Stand up straight and see how it makes you feel. Even just pretending makes you feel assertive. Confidence doesn’t always exude but we can squeeze the tube to give it a push start.

Don’t wait for confidence; it might not happen. Confidence isn’t a god-given gift for everyone but certain people practice it more than others while reaping the benefits. The power is in the practice. Practice forms belief.

Pretending to be confident makes us confident, obvious, but a seed with power grows into an oak tree. Confidence has benefits. Confidence allows us to get up, move on and breathe life into the old. Whatever overwhelmed – now has a solution and in the instance of no solutions forthcoming, it’s okay because we feel confident.

Confidence pushes back the mindset of failure and brings forward the mindset of constructive action.

Simply pretend to be confident, tell yourself you are. It’s not difficult and whilst you may not believe it at first – it’s worth remembering –

Confidence isn’t necessarily something that one person has more of than the other, it is simply the belief that one person has more of it than the other

I kind of liked trick or treating when I was young but always remember feeling cheated and disappointed when getting home from our trick or treat session and emptying our bag of sweets upon the floor – we found mashed up old bananas sitting among the treats.

- in fact most of the sweets and unwrapped lollies were now ruined – then we had to go and wash all the coins free of mouldy banana.

I call that a “double T” or “TT” in my language (actually, I think “cup of tea” sounds better).

“cup of tea” = A ”tricked-treat”; what was meant to be a “treat” turned out to be a “trick”.

Using the music producer scenario in the introduction, I believe a strong “cup of tea” could be brewed in the situation, because the “trick” in the situation would be to give the aspiring producers the “treat”. eg/ option (1)

In this instance the “treat” doesn’t really exist, it is in fact the “trick”.

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