{"id":1067,"date":"2011-06-16T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T11:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2011-06-16T06:05:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T11:05:47","slug":"its-never-what-you-say-its-how-you-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s never what you say &#8211; it&#8217;s how you say it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In summary;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember, it&#8217;s never what you say, <em>it&#8217;s what they remember<\/em>.<br \/>\nBe concise. Be precise. Be memorable.<br \/>\nSpeak from your heart while drawing from your experiences.<br \/>\nBe yourSelf.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The fewer words, the better.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never what you say, <em>it&#8217;s what they remember<\/em>.  Too many facts, too many anecdotes or just plain overly wordy, and they can&#8217;t find the nuggets to make a decision with &#8211; so they leave your invite or presentation with &#8220;have to think about it&#8221;&#8230;aka the paralysis of &#8220;Anal-ysis&#8221;.  To best serve your audience, you&#8217;ve got to write and rewrite and whittle and edit until you get your most important points and lessons down to the fewest words possible.  Facts tell, stories Sell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How you say it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you step up as speaker, or even as inviter &#8211; do you rent the space, or do you own it?  Are you renting a presentation style that is a version of your idea of &#8220;appropriate and professional&#8221; &#8211; are you trying to copy someone else?  Do you hide behind content and PowerPoint?&#8230;and consequently lose your audience and effectiveness?   Or do you <strong>speak from the Heart based upon experience<\/strong>?  Heart space wins over head space every time.   Just BE you!  Own it!<\/p>\n<p>In summary;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember, it&#8217;s never what you say, <em>it&#8217;s what they remember<\/em>.<br \/>\nBe concise. Be precise. Be memorable.<br \/>\nSpeak from your heart while drawing from your experiences.<br \/>\nBe yourSelf.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In summary; Remember, it&#8217;s never what you say, it&#8217;s what they remember. Be concise. Be precise. Be memorable. Speak from your heart while drawing from your experiences. Be yourSelf. The fewer words, the better. It&#8217;s never what you say, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1067\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,153,31],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}