From the course: Speaking Confidently and Effectively
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Change your focus to calm your nerves
From the course: Speaking Confidently and Effectively
Change your focus to calm your nerves
- [Female Speaker] Here's what I know. If you are nervous, you are being self-centered because it's all about me, myself and I. Oh, I hope I don't trip. Oh, I hope I don't lose my train of thought. Get over yourself. It's not about you. It's about the audience. Change your focus, change the picture that's in your mind. That's the first step. And when I work with people, I work in two ways with skillset and mindset, but first mindset, because fear and anxiety begin in the mind. I know that if you're nervous and I'm not talking about the little butterflies, we all get a little bit of that. But if you are really nervous, it means that you're living in the future. You are envisioning everything that can go wrong. So what you need to do is come back to the present and be here with the audience. And the best way to bring yourself into the present is to focus on your breath. So we work on breathing exercises to get…
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Great speaking skills are a must-have3m 3s
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Give your audience only what they need to know2m 39s
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Identify a need or challenge2m 51s
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Change your focus to calm your nerves1m 40s
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Your audience wants you to succeed2m 13s
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Align your body, tone, and words1m 52s
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Project power with body language2m 27s
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Speak in sync with your audience2m 31s
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Plan for your biggest fears1m 54s
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Three ways to handle difficult questions1m 15s
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