The perfect first sentence is the one that makes your audience want to read or hear the second one.
Sounds trivial, but is it?
I mean, just look around – let’s say at a couple of speeches you listened to recently. How did these begin?
How did yours begin?
Just because every other speech begins by going through the agenda, yours doesn’t have to.
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