If you're at all like me and many others it's very easy to get stuck in a learning rut when trying to start something new -- whether it is learning to swing or to give that powerful presentation.
You know what a rut is? According to master marketing guru sand copy writing veteran it is, "an open grave with no cover."
And that could be true -- eventually if you want to succeed at your plans to become a successful speech writer or presenter you have to climb out of that rut or just reading or learning about it and put what you have learned into practice.
That is the best way to put the finishing touches on what you have learned about making presentations.
Don't be like the business hopeful Bly tells about who studied everything she could about starting a business of her own -- for five years, but never actually put anything she learned into practice during that time. Unwittingly she was digging that open rut or grave of learning, and learning, and learning, but never climbing out of that rut and applying anything she learned.
She did escape through Bly's urging, but for a while she was a lot like another person I knew who read, and read, and read, and read some more about photography techniques and even carried a camera around in a professional camera bag. But he rarely pulled that camera out and actually practiced.
To this day is far from the skilled photographer he dreams to be. He doesn't practice diligently enough. He does buy a lot of photography magazines though.
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