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10 Tips to Banish Your Public Speaking Fear for Good
| Guest post by: Keith Ferrazzi |
Article Overview: Last week’s tip, Three Steps to Kick Social Anxiety, broke traffic records on the web site. No doubt about it: Meeting new people puts us out of our comfort zone! You guys had a lot to say about public speaking. In fact, there were so many good tips in the comments, many from professional coaches, that I used them to create a new post: 10 Tips to Banish Your Public Speaking Fear for Good.
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10 Tips to Banish Your Public Speaking Fear for Good
Last week's tip, Three Steps to Kick Social Anxiety, broke traffic records on the web site. No doubt about it: Meeting new people puts us out of our comfort zone! You guys had a lot to say about public speaking. In fact, there were so many good tips in the comments, many from professional coaches, that I used them to create a new post: 10 Tips to Banish Your Public Speaking Fear for Good.
My favorite tip of the bunch came from coach and speaker Gilda Bonanno:
"Use a positive mantra. Rather than thinking negative thoughts before I begin to speak, like don't screw up or what if I forget what I want to say?, I repeat my positive mantra as a means of boosting my confidence and focusing on the audience (because my speech should be about them, not me). I encourage people to find a mantra that is personally meaningful and believable. It could be a song title - Aretha Franklin's 'Respect' comes to mind - a line from a poem, or anything that makes you feel powerful and confident. And it has to be strong enough to drown out the negative, 'joy-sucker' voice in your head that undermines your confidence and makes you less able to convey your knowledge and experience to the audience. My personal mantra is You go, girl! (accompanied by a mental fist in the air)."
Take a minute to develop your personal pre-speech mantra - and share it!
Warmest,
Keith
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