It always warms my heart to witness the transformational changes that occur when people tackle their fears and step into confidence.
I can’t give you a recipe for the result as there isn’t a formula but I CAN tell you that, as a rule of thumb, 2x confidence = 10x results. It benefits everyone when confidence is increased. This month’s post features suggestions on how to do just that.
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In Search of Confidence
Be the Best Version of Yourself
Celebrate your Idiosyncrasies
Everyone knows that ‘nobody’s perfect’, yet our self-judgements can make us feel less confident. Treat your thoughts and your idiosyncrasies with patience, grace, and even humor to build a more positive and confident mindset.
Explore and Embrace your Values
Be clear on what’s important to you - your personal mission and corresponding values. Clarity on your values will help you confidently choose opportunities which are in alignment with your own purpose and intentions. This level of self-knowledge can develop into a ‘sixth sense’, which may help you confidently and efficiently filter in and out opportunities and connections.
Manage the Voice in your Head
Befriend the voice in your head so that it benefits you, focusing on what’s within your control, and on how to be compassionate and supportive of your process while also learning from your mistakes. Remember that the goal is not to be more perfect, but to be more confident!
Choose to Learn and Grow
Explore with curiosity and purposeful passion where you are being called to continue learning and growing. People learn more from their failures than from their successes, so be on the lookout for the gift in every shortcoming and find the real treasure in your experience.
Courageously Embrace Uncomfortable Opportunities
All the points above will help you to more confidently and courageously embrace select uncomfortable opportunities which would, in turn, help you become a better version of yourself.
Communicate and Connect
Connect Your Thinking, Speaking and Actions
If you choose to be the best version of yourself, you can also align the way you think, the way you speak, and the way you act so that you trust yourself to communicate, connect and coordinate with confidence.
Speak with Passion and Purpose
If you think, speak and act with authentic passion and purpose, you will more likely connect with like-minded others to achieve common objectives.
Empower Others with Confidence
Continue to connect, inspire and empower others to overcome obstacles with grace, and incrementally achieve milestones. Encouraging and guiding receptive others is a powerful way to build the confidence and integrity of a team or community.
Transcend Beyond Self and Others
Address Unwanted Patterns
Identify and respect patterns around the data and the feedback, so that you can be grounded in your confidence, knowing that you and the group are progressing toward your goals, making decisions that are backed by the data.
Use the Wisdom of the Crowd
Gather input from a diverse set of stakeholders to ensure continued alignment with the mission, vision and values of the cause. Solicit feedback and input from a wide range of others so you can better serve the larger vision, the greater good.
Confidence is a choice. Choose to know yourself, grow yourself, and step into the next version of you and maximize your impact on the people around you and the world at large.