The best acceptance speeches always tell a story. Now you may say, Well how's your telling for a story? You can be brief you can tell a story in 30 seconds but talk about something that happened. recount a real conversation with a friend, a colleague, someone, a family member about a challenge, how you overcame it, and how it's relevant to what it is you're here for. If you are an actor, like Philip Seymour Hoffman told this compelling story how it was just him and his mom when he was a teenager, waiting up at night watching the Academy Awards streaming, it was so emotional, so compelling, but you could be winning the accountant of the Year for your state and talk about particular challenges that you faced. April 15 or April 14 last year and the team that you worked with and how you overcame it.

So talk about a story, make it brief, make sure it's relevant to a message you have For this audience and tell it in a compelling way, so have a story for your acceptance speech that we're going to practice in just a few minutes.