Self-Confidence Is a Skill Anyone Can Develop
Do you have big dreams you’d love to accomplish, if only you had the self-confidence to go after them?!
People often think self-confidence is an innate gift that a lucky few are born with or that you gain through lots of experience over time.
The truth is self-confidence is accessible to everyone. It is a state of being that is created in your mind and you can start cultivating it right away!
Why? Because it comes from inside you - from your thoughts.
Self-confidence is faith in your ability to learn, try and not give up! It is future oriented. You don’t need to have any evidence from your past that you can do it. You are secure in your ability to figure it out.
It is different from confidence which is based on past evidence and experience.
For example, you feel confident you can research and write a report because you’ve done it hundreds of times in college or in your previous job and received praise. You take assertive action when you feel confident because there is past external evidence that you can do it.
Both confidence and self-confidence are useful and compliment each other. But self-confidence is the emotion you want to tap into when you are trying something NEW for the first time like changing careers, stepping outside your comfort zone, signing up for a new project or working from home while supporting the kids’ remote education.
You don’t need previous evidence that you’ve done it before, just faith in yourself that you’ll figure it out. It’s an unlimited powerful resource within you once you figure out how to create it with your thoughts.
It is the emotion of growth that will propel you towards your dreams if you are willing to nurture and cultivate it.
It doesn’t always come naturally to many of us. We like to critique and judge ourselves into self-doubt and confusion, and then we get stuck.
But the good news is self-confidence is a skill you can develop.
Stay tuned tomorrow for three steps on how to cultivate self-confidence whenever you need it.
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