If you need to prepare for an upcoming public speaking engagement, make sure you commit your speech to memory before anything else. When you get to the point where you can give your speech at any moment, then you are ready to practice your overall delivery. This also gives you the opportunity to ad lib if you need to.

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Make sure that you stay focused once you get out there and start talking. Your message will not be received well if you go too far off topic. Do everything you can to stay on the original topic, or you may risk scaring away a large portion of your audience.

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