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If I were to claim you might be mastering public speaking and improve your public speaking confidence with a 5-minute exercise, would you suspect me?

I do not suppose you would because I know how frightening public speaking can be.

I have been there on the sidelines waiting to go onto the stage, sweating, dry mouth and scared as hell!

Then a few years back, I attended a course run by Dr Richard Bandler ( co-creator of Nuro-Linguestic Programming NLP as it is generally known ). It absolutely was a self-discovery course with only a few of us attending so we got real hands-on attention from Richard. Among the countless lessons from the course, I remember one of the representatives asserting to Richard I’m just not aconfident person. Richard said in return Are you sure? Did you know what the person said? Of course I bloody well am. They certainly didn’t lack confidence!

Richard went on to explain that everyone is confident it is just they are assured about the incorrect things. This delegate was super-confident about their idea that they have no confidence.

How would you feel if you might turn yourself into the most confident person you might be, when you needed to?

Imagine going onto stage to present feeling just as confident when you were promoted or simply finished a10 mile run or asked somebody out on a date and they exclaimed ‘yes’. Well you can and all it takes is practice.

This was an exercise from Dr Richard Bandler, which all super successful people use. Know ituse itand you might be like them.

Try this 5-minute exercise:

Imagine a time when you were super-confident

Remind yourself what happened

What were folks pronouncing to you?

How did you feel?

What did you see?

Was there any actual sounds or smells?

Are you painting the image of when you felt super-confident?

Make the picture actually bright and enormous

How does one feel right now?

More assured then you probably did 5 minutes ago?

Mostdefinitely.

By remembering past experiences and allowing the feelings to spread all over you, you are telling your brain that the experience is occurring right now in this moment.

This is an easy exercise to increase your self-esteem.

Try finishing the exercise every morning and evening and feel that confidence wash all over you. Allow the exercise to changed into one of your new habits.

Complete the exercise the next time you are on the point of going onto the stage and publicly speak and need a confidence boost.

I haven’t any doubt you will be on the way to mastering public speaking and your public speaking confidence will soar.

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