Keep It Handy

Here is another "downtime" technique to help you capture those ideas or words -- even while driving -- that you can use in your presentation.


Keep that  mini or micro recorder out of your pocket on your seat or other convenient spot near. If thoughts occur to you that you want to follow up in your research or use in your presentation all you have to is push the record button and speak.


Just keep the volume turned up so you don't have to pick it to speak into and risk getting a hefty fine from the police for using a "hand-held device" while driving.


Any type of recorder will do. I use a big, older model portable as I still have and use a bunch of tapes and find it very handy. But if you have a cell phone recorder you could likely even use that. The recording time is short on most of those cell hones though.  And of course if you have a digital recorder which could be the most useful of all.


Whatever you use just make sure you have something (even a notebook) with you while driving around because that is  when many good ideas are going to pop into your mind or you hear something on the radio you want to recorder or make a note of.