If you are not nervous, you should be.
Phil Halstein, a wonderful teacher of presentation skills, once told me “everyone gets butterflies in their stomachs when faced with the prospect of presenting to a group of people, regardless of the size of that group. Successful presenters simply get their butterflies flying in formation.”
If you can learn to focus that nervous energy on what you are doing, you won’t have time to worry about your nervousness. Think about the audience and forget about yourself. Remember, your nervousness is a source of power when properly harnessed and controlled.
You should focus all your energy on performing better and eliminate anything else that might take your mind away from the task at hand. The next few pages list things that you can do to get rid of those butterflies.