10 Tips to Calm Your Nerves

You know how you get those butterflies before speaking in a meeting or making a presentation? Listen to these 10 tips to reduce your anxiety and calm your nerves!

Tip 1: Prep - know your content

Tip 2: Say “I’m so excited” instead of “I’m so nervous” 

Tip 3: Breathe and do the Navy Seals box breathing

Tip 4: Sing your favorite song

Tip 5: Rock back and forth or side to side

Tip 6: Tap yourself lightly on the arms and legs

Tip 7: Stretch

Tip 8: Do PQ reps from the book Positive Intelligence (my favorites are the sense of touch and sound).

Tip 9: Dance to your pump-up song

Tip 10: Focus on what the audience needs rather than you. If you focus on serving them it will take your mind off of you.

 

Karen Laos, Communication Expert and Confidence Cultivator, leverages 25 years in the boardroom and speaking on the world’s most coveted stages such as Google and NASA to transform missed opportunities into wins. She is fiercely committed to her mission of eradicating self-doubt in 10 million women by giving them practical strategies to ask for what they want in the boardroom and beyond. She guides corporations and individuals with her tested communication model to generate consistent results through her Powerful Presence Keynote: How to Be an Influential Communicator.

 

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