Alan Stein Jr.

I visualize before every single speaking engagement.

Every engagement I do, I always arrive the day before and I request to see the room the day before I'm going to speak.

I want to get a feel for what it's going to look like.

I visualized before I came in here with you today.

I watched several of your other guests on YouTube who were in this studio.

I knew what this room looked like before I set foot in here, which gave me a certain level of comfort that I wasn't going to walk into anything that I hadn't prepared myself for.

And one of my favorite quotes that I learned from a mentor of mine is make preparation your separation.

I want to be as prepared as possible for everything that I do.

And that will also lower stress.

That goes back to something we said earlier.

It's kind of the difference between viewing something that's making you nervous versus viewing something that gets you really, really excited.

I said to you before off-air, I'm a huge fan of your work.

You've had a massive impact on my life.

I could have been nervous coming in here and to meet you for the first time and sit.

But instead, I was excited for this opportunity.

So was I.

They can have very similar feelings.

You can have the butterflies in your stomach, and I don't remember who said that originally, but if you ever feel butterflies in your stomach, just get them all lined up in the same direction so that they can work for you.

But we do.

We need to have some stress in our life.