Our brains are hardwired for conversation. Yet, when it’s time to present or run a meeting, we often fall out of our relaxed, conversational mindset and land in the more unnatural presentational paradigm.

We each have a lot of experience speaking. But experience doesn’t always equate to excellence. It just means we all have habits — good ones and bad ones. But what if your speaking habit is full of error-ridden behaviors? Well, then you keep producing the pattern over and over again. Without even fully realizing it, your errors become habits.

It’s time to learn a new habit, one that is more closely aligned with how you talk. Learning this new habit won’t take a lot of effort. It just takes intense concentration. And you can do it.

Let’s face it. We put a lot of unnecessary pressure on ourselves — during our important meetings, high-stakes presentations, pitches, company all-hands gatherings, including the hours spent preparing for them.

It doesn’t have to be like that.