How Do You Reduce Stress Before Giving A Speech?
Getting nervous before giving a speech is normal.Even great personalities get nervous before giving a speech.But that doesn’t mean there is no remedy for it. Here is how you can reduce stress before giving a speech. • Give up the belief that you have to be perfect. Most people are afraid of public speaking because they fear the embarrassment of making mistakes in front of others. Anxiety over mistakes only makes mistakes more likely. Having anxiety could be the biggest mistake of all! Even professional speakers occasionally make mistakes. The difference is that they don’t consider mistakes major obstacles to success. The secret is to accept that mistakes are going to happen sometimes, and to develop the ability to recover from them quickly. Dr. L. Michael Hall, author of Secrets of Personal Mastery, advises, “Give yourself permission to be gloriously fallible!” • The way to recover from a mistake is to observe it dispassionately, take whatever corrective action is appropriate, regain y
