While teaching a two-day Speaking Confidence program to a group of 25 working women, I wanted to give them practice using their personal experience to help others.
So I gave them a simple assignment to ponder over their lunch hour: Think of a lesson they´d learned in life and share that lesson with the group when they came back.
A petite woman named Judy nervously came to me as the group was disbursing. Judy begged me to excuse her from the exercise. “Please! You don´t understand.
I´m terrified! I can´t possibly get up and speak in front of all these people,” she pleaded. We talked for a few minutes and, with compassionate encouragement from me, Judy agreed to think in a hypothetical way about the possibility of maybe doing the exercise. With a long face and a heavy heart, Judy slouched off to lunch.
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