Stop Your Own Public Speaking Fear

How to Delete Public Speaking Fear

Fear vs. Inner-Wisdom

 Inner-Wisdom is:

• Intuition

• Hunches

• Good ideas you see in your mind

• The quiet voice that gives wise advice.

• Inner wisdom wants you to be the best you can be.

Fear is:

• The loud voice that appears in your brain uninvited.

• Imagining that a bad experience with public speaking will repeat.

• You were programmed by the adults around you from birth. Were the adults in your early life people you admire for their wisdom? Or did they fill your self-image with their unfounded beliefs?

• Old programming that can discourage you from improving your personal and professional life.

 How to Delete Public Speaking Fear

1. Listen to the loud voice and write a list of its warnings and advice.

2. For each thought, ask, “Is it still true?”

3. For example: Jackson F. was in the first three months of his first job in his field. A senior manager humiliated him in a meeting in front of senior management.

• At 35 years old, he still fears someone doing this to him in a meeting and imagining his embarrassment and loss of credibility.

• I asked, “In your current workplace, what if that same senior manager came to a meeting and did the same thing?” He said with anger and confidence, “I’d

• Me: “So, if that happened again you’d handle it like that?

• Yes

• “Do you need to keep fearing that you will be criticized and feel helpless.”

• Pause, and with bright eyes, “No!”

 4. THIS IS HOW TO STOP PUBLIC SPEAKING FEAR THOUGHTS.