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If I said you could be mastering public speaking and improve your public speaking confidence with a 5-minute exercise, would you think me?
I don’t suppose you would because I know how frightening public speaking can be.
I’ve been there on the sidelines waiting to go onto the stage, sweating, dry mouth and nervous as hell!
Then some years back, I attended a course run by Dr Richard Bandler ( co-creator of Nuro-Linguestic Programming NLP as it is well known ). It absolutely was a self-discovery course with just a couple of of us attending so we got real hands-on attention from Richard. Amongst the many lessons from the course, I remember one of the delegates exclaiming to Richard I’m just not an assured person. Richard said in return Are you sure? Do you know what the person said? Naturally I bloody well am. They certainly didn’t lack confidence!
Richard went on to explain that most are assured it is just they are confident about the incorrect things. This delegate was super-confident about their idea that they have no confidence.
How would you feel if you could turn yourself into the most confident person you could be, if you needed to?
Imagine going onto stage to present feeling just as confident when you were promoted or just finished a ten mile run or asked someone out on a date and they exclaimed ‘yes’. Well you can and all it takes is practice.
This was an exercise from Dr Richard Bandler, which all super successful people use. Know ituse itand you could be like them.
Try this 5-minute exercise:
Imagine a time when you were super-confident
Remind yourself what happened
What were folks pronouncing to you?
How did you feel?
What did you see?
Was there any particular sounds or smells?
Are you painting the image of when you felt super-confident?
Make the picture truly bright and big
How do you feel right now?
More confident then you probably did five mins ago?
Very definitely.
By recalling past experiences and permitting the feelings to spread all over you, you are telling your cortex that the experience is happening right now in this moment.
This is an easy exercise to increase your self-esteem.
Try finishing the exercise each morning and evening and feel that confidence wash all over you. Permit the exercise to evolved into one of your new habits.
Complete the exercise next time you are on the point of going onto the stage and publicly speak and need a confidence boost.
I haven’t any doubt you will be on the way to mastering public speaking and your public speaking confidence will soar.
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