Hello,

I have been reading a book called TOTAL CONFIDENCE (you may laugh) and I thought I would share with you some of the exercises...I have noticed how a lot of people in the creative industry suffer from a niggly feeling called 'Self Doubt'..I am one of those people and am in the process of trying to do something about it:

'...Imagine you had someone living in your home with you who continually pointed out everything that was wrong with you and your life in a really annoying tone of voice. How long would it take for you to want to kick that person out of your house and out of your life? Well, your mind is the one place where you have complete dominion. And if the voice living in your head isn't supporting you, it's time to replace it with one that does. Because like it or not, the results you are getting in your life have everything to do with what that voice keeps telling you....

Read through the exercise before you do it for the first time:

1. Locate the internal voice. Just ask yourself 'Where is my internal voice?' and point to the location where you hear the words.

2. Now I would like you to imagine how your voice sounds if it is totally confident. Is it louder or softer than usual? Is it clearer and easier to hear? Stronger or weaker? Do you speak faster or more slowly?

However your voice sounds when you are really positive and confident, put that voice in the same location where you old internal voice was located.

3. Take a few moments to think of some of the negative suggestions you have habitually given yourself in the past, things like:

'I'm not very confident'
'I am terrible at giving presentations'
'I will never find someone to fall in love with me'

4. For each statement, come up with its positive opposite:

'I'm a naturally confident person'
'I give excellent presentations'
'I am extremely loveable'

5. Finally, I want you to repeat the new, positive suggestion to yourself in your new confident internal voice.


EASY! Try it...works a treat!..But you have to keep practicing though x