One of them is  managing your lyrics. When you go to perform a song you want to be extremely well rehearsed.  Remember the three components of preparing a song for performing. Music, technique, and interpretation, which is also your performance and your stagecraft.

If you don’t have those components resolved, maybe just pick a song in which you already have those items resolved. It’s very important. You don’t want to go and perform a song in which you are still thinking about technique, high notes, etc.

That is a mistake I see in singing students very often. They think that  the song they choose to perform needs to be ‘out of the league’. That’s not how it works because performance itself is challenging.

So the first thing I would recommend is even if you bring your song super well rehearsed is to bring your lyrics printed and just have them around. Don’t look at them directly but in my experience just knowing that they are there can make you feel more secure.  Because some people, when they get nervous, can forget the lyrics and that is very stressful when you are performing.

So I recommend just to have your lyrics around there. Of course, don’t look at them unless you really need to. But if there is a particular part that you are unsure about or that you often tend to forget, just highlight it. And then you know that if you are in that situation when you are singing live, you can just quickly spot at them and you are safe again.