
Embrace the Butterflies – Turn Anxiety into Excitement
Mar 07, 2025Nervous About Presenting?
Feeling butterflies in your stomach before speaking? That’s a sign that you care! Instead of fighting your nerves, embrace them and reframe them as excitement. Your body's reaction to fear and excitement is strikingly similar—your heart races, your palms sweat, and adrenaline kicks in. The only difference? Your mindset.
Transform Anxiety into Excitement
Great Meta! I'd love to transform fears into courage, but I just don'd have my Harry Potter wand on me right now :))
Ok, so here's a powerfull tip. I's part of my online course in overcoming stage fright that covers waaaaaaay more than just stage fright. It covers fears, limiting beliefs, self sabotage... because the tool to transform your mind is your .... drumroll.... mind!
Storytelling and inner dialogue
What story are you telling yourself right now? Can you catch that story as if it were a butterfly?
Now change the story... tap into your inner dialogue and change the narrative of the story...
Here's a video I made to help you do this right!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKVn9Qz7xhc
Here are some steps to follow ...
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Recognize that nervous energy is normal and can be channeled productively.
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Tell yourself, “I’m excited to share my knowledge!”
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Channel that energy into passion and enthusiasm.
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Start your speech with an engaging story to immerse yourself in the content and forget about nervousness.
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Use hand gestures to release excess energy and reinforce your message.
I had serious stage fright!
But I researched it and researched it and overcame it ... and that's probably an understatement. Transforming my fears in to courage changed my life in more ways than one. Well, it took a bit more than just positive self talk. But positive self talked helped me leave a toxic relationship and start taking better care of myself. I started setting higher goals and achieved more as I started taking myself more seriously. I'm here... am I not? Working internationally, creating and selling courses, coaching some of the top leaders and most amazing experts in fields I never even knew existed!
If you are nervous, just know... you're a speaker. And speakers allways think differently and that will stirr up some ... differences between you and others. Fear not. You will find your tribe - as soon as you find yourself!
XOX
Meta Groselj
PS: Turn your stage fright into a superpower. Want to learn more? Join my Stage Fright Course today!