 How to overcome the fear of being on camera. Ugh, ugh, it's terrible, right? Have you been wanting to make videos for your business or your hobby, but the thought of doing it just paralyzes you? Does your heart race, just as the thought of getting your picture taken, let alone making a video? Well, you know what? These are very common fears, don't worry. In this video, I'm gonna walk you through the steps you need to get comfortable making videos and making really good videos. And we're starting right now. Hey, if we don't know each other, hello, welcome. We don't have to shake hands, there was coronavirus. No need to do that, right? But I would like you to do one thing, I would like for you to subscribe down there. That button's there for a reason, man. And that reason is you need to subscribe to this channel, you need to do it now. And don't forget, there's a bell next to it. That's your notification bell. You gotta ring the bell, it'll sound just like that. 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It's 100% free for you. So let's jump right in here. I wanna help you with these videos. I'm doing a video right now. And was I comfortable doing them in the beginning? No, no, no, no. But I'll walk you through that and show you how you can get comfortable too. Now, I will share something with you. I really wanna get in your head. You should always do the things that you fear the most. I know, I know, it's tough. Those are tough, right? But those are the things you really need to do. Those are the things that will make you grow. Fear is momentary, right? Regret is forever, okay? So I'm sure a lot of you listening to this have some great ideas, some great thoughts, some great things you wanna share. And that fear of making a video is holding you back. And we're gonna erase that fear if you watch this video to the end. Now, first off, don't think you're different, okay? People fear being on camera. People fear getting their picture taken. People fear doing videos. So you're very common. You're starting off just like everybody else. But the cool thing is you can change those things. What I wanna do to share with you several steps that you can take. And the first one is, number one, practice early and practice often. Here's the truth about human beings. If you feel confident about something, you're not gonna fear it. Right now, you don't feel confident about it because you haven't done it. So you need to start doing it. Don't expect that your videos are gonna be great from the get-go. Everybody's so worried about perfection and making it sound perfect and doing perfect and lights on, just do it. Just do some videos. I mean, do the best you can. Don't do a shoddy job, but just do it. The more you do it, the more confident you become, the less you're gonna have this fear and anxiety. Number two, prepare for mistakes. And what do I mean by that? If you prepare in advance, you won't have as many mistakes. Now you can practice and practice and practice, but when you get in front of the camera, something about it just makes you a little bit more nervous. So I'm gonna suggest that you have a script, have something written out. Maybe you have a poster board on the wall there. I have a laptop right here and I have some notes in front of me. So I can look down every now and then, look at these notes if I forget something. You guys don't mind, right? It's okay. But have things like that that are gonna remind you of what you wanna say to people on the camera. And then that way you're gonna feel a little bit more confident because you know you've got some type of list which goes with planning it out first. You do have to plan it out. Number three, you can film again. Film multiple takes. It doesn't have to be done in one take. I can't tell you how much I edit out of these videos I do. I make a lot of mistakes. I make them often and I make them frequent. Or is that the same thing? I think it is. There's another one. So understand that you're gonna make these mistakes, but you can film again and again and again. If you're not doing it live, it doesn't matter. Now I do some live stuff too and people just see my mistakes. That's just the way it is. But understand that you can edit this stuff. You can say the same sentence four times. And the one sentence that sounds good, do you get rid of the other three? You can do that. Number four, deep breaths, right? It's like when you fear things, you start to breathe very shallow and quick. If you take deep, long breaths, you will automatically calm down. You never see somebody that's super uptight and nervous that is taking a deep, long breath because the physiology of breathing that way automatically will just calm you down. So take a few of those breaths first and then get started with your video. Number five, study your heroes. What do I mean by that? Look at the professionals. If you're doing a channel on cooking, search cooking channels on YouTube and find the top people that are doing cooking channels and see what they're doing and emulate that. Don't try to become them. You don't wanna do that. You wanna have your own style, but it's okay to see how they do things. What do they do in the beginning? What kind of music do they have? What's their lighting like? How much do they show B-roll of the food versus them on camera? All those things matter. So study up on this and somebody's already succeeded so you can just kinda copy what they're doing. Number six, try public speaking classes. Now I know years ago I was in the car business and I was a sales manager and I was getting ready to take over this dealership because the guy that ran the dealership was leaving and I was gonna become the general sales manager. But he did the sales meetings and oh my God, I was so scared. I thought, well I can't do a sales meeting. I can't stand up in front of people and talk. There's no way I can do that, but I went that job. So what did I do? I got up early every morning and I went to Toastmasters International and I went there and practiced speaking in front of people so I could get good at it so I could get better because I knew that you can get good at anything that you work on. You just pretty much can. Though I doubt that because I've tried that basketball thing over and over, that's not working out, but pretty much you can get good at anything that you practice. So what I'm telling you is if you're not good at something, go take a course on it. There's probably online courses on it now. You could, you know, public speaking courses online you could take, but just get some training and you'll feel more confident. Number seven, make it a habit. You can't get good at something you infrequently do, okay? So if you're gonna make videos, do it on a regular basis. The more regular you do this, the better off you will be. I do a video every day and that being said, I don't do a video every day. I have enough videos to where I can post one every day. So I batch my videos. I sit down like today and I'll do 10 videos. That way I have them for the next two weeks, but I frequently do them. And as I do them, I think I get better at them. I learn new things about what to do. I learn new camera angles. I've changed the lightings. I've changed cameras. I've changed microphones. And the only way I would have done any of those things is if I just kept doing videos and looking at them and saying, what can I do to make it better? Number eight, try a video challenge. What's a video challenge? A video challenge is when you tell your audience, hey, I'm gonna do a video every single day for the next 30 days. Or I'm gonna do a video every two days for the next 30 days. And whatever it is, you commit to it. You commit in public to what you're gonna do. Now, I tell you guys that I do a Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, but I really don't. I do a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, do them every single day. But I batch them like I said. But if you do that challenge and you challenge yourself and say, this is what I'm gonna do, this is my goal, and this is my time to do this thing, and don't say one day I'm gonna do a video every day. You gotta say, hey, I'm gonna start now and I'm gonna do it through this date, okay? Now, mine's indefinite at this point. I don't know when I'm gonna stop doing videos. Maybe I won't, maybe I'll do them the rest of my life. I don't know. But right now, as I do more videos, it builds up more and more assets and more content for people to see and learn from. Number nine, dress for the occasion, okay? So a lot of people will tell you you gotta dress up for videos on YouTube and you gotta do your hair and makeup and suit and tie and all this. And I don't believe that. I believe you gotta dress for the occasion. You know, if you're doing woodworking videos and you're in a suit with a tie, it don't fit, okay? You must acquit. You don't wanna do that. You wanna dress for the occasion. Now, I wear a dress shirt. I don't wear a tie. I don't like to wear ties. I don't normally wear ties. If I meet somebody for business, I'm not gonna wear ties. So why would I wear a tie in this video? It wouldn't make sense. Also, if you're in the kitchen and you're cooking, you may say, well, I wouldn't fix up my hair and makeup and do all that. The top cooking channels do, okay? And it seems to get more interest because I think when women or men look at somebody cooking in the kitchen and they're all fixed up and they look great, they go, wow, that person can look that way and cook dinner, that's amazing. And they like to watch the videos. But all I'm saying is match your outfit to the occasion and the type of videos that you're doing. Number 10, volunteer for other videos. If you have people that you know where a business is or whatever that is doing videos and they need help filming a video or you being in the video, do it. Just go out there and do videos. Too many people say, I wanna be good at filming videos and they don't film any videos. You gotta go out and do it, you gotta edit it, you gotta look at it, you gotta see what you got, okay? If you wanna be good on this side of the camera, you gotta be on this side of the camera, just start doing it and then look at your videos and see what you like, what you don't like. In the beginning, you're gonna see a lot more things you don't like than you do like. That's just the way it is. Rarely does somebody plop themselves in front of a camera and love everything they see. So don't let that bother you, understand that there's gonna be things you don't like but you can fix it, you can improve upon it. Number 11, and I kinda alluded to it just a second ago, go behind the camera, film other people and see what it looks like from that angle and edit some of their stuff and do it for them for free so that you can get that experience because the more experience you have on both sides of the camera, the better off you're gonna be. Number 12 is focus your gaze. Now a lot of people say, well, I don't know where to look when I'm doing a video. I don't know where to look at. Now, depending on how you're doing a video, what you're doing, I'm talking to you right now so I'm looking directly at the camera talking to you. If I was doing an interview with somebody or I had somebody next to me, it would make more sense for me to turn and look at them and talk. I've seen people doing interviews where they're both looking at the camera, it makes no sense to me. So it's gotta make sense. You gotta focus your gaze and look at the direction you should be. And lastly, watch your posture. If you're doing a video and you want to be enthusiastic and you want to make people feel good and you want to motivate them, whatever it is, make sure you look that way. Don't sit all slunged over and hung over on your desk with your head down and then try to motivate people. It's not gonna work, okay? It's not gonna work. They're gonna see through your body language, that's not working. Okay, smile. You're gonna have to smile a whole lot more than you would normally smile in real life. You're gonna have to be louder. You're gonna have to be more excited than you normally are. Like right now, I feel like I'm being super excited but I know when I see it on video, it won't seem that way. It's gonna seem a whole lot more dulled down for some reason. That's what video does to you, okay? Video makes you more boring for some reason. So you've gotta be a little bit more exciting. You gotta be a little bit more upbeat, a little bit more animated and you'll end up with a good video. I hope this helped you out. I hope you get over that hump. I wanna see you make videos and when you do, tell me about it. Put it in the comments below. Let me know which of these things that you've tried, which one of these things worked for you and who knows, maybe you're gonna have a channel and you're gonna have thousands of subscribers and it's all because you watched this video and you got some motivation. Nothing would make me happier. Well, something else would actually. If you'd hit that subscribe button, have I mentioned that to you? Hit that subscribe button down there. That would make me like super happy like right now. If you do that and don't forget, bell notifications, hit that bell. It will sound just like that. Try it out. You'll see and then turn on all notifications. That way, you'll be part of the Fisher family. That way, you'll be part of the VIP group that doesn't waste their time. How's that? 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