The way you feel at any moment in time depends on just two things: your focus (what are you thinking about) and physiology (what’s going on with your body).

Today’s is a focus tip -- what to do with your mind to move it into a more empowering stage.

Questions – the ones we ask others and the ones we ask ourselves -- are unbelievably powerful. Any good sales person knows that you ask lots of questions, because questions engage the mind.  But they also DIRECT the mind -- so you need to be careful what you ask!

The problem is that most of us ask really lousy questions when it comes to public speaking. Like “What happens if I screw up? What happens if they hate me?” And then we come up with answers like “Oh my God, I won’t get the promotion. They’ll demote me. They’ll fire me.”

Well, then ask a better question: “What happens if I knock it out of the park?”  It’s just as relevant a question… Watch today’s short video and leave a comment.

This is a critical lesson for anyone appearing in front of an audience.

What’s great about it is that the same technique that will really help your performance will also significantly impact any stage fright or performance anxiety you might have experienced.

It’s all about ‘filling the room’ -- making sure that when you speak you reach the whole room, not just the first couple of rows, no matter how big the room, no matter how good the sound system…

Watch now and learn how to go BIG!

It sounds so obvious but actually getting enough sleep is one of the best things you can do to reduce anxiety in general and performance anxiety / stage fright in particular.

Now, I understand that sometimes it isn’t easy -- but sometimes it is. I can’t count the times I’ve been at a seminar and needlessly going to bed too late and waking up slightly frazzled the next morning.

Looking after your physiology -- your physical self -- quite apart from being a good idea anyway, is one of the best things to do when you have to appear in public -- watch this video for more…