wednesday night thoughts

I gave the message tonight for HS church. I think I feel ok about it: nothing less, nothing more. I feel it was ok.

I definitely can see some things I need to work on as far as delivering a message:

1) work on transitions between thoughts. I think I was a bit rough / choppy when transfering to another point

2) time. I went too long. Time goes a lot faster when you are the one speaking.

3) engaging the audience. I think I did decent in delivering the message, but perhaps could have done better to engage the students. I want things to sink in - even if it's just one of the point among many. My recent thoughts about delivering a message is that the audience will only remember one or two things; whether its an illustration, a point well developed, or one of those "ah-ha" moments when something clicks. I think speakers usually offer more than just a few good points, but the audience tends to remember only one or two. These thoughts mostly come from my experience as an audience member, not a speaker. But, I could be wrong...

Things I felt that I did well:

1) I think there was like 2 times that I felt funny. One was when I said something about unrine being talked about in the Bible.

2) I could be totally wrong, but I felt that there was minimal chatter as I spoke. There was a few times I slowed down or even paused so that things would settle. Also, I think numbers were down tonight, so that helped the chatter level.

3) I did't look backwards at the screens to see if the right slide was up. I don't like when speakers do that.

4) preparation time was decent. I didn't feel unprepared. I learned to work more, though, on transitions.

Overall, it was an ok night.

Mike showed me how to fossil hunt and it's funny.

Lost sucked tonight.