How to Present with Impact?

It is not about working hard. Talking loudly, or fast or putting your whole weight to it.

It is about being completely and utterly present when we present. Both physically and mentally.

And this is often not the case.

We often inhabit the content cloud when we present. It takes a lot of energy to find the correct content and words. Because we did not prepare properly. Being unable to connect and be present.

We often inhabit the worry cloud. Worrying what people will think and how we sound or obsessively worry when we have made a mistake. Being unable to connect, because we are preoccupied in the worry cloud.

Or we inhabit the future cloud. We do not close our sentences with a full stop, because in our minds we already 2 steps ahead, thinking about what to say next. Being unable to connect, because we are someplace else.

How to solve this?

Solving for instance, the future cloud is by talking from a place I want you, the audience, to get this, instead of I want this to get over with……

If you really talk from a place, I want you to get this, this is important, you will automatically start to slow down, emphasize words and become more conscious of what you are actually saying…

You become present!

Good luck!