A big factor in public speaking success

Sleep may be the key to your success as a public speaker

Improve your memory, get more sleep is an article by Dr Joseph Mercola. Click that red link to be taken, magically, to his website. As always, his articles have many more links to lots of great material. On his site, you’ll read about how sleep is more important for public speaking success than….well, just about everything else.

Except of course – sorry to mention it – your timely preparation.

You’re unlikely to be able to sleep peacefully and well the day before your big event, if you’ve left most of the preparation until the last minute. Look, I know, I do know how busy you are. I know that you’re not all that keen on the conference you’ve been delegated to attend, and that there are countless other reasons for not getting on with the sort of preparation I outline in my Public Speaking Success e-Program.

That said, it’s up to you. But I hope that after you’ve read Dr Mercola’s article, you’ll be a little bit more inspired to allocate more than the night before to your preparation. I do feel a bit hypocritical saying that: I’m the one who did many of my University assignments the night before they were due, and I’ve been known to cram for public presentations too. However, as my public speaking engagements increased in volume and as more of my professional reputation rested on how well I delivered the presentations, I had to change my ways. If I can do it, any leopard can – in the name of public speaking success.