Reduce anxiety by practicing - Video Tutorials & Practice Problems

People often get incredibly anxious about public speaking. If you feel anxiety, when you know you need to present, you are not alone. You'll hear many strategies for reducing speaking anxiety, and many of them can work in the moment. But in this lesson, I'm going to share with you the very best way to manage your own anxiety and still deliver a great presentation. You're ready for the big reveal. Practice your presentation, practice it a good number of times and practice it. Well, you can practice it in front of your computer, in your car, in the shower, but my favorite way to practice as well moving. I like the way best-selling author and renowned speaker Elizabeth Gilbert talks about preparing for her presentations in an interview with CEO and thought leader. Forleo Marie was asking Liz Gilbert, how she delivers such captivating, beautifully worded talks and speeches. The only way I can learn a speech is to walk it into my bones, set those Gilbert for the vast majority of presentations. You don't want to memorize that will take many, many hours to memorize your content in a way. That makes it easily and naturally accessible to share and probably won't be worth it. Anyway, instead practice talking through your presentation until you become so familiar with it, that you can deliver it with full presence and ease. I recommend talking through your outline. Three to five times while you're refining the content. And then another three to five times at minimum, just to become more familiar with the content you want that content to live in your mind and heart, that way you weren't relying on tenuous memory to pull forth the next part of your presentation. If you're using slides, be sure to practice clicking through those slides while you talk so that you get your content and the click to the next slide. I'll sync it up. In other words, there's no special or magic trick here to delivering a great presentation. You do the prep you practice well, and then you show up and deliver. You'll experience so much less anxiety when you give yourself the gift of great practice. So the next thing for you to do is grab your fleshed out presentation, outline, gathered together you're amplifying aids or presentation slides, and talk it all the way through. Start to finish. Five times. And if you have time, talk it through another couple times, because there's nothing that eases presentation, anxiety as effectively as preparation and practice.