How ‘Personal Sustainability’ Helped Me Let Go of Fear During My Tedx Talk

The experience of giving a TEDx talk was even more than I had bargained for. Although I felt confident about my message, in the back of my mind somewhere was the fear that I would forget what I was going to say and stand their looking like an idiot. A common fear I know when public speaking, don’t you agree?  The worst for me was not the fact I could flub on stage, but that I would be filmed and I would not have control over who would see this video.   So, I got up and started my speech and…don’t you know it, about a minute or 2 later…it happened…I went blank and completely forgot where I was going and what I had planned to say. I heard my inner critic start to panic, but in a split second unlike times in my past, instead of diving into the panic I watched my mind at work and it immediately delivered all that I needed  – I found myself acting without having to plan. I opened my mouth and let whatever words needed to come out and before I finished my sentence, I realized that I was back on track in the … Continue reading →