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I am 25, and work in a professional company. I do find that I am effective at speaking to people on on one on one basis but when it comes to meetings I am SO ineffective. I seem to hide behind a very low toned voice, say very little, have very few questions or ideas. Because of this I do not feel whole. How can this be corrected to build confidence and also to talk more effectively? (I need to be more aware and intelligent I guess).

6 Responses to “How Can I Build My Confidence And Become Effective At Speaking?”

  • Questioned Mind:

    This is a good point of view I like to use;
    We are all human and we ALL have good and bad qualities. There is no existing human that is perfect. We are all ordinary and equal. Our skin holds our flesh and bones together, we have a brain, heart, liver, lung, ears, nose, mouth. What makes us different from each other really? In reality we are all equal and the same. We may lose self confidence in ourselves when we “over-exaggerate” other people’s qualities, but all each human being are just ordinary people with good and bad qualities.
    Try to visualize taking out the outer skin of people, what we do get? Bones, flesh, body parts ect.
    -Positive or Negative?-
    Let’s talk about the serious thinking that affects our everyday lives on how we see the world and how we affect ourselves. Through my days of realizing that I was a really negative thinker got me to also realize when I think negative I also make my mood and whole body feel negative. Thinking negative makes us depressed, low, isolated from people because we may think negative of ourselves, holds us back on the things we want to do, and it is harmful a harmful habit to be thinking of for our mind and body. This is not all thinking negative causes us it also causes us to become; fearful, depressed and also anger, this is a guarantee.
    Now when I finally realized that thinking negative has not ever benefited us in our whole lives, not even once. I tried the opposite thinking which was thinking positive.
    Thinking positive was surely not easy if we have been thinking negative for such a long time and it has created a natural habit on how we think of things.
    I have found out a great strategy that has been making me feel great and be able to be social with people without any problems.
    Okay since now we are trying to break the habit of thinking negative our mind has always been only naturally reacting to thinking everything as negative and not positive, so we must remind ourselves a few things;
    1)Thinking negative has not ever benefited me in my whole life
    2)Thinking negative is without a doubt harmful to my mind and body. It harms our body as I have said because when we think negative we feel negative.
    3)If what I am doing or seeing does not harm me or others than I must force myself to think positive to start on a positive habit to live life to the fullest.
    4)Keep on feeding positive thoughts to yourself; say that if no one is being harmed then this is awesome, great, amazing, looking on the good side of things, gorgeous, beautiful, super great. Keep on thinking of whatever positive words you can think of, start on a positive habit.
    5)Thinking negative gives off negative emotions such as; Fear and Sadness and even Anger.
    6)***Think good, feel good***, Who doesn’t want to feel good?
    For some people it may be harder to start a habit if the person has been thinking negative for their whole lives, but it doesn’t matter who you are, you can break your negative habit and start on a positive habit which will benefit you for the rest of your life.
    What “if” somebody thinks negative of me or what I’m doing, but I am not harming anyone or myself? Well I have something to say for this. When someone thinks negative or positive of us can we actually feel their thought? Even if they tell it to us and we hear it can it actually harm us in anyway? Other people’s negative thoughts can only harm us if we take affect into it. We can only feel our own negative and positive thoughts not others. Now due to the fact that when we think negative we harm ourselves, so if other people are thinking negative they are harming themselves, not us.
    I am a High School student and by doing this has affected my whole life in a positive way, it even helps me in class because my mind is set on positive and now I am ready to focus and study feeling good.
    If you want people to treat with well and with respect then you must also treat EVERYONE well and respectful.
    ” Treat others how you want them to treat you ”
    ” Whatever you do goes back to you”
    “Do not look for trouble, and trouble will not come to you” (happens to me, don’t do it!)
    I am referring to karma.
    If you treat a certain person badly, then you will get back the same treatment and it does not have to be from the same person you treated badly. So remember to treat everyone well (that’s if you want the same treatment, which I’m sure you do). I’m not telling you to live your life at all; I’m just telling you the laws of karma, the laws of living. Laws of living such as; too much of anything is not good, nothing is perfect and nothing is permanent, and karma is one of the laws also. Also remember that karma is not here to make us suffer it is here to teach us but the question here is, are we humble enough to be taught?
    -Love, what, who?-
    You hear this once and you’ll hear it again;
    “To love others you must first love yourself”
    Why is it that you have to love yourself first Well let’s think of this here; When someone tells us they “love us” how do we actually know this? Can we actually feel their love? Or does our mind just interpret this? Well the answer is that we only interpret other people’s love. Now let’s talk about our own love. We can actually feel our own love when we love ourselves; it’s a great and comfortable feeling. This is why loving ourselves is the most important love. Do not be afraid to not be “loved” by people and do not be afraid to “scare” people off because the only love and life source you need in this world is yourself. Once we love ourselves we must practice in being compassionate and giving towards others because this makes us less selfish and when we are selfish it is like a prison which holds us back in feeling good because it’s such a selfish and deserted feeling. So remember to always love yourself, if you’ve done something wrong then know what you did was wrong and then it’s time to “forgive” yourself because forgiving yourself is being true to yourself as to not forgiving yourself makes you feel low, degraded and it has no benefits. Love, Accept, Forgive yourself, no one is perfect in this world, and no one is permanent, so be true, stay true, live positive.

  • I had the Same Problems as you Long Ago. What you need to do is be able to place yourself in a certain State of mind. That state of mind is one in which you should believe that no one is better than you and you are an equal to all. Use Body Language as well when you are speaking do not cross you arms or put them by your side, Use some hand gestures. In Other words you must be a Free Spirit. If you would like to practice this you can do a few things. Go to bars and spark up conversations with strangers, if they decline you move on who cares it’s a stranger anyways. It Doesn’t always has to be in bars it can be in a line shopping for groceries. When ever you get the chance just go ahead and talk. Hell Do Some Cherokee if you have the balls. Trust me if you can do Cherokee you can do anything. Good Luck ____ Shadow Raver

  • My suggestion is for you to read a lot. There, you can build up conversations and stuff. Also, when you answer a question, think about the question carefully, if you do not understand the question do not try to answer just anything just to answer. You can always ask if the question is based from your understanding. its not nice to answer it if you are unsure about the question. People will find it irritating or may find you stupid. Try public speaking. Go out a lot to meet different kind of people. Smile to make the other party comfortable and will initiate a good conversation for you.
    There’s actually a good book called “How to Develop Self-Confidence & Influence People by Public Speaking. Author is Dale Carnegie. Just by reading that follow with a lot of different kinds of book. History is also a good topic. Culture of different kinds of countries is also nice to study and to share. When you talk make sure that the meaning is also clear. When having a conversation, do not also make a very dull energy, always remember that you are a catalyst. When you are not so energetic, people will find you boring or they will think that you are not actually interested in having a conversation.

  • Agent G.R09:

    To be specific i think you need to be more people smart .
    You must first know your audience and study their character and your ideas you wanted to present.Relate more rather than telling. It very
    much boring to really focused on what’s lacking you should be more expressive with what you want them to understand. Tone of voice is taken from a dignified character and not an intelligence so therefore i conclude that you must take a step to believe in yourself before others would believe in you.
    THANK YOU.
    God Bless.

  • Where is my mind:

    Eye contact is a good thing, be sure to make eye contact with everyone at least once.
    Think in terms of the person your talking to.
    Remember every-ones names – a persons name is the most important thing to them.
    SMILE..
    Make everyone feel important in what your saying..
    Ask for questions and be interested in your answers..

  • Smart Bomb:

    practice speaking infront of the mirror. that will boost ur confidence tenfold.

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