The way to eliminate fear with public speaking is to come up with a process, something you can do every single time so that we're not leaving anything up to chance. You're not wondering about what to do. Imagine this, if I told you, okay, you must dictate a memo about what your business does what the biggest goals are the next three months. And you can't spellcheck it, edit it, or review it. You simply have to dictate it into a machine into the computer, hit send. And it's going to go to your boss, the Board of Directors, everyone in the media, every client customer, and all of your colleagues.

And this written document is going to be sent in an email from you. Would that make you nervous? Would you ever do that? I could tell you that would make me nervous because it would be filled with misspellings. There would be typos, there would be poor grammar. Most likely it would be a joke.

Jumbled mess because that would be my rough draft. So most of you would never ever, ever do that. Guess what? If you ever give a speech and you're talking it out loud to your audience, you're giving a rough draft. Well, rough drafts, by definition are what? They're rough.

You should be nervous if you're just tossing it out for the first time. However, if I told you, okay, you have to send a memo, giving a summary of what you've done last quarter with goals are for the next quarter. And you've got two weeks. You can type it, edit it, refine it, use grammar, check, use spellcheck, you can send it to other colleagues, get their input, edit it, refine it, and you've got two weeks and you actually do the work and you go through four or five drafts. Right before you said, you hit the send button. If I say Well, are you nervous now?

Try to be nervous. I doubt you'd be Able to be nervous. Why is it because you're convinced you're the world's greatest writer? Probably not. But you have a system in place, you wrote it, you rewrote it. You ran it through spellcheck.

I always have to use spellcheck. There's sometimes when I misspell every single word in a document that I've typed, but you're going to have a system, spellcheck, edit it, perhaps have other colleagues look at it, email it to three colleagues you trust, get feedback. So by the time you hit send, you're not feeling any tension doesn't mean you're guaranteed that your boss will approve the budget or whatever you're asking for. But you're not nervous about the actual way you're communicating in this text document. Because you have a system, you have a process. You have an editing process, you have a refining process.

And that's why you're not nervous. Most of us, when we're asked to send a document and we're given notice I'm here to tell you, you can do the exact same thing with your speeches with your talks with your PowerPoint presentations. But it's not about writing and rewriting text. Because that's not the final output. The final output is you speaking so you're going to have to speak out loud captured on video and figure out what you like don't like and keep refining it. That's the process for getting a great presentation.

When you have a great presentation. And you know, it's a good presentation, it actually becomes extremely difficult to be nervous or fearful.