Kindergarten. Show and Tell. I bet you can recall several of your little class mates who were called upon by teacher to do their "show and tell" in front of class and who left their mark...on floor, right in front of whole class. That's how scared they were!

Elementary School. Presentations in front of class. This was period when we had crushes, and subject of our admiration was snickering at our ineptness!

High School. How did teacher always know kid who had not prepared his or her homework? Another humiliation in front of our peers!

Is it any wonder that we grow up with this negative attitude about getting up in front of a group to make a presentation? Of course not! It is result of negative conditioning. Since one of greatest human motivations is avoidance of pain, we have learned that speaking in front of a group is to be avoided at all costs, because it creates nothing but pain and embarrassment.

But there is hope, negative attitudes can be unlearned. We can learn effective ways to control this fear and to use our voice, body language and emotion to make successful presentations and deliver workshops that create results. Here are a few tips:

Read complete article that provides various solutions to overcome this FEAR of speaking in front of a group, in our semi-monthly ezine. mailto:speakertip@smartbotpro.net Visit Speaker's Coach Website at: http://www.intranet.ca/~jwaisvisz

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If you've just answered "Yes" to that last part, then all I have to say to you is "Baaah!". For those of you who don't speak Sheep, roughly translated this means "You'd be better off grazing with flock, you haven't got what it takes".

If you think that thinking is hard, you ain't seen nothing yet!

(Authors note: "think that thinking is hard" is it me or does that have chicken and egg connotations? Never mind, hopefully you see my point. Let's get back to plot.)

What do you really love to do? It's a simple question; so don't try to make it a hard one. We're talking about constructive exercises here so don't cheat by saying "Nothing". Anyway, I'm sure you'd get bored doing absolutely nothing for rest of your life.

The answer you come up with should be your true vocation. If you're totally honest with yourself, then if you do thing you love for rest of your life, you can't fail to be successful. You'll literally do anything you need to do, to carry on doing what you love to do. Hey, have I just invented a new tongue twister, or another piece of nonsense rhyme?

So, go find your GOOBI! You know it makes sense, which after reading what I've just written, is more than I do. Be successful!