Couple of final notes. Hey, this is a retirement event. It's your retirement speech. It's not a stuffy formal business affair. And it's perfectly fine to have a little more emotion than usual. But don't fall apart.
I've seen it. You've seen it, people can sometimes just fall apart in their retirement speech and they're crying, they're blubbering. I'm gonna miss everyone in the world I do with my life. That's just not the time for it. Now, the beauty of the techniques I've recommended where you actually rehearse on video is you become so comfortable with the speech, how you're going to deliver it, that it's much easier to keep your emotions in check. And I'm not asking you to be Spock, I'm not asking you to be a robot.
There's nothing wrong with being sad, but you don't want an expressing how you're going to miss people. But you don't want it to stop the actual presentation. You don't want to have to like Stop and sit down and not be able to give your presentation. So you want to be able to keep your emotions in check. That's another benefit of practicing on video. It's can be a lot easier to do that.
One final thing I mean, it's probably an evening event dinner. There may be champagne flowing or other adult beverages of choice. Here's my recommendation. I don't want to sound like an old fuddy duddy teetotaller and I certainly enjoy a glass of wine here and there. I'm recommending that you don't drink any alcohol until your retirement speech is over. The reason for that is alcohol.
Even one glass can slow down. Recall if you're giving a speech and it's an emotional evening anyway, that extra drag on your memory can sometimes slow you down and cause awkwardness. Oh, what was I gonna say? I forgot one of those senior moment. You don't want to Do that. My recommendation, no alcohol, alcohol can also make you more emotional.
And we don't need more emotion at this moment can also make you just sweat a little Do you really want that to be the last impression people have of you? So for that reason, and I recommend this to people for any speech, any presentation any talk they do, wait until after your presentation and then let the toast fly.