It is very common to get nervous before anything important in your life. For those of you, who have had the dream of wearing the uniform since an infinite period of time, it is natural to get nervous when you are just a few steps away from realizing this dream. It becomes even difficult to control getting nervous if you have great expectations to succeed in something. But this nervousness can affect your performance to a great extent. So here are a few tips which you can use to beat this nervousness:
- There is nothing at stake. There is nothing to lose. All that can happen is gain only. So there is basically nothing to worry about. Keep these words in your mind.
- Take deep breath. This will relax your mind to a great extent. People just hear this thing and ignore it but this can really be therapeutic. So next time when you are nervous just close your eyes and take a deep breath.
- One great way to avoid nervousness is preparation. If you are preparing well in advance, there are much less likely ways that you’ll be nervous. So yes advance preparations help a lot.
- One big way to avoid nervousness just before the interview is by not asking other what questions they were asked. Everybody is a unique person with unique personality, the questions in the interview are personality specific most of the time and if you hear other people’s questions they are most likely to differ from yours.
- You can also avoid nervousness by not listening to other advises. It generally happens that we prepare in some way and then when we go in SSB, many people tell us many things, so we get confused and try to hear and follow a variety of things. This leads to further confusion.
- Have confidence on yourself, your knowledge, your preparations. If you’ll not have confidence on yourself no one else will.
- The best way to beat nervousness is to go forward and perform, especially in case of GT series. So think of points in GD, concentrate on the task that is being performed, just do your best instead of thinking much.
- For lecturette you need to have strong points. When you speak you must speak like a leader. This is one task apart from interview in which the candidates feel a lot nervous. This is because you have to speak in front of so many people. Practice that before, at that time think that they are just your friends and you are master of the topic. Make direct eye contact and speak.
- When you speak with direct eye contact, you appear confident, and when you see the other person listening to you with interest you forget every worry. So speak with confidence in interview as well.
- Before every task mentally revise everything you need to do in that. This helps a lot, first of all it’ll instill confidence in you and secondly it’ll divert your energy in a positive direction.
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