"Develop Your Acting Talent Automatically" (Audio)

I sometimes used to get such a dry mouth during interviews that my top lip would stick to my teeth.

And the more I would think about it, the more self-conscious I would become. And this would make my mouth dry up even more!

You see, I would start by trying in vain to imagine what 'they' wanted, and I'd try to guess what they were looking for, and I’d attempt to figure out exactly what kind of personality was appealing to them.

Unfortunately, I had no way of finding out any of this information and so I would work myself up into an awful state trying to achieve the impossible...

Meanwhile, I wasn’t focusing on the most important thing:

As long as I was pre-occupied with those things which were out of my control, I wasn’t focusing on demonstrating my talent to the people who were in a position to offer me work.

And so, in a very important way, I had actually been sabotaging my own chances of success.

And it didn’t stop there...

Because I would then notice myself becoming self-conscious of my hands, and my face, and my posture, and of whether ‘they’ could see those nasty little jerking movements of my head on my neck, as I became increasingly tense.

And of course, when it came to actually opening my mouth to speak, I had already put myself into such an unresourceful state of anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to make a good start.

And you know what it’s like trying to claw your way back to a good performance from a dodgy beginning!

All my usual fluency and elegance would be gone.

And my presentation of material and of myself would feel unconvincing, and my mental strength would be missing, leaving me feeling hollow as I realised I’d seriously let myself down.

And then one day, I suddenly realised what I’d been doing...

I’d been systematically sabotaging my chances of success, through my thinking, my beliefs and my behaviour.

And I began to wonder what I might do to change the results I’d been getting...

So I asked myself: