INTRODUCTION
If you need to succeed in life, you need to believe in yourself. Does'nt wait for the world to understand your objectives and support you in your mission. The universe may conspire to make you successful, but if you don't think you can, you can never accomplish your mission.
Set yourself reasonable targets that you know is well within your potential. Keep achieving them stage by stage to boost your selfbelief. Once you have made your mind and possess, loads of self-confidence, none of the world's negative forces.
Here are 10 steps to develop and maintain a strong sence of selfbelief in yourself, so that you achieve success in all your endeavous. Most of these step may sound simple, but not many people practice them in their lives. They thus to see a marked difference in your lives.
- Challenge The Negativity
When you start to do something, you will always notice a slight feeling of negativity inside you head, wan't you ?These are some of the common question that you should watch out for - Am I cut out for this task ? What if I fail ? Will the world laugh at me ? Am I pushing myself too hard ? Most of these questions stem from what others think about you. If your family or friends doubt your beliefs, it impacts your self-belief and creates slight negativity in you.
All you need to do is to challenge that feeling and come out successful. Yes, you may have doubts before you set out to do something, but you should learn to ignore these doubts and keep pushing yourself harder and harder towards the goal because that you can achieve something, you cannot be stopped by any powerful source.
- Work On Your Weak Areas and Improve On Them
Most of the times, you have doubts about your belief because you know that why you are weak in a particular area. Once, there live a small boy who believed he could do winders in his chosen field of sports. However, he found out that he could'nt perfect his jumps and throws properly. He knew his weakness and worked day and night on it. His coach told him that he could never perfect his jumps.
However, the boy did'nt give up. He kept working hard for hours and days till he not only perfected but also mastered them. He went on to become a legend in his field. This is the story of the basketball lagend, Michael Jordan. The world witnessed a champion because he never give up instead, he worked so hard that his weakness become his strength!
- Fight For Your Belief
If you don't fight for your beliefs, and stand by them, who will ?When you find that something is wrong in the way things are being operated around you, don'nt go with the crowd. You need to speak out your mind and tell them the correct method, even if you run the risk of rubbing against somebody powerful.
Never let power, money and position intimidate you. Is the road that everyone uses arounds you leading them to the wrong way ? Be strong enough to take the road less travelled. More often than not, this will results in a huge difference in your lives. When you start opposing a wrong situation, you will find many more voices joining you. It's all about leading from the front.
- Clarity Of thoughts
It is quit easy to get dimotivated by negativity around you. This is why you need to win this battle even before it is fought.
Have a clear idea of the step-wise goal that you have to achieve the final taught proceed to achieve the final target. Once you are clear in your head about the way you want to achieve the goals, there is no stopping you !
The sence of satisfaction that these small wins give you prove to be a huge boost to your self-confidence.
- Make A List Of Charismatic Feelings That You Want To Develop
We all watch movies, don'nt we ? We worship the heroes who are created to save the world from all sort of evils. We egarly wait for the hero's entry on the big screen. Why do we all loves heroes ?It is because they possess certain charismatic feelings. Some of the qualities the ooze self-belief are body language, boldness in voice, confident, attitude, sence of humour, intelligence, humility, and more. Write down the feelings that you like on a piece of paper and pick those feelings that suit your charater. Pratise them well to give your self-esteem a phenomenal boost.
For Example, if you think you have a wonderful sense of humour, work on your body language according and practise a few selfwritten comedy sets in front of the mirror. Perfect the art of speaking with confidence. You could even apply for part-time stant-up comedy jobs if you are good at it.
If you believe in yourself, you may become a famous comedian in your country in no time !
- Motivate Yourself
When you hit a stumbling block in your path to success or when you feel bogged down by the challenges or when you are affected by the negativity around you, all you need to do is to motivate yourself. Become your own coach and unleash the power with you.
Look in the mirror and tell yourself why you should'nt give up and why you need to back yourself. Talk to yourself as if you are advising a hurt person and explain to the person in the mirror why it is important to try without giving a care to the person in the mirror why it is important to try without giving a care to the final results.
You will need to give it all that you can so that you run the race fully without pulling away mid-way.
Having such short pep-talks with yourself at regular intervals will keep you motivated and energised to meet your goals.
- Don't Be Too Hard On Yourself
Many people make the mistake of shutting themselves out from the external world when they are working towards a particular objectives.While they claim that it is improves their concentration, what it usually does is to create more pressure on them. Let's take the example of an objective that we mentioned in one of the previous paragraphs - losing 10 kgs in 3-months. Don't be a stickler for perfection when you are on this goal.
When you believe you can achieve this goal, you should also allow yourself one or two cheat meals in this time frame. Being happy is very important for self-belief. The world wouldn't come crasing down of you enjoy a pizza on a lazy Sunday with your family in this 3-months period, would it ?
The great Usain Bolt once said that he never took any pressure on himself before a race and he always enjoyed by listening to his favourite music. When you relax, your body and mind get enough time to recoup and perform well when it matters.
- Keep Learning
The true identity of a warrior is that he never stop to learn. That never-say-die-attitude is the crux of a person who has immense self-belief.Sorry, for taking Usain Bolt's example again, but the one thing that the world loves about that champ is his attitude. After annoucing his retirement from the track & field sport that he dominated, Bolt could have opted to enjoy his life in his beautiful homeland of Jamaica.
He did'nt ! Instead, he get to work almost immediately. He enrolled himself in a soccer training Academy in Australia and is having his skills there to become a proffession footballer.
The man clearly doesn't want to live the rest of his on his past laurels and glory - which is an inspirational attitude, indeed ! Though his moves, he has a message for all of us - forget Bolt the racer, here comes Bolt, the footballer ! If that's not called self-confidence what is ? It's his constant learning and training that has made him the self-confident man that he is today.
- Your Company Matters
You cannot change the people around you, but you can definitely decides what type of people you want to be around with. Are the people who you are working with have to be constantly reminded of their responsibilities ? Do they doubt their potential ? Do they lack motivation ?If you answer "Yes" to at least one of these question, it is time for you to move away from this group. When there is too much negativity and pessimism around you, it is very difficult to have a self-confident approach.
Work with people who are creative and look for new ways to automate existing system to bring more profitability to the organistion
Work with people who are always willing to run the extra mile because they believe in themselves. Move with people who work single-mindedly towards the company's vision, without focussing on any of the negative vibes that they get from others.
Such people help you improve your belief in yourself. When you work in such a mutually - inspurational group, it is not only helps you stay motivted always but also goes a long way in improving your overall personality development as well.
- Failures Aren't Real Failures
Some of your efforts may not end the way you want, but you should never get dishearted for the same.Failure is not man's biggest mistake, not trying is. When you try something whole - heartedly and will full belief in yourself, you have never failed, regardless of the outcome we must all have learnt in our schools that failures are the stepping stones to success. This is a very true and valid statement, indeed. Failure are never real failures in our lives they are known by names such as expriences and opportunities.
As the great Henry Ford said, "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligence."
FINAL WORDS
Believing in yourself is one of the best gifts that you have. You should make use of this gift responsibly and use it to give wings to your dreams. If you believe in your dreams, nobody else has the power to snatch them away from you.
Today, we are all enjoying the benefits of many legends who had an unshakeable belief in themselves.
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