Conquering Fear Of Public Speaking
What's
the absolute worst thing you can imagine happening
during your seminar talk?
Is
it people getting up and walking out on you? Laughing
at you? Throwing tomatoes at you?
You
might not want to think about it. You might prefer
to try to bury that thought of that one thing
that's so horrible, that if it happened during
your seminar talk, you'd completely fall apart.
No,
I'm not a sadist.
So
why am I rubbing your nose in your greatest fear?
It's because very often that thing we fear needs
to have the "sting" taken out of it just in case.
In
reality, that thing you fear so much either will
never happen or is just something you've built
up in your mind and blown it out of proportion.
Often,
we can defuse that worst case scenario by exposing
it to the light of day, finding something funny
about it, or even making fun of it.
What
do you imagine as being the absolute worst thing
you can imagine happening during your seminar?
Go
ahead, expose it.
Now,
what's actually funny about it? Think up three
ways you could turn that into a joke if it were
to actually happen.
Give
yourself permission to completely alleviate and
relieve yourself of that fear - unburden yourself
today!
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