Category Archives: Creativity

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Are You Ready to
Become Fearless and
Confident in Your Life?



You can maximize your performance in pressure situations and eliminate the anxiety and fear that cripples your self-confidence and keeps you from achieving your full potential in Business, Performing and Life

Whether you are a business professional, performing artist, entrepreneur or creative, I am here to help you:

  • Overcome anxiety, self doubt and fear when speaking in public, interviewing, auditioning or performing in pressure situations.
  • Gain self-confidence and the mental and physical skills necessary to perform in ways that up until now seemed impossible.
  • Grow your business, move up the ladder at work, give effective and powerful presentations and perform without anxiety on stage.
  • Create powerful focus, concentration and presence while creating as a writer, performer or artist.

Hello, I’m Dr. Nick Lazaris, Performance Psychologist and Anxiety Coach, and I can show you that it IS possible to perform, create and live without the self-destructive beliefs and behaviors that keep you from achieving your goals! If you desire to rid yourself forever of the fears that hold you back, while becoming fearless, bold, and confident, then you have come to the right place.

Through powerful online Individual Coaching, Group Coaching Programs, and unique learning Resources I offer support and psychological skills training to help you unleash your peak potential and performance!

If you are ready to take your performance, art, business, and life to a new level, then let’s have a conversation to discuss how I can help you move beyond anxiety and self-doubt to achieve what you are absolutely capable of ~ let’s talk!

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Changing the Frame Can Change Your Life

What would happen to your business, project or performance, if you could create a perspective that would lead to powerful and amazing results?

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“Every picture tells a story, don’t it…”
~ Rod Stewart

I know an artist. Not just any artist. An amazing artist. Oh, and she happens to be my wife, Ramona. She has an eye for what works and what doesn’t.

I watch her in her studio as she takes a blank canvas and, over time, transforms it into something magical. (VictorianNoel.com) After what seems to be a zillion hours of work, she shows me what I believe is the final piece. I tell her it’s time to put it out to the world so others can share in its magic.

Instead, I hear these words, “It’s not finished yet. I need to put it in a frame.” So, I offer to run to the art store to quickly grab a frame for her latest piece. “No,” she says,

“Picking the right frame makes all of the difference in the world.”

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Live Loud and Prosper

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If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will tell you, I came to live out LOUD.” ~ Émile Zola

My daughter recently brought home her University yearbook and on the cover, embossed in wild, bright colors, were the words, ‘Live Loud.’

I loved it! She was being encouraged to not just have a life, but to live it LOUD – emphatically, boldly, not concealed or quiet but overtly and with undeniable purpose and passion.

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When Your World Stops Turning

Love Makes the WorldPhoto Credit – Susie Sprinkel Hudson

Closing night. Full house. Final performance of an outstanding original musical, “Love Makes the World Go ‘Round,” written and directed by Vanda Eggington and presented by The American Coast Theater Company. I am seated with my wife Ramona in the second row, center, as we proudly watch our son Nicholas perform as part of a wonderful cast.

A revolving stage, painted as a map of the world, placed the actors at just the appropriate place for them to sing and dance each number. The stage turned every time, perfectly, during each performance for several weeks – until it abruptly stopped during the final act on the final night, leaving each actor out of position and facing every which way but the right one.

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4 Steps to Living in the Present

Where do you live?

I’m not asking the address of your home, I’m asking “Where do you LIVE?” Where does your mind reside? Where do you live in your thinking?

Now

Most people I coach live in 1 of 2 places. The most common place is in the future, in the land of ‘What If ?’ This is the place where we say things such as, ”What if my presentation at work goes bad” or “What if I ask her on a date and she says “No”? or “What if I never make it as a Writer (or Musician, or ….)?”

“What if? …What if?…”

Yet another place that many live is in the past, in the land of ‘If Only’. “If only I had started my business earlier … If only I had more self-confidence … If only my family wasn’t so dysfunctional … If only I wasn’t rejected.”

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Creativity In the Midst of Chaos

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self,
to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly”
~ Steve Maraboli, Author
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Recession … unemployment … climate change … general economic collapse … rapid population growth … polluted water … environmental disasters … instability, and anxiety … decline in the influence of the church.

Why, you wonder, am I trying to depress you with the current state of the world today? How can this possibly help me become bold in my life? I thought this blog was supposed to be a forward looking, positive guide to gaining freedom from fear.

The scenario that I describe above is, however, not an accounting of the world today, but, rather, a precise look at what was occurring in 13th century Europe!

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What Does an ‘Outrageous’ Life Look Like?

“Change and growth takes place when a person has
risked themselves and dared to experiment with their own life.”
~ Philosopher Herbert Otto
Outrageous

In my 31 years of coaching and consulting I have had the privilege to work with world-class athletes, executives, writers, pastors, entrepreneurs and performance artists. During all of these years of working with thousands of individuals, I have never had anyone tell me,

“Can you please help me become a mediocre performer?”
“You know Dr. Nick, I am making way too many sales. How can I become a little less effective with my clients?”
“What are some ways to slow down my writing career?”
“I really don’t care if my art makes it to the marketplace.”
“I am perfectly happy staying afraid and playing it safe.”