Reducing Jitters before a Speech

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1 About
2 Take a deep breath
3 Realize that they want you to succeed
4 Prepare for your Speech
5 Just do it!
6 Sources/Reference
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Imagine, you start to get that sinking, no queezy (technical term) feeling in the pit of your stomach, your heart is racing and your mind is telling you to run away just as fast as you can. No, you are not under attack and no one is shooting at you. Instead you are just getting ready to do a presentation. And yes those are butterflies, not helicopters inside your stomach. This is a feeling that most people feel before giving a speech, or presentation, and the following ten tips will help you train those butterflies to fly in formation.

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Take a deep breath

When we get nervous our breathing can become shallow, which limits the oxygen that we take it.
Oxygen that our brain needs to think clearly.
Several deep breaths will help calm you down and allow you to get the oxygen you need.

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Realize that they want you to succeed

Every audience you speak in front of will have 2 types of people in it.
The first type have never done public speaking before and they are deathly afraid of it, so they respect you for being up there.
The second type have done public speaking before and they know how difficult it can be, so they also respect you for being up there. So either way you can’t lose.

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Prepare for your Speech

Knowing your subject matter well will help your confidence level.
Prepare thoroughly. 95% of how well your presentation is going to go will be determined before you even start.
Focus on the message, not the medium.
The time to focus on how you deliver your message is before you go on stage, not while you are on stage.
Your nervousness will be greatly reduced, if you took the focus off yourself and put the focus on your audience.
Turn nervousness into enthusiasm. Athletes do this all the time. They turn that negative nervousness into positive enthusiasm which drives them during first part of the game.
It is important to remember that your audience is pulling for your to be successful, so they can justify their own investment of time, money and energy.
The secret about speaking in public: If you fake being confident, your audience will not know. Their perception is that you are confident.
Visit the washroom first before your speech. The last thing you want while you are presenting is competing priorities or giving an effective message and having to go to pee.

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Just do it!

The god of running shoes had this right. The presentation you give tomorrow will be that much better, because of the speech you delivered today.
The more you present the more comfortable you will be on presenting.
As Darren LaCroix, the 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking says, “The key to success in speaking is three things. Stagetime, Stagetime and Stagetime.”

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