After every presentation, there’s always something I feel that needed to be said.

This could be a classroom presentation, a keynote, or words at a funeral. It’s disheartening because there’s a feeling I’ve shortchanged my audience by not mentioning the few points that come to my head afterwards.

Perhaps, as my own thinking goes, this will be the only time they will hear me speak.

Two things to be done in this situation:
1. Write down the points you wanted to say and add it next time.
2. Move on.

Your audience doesn’t know what you’ve missed and there’s no reason to berate yourself over it. If they want to know more, they will contact you and ask.

The idea that missed thoughts are the end of the world is the ego whispering that what you did wasn’t good enough. Worse, it’s whispering that you’re so good that your audience has been deprived of you.

Shut it up and move on.