Here's my next tip for you, I want you to cheat. That's right. I'm not suggesting anything unethical. But I do want you to have on a single sheet of paper, your notes, and just put it in big bold font, so you can read it without having to put your glasses on and fumbling with papers. You want your notes on a single sheet of paper, and you want it in large font. Now, if you say, well, TJ, it doesn't fit, I'm going to need five pages.

What that tells me is you failed at the earlier exercises of narrowing your message down to five key points. You cannot educate someone on every aspect of your new business, or what your division has done in the last quarter, and a standard speech or presentation. Don't try to so you've got to be able to condense it to a single sheet, preferably something that'll fit on a half sheet and then have it on A desk, a lectern, a table, your hands can be free. Now again, I'm not asking you to walking around and gesturing and all that it's fine to stay behind a lectern. Again, we just want to get through this presentation. But it's so much easier to be looking at people and that way, if we do mess up or screw up, they're gonna perceive you as confident and relaxed because we're looking at them and you weren't bare burning your face and notes and that sort of thing.

So I want you to have a cheat sheet, large font. And you should have your five points, the example for each point. And if you're going to use PowerPoint, put a reminder on that cheat sheet. So you know exactly what it is. So you're not having to use your PowerPoint as your notes. Okay, come up with your cheat sheet right now.