Article Treasure Cove

I was guarding a big payroll one night. When the hours were late this man walked towards me with a lop-sided grin. I knew that he was going to try cajoling the rifle out of my hands. Sweat began pouring down my back as I waited for him to get there. Sure enough he began a banter, but when he reached for the rifle his gaze happened to catch mine and his hand paused in mid-air. He gulped, stepped back one step, then began walking rapidly towards the stairwell. There he paused for a moment and glanced back at me.. then he ran for his life down those stairs. It was months later before I realized that it wasn’t fear I’d been feeling as he approached.. It was eagerness. “Oh please, just let me at him!”

It is my belief that most of us confuse fear with eagerness held on a leash. Once upon a time I had a class with 8 wonderful little girls it. We began training for them to make up an hour of talk between them and put it on.

First I had them pick the topic. Then I had them divide up the topic. Then I assigned each of them to research their part of the hour. When they came back with these we began to drill. As the week approached they began to become vocally worried about speaking in front of so many people.
“Okay, everyone sit down and listen to me. Thank you. You know me, you know the rule I teach by here; that I will never teach you anything that isn’t true, that I will never teach you anything you have to unlearn when you get grown.”

All of them nodded when I paused. “Let me tell you that scientists cannot tell one speck of difference between a man that is scared to death and one that is ready to fight a bear.”

I paused again to let that sink in then went on. “They measured everything and the heartbeat is the same, the surge of adrenalin is the same. They could not tell the difference. Finally one battle-scarred veteran told them the difference. He said: “When I am in a foxhole, waiting for the order to move out and attack the enemy I worry about am I afraid, or am I eager for the battle. The two taste very much the same but I have noticed one distinctive difference. If I am eager for the fight then I can cross my fingers or curl my toes. If I can press my thumb and forefinger tightly together then I am EAGER.”

I nodded, then pointed at each one of them. “If any one of you starts to worry about getting too scared to talk I want you to press your thumb and forefinger tightly together. If you can do that, cross your fingers or curl your toes. If you can do any of these you are eager to begin speaking. Build on that eagerness and you will give the most powerful talk you are capable of and you know from your participation right in this room that you are something special and great, a polished tool in the Lord’s hand. But, if you can’t press your thumb and forefinger tightly together then you have let fear get the best of you. Give me a nod and I will stand up to speak in your place.”

They laughed about the probability of me giving all their talks, and left class with great soberness and introspection.

The big day dawned and I went up on the stage with them. Several times I had to clench both my thumbs and forefingers tightly together so I would know that I was EAGER to be up there. I watched my girls carefully. I was so proud of them and I wanted the audience out there to realize just how great this group of girls was. They couldn’t do that if I had to give all of the talks or even most of the talks my self.

None of them gave me a sign as we waited. As each one’s turn came they rose into statures crisply proud and capable. Each of them touched the microphone to adjust it to aim right for their throat as I had coached them to do; then they looked that audience in the eye with a great sweeping glance full of love, and they let loose that ball of eagerness that was in them and gave talks so powerful they astounded and delighted that audience. My girls were heroheroes.

You too can be a hero when you give a talk.
Prepare your mind for the afraidconflict by filling it with facts you can use. Go over them to familiarize yourself with the facts. Don’t worry too much about organizing the facts into formal sentences. Don’t worry if one fact belongs in a paragraph or not. When you stand up to go talk remember that microphone is your best friend on that stage. It will connect you with the audience. Let the audience know that you love them and care about the subject you are about to share with them. Any time your enthusiasm flags a little bit, press your thumb against your forefinger again. You’ll be fine. You will be a hero too.

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