The sensation of stage fright<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is bad enough, but what\u2019s worse is the damage it can do to your career and your self-esteem.<\/p>\n

If you let it stop you, your sense of self gets smaller and your stage fright<\/a><\/strong> gets bigger and more powerful.<\/p>\n

However, when you step into your stage fright<\/strong>, you learn quickly that it\u2019s a phantom–a fog\u2014like most of our fears.\u00a0 When you step into that fog, you soon realize that it is a figment of your imagination\u2014and that your effort to cut through it can easily succeed.<\/p>\n

Here is a pep talk, courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt, who knew something about courage and determination.<\/p>\n

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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