Self Confidence Essay

A way to develop more self-confidence is to instead of tackling larger goals; we apply our energies to the achievement of smaller goals. Building up our confidence through smaller goals enables us to approach the bigger goals with more self-confidence and motivation to the point where these bigger goals end up revealing themselves to be smaller achievements in the long run.

A state of mind

The thoughts we create are the most powerful forces in our own universe. Our thoughts are both causative and creative. Every thought we create is forming the world around us through our own eyes. Self-confidence is a state of mind, it is an attitude and as an attitude it is important to manage it to greater ourselves and use it as a weapon against fear, so we can take risks and remove ourselves from our comfort zones. Having high self-confidence can improve our emotional mind state in a crunch and can enable us to work well under high amounts of pressure.

Building Self-confidence

Brian Tracy reveals some techniques you to use that will help become more self-confident in your craft. Using affirmations is a way of programming your subconscious mind into believing. By repeating affirmations you can install powerful positive commands in to your brain which will eventually determine your thoughts, feelings and responses, helping you achieve good habits and removing bad habits. These affirmations must be in the present, they must be positive and they must be personal. For example; “I can do it! I feel terrific!” The subconscious minds nature is considerably literal and only focuses on commands that are phrased in the present tense. It ignores negative commands and only focuses on the positive affirmations. You can program your mind to continue in a ...

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...ue is to either try again, or give up. You can easily give up, but it is your self-discipline that will enable you to try again, and again until finally you succeed, no matter how big or small the goal.

Resisting Temptation

When you have a task at hand you have two choices, you can either do what is fun and easy and procrastinate or you can take the hard and worthwhile path that is necessary to complete the task or goal at hand. It is essential that you remove yourself from your comfort zone to follow in the direction of your desires. You must consciously resist the temptation to procrastinate and go easy on yourself. The greatest enemy of human potential is the comfort zone. You must challenge yourself and take risks to force yourself to go beyond what is easy and fun in order to obtain new skills that could make you more successful in the entertainment industry.