第1个回答 2012-01-17
I was going to write this here last night, but I thought nooo I will just see how I go, and not work myself up too much.
Public speaking has been the bane of my existence since a teenager. I have had a real emotional struggle with it. But over the last few years I have been forunate to be in a job that requires for me to speak in groups and recently realised I am at ease comfortable talking out-a-loud to people I know.
However, talking in front of audience that I don't know has been something I have not tackled. The other day I was thinking though, I wonder how I would go now and thought I wouldn't mind testing it out, reading something very short, but I did not think about it much more.
As it turned out today, I had to do this very thing (funeral), but it was OK! I talked myself through it, the emotions, the fear and I did it and I did it with confidence. YAY! I had people commenting on how well I spoke.
So now of course you know what the next move is...learning to public speak!!! I am going to do more of it
I learnt from my previous fear of talking in groups and reading out a loud, that it was all in my mind and the perception of it I built up in my mind, so I guessed the same thing was happening with public speaking. So I am sure once I immerse myself in it, it will be easy peesy! Can't wait to eliminate the fear completely, just like I have with talking out a loud and in groups.
Lately I have been seeing myself progress in quite a few areas. Tackling fear is my main thing at the moment and it's going well.