Don't Burn Out! Your Cvent CONNECT Survival Guide

Hey everyone, David T. Stevens here. I am here to talk to you about Cvent Connect coming up in July. So, you might have started building your agenda, and you might be thinking, "Oh my god, when am I supposed to sleep? When am I supposed to eat? When am I supposed to take care of myself? Work on my well-being? Et cetera." Et cetera." That's why I'm here. I'm here to remind

you that if you are sleep deprived, underfed, and or any of those things, you're really undermining your own outcomes. And I'm guessing your company didn't send you that event to not get outcomes. So, my tips

my tips would be to add those things that you need to do to your calendar in advance.

Make sure you have enough time for sleep. Make sure you have enough time to get some movement in. There will be lots of steps, I'm sure, but if you move weight and lift and work out on a regular basis, block the time. Figure out Just pick a time arbitrarily. I am suggesting you do this before you pick your sessions, because then if something looks so good you have to go to it, you can move your gym time, or you can move whatever.

I'd also suggest putting in a time to manage your emails, or have a really strong out of office. Your choice, either or, maybe both. You might as well put the out of office on so that you can manage expectations, and then if you block some time to delete at least all those spammy emails that we get every day about how great every single destination on the face of the planet is, you can manage that, right? Just get rid of those. But strong but firm email managing expectations of when people can expect to hear back from you. I mean, the challenge is it's an awesome week. So, maybe it's a week. And maybe you can delegate some of those emails to someone else. But that being said, protect yourself,

protect your body, protect your mind, make sure you eat, and if you prioritize that, you're going to get more out of it. The other thing is, take notes.

Actually, one last thing. Okay, so there's this thing called the forgetting curve. Basically, if you don't re-engage with content within 24 to 48 hours, you're going to forget at least 80% of it. That's not me, that's a performance psychiatrist I learned that from, or psychologist. Performance psychologist, yes. yes. Anyways, Anyways, um um make the time to recap your day. Sit

down at the end of the day, do a little journaling before bed, and that will help you ensure that when you get back and someone says, "How was Cvent Connect?" and you say, "Fine." No, no, that's a thing of the past. It was amazing. Here's who I met. Here's what I learned. Here's what we did, etc. etc. etc. So, do that and you will get more

out of Cvent Connect than you ever did.