You’ve got a presentation coming up in two months. What do you do? Get cracking on that speech immediately or do you wait? You’ve got time after all. Then 2-months turns into a month. A month turns into a week and now you’re panicked. Why did you procrastinate so long? Why did you put off writing your speech? I posed this question to my network on LinkedIn: What's the hardest part of writing your speech? The results of this informal poll revealed the biggest block to writing a speech is (drumroll please): Starting Apparently, it's more fun to scrub a toilet then to write your presentation. It's easy to sit down in front of the computer, stare at the pulsating cursor while "what the heck should I talk about?" runs through your head on repeat like the Games of Thrones theme song. Let's make it a whole lot easier to get your speech started! Use these 7 strategies to write your speech with ease.

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