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My 6-year old's first stage experience taught me
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Hi Reader How are you doing? I wanted to share this with my community here but maybe this week is the right time. We stress a lot about various techniques and ideas that sometimes we miss concentrating on one thing. It just hit me like a ton of bricks when I watched my 6 year old's first stage experience holding the microphone. (Ok, I got very emotional seeing that while generally I portray an image of not getting emotional!) Watch the video here. It's a poem and I'm fairly confident you'll like it. 
Now, let's talk about what hit me like a ton of bricks. You would have noticed that he did not use any body language or actions. Not that he did not practice. It's just that they gave him a hand held microphone and he just went with the flow. It just hit me that the clarity of the words and the energy in your voice matters more than anything else. So that's the idea for today. Hope that helps. Please reply and let me know if you have any questions. As always, thanks for being awesome! Rama
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