Fear, for me
If you don't want to do something it's either because you're too lazy or you're too scared. Fear is what stops almost everybody once in life. When you're born you only have two fears. Being dropped and loud noises. You create all the other fears by yourself.
If you want to do something and then it suddenly hits you that you're scared, that is your fear. I conquered mine on a Friday afternoon. I was terrified of public speaking (noticed I said "was") and I had to do it in a room of almost 100 people that were all my dad's friends. The public speaking was hard but messing up in front of my dads entrepreneur friends made it a lot harder. I don't like being on stage and have never had the dream of becoming an actress or anything of that sort. Part of the reason was that I couldn't speak in front of people even if I had planned what I was going to say beforehand. So when my dad told me in November of 2018 that I would be speaking about homeschooling to all his friends. My first instinct was "I don't want to ".
Then I asked myself why I didn't want to, it was because I was scared. I knew that I didn't want to be afraid of anything so I took on the challenge. I was freaking out for about 3 months until it was the day before I flew to Arizona to give my speech. I just did slides to remind me what I was going to be talking about and I had to think of everything on the spot. When it was my turn to speak my dad had already talked to the group for 40 minutes so I had 10 minutes to do my thing. I walked up to him and started my slides. I had never used a microphone or a slide remote thingy before so it was exciting in that aspect.
But then I had to talk... That was the hardest part, but after saying one sentence, everything fell into place. I remembered to scan the audience so that I could try to connect to everyone. Even though I knew that I wouldn't be able to connect with all of them, I told them what I do in the life of a homeschooled girl. I told them the pros and cons of being homeschooled and had them reminisce of the times when they were in middle school and why I am not attending it. It was amazing to confront my fear and realize how fun public speaking was. I would definitely do it again and if you have a fear of public speaking (even if you won't admit it) then you should try it in front of a small group of people that you know and talk about something that you love. I now have one less fear but have millions more to accomplish!
If you want to do something and then it suddenly hits you that you're scared, that is your fear. I conquered mine on a Friday afternoon. I was terrified of public speaking (noticed I said "was") and I had to do it in a room of almost 100 people that were all my dad's friends. The public speaking was hard but messing up in front of my dads entrepreneur friends made it a lot harder. I don't like being on stage and have never had the dream of becoming an actress or anything of that sort. Part of the reason was that I couldn't speak in front of people even if I had planned what I was going to say beforehand. So when my dad told me in November of 2018 that I would be speaking about homeschooling to all his friends. My first instinct was "I don't want to ".
Then I asked myself why I didn't want to, it was because I was scared. I knew that I didn't want to be afraid of anything so I took on the challenge. I was freaking out for about 3 months until it was the day before I flew to Arizona to give my speech. I just did slides to remind me what I was going to be talking about and I had to think of everything on the spot. When it was my turn to speak my dad had already talked to the group for 40 minutes so I had 10 minutes to do my thing. I walked up to him and started my slides. I had never used a microphone or a slide remote thingy before so it was exciting in that aspect.
But then I had to talk... That was the hardest part, but after saying one sentence, everything fell into place. I remembered to scan the audience so that I could try to connect to everyone. Even though I knew that I wouldn't be able to connect with all of them, I told them what I do in the life of a homeschooled girl. I told them the pros and cons of being homeschooled and had them reminisce of the times when they were in middle school and why I am not attending it. It was amazing to confront my fear and realize how fun public speaking was. I would definitely do it again and if you have a fear of public speaking (even if you won't admit it) then you should try it in front of a small group of people that you know and talk about something that you love. I now have one less fear but have millions more to accomplish!
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