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[@phinaosuta7678]

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[@zulekhanaaz4201]

Sounds helpful. I feel horribly terrified with just thinking of speaking publicly or delivering presentation. Will have my another presentation session after long time. Hope your advice works and thank you, Alex

[@sibadaas9233]

I tried to get it but I am blocked..why?

[@ambrewski7940]

I love public speaking but I am terrified by it too. But crushing a presentation and speaking eloquently without missing a beat is the best feeling.

[@pyguy9915]

Me night before a presentation: Oh, prepare in advance... 😳

[@studioj183]

mine is in 20min...😂

[@jorgeernesto7891]

@@studioj183 mine in an hour 🤦‍♂️

[@Laura-dh6ch]

Same here hahaha

[@HHHavenn]

Yea... im in a bit of a pickle. My presentation is far from done, and the presentation is tomorrow

[@Laura-dh6ch]

@@HHHavenn just fake it till you make it - confidence makes all the difference hahah

[@deltonix_dealt]

thank you for the tips🥺🥺🤧 i have fear of plubic speaking but i need to overcome this since its needed this for my school

[@evertola3598]

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[@prettyluh._ronica1061]

Same 😭✨

[@otaku_chan4208]

sameee lol

[@leahcaldwell2118]

Me too

[@nightraven398]

Me too. 😭By now, you probably passed that point. I'm still so scared of just failing or stammering because i'm so nervous. 😥😰😭😭😭 School just gives you stress, it feels like its on purpose. 🤧🥶However, I have been trying to communicate better recently. Its a little bit like online chatting, except that its really orally.

[@DrJonTam]

Timestamps: 0:45 1. Practice from an outline 2:04 2. Spread out practice sessions over time 3:34 3. Focus on just just 1 or 2 improvements each time you practice 4:22 4. Keep practice realistic 5:25 5. Visualize first and last 30 seconds

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[@zeilotricks210]

Thank you! You were right. I was stressing over a vlog/science video presentation, treating it like a workout, filming for 6 hours with little progress. I also sounded like a robot, as I memorized the speech, and the delivery was monotone. The moment I focus on the range of tone, my brain stops because it wasn't what I memorized. I'll keep these tips in mind.

[@DarkApplesTasteBest]

This is great! In 3 days I have a presentation/job interview. This will help out a lot. Thank you very much!

[@jasongriffiths3544]

Thank you so much Alex! This was very helpful since I have an upcoming speech where I apply for school captain. The nerves are kicking in and you have reassured me!

[@tshephomonamesi7542]

Nice work. Woooow. I stumbled upon this one and I am loving it .We are on a 28 days lock down and I going to listen & practice each day. Thanks and much love from Gaborone,Botswana

[@EliasCollado]

Outstanding video. After performing plenty of research myself, these tips are all new to me. Thank you!

[@fatimetoutaleb2241]

My presentation is tomorrow morning and I’m already nervous jut by watching this video

[@wiebl5266]

Alex, your advise is spot on. Some of it I've used, a few new ones for me, just make so much sense. It's hard to make things simple, you make it seems effortless. Thank you for doing what you do!

[@katyredell9545]

Thanks again Alex for an awesome video. I find practicing super repetitive and robotic almost. It is so true that I want to listen to someone as if it was a conversation. I am going to put these tips into practice.

[@tonyportillo1120]

Thanks for the video. I want to be a good specheer at english presentations (spanish is my mother language) and am reading a lot to level up the skill and get expression and words but sometimes I feel no advancements but this video gives me a sense of calm since it all is a process. I actually I am repeating the teachings in front of the mirror now :)

[@tawanda321]

Alex, you're a good buddy. Thanks be to He that made you the way you are. You're a great source of modern presentation skills. Keep us informed Alex.

[@adityabasu7999]

It helped me a lot too, I was amazing at presenting before, but this video improved my presentation more

[@charmdisabelle3576]

All I could say, is that, you are a good speaker for me.

[@cominghomewithsusanne]

Alex thank you for such a thorough walk through of how to practice. I recently decided to go on camera which makes me very uncomfortable but I know I need to learn to do it. The steps you gave we’re very clear and helpful. I’ll definitely be checking out your other videos on this. Thank you! Susanne

[@alexanderlyon]

Glad it was helpful!

[@miazhao3305]

Nice 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@jessicarose3]

I'd like to add: 1. Practicing in the mirror, watch your expressions, making sure they are relaxed and not intense. No one wants to see someone look uptight. 2. I like to practice my speech as I walk around doing my usual mundane things. Makes me feel like I'm just thinking, rather than spouting facts. 3. Perhaps, consider what someone might ask and study the subject further. That's just a personal preference since I'm an over-thinking perfectionist 3. Practice with friends, they can help you improve and give you tips 4!! ENJOY YOURSELF!!🎉

[@clydegalofelisilda4501]

I'm a student and I really need this for our subject. Thanks a lot❤️

[@theodorebatzakas9689]

This is exactly how I prepare for my own presentations. It really works. Can't stress enough how important is to work on a skeleton of the presentation you are going to make. It will REALLY help you be conversational and sound enjoyable.

[@alexanderlyon]

I really love the word "skeleton" as a description for the notes.

[@missjenny3652]

I marked" skeleton which sound funny

[@Dandylion286]

I didn't think about purposely practicing with distractions, I'll have to try that.

[@jeetpranav2304]

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[@alexanderlyon]

Thank you, Jeet, and welcome to the community. Love from New York state (the part with the lakes, not the city.)

[@ladyo4782]

I think the same. We are lucky.

[@runningcafe1]

I'm giving my first ever speech tomorrow and this has really helped assure me that what I've been doing to prep is right. Thanks Alex!

[@alexanderlyon]

I hope it goes well, Craig.

[@shohijahontoirov184]

Sameee

[@TheHema1978]

Good luck..I'm going on stage for the first time tomorrow

[@Wen.Ta0]

@@TheHema1978 how did it go?

[@sylviakamvumuleja1334]

I know for sure, I am blessed to find your videos, I will be a great public speaker soon.Thx a lot

[@sophielee5211]

Thank you for helpful tips. I have struggled with giving presentations smoothly without trembling. I will put in practice your advice :)

[@semerariccardi3334]

Thank you so much for the advice! This has helped me a lot when preparing for my masters thesis proposal.

[@sunnyus3685]

Extremely helpful tips! Thanks Alex for concise and clear guidance.

[@alexanderlyon]

Glad it was helpful, Sunny US.

[@sittierezhmeenmustapha2097]

Very helpful! I will be taking your advice. Looking forward for my improvement.

[@abdullahalghlib7871]

I like how you are bringing the athlete mindset pre, in, and post the game and comparing it to public speaking. I think (as a Muy Thai player who has been to matches) the brain chemistry works, somewhat, the same with public speaking. Thank you for your good tips

[@Blueskydalx]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INFO

[@averhamilton8823]

Keep the practice realisitc THANK YOU!

[@Rose-ez9vf]

Thank you! Can you make a video on impromptu speeches specifically?? I’d love that!

[@alexanderlyon]

I do have that on my long list of possible videos. I don't think I'll get to it soon, though. Sorry. But, it is a fantastic way to practice and improve.

[@fkalajanga]

I can't agree more. Thank you for this video

[@hamlata3739]

Thank you, your after watching your video it really helped me with my introduction speech for my speech class.

[@donnaodgien]

I just found this YT channel last month when i was looking for a tutorial video for public speaking. Since then, I've been watching your videos and it helps me a lot. Thank you Sir! Godbless! New subscriber here from the Philippines 🇵🇭.

[@alexanderlyon]

Welcome aboard, Donna. I'm glad the videos are helpful. Hello from New York State!

[@elviswong1588]

Alex, I love your videos and now I can do better in my speech.

[@alexanderlyon]

Happy to help, Elvis! :-)

[@finnhung4087]

Hi Alex, Thank you for the practical suggestions on doing a speech or presentation. I'd like to share my approach, which involves cutting the text into sections and then reading them piece by piece until I have memorized them all. This has been my method for speeches and presentations, even when speaking in Mandarin Chinese or a non English native speaker. Before watching your video, it was the only approach I used. I will give your suggestion a try and see how it can help me improve. Thank you, Alex.

[@shadeeduliqaab]

Thank you so much! 🙌

[@subratopatnaik6361]

Thanks Alex for sharing a wonderful video which I was looking for today. It would be great if you give an example with these technique to present a speech on any topic.

[@cristianungureanu7134]

Really solid advice. I subscribed within the first couple of minutes. Thanks Alex!

[@alexanderlyon]

Awesome, thank you, Cristian.

[@lauriebreton6872]

In presentation I am like a deer in front of cars light but you have amazing tips !! You just win another follower haha

[@slifer4912]

Yes, I needed this. I can't wait to give my presentation.

[@sheldoncoper3205]

How was it ? For my..I will do my presentation 2morrow

[@slifer4912]

@@sheldoncoper3205 dang I didn’t even remember taking it but I took a lot last year so probably did good. I should’ve memorized my lines more though.

[@sheldoncoper3205]

@@slifer4912 Good for u Do u have some advice for me ...

[@slifer4912]

@@sheldoncoper3205 set a timer and practice your presentation by yourself, looking away from your slides.

[@abinayarengasamy8936]

Wow awesome... It was really helpful for me. Thank you very much👍

[@shak7430]

Yes Mr.Alex! I once already watched your video and again I am going to watch because I just want to learn little bit more from your video. it so good to clear my fear and some of my doubts which I just slowly and slowly trying to remove as I am watching this video. thank you very much.

[@alexanderlyon]

Wonderful!

[@factotum0072]

Wonderful...it's going to be really helpful sir... Thank you

[@alexanderlyon]

Awesome! Glad it was helpful.

[@lumieresn]

thank you. that helped me alot

[@K.A.Ralph334]

Thank you, this was great information.

[@AndresLeonRangel]

You convinced me more the moment you said God bless. I will acquire your products and recommend you to my friends...

[@alexanderlyon]

Thanks, Andres.

[@theblazer3665]

So helpful!! You should have like 1M subscribers based on your quality advice, keep up the videos you are amazing!!

[@alexanderlyon]

Maybe one day!

[@tarapoudel9506]

Thank you Sir for this very useful video for the presentation

[@Helios-ce2rd]

Just done my first national presentation and used all your tips. ❤ i appreciate you videos and tips. Im your biggest fan. Know that cause of your help i rocked my presentation. Thank you for the awesome content. ❤

[@alexanderlyon]

I'm glad it went so well for you!

[@maeverlynkkabolopitanoe1903]

This presentation is spot on. Learned a few more helpful tips here. thank you so much.

[@alexanderlyon]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TiaunaT]

Needed this!

[@hanshermawan5887]

A really important thing I've learned in this video has to do with spreading your time as well as how to use your time wisely when practicing for speeches. Cramming for any subject is never good, but for public speaking you really want to space your time out in order for your brain to process the information given to it. Another key detail to practicing efficiently is to work on topics one or two at a time for each practice session. At the end of practicing the speech should feel like second nature to you and this allows the speaker to have a more smooth time when it comes to giving the speech.

[@damariskiprop8796]

Thank you so much

[@Miy03]

Thanks Alex - this is super helpful! I have a presentation to deliver to a large audience in 4 days.

[@alexanderlyon]

Best of luck!

[@brianw6595]

Really, really helpful!

[@anthonyrossmaund3161]

Thanks for saving the day with the tips. I am saving some of your videos on my self help channel.

[@anthonyrossmaund3161]

Did my constituent meeting with my senators office today and did great. They are even gonna support the bill. Thanks, it worked for me great.

[@FC-xm7rf]

Awesome content! Thanks for these practice advices.

[@alexanderlyon]

My pleasure, Frederick. I'm glad it's a helpful video.

[@amogoagaba1875]

Thank you. was helpful

[@FionaAnastasiaSPA]

this is very useful thank you for making this video

[@sakurai8053]

Very nice video，help me a lot in my school presentation.

[@LawrenceOnlineEnglish]

Very nice. Thank you

[@joelatiga235]

Alex again thanks a lot your excellent vvideo presentation. All the best.

[@dav1dc293]

Fantastic video - thank you!

[@yasmeenn4332]

great tips! thankyou

[@Leon-vo3tw]

Great tips. One thing that will also help you to present and especially to not be nervous is to know 100% what youre talking about. Sometimes you know what u say but not good enough. This makes you nervous and it will ruin for u if someone asks a question and u dont have the answer. Knowing what youre talking about well makes it possible for you to talk without any talking points, it could be just pictures and you explain with your own words.

[@alexanderlyon]

Yes, preparation and practice is the best way to feel settle in and confident.

[@michellewright99]

Excellent tips and enjoyable to watch. Thanks!

[@alexanderlyon]

Wow, Michelle. Thank you so much for your support. I appreciate it.

[@hydravikumar715]

It's excellent very useful real time

[@charlottelieuwen788]

Thank you!

[@MahmoudGamalElDin1]

outstanding tips,let us figure out if these tips will improve my speech skill or not Thank you

[@nightraven398]

Oops, was already cramming before I came here, lol. 🤣 Was so nervous about it, didn't wanna think about it at all. When I tell myself, hey there's time, its because I'm gonna use that to not do the project. 🤣Thanks anyways, its helpful. 👍 I'm gonna go put some music during practice to distract and cheer me up. 😁

[@mandyboylan5424]

So helpful. Thanks!

[@alexanderlyon]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SherzodBoltaboev-fi8ib]

Thank you very much

[@ahmadawada5363]

Very useful. Thank you. I appreciate it if you could make a video on how to prepare your speech for youtube video. Good job

[@sunil2suss]

thanks for this great video. As a non-native speaker, I prefer having script written down to words. This helps me to be clam. I know, at times it can sound bit robotic, but most of the time it worked perfectly fine for me

[@Mary_AngelCR]

Same for me, but if I get nervous I totally forget to read the notes😂

[@calvinkiyondi7251]

Thanks for the great work you are doing Alex. I am hopeful to improve my presentation and public speaking skills courtesy of your well thought the videos shared here on your channel

[@alexanderlyon]

Best of luck!

[@laurenmalia584]

I came across this just to get ready for my senior project (I’m in an advanced academy so they grade me harder). The first tip he gave was don’t do word for word. Honestly for me I wrote my speech word for word and read them out loud, not to memorize it but to memorize the outline of it. I hope that makes sense. Haha.

[@alexanderlyon]

Hi Lauren. You could try, in the future, to only make bullet points and not write a presentation out word for word at all. Then, just keep practicing from the outline only. I'm guessing it'll make you sound more conversational and interesting and natural.

[@phelosemata9221]

Thanks for the tips sir

[@Dr.JoyceAkwe]

Practice from the outline. 💕

[@emmettmortgage]

Love all your content. Thank you so much. 🙏

[@alexanderlyon]

I appreciate that. Thank you.

[@nada7sn7]

Thank you 👍

[@Haya_08_ag]

The one with the key words is a MUST! Because it helps to keep the flow of your speech stable and not make you stop like”emmhm...” and think. But just by glancing at the key words, you know what you have to say. Basically you don’t run out of ideas and you have your thoughts organized... 🤔 That basically was the key to my success😂 Plus, one more thing I’d like to add, is to interact (based on the kind of presentation you’re giving) with the people so as to keep their attention solely focused on you. You can do that by asking questions. It’s really fun for you too 😌

[@alexanderlyon]

Yes! Well said.

[@xsmh1968]

I’m speaking at a conference tomorrow and checked in for some last minute advice. Thanks Alex! From Susan Halloran

[@alexanderlyon]

Yay! The Susan H from my home town??? So glad to hear from you. I hope your conference talk goes well. Let us know how it went.

[@xsmh1968]

Communication Coach Alex Lyon Yes it’s me! It went ok but there’s room for lots of improvement. I revised it into outline form and that worked well! Your videos are very helpful. Thanks.

[@alexanderlyon]

@@xsmh1968 Glad it went okay. Thanks for reporting back, Sue. Great to hear from you. :-)

[@oneminutewisdom548]

I am going to have my first public session in next couple of days and your tips are extremely helpful for me. Thanks a lot

[@alexanderlyon]

Awesome. Glad it was helpful.

[@strange_fungi-1756]

Same, I'm having to do a video in public speaking :)

[@hydravikumar715]

Thank you

[@mdasikkhan1610]

Yea, visualisation helps alot

[@ADAMSON11976]

Thank you, really learn a new thing.

[@alexanderlyon]

Very welcome!

[@gabrielgunakabelen9220]

Thanks Alex

[@naturalelite]

Thanks. It was very helpful. My method is to record and see the thing so that I can see what I'm doing wrong. For an example that I'm not keeping eye contact. 🙂

[@alexanderlyon]

Glad it helped!

[@waikikiwonder2505]

I'm wondering if your'e still available for coaching. I just recently found your web site and have been learning everything I can from you. I'm glad I found you and will look forward to watching your videos on a daily basis. Aloha from Maui

[@rasidmusa9632]

Thanks sir very impressive

[@ramiboy_y2049]

Finally good advice.

[@tabithafalove7007]

I practice my presentation for a week slowly slowly and at the day of the presentation it turns out that I presentation very goodly throughout the whole class and I practice while listening to music too

[@Xclusivelol]

Watching this a day before my spanish presentation! Thank you so much Alex!

[@phantomraj820]

Thank you ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@demodemo9698]

Good stuff thx 🔥 regarding what you said @ the 2:48 mark, Sleep expert Mathew Walker talks about the studies that have found that when you are trying to learn something your brain continues to work & learn what your trying to learn while you sleep. That’s why the next day you tend to do a better job at what your learning. 😉

[@alexanderlyon]

Thanks, Demo Demo. Great information. Makes sense to me.

[@ssenkubugeumar7013]

Thank you Alex i have my presentation tomorrow morning

[@alexanderlyon]

Best of luck!

[@ad-qz1zh]

Great tips! I unconsciously practice this way. Who would have known 😛