Sometimes life can be challenging and tough! And sometimes we really just need that extra spring in our step. Whether it’s been a hard week/ month/ year, or you’re heading to a very important audition/ meeting / presentation, you need that extra bit of self-confidence and to hold your head high and be proud. Confidence is so important in any career. My secret is a great little confidence-boosting technique which you can use again and again, whenever you need it.

This is totally personal. It’s not for Facebook, your boss or your partner. It’s just for you.

Here’s how you do it –

Grab a pen, notebook or your computer. Turn your phone off, shut the door and close your email and browser. Write at the top of the page – My recent achievements. Now take the time to write them all down! Anything you’ve done recently that makes you smile: it can be personal as well as for work stuff. Maybe you got a great voiceover job, a brilliant acting role, produced a fantastic commercial, signed a top new client, helped out a friend in need, went the extra mile at work, looked in on an elderly neighbour, cooked an amazing cake. Keep writing until you have a nice big list. Now look at it.

Pretty amazing hey! I bet you’ve done a lot!

Now it’s written down you can see how it adds up.

Keep that list somewhere safe for when you need that pick me up again.

We are all fantastic human beings and I think it’s important sometimes to stop and just take note of all the great things we’ve done. I hope this has helped to give you that extra little spring in your step.

If you have any confidence boosting tips I’d love to hear them, I’m sure others would too so add them in the comments below. And if you’d like to share a recent achievement I’d love to hear about that too.