SELF–CONFIDENCE is an attitude about your skills and abilities. It means you accept and trust yourself and have a sense of control in your life. You know your strengths and weaknesses well, and have a positive view of yourself. You set realistic expectations and goals, communicate assertively, and can handle criticism.
SELF-CONFIDENT people have no problem admitting when they don’t know something, don’t have the answer, or when they fail.
When you have more SELF-CONFIDENCE, you will set more goals, take more action, talk to more people, take more risks, achieve more, believe beyond your current capability and capacity, and live into your future.
Increasing SELF-CONFIDENCE comes from changing your thoughts about yourself.
First step is to make a list of all the areas in your life where you feel SELF-CONFIDENT. Next to the areas, write the reason or thought why you feel this way. Here is an example:
Area of Confidence: driving my car
Reason for Confidence (Thought): Believe I can do it. If I follow the rules, all will go well.
Your brain does not produce SELF-CONFIDENCE naturally. It produces fear, worry and doubt. You have to train your brain to produce SELF-CONFIDENCE.
That is why I would like to spend this month building SELF-CONFIDENCE, focusing on it by taking action, and by inviting you to join me in the ‘Dare of the Day’ challenge.
Here are the ‘Dare of the Day’ rules:
- Pick one thing per day that scares you, and do it.
- It has to be something that requires you to ‘get over a fear’.
- Write about it before and after.
- Try to complete a dare as many days as possible this month.
- Don’t violate the COVID safety precautions or other laws where you are living.
If you commit to doing this now, you will not be as likely to back out when the day comes. So choose to do this to get good at being SELF-CONFIDENT.
Feel free to share your dares and to follow my dares on Facebook and Instagram at XPatLifeCoaching. I dare you.