The Role of Networking in American Business Success

As you speak, apply the blacksmith's homely concept. You will find nothing else to consider if you are really passionate about your topic. Concentration is a means of escape from less crucial problems. Once you are on the platform, center your attention on what you are about to say; fill your thoughts with your speech-material and, like the infilling water in the glass, it will drive out your unsubstantial anxieties. It is too late to consider the cut of your coat. Self-consciousness is excessive awareness of self, therefore, for the purpose of delivery, self is subordinate to your subject, not only in the view of the audience, but, if you are clever, in you. To hold any other perspective is to see yourself as an exhibit rather than as a messenger carrying a message worth communicating. Remember Elbert Hubbard's amazing short tract, "A Message to Garcia  Young people let the message he carried define them. Thus, must you, with all the will you possess, do. To occupy your attention with ideas of self while a higher good TRUTH is present—pure egotism.  You are an endless capable god.

Tell yourself sharply then shame your self 

Consciousness into quiescence. Should the theater catch fire, you might dash to the stage and yell instructions to the audience without any self-consciousness; the value of what you were saying would propel all fear-thoughts out of your head. Far worse than self-consciousness via fear of failing is self-consciousness based on assumption of success. A man not trying to seem and behave great is the first indication of greatness. Kipling reminds us before you can call yourself a man at all, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise." Nothing promotes itself as relentlessly conceit. One may be so self-absorbed as to be empty. Voltaire advised, "We must conceal self-love." But that cannot be accomplished. You are aware of this since you have seen in others overblown self-love. If you have it, others are noticing it in you. Though in working for them self will be lost, or—better still—remembered just so as to help us win toward higher things. There are things in this world greater than self.Many presenters find that they arrive before an audience with their minds blank. Nature fills them with the closest thing handy, which usually is, "I wonder if I am doing this right? She hates a vacuum! What is the state of my hair I am sure I will fail." Their prophetic souls will be exactly right.

Your subject needs more than just absorption

You must have something in which to get self-confidence. Should you arrive before an audience unprepared or lacking prior understanding of your topic, you should be self-conscious and sorry to waste the time of your audience. Be ready. Know the topic you will be discussing and, generally speaking, how you will express it. Have the initial few sentences flow naturally so that you might not be bothered in the first place to locate words. Though most of all be moderately confident inside, know your subject better than your hearers know. Let your bearing be modestly confident. Although overconfidence is bad, to let premonitions of failure pass is worse; a confident man will attract notice by his very bearing, while a rabbit-hearted coward invites tragedy. Against this old view, there has been a healthy modern reaction; humility is not the personal discount we must offer in the sight of others. True humility any man who completely knows himself must experience; but it is not a humility that assumes a worm-like meekness; rather, it is rather a bold, dynamic cry for greater power for service—a prayer that Uriah Heep could never have spoken.You have nothing to be afraid about.conversation Irving paused, felt ashamed, and sat down uneasily. Looking to a friend next him, he commented, "There, I told you I would fail, and I did. There is little hope for you if you think you will fail. You will indeed.Get rid of this I-am-a-poor-worm-in- the-dust concept.

Everything is ready should the mind be s.Public speaking

As in electricity, has both positive and negative forces. Either your audience or yourself will have the positive element. Assuming it, you can nearly always make it yours. Assume the negative; you will definitely be negative. Assuming a virtue or a vice activates it. Remember that although your audience is immensely more important than you, the truth is more essential than both of you as it is eternal. Call all your strength of self-direction. Should your thoughts stray in its leadership, the blade will fall from your grasp. Having once essayed to speak, be courageous; your assumption of being able to teach or lead or inspire a mass or even a small number of people may offend you as being tremendous impudence; but as really it may be. BE courageous; you are what you will. It is within you. Get yourself composed and confident. Remember that your audience won't damage you. Beecher in Liverpool would have urged the audience to toss the overripe missiles with which they were filled if he had spoken behind a wire screen; but he was a man, faced his angry hearers boldly, and won them. Pausing a moment to glance at your audience, a hundred chances to one they want you to succeed, for what man is so foolish as to spend his time, possibly his money, in the belief that you will waste his investment by speaking softly? The eagle faces the cloudless sun in perfect form.