I felt like a baby being told to walk. And walk I did.

The calm before the storm. This was the room where I conducted a seminar for Manila Workshops last Saturday.

Hi ,As you may know, I conducted "Understanding Customer Acquisition for Digital Products and Services" for Manila Workshops last Saturday.

It wasn't my first time conducting a workshop for Ginger Arboleda's awesome training company for freelancers and business owners.

A few years ago,

Carla Ravanes and I teamed up for a seminar on Raket Remedies

. (Yes, Carla is the Thought Junkie who took the time to give me my 15 minutes of fame last month through 

this article

.)

Last year, I was part of the

Facebook Ads Seminar-Workshop team.

Except for Saturday's seminar, I was alone.

Yep, I only did the seminar alone. As in wala akong kasama.

Hindi mo alam ang kaba ko in the weeks approaching the seminar date.

Kaya ko ba'ng ituro ang topic mag-isa? May Math pa naman 'yung topic, Lord.Paano kapag may tanong ang participants na hindi ko masagot?Paano kapag walang pumunta?Paano kapag hindi maganda ang feedback ng participants?

Hard as those questions were, I brushed it off by preparing for the seminar.

I read more articles.

I made the presentation friendly and simple.

I worked on completing the case studies.

In short, I focused not on my fear, but on my participant's learning experience. Yes, kahit hindi ko pa sila nakikita at nakikilala.

Hindi ko alam kung sino ang nagsabi, ang dami kong pina-follow eh. Pero totoo: It is not about you.

Make what you do about other people - how you can help, serve, and offer a solution.

Here's what I did: I asked questions to the participants. I allowed them to "enter their world", 'ika nga ni El Cruz sa akin.

Because of that, I forgot about myself. 

I felt like a baby being told to walk.

And walk I did.

It felt good.

You’re exceptional,

Ann Kristine A. PenaredondoYour friendly Nuclear Bomb of Happiness