Mission Impossible

[aiminghigh]

Hello !

As soon as i face a major problem, i tend to look here at stevepavlina.com for answers.
Okey here it comes:

In just 1week i am suppose to give an oral presentation about an scandinavion actor in front of a group of 30-60 ppl.
Problem is; i haven't started yet, and the tought really gives me nerves beacause
the time of the presentation is estimated to be 45minutes.
In my mind this is mission impossible.
to give some background information:
-this summer I was one of 30 lucky individuals to enter a special school class(don't know what it's called in USA)
anyway, and the teachers requires a lot from the students since them/we overall have good grades and were given this "special opportunity.
I havent had any possible chance to start preparing for this presentation any earlier beacause of moving++.
I am aware that this huge problem of mine, would just be an achieviable goal for the bulk of the forum users here,
but Oral presentations is on of mye biggest fears in life! (heart starting to beat extremely fast, shaky voice, going blank etc;S!, really funny reaction when thinking about it really!;D)
I think that if i decide to do this, The oral presentation is the problem, not the written work.

Feeling like a retard coward, when even thinking about dumping it. Because then I have submitted to my deep fear. and it could be a possible growth factor.

So again I am asking for an advice or two!!
what to do ;D?

[The Cloud]

First of all, know your information inside and out. That's a given. Then, what I do, is I pretend that whatever medium I'm using (notecards, powerpoint, slides, etc.) is "asking" me a question, and I simply answer it using my knowledge on the subject. I don't look at the presentation as something to be regurgitated, that makes me far too nervous. Instead, I look at it as one big Q&A session, with me responding with what I know, and not worrying about what I don't know because there's nothing I can do about it.