimes 30 minutes, 40 minutes, sometimes a 90 minute keynote. I never speak without notes. But no one ever has any idea. Because I limit it to a single sheet of paper. And I have large font and no one sees me touch it. That is a secret that you can use and it will dramatically boost your confidence.
And it will elevate you as a speaker in the eyes of your audience. So please, don't try to memorize stuff. Put it on a one page outline. And if you're saying what It doesn't fit on one page I need more space. That means you don't need more paper. That means you need to be a better editor.
Narrow it down to your top five points and you'll be in much better shape and it will all fit on a single sheet of paper in large font