{"id":1426,"date":"2011-03-16T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2011-03-09T23:03:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T05:03:42","slug":"what-do-you-want-me-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/what-do-you-want-me-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Want Me To Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in the communication business, every speech, interview, sermon, pep-talk, or presentation you give should bear this in mind: What is it I want my listeners to do because of what I say to them today?<\/p>\n<p>I heard a really nice sermon recently, but I have no idea what I was supposed to do at the end of it. I don\u2019t know if I was supposed to pray more, give more, do more, love more, lust less?????? I just don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>My thought as it came to a conclusion was that the speaker was so focused on preparing a nice sermon that he didn\u2019t bother with thinking through what that sermon was to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time since a took a homiletics or public speaking class, and I don\u2019t really remember what they teach there, but I can tell you this: prepare your message to hit a target designed to move people to action, and you\u2019ll deliver a bell-ringer every time.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you get ready to speak, just ask this simple question: What is it I want my audience to do because of what I say to them today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in the communication business, every speech, interview, sermon, pep-talk, or presentation you give should bear this in mind: What is it I want my listeners to do because of what I say to them today? I heard a really nice sermon recently, but I have no idea what I was supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.jbarrywatts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}