Confident You: Practical Steps to Enhance Self-Belief
I’d like to talk to you about Self-Confidence. ‘Be the Change you Wish to See, Your Passion is your Power’ is my business strapline. It helped me focus on my vision.
To have that curiosity to continue growing by harnessing your passion and focusing on your personal growth, you can transform your self-belief and achieve your goals and that bigger vision.
We’re often held back by our low confidence and lack of self-belief, and this usually holds us up or gets in our way much more than anything else!
How can I help?
I’ve created an acronym called confident to help with this. I’m going to take you through the model and each step.
C – Consider your Strengths and Weaknesses
Self-awareness is key to self-confidence so take the time to reflect on your strengths and if it’s difficult ask a friend or a colleague for some feedback to help you.
O – Observe your Achievements
Write down a list of things you’ve done or that you’ve achieved that make you proud. Think about how that makes you feel.
N – Nurture your Competence
Confidence often comes from competence. Build your knowledges in areas that you’re interested in. This will help you develop and grow.
F – Focus on Praise
Did you know it takes up to 10 praises to balance out one criticism? So focus on the times you’ve been praised instead of dwelling on the criticisms.
I – Inspire Others
That’s with compliments or support. Speaking positively about others can boost our own positivity. Helping others can enhance our own self-esteem.
D – Discover a Role Model
This one is a really important one to me, and has helped me so much. So, identify someone who inspires you and analyse what it is about them that makes them appear confident. Learn from this in order to find your old own role model style.
E – Embrace your Authentic Self
Taking that inspiration from others is great but stay true to yourself and become a role model for yourself.
Nurture your Goals
Achieving tasks big or small will build your confidence so set achievable goals and celebrate each accomplishment, however small it is. They’ll all link to that big vision.
Trust in your Abilities
Self-confidence is a feeling of certainty in your own abilities, so trust yourself to consistently show up and achieve your goals.
Further Support
Whilst this is a great self-development tool it is quite lengthy. I can support you with each stage or elements of The Confident model in 1-1 sessions through coaching or mentoring.
I also have a pdf version, which has lots more detail behind each stage so please contact me if you would like to copy of that
Thank you for reading, remember to keep believing in yourself to support your journey.
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