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Overcoming FEAR of Public Speaking! 3 Quick and Easy Tips

May 17, 2009 | By mike In Business & Finance, Communications & Team Building, Personal Development, Public Speaking, Training & Facilitation Skills | Comments(1)

Public speaking is something everyone has to do from time to time. For some, it is a joy and an opportunity to shine. For others, a torment and a drudgery. Here are 3 quick tips to help you overcome the FEAR of public speaking.

First, remember FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real. We think they, the audience, is not on our side. RUBBISH! I have never gone before ANY audience that was hoping I would be bad. Every audience wants you to be GOOD and wants you to be effective and interesting. In other words, they are on your side!

Second, NEVER EVER speak to a CROWD. Crowds are tough audiences. Speak to INDIVIDUALS. It is easy for most of us to speak to one person at a time.  That is, speak to just one person in the audience at a time. Speak to a friendly face for 30 seconds. Then look towards another friendly face and speak to him or her for 30 seconds. By speaking to just ONE person at a time, you minimise your fear and maximise the impact upon your audience.

Third, look at those who smile more. Happy, pleasant people feed you energy and relax you. Never look at those who appear to be sucking on a lime. They are the black-holes of your energy and enthusiasm.

If you focus on these 3 suggestions,  you are instantly a more confident and capable speaker. In future blogs we’ll cover dozens more ideas for speaking and presenting as well as ideas for career development, sales, time and stress management, leadership and team building.

Smile Maker: How can a wife tell when her husband is dead?

The TV is still on but no more beer is getting drunk.

You still don’t see him but the pay checks stop.

He starts to smell worse than his socks.

He no longer breaks wind.

You finally get caught-up with the dirty laundry.

You get your first good night’s sleep in years!

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Turn Around: How to turn things around for the better

July 25, 2008 | By admin In Business & Finance, Leadership & Management, Personal Development, Success Strategies | Comments(1)

I’ve survived 3 recessions and several major business upsets over the past 27 years of owning and running my own business. Here are 3 quick tips to turn things around if they start going wrong.

1) Focus. Stop doing 10,000 things and focus on ONE thing that has the greatest chance of producing great results. I wasted too much time in the beginning trying to work on too many activities. THEN, I focused on writing my newspaper column and calling potential clients and the business grew.

At this stage of my life, I focus as much on family as I do on business. I don’t want to lose what really matters while I seek business and financial success.

2) MASSIVE ACTION: A little action gets you a little result. Think of turning a huge ship around. The Titanic hit the ice berg in part because the rudder was too small for the size of the ship. Had the rudder been twice the size, it may not have crashed. Don’t make 10 calls a day, make 100.

Applying the concept to your personal relationships, don’t tell your spouse you love him / her, show it by changing, growing, hugging longer, smiling more and being better.

3) Eyes on the prize: Keep looking at your main goal. Everything in this world will try to distract you from your main goal. Email. Text messages. Low-priority phone calls. Keep your eye on the prize and spend 80% - 90% of your day working on achieving your main goal (business or personal)

I could share 100 more ideas for turning things around but if you don’t use these first 3, the rest is really wasted effort. Wishing YOU great success and happiness.

Smile Maker: A lawyer called a plumber to fix a leak under his sink. Fixing the leak, the plumber handed the lawyer a bill for $200.

The lawyer complained, “You were only here 15 minutes. That’s $800 an hour!. I’m a lawyer and I don’t make that much money!”

The plumber said in reply, “That’s why I quit being a lawyer.”

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