A key tip to overcome your public speaking stage fright
You probably already know the symptoms of public speaking stage fright. Blushing, shaking, sweating, butterflies in your stomach, nervousness, pounding heart, fear, and more. The good news is that these symptoms can be reduced dramatically so you can be calm and relaxed when presenting and speaking in public.
What you think, imagine and do can increase or decrease your nervousness. What could you possibly do that makes you nervous?
The commonest thing is that you spend your time saying negative things to yourself about how dreadful the experience will be, how many difficult questions you will get, that you'll go blank, that they are all looking at you, that they're out to trip you up, or even that you will trip up! Yes! I had one women I interviewed recently who was terrified of public speaking and she had convinced herself that she would trip up. Thinking like this paralysed her.Do you think like this? Do you think that successful speakers think like this? No of course not. Such thinking makes public speaking so much harder. So what can you do to overcome this kind of destructive, nerve producing thinking?
Know what you are thinking.
When it is negative - challenge your thinking.
Think like a confident speaker thinks.
You can challenge your thinking - what you think may well not be the truth. You don't have to believe it. The woman who was scared of tripping up learnt to challenge her thinking. She asked herself where is the evidence that I will trip up? What is the worst thing that will happen if I do? How many times have I tripped up? None. How many times have I seen other speakers trip up? None. By challenging her thinking like this she came to the conclusion that her thinking was the only thing likely to trip her up! That she was thinking nonsense. That it was her thinking making her frightened not the experience itself.
After changing her thinking she was able to move from only being able to present to a maximum of 3 people to singing Karaoke in front of a 100 really well!
When you say these kinds of things to yourself you are making your anxiety, panic or stage fright worse. Such thinking kills public speaking confidence.
Thankfully, it is possible to change this kind of thinking and think like a confident presenter.
You probably already know the symptoms of public speaking stage fright. Blushing, shaking, sweating, butterflies in your stomach, nervousness, pounding heart, fear, and more. The good news is that these symptoms can be reduced dramatically so you can be calm and relaxed when presenting and speaking in public.
What you think, imagine and do can increase or decrease your nervousness. What could you possibly do that makes you nervous?
The commonest thing is that you spend your time saying negative things to yourself about how dreadful the experience will be, how many difficult questions you will get, that you'll go blank, that they are all looking at you, that they're out to trip you up, or even that you will trip up! Yes! I had one women I interviewed recently who was terrified of public speaking and she had convinced herself that she would trip up. Thinking like this paralysed her.Do you think like this? Do you think that successful speakers think like this? No of course not. Such thinking makes public speaking so much harder. So what can you do to overcome this kind of destructive, nerve producing thinking?
Know what you are thinking.
When it is negative - challenge your thinking.
Think like a confident speaker thinks.
You can challenge your thinking - what you think may well not be the truth. You don't have to believe it. The woman who was scared of tripping up learnt to challenge her thinking. She asked herself where is the evidence that I will trip up? What is the worst thing that will happen if I do? How many times have I tripped up? None. How many times have I seen other speakers trip up? None. By challenging her thinking like this she came to the conclusion that her thinking was the only thing likely to trip her up! That she was thinking nonsense. That it was her thinking making her frightened not the experience itself.
After changing her thinking she was able to move from only being able to present to a maximum of 3 people to singing Karaoke in front of a 100 really well!
When you say these kinds of things to yourself you are making your anxiety, panic or stage fright worse. Such thinking kills public speaking confidence.
Thankfully, it is possible to change this kind of thinking and think like a confident presenter.
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