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The "5 Minute Cure" for Fear of Public Speaking

Don't believe any public speaking training expert that tries to tell you there is a magic-bullet cure for fear of public speaking.

No technique will work for every person every time.

But there are tons and tons of techniques that work very, very well so it's just a matter of finding which technique works best for you.

One of the easiest and most overlooked techniques is what I call "The 5 Minute Cure for Fear of Public Speaking":

Here's how it works - there's 3 simple steps.

Step 1:

Prepare your presentation using the "tell them 3 times rule" where you tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them. This is a standard technique taught in public speaking training.

Prepare your presentation like this:

1. Overview of main presentation
2. Main presentation
3. Summary of main presentation

Design your overview in bullet points of what you're going to cover. Make your bullets interesting and enticing - it's good to create some curiosity early on in your audience.

Design your main presentation to give detail and "flesh out" the bullet points in your overview.

Finally, design your summary to be a repeat of your overview you gave them in the beginning.

Don't worry feeling like you're covering what you already told them because people frequently "zone out", so repetition is actually doing them a huge favor..

Step 2:

Practice delivering your presentation and visualize success. Feel strong confidence as you practice so that you create a link between confidence and talking. This is actually easy to do, and a good public speaking training can help you create a strong link between confidence and public speaking.

Step 3:

Deliver your presentation to your audience.

This is where the 5 minute cure comes into play because a great number of people find that their fear of public speaking only lasts for the first few minutes of live speaking!

Once you get 5 minutes in, you'll completely forget that you ever had any fear of public speaking and it'll be smooth sailing because you prepared so well in advance.

Summary & Bonus Tip:
If you've got fear of public speaking that borders on a psychological complex of if you've ever had a nervous breakdown from public speaking, you probably need stronger techniques or even therapy. But if you're just nervous then this technique will work perfectly because a little nervousness won't stop you. Public speaking training can help to shortcut your success. Just prepare and practice the way I outlined in this training article, then you can lean on the 5 minute cure and you'll be just fine.