1. Be curious
Be interested in your surroundings, the people around you or the people who cross your path. We are all so unique we can learn from others. Ask questions, even ask your own brain good questions. Learn something new everyday. You will feel, inspired, smarter and
more confident.
2. Think positively
Negative thoughts have a direct effect on our health, mental, physical and emotional health. Try and wipe out your ANTS (Automatic Negative Thoughts). Remember we have over 60 000 thoughts every day, most of which are repetitive and negative. Think new
thoughts, one's that will serve you better, that will enhance your life and make your grow.
Start practicing keeping a check on your thoughts, everyday think a new thought and
wipe out a negative thought. This will change your state of mind and you will begin to see
the wonderful positive things in your life, encouraging you to feel confident about your life.
3. Face your Fears
Overcome all the things that are holding you back in your life, the things that you think
you can't do - trust me YOU CAN. Sometimes you just have to do it, maybe you just can't
bring yourself to speak to strangers, start with the petrol attendant or the shop assistants,
it is their job to be friendly, simply start with a "Hello how are you?" If is is public speaking
you have to face, start with your family, friends, take a public speaking course, practice in
front of the mirror. Whatever your fear is, it is impacting your life so think of the pleasure
you will have when you overcome it. Think how you will be able to advance and how
empowered you will feel. You will have so much trust in your self and be able to do
anything you set your mind to - your confidence will go through the roof!
4. Extinguish Self- Doubt
Self-doubt stems from your beliefs about yourself. Write down your negative beliefs about
yourself (Your limiting beliefs) eg, I am not good enough, I just can't do it, I am not clever
enough....... put your limiting belief on a table and now find four reference legs to support
this belief, evidence that you believe this is true. Maybe you can find four references and
maybe you can only find one or two or maybe none at all! Write them down, even draw a
table if you are a visual person, with your evidence as the four legs of your table.
Now change your limiting belief to an empowering belief eg, I can do it, put this new belief on your table and find four references to validate this new belief ( Here you can think of past experiences, things people have said, things you have accomplished, something you
got a good grade for or positive feedback. Our brains can easily find negative evidence just from habit, we rarely remember of ALL of the positive times! Now you focus on you New Empowering Belief and your self-doubt is extinguished.
5. Talk to yourself in a nurturing kind way
If you cannot be kind to yourself how will you be kind to others? We are all unique and have our very own special qualities, take notice of your uniqueness, cherish it and nurture it. Like anything that is nurtured you will blossom and be the best you can be. Take time to
do caring things for yourself and use kind loving words about yourself, never be harsh or
unkind to yourself with words, most of us would not do this to our friends and family so do
not do it to yourself.
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