TURN LEFTOVERS INTO MAKEOVERS!
Ed Tate, CSP
Global Keynote Speaker | Cialdini Institute Faculty | Winning High-Stakes Business Presentations | Coaching & Training | Certified Speaking Professional | World Champion of Public Speaking
My wife, Sarika, rarely likes to do the same thing twice.
Let’s take food as an example. She is a fantastic cook.
I would never describe myself as a ‘foodie.” Food, for me, is about sustenance. I’ve never had a favorite food. And can barely remember what I had for lunch.
She never eats leftovers.
She creates?Makeovers?(her term).
That is, she makes a new meal out of leftovers. In this case, we had salmon and lentils–which tasted good by themselves.
She turned them into a quiche.
I know-fish and lentil quiche!
It was scrumptious!
A makeover is defined as a complete transformation or remodeling of something.
What if you were to makeover your leftover content and create something entirely new?
For example, take a previous speech, presentation, story, or article, and repurpose, repackage, and reuse it on a different platform or media– (TikTok video.)?
Presto! Makeover!
Unless I mention it, you may not know this post is a makeover.
Where did I get the ingredients, you might ask. I have an electronic folder called “Blog/Article Ideas.” It is a random collection of full and partial thoughts, stories, and ideas.
I took two random ideas (ingredients):
Mixed them like a salad, and voilà, you have this post!?
“I TOOK TWO RANDOM IDEAS AND MIXED THEM LIKE A SALAD!”
?You’re Welcome!
You can turn your leftovers into makeovers.
Experiment!
Challenge Yourself!
Make it fun!
Create something new!
I would love to hear about your content salad. What ingredients did you use for your makeovers??
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Director Inclusion, Government of Western Australia
2 年Thank you for the article Ed. I have used makeovers with speeches. I have found this most successful when I makeover the ideas. In the past I have tried to recycle sections of the speech and included them in a new one by cutting and pasting sections into a new speech. This was was not very effective but recycling stores and ideas in a new presentation that is customised for the audience has worked very well.
Financial Advisor PenFed Credit Union
2 年Thanks for sharing!
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2 年Great idea Ed, I'll give it a whorl.