Professional painters should strive to be confident in practice. The trait “confidence” might be intangible but the effect is always pronounced.

Here are three (3) important tips on how to improve your confidence as a professional painter.

Know your trade: Understanding the nitty-gritties of your trade automatically gives you the needed confidence when interacting with a client who most likely you don’t know so much about painting. You might not know which of these clients is a professional in your field and for one reason or the other, the client is not chanced to handle a job his or herself and have decided to contract it out to a fellow painter. Once a painter who is competent encounter clients such as this, clients who most happens to be the most challenging ones, the painter is not saddled with uncertainties which accompanies mediocre painters. Uncertainties on whether how they engage their clients is convincing enough because they themselves are not totally convinced whether what they saying is right or wrong. this automatically drains the confidence of this quack painters. This lack of confidence is quick to detect by clients and once detected, the likeliness of getting the job drops to 10%. So please know your trade, get the required certifications, trainings, confidence attached and engage with authority any client that may come your way.


Keep personal Issues away from work: Always learn to separate personal issues from work because that can lead to less productivity at work. Let me give you a scenario, if you are desperately in need of money and you eventually got a lead on a client who wants to paint a property. Since you are so desperate for money, you tend to be too overly careful not to make mistakes that would jeopardize your chances of landing the job when you engage such client. While being overly carefully, it can psychology transforms into pressure which automatically compromise your display of confidence. But Hey! As regards your personal life, this example only highlights personal issues that could be financially driven, other issues could be family disputes, health challenges etc, whatever it is, do not bring the energy which accompanies these issues to your work space.

Stay Happy: A Smile on your face communicates confidence even if it might not be there. Believe me, even if for some reason you are nervous, keep a little smile on your face. Most clients view professionals who exhibit this positive energy as those who are confident about what they are doing and so they are likely to reciprocate same confidence in the painter. The beautiful effect of this is that, once the “not so confident” painter then perceives the reaction that the client has confidence in him/her, there is 90% possibility this reaction will spur and boast the actual confidence level of the painter. Moreover, we all are aware of a general accepted law which states that, for every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction.

source: https://academy.bhubng.com/2019/11/15/3-tips-on-how-to-improve-your-confidence-as-a-professional-painter/