A short YouTube clip (Lori Harder) about calming nerves before public speaking. The speaker describes nerves as a sign that you care and shares a specific pre-stage ritual: meditating, praying and asking God to use her to serve the audience. The recommended cognitive shift is from inward self-focus to outward service to reduce anxiety and increase purpose.
We'll do more for other people we'll ever do for ourselves. For sure. I wake up every day. Not for me. So when people go like, where do you get all the energy? Oh, it ain't for me. I know why I'm here. It's like when people get nervous going on stage, I understand where the nerves come from. I think nerves are actually a beautiful thing because it shows that you care. But what I do to helps me shift it before backstage, I literally meditate and I pray and I say, God, please use me to serve the people. That's it. Please use me to serve the people. And all of a sudden, the nerves just go away because I'm like, oh, I'm here to pour into people that are a few steps behind me that want to get some results. So anybody that's struggling with a goal or trying to get out of funk, you got to flip the inward focus to the external.
