{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sales Funnel Radio","title":"SFR 277: How I Prepare To Speak","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1610,"description":"Here's a snapshot of the mental stuff I do to stay in the game before I speak on any stage...    It seems like questions often come in themes and in waves.    I don't know if it's just 'cause I have my ear to the ground listening to what people are asking me…    But it seems like the recent wave of questions are all about, “How do you prepare before you go on stage?”   By the time you read this, OfferMind 2019 will be over, and so I thought it would be the perfect time to share how a guy who used to hate public speaking preps for LIVE events    I didn't really think about my preparation until people started asking the question, but when I started to look more closely, I discovered that:   Before I speak on stage, there's a pattern that I go through that comes in two phases.    The Thinking Phase.   The Prepare for War Phase   … you may find some of what I do a little surprising, (and frankly, a few years back, I could never have imagined myself doing some of this stuff 😉) MY TWO-PHASE SPEECH PREPARATION     THE THINKING PHASE      On my office floor right now, there’s tons of yellow paper all over the place…   ... and it's where I collect my ideas as I start to think through and organize my content.    I've done it for a couple of years now... and the system works well for me, and so I keep doing it.   So it's the preparing/ thinking phase where:   I listen to way less music that has words in it    I do a lot more meditation   (I actually use a cool bit of kit that Alex Charfen introduced me to, I’ll show you a bit later)   However, as the actual event gets nearer, my behavior changes a bit as I move into the 2nd phase.   So I thought it would be kinda cool if I wrote a list of the things that I do, and shared them with you… STATE CONTROL 101 There were many times at ClickFunnels when Russell would walk in and be like, \"I'm not gonna lie, I really don't know what I wanna do what I gotta do today...”    I’d say, “Yep, I'm not gonna lie, I gotta build...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/wYNmCvUWj1HUVsTnnGxfHEkoAfnnZqMMXf3202FAPb4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lOTU2/NzhmMjJmMTlhOWY2/ZmE2ZTAzOWEzNzE3/MzQ0NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}