To prevent embarrassment, you should also to always have a back up to your memory -- a few notecards with a simple outline of your speech is always nice to have, even if it remains in your pocket whole time.

Finally, remember that audiences are usually more forgiving than we normally give them credit for. Most groups don't care if you have to stop to take a look at your notes, as long as you provide them with good information.

Early in twentieth century, physicists began to formulate concepts which they called Quantum Theory. Their findings implied that finer levels of reality were most powerful. Experiments proved them to be right. Split an atom, you have atomic energy. Split nucleus of an atom, you have even more powerful nuclear energy. They've found more and more finer levels of reality lead to an idea, a thought, a beingness.

Where am I going with all this? What I'm about to say is less of an analogy, more of a reality, but you can take it anyway you want.

Thought is most powerful at it's source, which is state of simple awareness. When these creative people found answers to questions and solutions to problems, they found them not when they were thinking about them, but when their minds were quiet, at rest.

When Dr. Cohen said "We're too busy trying to make things happen in our favor rather than naturally let things happen in our favor," it meant to me that we have to pull back, quiet our minds in order to know how to proceed. We've got to trust still, quiet part of ourselves. We need to set aside some time each day to experience that simple awareness.