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This post is part of the #trust30 writing initiative, inspired by Ralph Waldo Emersons “Self-reliance” that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. You can find further details regarding the challenge here.
Day nine prompt by Author Mary Jaksch:
Emerson says: “Always do what you are afraid to do.” What is ‘too scary’ to write about? Try doing it now.
(Author: Mary Jaksch)
Too scary to write about…really? There is nothing I am afraid to write about. A lot of scary stuff I have explored remains in a journal aptly titled ‘Don’t you dare’.
Just because you can write about it doesn’t necessarily mean you should – at least in such a public space.
Something that is too scary for me to DO?
That’s easy. To write about.
Confront my fear of public speaking.
(I have Terry to thank for making this more public… in the comments section of an earlier post. Cheers mate!)
My eldest daughter is now seven and required to give little talks in front of her class on a weekly basis. Maybe its show and tell, discussing the highlights of her weekend or what healthy snacks are in her lunch-box that day. Whatever the topic and for whatever reason she takes to it like the Beckhams to Prada. Most unlike me.
There have been many times when I have had to take centre stage – speeches and debates at school, presentations at university and coaching seminars. I can do it the but I hate it and I’m not good at it either.
Lets just say that there was a good reason for me being nick-named “Little Red” or “Blossom”.
I’m not going to state here and now how I will exactly tackles this fear, which in my defence is now termed Glossophobia and has been cited as one of the most prevalent fears held by people all over the world.
What I know for sure is that if I don’t do anything about it….My coaching business will not grow in the direction I want it to and I will not be all that I can be.
I will be limited by fear and that’s not how I want to continue living my life.
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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