Clement Stone said: “Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve”. This is the spirit of self-confidence, of the people who are self-assured, who generate the others’ admiration.
Symptoms: self-confidence is transmitted through the voice tone, the body language and through what is said.
Self- confidence should be based on a firm appreciation of reality and can be achieved in three steps:
1.- Know where we are, where we want to go and what we want to achieve.
2.- Be clear about the strong and weak points “if you know yourself and know your enemy you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles” Sun Tzu.
3.- Being completely sure that we want to start our way towards self-confidence. Having low self-confidence is a disadvantage to thrive in our lives.
What does having self-confidence mean? And therefore, what has to be worked on?
1.- Have a positive and realistic view of ourselves and of our abilities
2.- Persevere in our aims
3.- Favour creativity
4.- Have it easier to establish interpersonal relations
5.- Show our feelings and emotions freely
6.- Defend our own values and principles
7.- Do not feel afraid for being how we are.
Sentences such as
“I am OK”
“I am intelligent”
“ I can do it”
should appear more frequently in our minds. Think this is going to be a good day and rely on your ability to face it positively.
The neural-researchers say we are, from the neurological point of view, what we think: feel yourself important, love yourself unconditionally, adopt a resolute attitude, set aims you can achieve, face your problems, do not lose your sense of humour, do not be resentful, congratulate yourself for your achievements, spend more time doing what you like…