The Big Presentation

So I just finished my presentation at FallCUE. Unfortunately, I'm super disappointed in myself. I forgot my watch to tell time in the car, I didn't cut out enough from the hour and a half session down to the hour session, and noticed I that a lot of people walked out without by best and favorite resources. I was super bummed after my session, but I feel like I learned a lot.

I didn't think I was nervous...that was until my voice cracked and I had absolutely no saliva in my mouth at all. Seriously. At. All. I settled in, but it took me a while. I'm sure some people didn't notice, but if you know me, then you would have totally noticed.

I got good feedback on my energy at the end and someone said it was the best session they went to all day.  However, that person also stayed the entire time and got the whole session. I don't know how people felt that didn't stay the whole time. About half left with 10 minutes left. I totally get it. I did it in other sessions to make sure that I had a seat in one the next session. I just need to remember to have my presentation end early 10 minutes and that allows them to fill out the eval in that time (or leave and fill it out while they wait for the next session they go to).

I simply didn't shorten down my presentation enough and am really bummed out because I expect more from myself and know that I can do better. If I would have deleted the Google Forms and Flubaroo section from my presentation. That way I would have been able to really touch more on the games, we would have had an opportunity to play some of the games (only 2 people played one game in front of everyone), and there would have been time to fill out the evaluation, hand out resources, and I think it would have gone better overall.

I am pretty bummed out, but I need to remember that this is my second time presenting. I will get better. I know that. It's just kinda hard walking away disappointed in yourself.

This isn't going to make me stop presenting. However, I just need to make sure that I really get down the amount of material down correctly and maybe I will even reformat the layout and switch the order. Once again, I just have to remember that I am learning and growing as a speaker, it's just really hard to remember that at the moment.