In Your Car?

Yes!.  practicing your speech or presentation in your vehicle while driving or parked -- is an excellent  way not only to master the content of your speech -- but also to bring new life to your material.


Many a journalist, after doing research in the library or interviewing experts has saved a lot of time and captured ideas and facts while t hey still fresh in her or his mind by writing up the story mentally while drive back to the newspaper office.


Then when he  got to their desk the story was almost completely written and all she had to do was to transcribe it all onto the computer screen, make a few editorial changes before submitting to the City or other editor. This saved a lot of of time and most of the time resulted in a far better story.


You can do the same type of thing while working on your speech, not only after you completed research and want to write your speech or incorporate new material into an existing presentations.  Write it mentally as you drive around or do other things.


You not only save time but also find that while doing this new ideas and bits of priceless illustrations you can use to illustrates your arguments or facts will pop into your mind -- bringing new life to your material.


So make use of that otherwise lost time while stuck in traffic to rehearse your presentation (even out loud as people nowadays will just  assume you are talking on your cellphone)  -- or while you are helping your wife with housework like vacuuming  or doing the dishes.


Just remember to have a voice recorder or notebook/pad on the car seat beside your or placed around the house where it is easy to reach to recorder those new thoughts -- preferably in cluster or Mind Map format. (If you're driving make sure you pull over or stop first -- of course.)


You will not only save time but attract new ideas and spark to your presentation.