Insight

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I believe in and know of the power of using different visualisation techniques to help you prepare and deliver in any public speaking moment. I know in real-world applications how it may reduce nerves, boost confidence and help you connect with your message and who you are speaking with…and with this broad experience, I know that visualisations techniques also come with a trap, especially when linking it with goal setting.
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So What?

When we become so fixated on how we have visualised a talk or a goal’s outcome is to be, we prevent the most favourable outcome to occur, or we may not realise we have already achieved it.
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Today you can only know a piece of the total possible outcomes of how your presentation, sales pitch, conversation, interview, goals, will turn out. This is because you only have information from your past experiences, research, data etc. Even if today you complete a future predictions model of any sort, the full visualisation of what may be will not turn out exactly how you visualise.
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You and I always need to go through to pick up on all the rest of the data and experiences, in order to realise the full picture of our visualisation. Yes, the visualisation techniques we use today will only be a piece of the total outcome we may eventually realise.
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This is the value of my Speaking Afraid Methodology. It helps you and I go through. To speak up and show up in those uncertain and ambiguous moments. To have courage and to act on it to take another step where we are nervous or afraid to step but know we should proceed forward and through.
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I invite you to not allow yourself to fall for the trap of visualisation techniques by excluding the total possibilities and outcomes when speaking or achieving your goals. I invite you to not be so fixated and solid in what you visualise but instead, use it to boost your confidence, give you practice, and to help you navigate and adapt during your journey to your goals, or journey in your speech.
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Exercise to Apply

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All the best, Susan.

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