Hey I have a tip which once worked great for me. Someone earlier suggested that you should sit down and mentally envision yourself in the plane, whilst recounting all the checks. Take that one step further. Go in a large room or your garden and lay down a large ruler or anything that resembles a runway. Then 'fly' your circuit around it making all the checks and radio calls. You should dedicate a lot of time for this everyday, till you get it perfected.
As far as being nervous prior to your first solo, I would be more scared if you weren't. Thats absolutely natural. It is unfortunately a sort of breaking point towards the next level. Once it's done you will have new hurdles, like the cross country flights, PPL test and so on. You will look back and think 'that was easy.' I guarantee you.
Happy landings GE
