Mind Web - Spinning a web of presentation ideas

Anyone who has given more than two presentations can remember sitting in a dankly lit office, behind a desk covered with research material. A blank stare upon your face as you gaze at the stack of information you so desperately want to pull into a first rate presentation. You hope for some spark of genius, yet all you get is frustration and probably a headache. You try harder and harder to pull together the words, thoughts and phrases to articulate your message, but your brain gives you nothing to work with. Well, fear no longer for those days are over. Today you are going to learn a technique that will pull out those ideas into a form that allows you to 'see' your message in a natural flow. Once your see your message, writing that speech or presentation will come far easier than you ever expected. I use this technique over and over again to create articles like the one your are currently reading. The only downfall to this brain web or inspiration web as I prefer to call it, is that I often get too many ideas and have to cut many of them out of the article I am writing. But that is ok, for that leaves me with plenty of ideas for the next article or presentation, all ready and waiting for me to call upon them in a moments notice. This even works for those times when you have only minutes before you have to stand before your audience. Let's spinning a web of ideas. The tools you will need to create your web are a pen, paper, and a timing device. Larger paper is better, but standard 8