May 4, 2011

We will give no speech...before it's time

Fellow speaker,

When you want to give a speech about an emotionally difficult time in your life...make sure you wait until it's time to give the speech.  World Champion Speaker David Brooks was practicing in front of an audience a speech he wanted to give on the death of his father.  In the middle of the speech he started crying...and couldn't complete the speech.  David learned that he couldn't do the speech because the event was still too close to him, and he wasn't ready to talk about it in front of others.  He decided he would wait a few more years until the event became something he could handle emotionally.

Waiting it out,

Tim