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Category: Fear
Empowerment Through Awareness: Confronting Self-Limiting Beliefs
Self-limiting beliefs is a concept that comes up particularly in the self help area with some frequency. It seems easy enough to understand, but for the hard things in life I’ve never heard or found a way to overcome them. Until just recently. I came to understand self-limiting beliefs differently and that opened the door…
Gamifying fear as a way to start doing
Gamifying fear is an approach to help you to overcome fear and start participating in that activity. Assuming your feared activity isn’t deadly and you can find a way to approach it with safe baby steps, I a gamification based approach may help you start and keep working at it. Gamification can help remove a…
Fear of Public Speaking: When Is It More Than Just Nerves?
The fear of public speaking is one of humanity’s most common anxieties. Whether addressing a small group of colleagues or standing before a large audience, the prospect of speaking in public can send shivers down our spine. Some research from the University of California, Los Angeles, reveals that this fear (often referred to as glossophobia)…
The Power of asking questions to become a better speaker
We all know how difficult it can be to stand on the stage and answer the audience’s questions, but how about the other side? How about standing up in front of everyone, picking up a microphone, and asking the speaker a question? Asking questions For those who fear public speaking and feel exposed, asking a…
Traumatic Memories: how do they impact your ability to shine?
When speaking in public, you feel incredibly vulnerable because you are too exposed. Many anthropologists have theories about that discomfort and its relationship with being apart from the group. In other words, far from the safety of the group. Yet, some of us seem to deal better with it, while others can reach the anxiety…
“Tell me about yourself.”
Do you remember that first day of school, when the teacher would ask you to stand up and “Tell the class about yourself.”? You would probably close your eyes, take a deep breath, and wish very hard that some natural catastrophe would destroy the whole school at that very moment. Now that you’re an adult,…
Fight your anxiety: allow yourself to be bad.
Self-deprecated humor is a shield most comedians use to fight their insecurities and anxieties. They learn how to laugh at themselves to raise their confidence. Like them, we all have insecurities that will harm our performance if we don’t find a way to deal with them. Why are we so scared when stepping up a…
When to say ‘no’? – Not all opportunities are good opportunities
We repeatedly talked about how important your public speaking skills are to evolve in your career, to reach your goals. You know you’ll never be as good as you can be if you do not practice. The best way to be a good communicator is to communicate! Does this mean you should jump in every…
Positive Imagery to ward off anxiety
When anxiety kicks in, we all tend to imagine the worst scenarios. Usually, in our anxious minds, there is always danger around the corner. This is what happens in your imagination before a presentation. The imagination is a powerful tool. You can travel to infinite places inside your mind, and it has a true impact…
5 Rituals to Prep for Public Speaking
We use rituals in so many areas of our lives. Previously most associated with religion, but now used much more broadly, we see benefits from practicing specific actions in a sequence to get us into a certain physical and mental state. The wonderful thing about rituals and routines that I’ve noticed, is that over time,…
