Confidence anyone?
If someone was to find the formula for confidence and sell it in a bottle that person would make a lot of money. Confidence is something we would all like and need at certain times in our life. Are you waiting until you get older before you get confident, or maybe waiting until you make a lot of money or until you successfully start your own business? Why not just start feeling confident right now. Why don’t people succeed? Difficult one to answer but a lack of confidence might have something to do with it.
What is confidence?
1. A sense of power within yourself.
2. A sense of being able to pull something off.
Not everyone is 100% confident all the time. I believe a lot of people think they don’t have confidence when actually they do. Let’s say for example you start a course in acting to gain more self confidence, yet does it not to some extent take a level of confidence do even make this initial step of starting an acting course. A lot of people would not even be able to do that. I believe there are many times like this example when people claim to not have confidence yet their actions suggest otherwise.
You may even meet some people who say they don’t have confidence, but when they start talking about their life and the things they have done, there is an in-congruency. They will tell you about how they traveled overseas on their own and started their own business when they returned or they will just start talking about themselves, and as they do you realize by what they are saying that they are confident or at least they have been in the past. This is true about everyone; we have all been and experienced feeling confident at some point in our lives. Sure everybody’s confidence can get knocked sometimes, but when you say you are not very confident, how sure of this are you exactly? Maybe you should say you are not very confident about being not very confident.
So when we need to get instant confidence, how could we get it?
One way it can be obtained is by changing your body and your mind.
When you meet someone who is confident you know they are confident long before they have opened their mouth to speak.
1. Physiology - How you use your body. When you are in need of confidence, try changing your physiology. Start moving in a confident way. Breathe strong. Take deep slow breaths. Move like you are in control and that nothing can faze you. If you move through life with certainty you will feel confident.
2. Mental focus
Think of something you really want in your life and hope that it will happen.
How does it feel?
Now expect the same thing to happen, (with absolute certainty).
How does it feel?
Do you see things differently when you do this?
Maybe you see 2 things when you hope (something happening and also not happening) and only one thing when you expect. Instead of hoping something will happen in your life, expect it to happen because you will make it happen.
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