3Getting Your Mindset Right: Building Confidence and Reducing Fear

I've already covered the fact that the first stage of this is to be aware of your thinking patterns and mindset and to start thinking about and imagining things going well, not things going badly. Remember my own discovery of how I was thinking very differently about winning business compared to how I was thinking about doing presentations.

You also need to remember that fear massively reduces the more we do things.

We normally experience fear because of uncertainty. And when we say that we lack confidence in doing presentations, that's why we're scared or that's why we've got the fear – due to the uncertainty.

Now, Tony Robbins, the world‐famous author and motivational speaker, ...

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