You can turn your fear into a motivator. That’s what I’m trying to do. Every time I come to an impasse and I know fear is there, I can feel it. I know that there’s something good getting ready to happen. There’s something good on the other side of that fear if I will let myself go on through that waterfall.
You can’t overcome that fear without facing it or without doing it.
You can rehearse the speech as many times as you want to. But until you look out into that field of eyes that are all looking directly at you, overcome that and start feeding on that because it gives you that tingle of fear in your stomach and you want to get out there… Until you’re able to tell them a joke and relax and just become yourself and the material flows off your tongue, until you’ve done that enough times, you can’t rehearse your way out of the fear.
Now, rehearsing a lot and having a good practice ethic can make it easier for you to depend on what you’ve practiced when you have to face fear.
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