overcome stage fright

I feel like a noob when i shake and my voice quavers when I have to speak in public. I have avoided such situations as much as I can, and small familiar audiences are somewhat manageable, but my new job will require me to present myself and in front of important people too or formal settings, and I don’t know what I can do to feel less nervous. Mentally I can try to psycho myself into thinking how my audience are just normal people and how I just have to be confident, but I don’t know how to stop the shaking and heart pumping.

;Sometimes i over come my stage fright, other times i don’t. What i usually do is from the movie ‘High School Musical’. I do that thing with Sharpay’s lips. You know, when she goes…’Brrrr, brrr, brrr’ or however that goes. Then me & a friend do that other thing, with Sharpay and Ryan. They go ‘Mah’ and do that thing with their hands. Watch the movie & you’ll know what i mean. Idk how it does it but it just … works like magic.

overcoming stage fright and giving a confident public speech would totally rock.

I took a public speaking course. It was tortuous, but it definitely pushed me to improve my confidence and speaking skills. I got an A, so I think that’s proof that I’m overcoming this fear.

WELL my mother and sister kind of threw it out there to my whole church that I am an “amazing singer”... The church I go to is new, and there aren’t a lot of people there yet… But I can’t even sing in front of THEM. The pastor said that it would be really good for the church if I sang every Sunday, and it would bring in more people and help it grow. So now I’m guilty. AND terrified. Ugh.

I have always been terrified of singing in front of people. The thing is, I CAN sing, very well. I know it, and a few other people know it, but they don’t know HOW well, because like I said, I’m too afraid to show them. When I was in 7th grade I was in a talent show, and I sang the song “Everything I do”... I thought I was going to puke the whole time, and I while I was on stage the only part of my body that moved at all was my mouth. I hit all the notes with my shaky little voice, and I tricked myself into believing I was satisfied with how well I did, because I really was too afraid to ever do it again. I was like “Now I can say that I have done it, and that’s all I wanted”... But that’s not all I want, I know that if I go through life without singing and sharing my music with people then I will be unhappy. Which leads me to another goal, actually finishing a whole song so I can sing it for people. But still for now, kareoke would do. I’ll tell you how that goes…

The things I’m scared of the most do not make sense. I’m scared to dance and sing in front of people. It bothers me because I know if I didn’t have this whole stage fright shyness I would have more fun. Having fun should be the reason I do it. So I’m working on this and maybe tomorrow even I’ll take a step forward to achieving my goal.

i want to overcome stagefright. i know i can sing, but im shy as hell when i have to do it in front of people. it would be my dream to go and try to make it as a musician but its hard when u get so nervous. im afraid ill regret it forever if i never give it a shot.