How To Harness The Power Of Your Mind To Grow Your Modeling Career

“Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.” Susan Taylor

In my last message I wrote that simply being the best looking person in a crowd won’t be enough for you to make it as a successful model.

I also said that many of the most successful models I’ve met and worked with would not be considered physically “perfect” by any means–yet they enjoyed great careers. Often in fact their careers have lasted longer and have been more financially successful than those of some more physically beautiful models.

Modeling is somewhat like professional sports in this respect, where one’s natural physical gifts are not the most important predictor of success.

The professional model, like the professional athlete, must not only develop and perfect his or her physical gifts, they must also build within them a solid inner foundation, a foundation based on the way they use their mind. This inner foundation will carry them much farther than their physical gifts alone ever could.

Muhammad Ali, who was perhaps the greatest boxer who ever lived, backs me up on that. He said:

“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream and a vision.”

What he’s saying here is that it’s not the physical so much as the mental that creates a winner.

It’s what’s happening on the inside of us, through our thinking, which has infinitely more power over the results we get in our lives than do our outer conditions and circumstances.

It’s very important for you to understand that the way you think is directly linked to everything that’s happening in your outside world–including your degree of success as a model.

I can attest to this for sure from my own experience as a high fashion model and now as a model scout.

Now I’m not saying that the physical is not an important element in succeeding as a model, because it is! I am saying, though, that the physical alone is simply not enough. I’m saying that without the right mental tools, it will be very difficult to attain lasting success, no matter how fantastic your physical gifts may be.

In other words, what is most important in modeling–and in life–is what we develop on the inside. Our inner gifts and strengths have the power to fill in the gaps and overcome where the physical aspects fall short.

I have seen this time and again, both as a model and as someone scouting for models. A person will enter the casting room and although they aren’t as tall, or thin, as young or beautiful or some other physical attribute as the others in that same room, because of their inner power they just come in and take over–and the job is theirs! They have such inner confidence, such charisma and a positive attitude that all we can see is that. No one is even looking at their physical ‘faults’.

I always say, “Photoshop can retouch anything but your attitude.” Don’t make the mistake of thinking that to succeed as a model you can rely on your physical gifts alone. Your inner self–your thoughts are crucial.

In my next email I want to talk about a very specific kind of thought, perhaps the most important of all for your modeling career. In fact when you understand its true power you’ll see that you can use it to help you achieve almost anything.

This special kind of thought was key to my own success as a high fashion model and it can be a powerful help in your career too, I promise.