I loved your story, what a beautiful first time ๐.
A bit of a scary memory came to me. A few years ago when I had to go to my first legal Audience to defend my case (I'm a lawyer) I felt like dying, my body wasn't strong enough to contain the tide of nerves running through me, I was panicking about getting on the stand in front of the judges and incidentally having my office colleagues judging me for my work. The day before I was so nervous that I felt sick to my stomach and couldn't even leave the bathroom. I asked myself over and over again why I had chosen the profession that put me in such a difficult situation.
Fortunately, at the time of the Audience I was able to contain myself and state my case well, but when I left my legs were shaking and I had to run back home and lie down on the bed because I was really exhausted.
I will never forget that first time because I felt everything that fear can do to us when we let it dominate us, from then on I learned not to generate those levels of tension and expectation and before that kind of challenges I always asked myself: What is the worst that can happen if I am wrong?
Thank you for this very interesting question this weekend!
Blessings to the princess โจ.
Are you a Civil attorney and is there a legal loop hole you can advise me client/attorney privilege on how to permanently cut ties with the IRS?
I'm playing. No I'm not. No, really, I'm not being serious. Totally really serious!
Hahahahaha, I don't work in that area of taxation, it's always good to have an advisor to help ease those burdens ๐ ๐
It's very nice reading your sharing of the first time. I see myself here but in different cases.
When we were young, we often got tension or being over nervous at the first time doing something we think it's important. Yeah, totally agree: fear just makes us down if we let it dominate us so be ๐ช๐ช๐ช.
If we do wrong, we do it again (๐๐ joking)
It is true! Those things we considered important could be overwhelming.
Totally agree, it's ok if we make a mistake, we learn, correct and repeat if we have the chance, but when we are young we don't see it this way, at least I didn't ๐ค
Gha!!! I've been there... I mean not with the legs shaking but the sick feeling in your stomach..
It's horrible up till now it has NEVER been as bad as the worst case scenario I made up in my head. And I do mean NEVER ๐
Hahahaha, our imagination can be very creative and in these cases make us suffer ๐ I thought I would be speechless and unable to say a single word, and I would lose the job and the case ๐.
I'd say this would be a very nerve-wracking time! All that effort and study you'd done brought you to this moment when you first had to go to court...Seems like you dealt with it very well though, got the job done, and I'm sure you're feeling much more relaxed these days when you go to court.
Fear can be paralysing whether it's fear of heights, public speaking, loss, on the battlefield or even in the court room.
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Fortunately I overcame the fear in my next Audiences, but I no longer work in that area of litigation, too much pressure for my liking ๐
Ah ok, well I'm sure things progressed just as they were supposed to and you gained from your experiences. :)
ENGAGEtokens.How brave you were, I would have run away ๐๐๐
Hahaha, I was about to run but my legs were not strong enough to run and I had no choice but to go ahead, hahaha ๐ ๐
They say when you address a crowd which you are not used to, imagine them all sitting naked out there and look directly ahead ๐
Glad you got through the day, now it is easier and part of what you do, public speaking anywhere is not a place many feel at home.
I applied that strategy years later๐ , although I found it more comfortable to imagine that they were all children ๐.
Certainly public speaking can be very challenging, for me it was a scary experience back then and today I can see it as a great learning, although I still get a little nervous about that situation
I do it if I have to, although would never say I felt completely comfortable...
I have the same feeling ๐ค
Somehow I see myself in you, but easier task with the first time doing presentation to call investors ๐ After that I met a mentor, she told me that everybody is the same you as a soul. The soul is always pure and equal... they will not eat you ๐
Excellent advice from your mentor, certainly at the time I saw myself as weak and small in front of those judges, I didn't see them as "equals" at all.
But now that I see it, it seems obvious and I'm sure they wouldn't eat me, hahaha ๐
Haha, that's true! They are also soul ๐ I am glad that you got more powerful now, we always learn and improve day by day. Stay Safe wherever you are ๐
Thank you! Blessings โจ๐ค