Okay, we're making progress. But now is the point. You're not gonna like, nobody likes this part. But I'm telling you, all the advice I'm going to give you in this emergency class is the number one thing that will really help you. And that is, you've got to practice just once, just once on video. And what I mean by that is not going and hiring a big TV production crew.

You don't even have to go to the bottom of your closet and dig out the, the big handycam and handheld recorder and big tripod that you've taken on vacations. Now, just pull out your cell phone, your smartphone, or a tablet. Or if you have to your webcam and record your speech. Have your one page of notes. Give your speech once and then watch it. That's all I'm asking you to do.

Now after you watch it. Make notes of what you like. What you don't like, this is far and away the most important part of this process. Now, I knew I told you that this was going to be a 30 minute class, guess what you already know all the really important stuff. So if you're really in a huge, huge bind, stop looking at the rest of the lectures, and just go right into this. Have your notes in front of you practice your speech.

And if it's a 10 minute, 15 minute speech, you practice it once you watch it once you make notes of what you like and don't like. And if you want to make some adjustments on your outline, do it, but don't be futzing around and don't lengthen it. Don't start putting in whole paragraphs because then you'll be tempted to read it and that makes any speaker awful. Do this one tip. I'm not asking you to rehearse 50 times 100 times. I'm not asking you to email it to 50 people And get critiques.

Those are all good things to do in normal circumstances, but you got to give a speech tomorrow, or in a few hours, you don't have time, just doing this one practice watching it once, it's going to help you tremendously, because you don't actually practice it and watching it on video. Then when you're giving your speech in a few hours or tomorrow, it's coming out of your mouth the first time it's really going through your brain the first time it's the rough draft, the rough drafts of most things are by definition, rough. Not very good. That's why we do second and third drafts of important memos, emails of position papers, but with speeches, even people who've been working on their speech for months, quite often the first time they're saying it is in front of the live crowd. So things come out rough, you can bypass those people who've been working on their speech for weeks.

If you do this one thing. I know it's not pleasant, if you're not used to Looking at yourself on video, hey, I don't love everything about how I look on video, I can look at a video and say, Oh gosh, am I getting a triple chin again? is more hair falling out? But guess what? If I don't look at that on video, anyone I speak to can still see that so me not looking at it on video doesn't help. You aren't going to help anything by not looking at yourself speak on video, you're going to help a tremendous amount just by practicing once watching it and then getting ready to go in having seen yourself so you're a big bind.

Don't look at any more of the course right now. Just do this. Practice your speech, watch it and you'll be good to go.