Let's start off by focusing on our goals for this speech because after all, an acceptance speech is still a speech. Now, it might be a short one, it might only be 60 seconds long before that music comes in and you're asked to get off stage, but it's still a speech. Now, it is different from a lot of speeches, you're not going to have a PowerPoint display. You're not going to have a beginning, middle and end and stories and walking around the stage and talking for 15 minutes like a keynote speech, but it's still a speech, it's still an opportunity to make a great impression, awful impression or a no impression. So let's start off with our goal our goal should be to a make a great impression. Be thank the people who are relevant to helping us in our career, whatever it is, we did and see trying to put a focus on really Probably just one idea that you want to leave people with whether it is inspiring people to follow their dreams, whether it is motivating people to work harder through channeling whatever it is.

This is not an opportunity to communicate five points or 10 points, but it is an opportunity to focus on one of life's lessons or one really important idea. So that's what I want you to think of think of the goal. Before we start this presentation, make people have a favorable impression of you that you're poised, that you're good communicator, that you're respectful of people that you've thought about this and planned it, that you've got a particular idea you want to communicate and that you thank the people who helped you get to the point where you're winning this award. So those are the goals. Let's focus you may want to write them down but let's focus on the goal. Our goals are not to just get through this Our goal is not to thank our tax attorney and 29 other service providers, so they give us a 5% discount next year.

Focus on what your goals are before you even start preparing for this presentation