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PROFESSIONALS WHO SPEAK MUST PRACTICE Susan Trivers – The leading voice on growth and opportunities Winging it only flies if you’re a bird 703-790-1424 [email protected] www.susantrivers.com
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Winging It Only Flies if You're a Bird--Professionals Must Practice

May 20, 2015

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Inspiration inside! Professionals of every kind know that successful performances depend on being well-prepared and practiced. That goes for you too. Whatever your work, if you're being paid for it, you're a professional. Learn from the pros about the extraordinary value of practice.
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Page 1: Winging It Only Flies if You're a Bird--Professionals Must Practice

PROFESSIONALS WHO SPEAK MUST

PRACTICE

Susan Trivers – The leading voice on growth and opportunities

Winging it only flies if

you’re a bird

703-790-1424 [email protected] www.susantrivers.com

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© Susan Trivers 2014 All rights reserved

Without practice you risk being…

An unorganized mess

Nervous and fearful

Embarrassed by your performance

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© Susan Trivers 2014 All rights reserved

High Performers Practice

Professionally

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It’s not difficult to swing a bat. But it’s hard to hit a pitch.

Top hitters practice batting every day for decades.

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Top tennis players …

Whether it’s a practice match or a hitting session, they are committed

to every shot and in between shots, they bounce and stay on their toes at all times.

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Golf tour pros practice by using props to check their alignment, their ball position, their swing plane, their putting path. Their coach provides another set of eyes

to check them. Winning takes practice and a lot of work.

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Cooking and baking contest winners practice seriously: they create recipes reflecting the current trends in flavors, style, accessible ingredients and presentation. And they

taste, taste, taste.

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America's top rose lovers cut the prettiest blossoms off their best plants and travel to the national rose show. They lovingly groom their precious blooms for hours in a frigid hall in order to contend for the highest honor:

the Queen of Show.

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For the first time in my dressage showing career, I practiced this test more than 50 times in advance of

the show. Joey and I earned our highest score ever!

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• Pros practice, practice, practice• In order to perform exceptionally well under

pressure and outsize expectations

• You are a professional who speaks• Others are expecting you to perform under

pressure and outsize expectations.• It is time to practice, practice, practice

Leave winging it to the birds!

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Susan G. Trivers, The Leading Voice on Growth and OpportunityConsulting, coaching, facilitation, speaking

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