{"id":250,"date":"2008-11-13T16:13:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T21:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-11-13T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T21:13:47","slug":"too-much-personality-too-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Too much personality; too cute"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all do it, it seems.\u00a0 Kind of fall in love with the stage, enjoy the laughs and everyone actually listening to what we have to say.<\/font><\/p>\n

Can be pretty heady stuff.<\/font><\/p>\n

I found myself at “too cute” one day listening to the cassette replay of the previous Sunday’s message.\u00a0 (Yes, back in the dark ages we recorded to cassette.)<\/font><\/p>\n

Wow, I thought, very upset.\u00a0 Too cute.\u00a0 Too much horsing around, entertaining, not enough content.<\/font><\/p>\n

And so I decided to change my approach.\u00a0 It wasn’t that I was a horrible person, not for that anyway.\u00a0 It is just that I had caught a malady common to public speaking – “too cute-itis.”<\/font><\/p>\n

Listen to the guys who have been on the radio for a while.\u00a0 If you are not drawn into the moment, it is too much, too much of the person and not enough of the message.<\/font><\/p>\n

I guess this is on my mind as I think about standing before a group of men this Saturday.\u00a0 Have fun, yes.\u00a0 Forget my focus, no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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