I want to start this blog with this article which is about success hoping the success to my blog….
Tongue-tied?
For most people, public speaking is the number one fear in their lives.In fact,it even ranks above death!Dan Zak meets a few experts who suggest how you can conquer this phobia and move ahead in life……..
secrets to success
*Get enough sleep.
*Get there early .The worst thing to do is to arrive at your location without time to set up or settle down.
*know your material and know your audiece.If you have done your homework,regardless of the nature of your performance ,you won’t be worried about being “found out”.It’s also good to meet a few members of the audience beforehand so you have familiar faces to adress.
*Do something that relaxesyou before you’re in the hot seat. Listen to music right before you go onstage.Or play golf earlier in the day .
*Hydrate yourself ,since stess makes your mouth dry .But not with coffee(makes you jittery),soda(makes you burp)or milk (makes you phlegmy).Have water at the lectern if your mouth tends to dry quickly .
Last- minute Checklist
You’re about to be introduced.The microphone beckons you like an overzealous dance partner.Here are a few things to consider before you tango with a crowed:
* Breath deeply.Slow yourself down. Remind yourself:you’re not in danger .”physically,the one thing I learned is to breath, because when we’re nervous we naturally start taking more shallow breathes,”says Todd McDermott,a local TV news anchor in Washington.”It sounds so simple ,but if you remember to do it .not only does it keep oxygen flowing to your brain ,it keeps you rushing.
*Know the firt tow lines of what you’re going to say ,says Peter Pober, coach of the Georhe Mason Univercity forensics team in Faifax, Virginia.”You can absolutely nearly eliminate stage fright if you memorise the first tow lines you eant to come out of your mouth ,”he says .But remember: memorising a whole speech word for word is a bad thing .
*Direct your first line to the centre of the crowed ,Pober adds .That way .you’ll be hooking the most people right of the bat .
*Control the start and the finishyourself. Yhe words don’t have to rush out right when you reach the microphone, and you don’t have to rush off as soon as you’re done .
*View the audience as friends and allies,not an army of sceptics or dummies.”some people say .’look at the audience and diminish them or demean them’, and I think that’s really ridiculous,Goldberg says .”Visualise them as good friends who are going to enjoy this”.
Damage Control
The panic is starting to snowball.you can feel your face flush. Before the catecholamines start racing,try these things:
*Just pause .Take a minute to collect yourself instead of trying to stumble out of the awkwardness .Chances are the pause won’t even register with the audience as a mistake…
*….So just let the mistakes go.”The audience doesn’t expect you to br perfect ,so don’t put that kind of pressure on yourself “,says stand-up comic Matt Kazam ,who recommends tossing up a selfdeprecating comment to ease the tension.
*Refer to a visual command.Rubin has his students paste a sticky note by their speech or on the lectern that they can refer to as a prompt to distract themselves from,well,themselves .The note can say “slow” or”calm”, or whatever will re-centre their attension.
Los Angeles times-Washington post
I read this article in Friday magazine which I like ..
so I decided to share it with you .
arents always lie about The Bogeyman to get thier children yo sleep.If The Bogeyman is too oldfashioned,it’ll be some pther monster coming to get you.You will also find yourself lying about the fact that you actually trouble your child this way-and not regret it a bit.
