Showing posts with label challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label challenges. Show all posts

Friday, June 12, 2009

Create Unstoppable Confidence

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Self-confident people have indestructible self-belief, nothing can take away their feeling of self-worth and they bounce back again and again.
You can feel like this. You have all that it takes to go for what you want and to ride the ups and downs that life inevitably brings. You have given yourself a chance to get going and change your life. Just do it!

A person with strong Self- belief, checklist:

  1. Never compare yourself with others.
  2. Knows that you are your own person and that nobody else can understand YOU as well as YOU can.
  3. Listen to helpful advice and comments, however never blindly follows other people's opinions.
  4. Trusts your instincts and listens to your heart.
  5. Recognises that you will make mistakes and learn from them and moves on.
  6. Depends upon your own judgement and always gives yourself time to work things through.
  7. Values rest and relaxation as much as action planning and activity.
  8. Knows that when you are calm and focused you will make the best decisions.
  9. Accepts that there will be days when your self-belief is not so strong and will wait until you are feeling more positive before committing yourself to any course of action.


RESPOND CREATIVELY

The only way to change your circumstances, in any of your relationships is to change yourself. When life throws us a challenge we have a choice to make.

Ask yourself these questions .........
How do you respond now? How would you like to respond? How would you like to feel?

Being creative in how you respond is not always easy, it requires courage and will-power at a time when things might become very tense.

I would like you to change or delete a few words in your vocabulary.

  • Difficult becomes Challenging or Trying.
  • delete the word "try" take it right out of your vocabulary!

When we use the word "try" we give ourselves an excuse not to do something. Think about that for a minute. Start by making these changes, by using these words.

Low self-esteem is always linked with victim consciousness. What is holding YOU back?
How could we continue to let ourselves;

  • lose out,
  • miss out,
  • get treated like a doormat,
  • be abused etc.

This low self-esteem is limiting you, do you deserve to be treated in this way?
Next time when you find yourself diving for cover, or feeling sick with guilt and blame, or is it often causing you to be unsatisfied with your life? Thereby lowering your self-esteem even more, think about how you can stand up for yourself and ask am I taking responsibility for my life? You have to raise your self confidence.......You ask how?.......You can with awareness and training.......Your journey has began!

Monday, March 30, 2009

Are You Open For Change?

Sometimes life will get difficult and set up a challenge.
How will you handle that challenge? Will you sit by idle and hope that it will go away or will you strive and conquer by jumping in at the deep end with both feet? Are you scared of failing or drowning?

Keep your mind open so you can explore all possibilities presented to you. Sometimes it is very hard to be open, creative and grow in ways that only you can grow.

When I went for my first competition I stood with shaking feet and sweaty palms, and I asked my parents, “Do you think I should participate, do you think I'm good enough?”

Their answer was simple, “What have you got to lose?” and that was that. Sure enough I lost the contest, well actually I came in at second place. Did that count? Yes I had won!

Suddenly,I was popular and gained friends. Overnight, I was the princess! But the best part of all, I had gained experience.
After that there was no looking back. Needless to say, I had gained confidence.
The winning streak continues still.

When someone ask me, “What if we do not win?” You guessed it, “What have you got to lose?” Coming in second is not bad!

If you think you are losing face or reputation by losing any kind of contest, whether you are vying for that all important client or your school spelling contest, than just admit the fact that you were not good enough in the first place.

The problem is that we become so fixated at our loss so subjectively that we do not look at anything else. Not even at what we have gained due to the loss. All we see is a closed door instead of looking at the new windows that are opening for us.

We have to find what works for us, and what we can improve about ourselves. The secret behind converting a loss into a win is what we gain out of the experience.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you are capable of doing or creating.
To often we set our goals so low that we are not being challenged, we just do not aim high enough.

You are capable of so much more, let your inner flame tell you that you are able to create miracles in your life.
You possess the energy to be a miracle worker. However you have to believe, want and know it is with in yourself. When you decide to have an open mind, ready for change, you are ready for anything!

Know no boundaries and limitations.
Think of what you are going to gain.

Every day is a new beginning. Go on, give yourself another chance. In life there are no guarantees. Do we stop trying just for fear of failing? Then why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we stop taking more chances? Why do we stop participating in contests or experimenting in life?

What have you got to lose?
Take a chance now and get ready for change!