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Tips for quiet inner confidence when tackling unusual self-employed work

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Lemonthyme · 26/04/2026 10:14

I work for myself and I have a piece of work this week which I can't explain as it would give away what it is. Something really different and a bit wacky.

Basically what I need is confidence to make it work and I mean absolute ballsy, do not question me confidence but not in a brash way, more "don't notice I'm nervous, don't notice I'm out of the ordinary". It's not a talk or presentation or anything, more about just having a "don't question me" attitude which doesn't come across as angry or even assertive, just like I'm confident on the inside because this is my every day. So much so that it wouldn't even stick out in your memory that you'd met me because I was just quietly getting on with stuff.

That is going to sound bizarre I know but does anyone have tips for inner confidence when you're the least confident person you know? And I know full well that I can deliver on other things I've done (like presentations and the like) and appear confident when I'm not. But this work is far more subtle. I think actually being confident is going to be what I need.

And I need a crash course!!! HELP????

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quirkychick · 26/04/2026 10:43

Imagine/visualise it like it's already a fact and act as if it is a given.

Fernic · 26/04/2026 12:34

I recently used ai to pose a similar situation and generate queries and questions, then how to face them. It was quite useful as a tool to think through what could go wrong and how I’d address it, it felt calmer having some words and phrases in my head and also that I’d anticipated key points. Never came up, but I think I looked calmer!

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