Comments on: Your Prep Card: Don’t Leave Home Without It

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By: Laura M

Laura M — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:53:06 +0000

It would be best to type out the notes and create a prep card from that, for a more professional look if someone (your boss!) happens to catch a glimpse.

There's nothing unprofessional about having notes, but there is about having them scribbled on an index card or napkin.

Cheers :)

By: Kara

Kara — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:46:04 +0000

I’m a therapist in an inpatient psych unit for kids and adolescents and this could definitely help me stay on track when sessions get dramatic and out of control sometimes–nothing like a screaming yelling family (that’s not your own!) to derail your plan. Thanks for the tip!

By: Scramblejam

Scramblejam — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:55:31 +0000

Great idea guys!

I use something a little like this adapted from GTD - I keep all my notes and topics for a particular meeting on a single Index Card. I find that the limitation of a single card means I don't try to tackle too much in one meeting.

I may start using the flip side of the card as a "Prep Card" to help me focus... Thanks for all the great ideas!

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:27:10 +0000

I got the “You are my Density” thing immediately and cracked up! That’s awesome. And to Darren I just say, “Hello McFly, anybody home??”

By: christy

christy — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:09:22 +0000

Darren!!! That’s a joke from “Back to the Future”!!! I’m showing my age…

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:44:21 +0000

Matt

one question-

surely you mean "you are my destiny" as opposed to "density", unless you are trying to add 'weight' to your raise request!

Darren

By: azul

azul — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:45:16 +0000

if you've read Influence by Cialdini, it also said that by just writing down something you have influenced yourself to actually do it, or, somehow, 'believed' in it, even though while you were writing you didn't actually believed in it.

so, if you're a lazy guy (like me) write down what you want/need to do today. This'll get your a$# in gear. =)

By: David Moldawer

David Moldawer — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:31:03 +0000

Randy–glad you liked the post!

By: Randy Place

Randy Place — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:40:08 +0000

Funny you should mention working with index cards. In today's technical environment of Palms, iPhones, and Blackberry's the simple index card has been lost in theshuffle (pun intended).

Dale Carnegie, a grandaddy of the American self-help movement, suggested in the 1940's that you should avoid leaving speeches to memory. Carnegie recommended jotting down notes of what you wan to say on a 3x5 card and refer to those notes during the talk.

I think looking in your hand while speaking is disconcerting to the audience. That's why I memorize material using index cards to prepair.

Whenever I need to give a talk of more than a minute, I condense the talk I've typed out on to index cards. I often have a dozen of them. Then, shortly before the presentation, I condense the material from all of the index cards on to one as recommended in the article. That card is a series of one liners for all of the points I want to make. I rehearse from this card. When I don't recall certain points, I refer to the typed script.

This might takes a long time, but guess what? In the process of doing all this work, I've memorized the whole bit and it looks as if I'm speaking extemporarily.

When there's little lead time to prepair, I do look at notes on one or more of the index card.

So thanks so much, David, for reminding me, for reminding all of your readers, about the many practical uses of the simple, forgotten index card.