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HOW TO READ A PREPARED TEXT LIKE A PRO 175

4. The last sentence on the page should end on the page. The sentence
should never continue to the top of the next page (again, easier
to track with your eye).
5. Put page numbers in all four corners. (Life being what it is, you

want to avoid having to genuflect for five minutes if you should
drop your speech on the way up to the podium.)
You will now have more pages, but you can easily move each
page with almost no distraction. While looking at the audience, just
slide the page over as you speak the words from the last sentence on
that page.
When you are ready to go, your pages should look something
like this:

We are who we are, and that’s
as it should be.

But most of us live our whole lives
not having a clue about who we might

have been.

One way to find out who we might

be is to venture outside our own

expectations . . . to make new
footsteps.

That’s what good speakers do . . .
they surprise themselves, and then

they begin to fi nd themselves.