Quick Self Confidence

This is guest post by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.  There is nothing I really need to add, as he captures the very essence of self confidence in this article. Improve your self confidence in 15 minutes I used to be frighteningly under confident in social situations. And although people who know me now would […]

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The Kings Confidence

How would you feel about taking on a job that you were totally ill equipped to perform, where your self confidence was absolutely rock bottom? A job that entailed making public appearances , being the centre of attention,  when you were shy and reserved.  A job that involved making speeches in front of thousands, and […]

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Self Confidence more useful than Self Esteem?

The title of this post is similar to a recent one at Herald-Net, which appears to be an on-line newspaper in Washington, USA.  I’ve added the question mark! Their post has a sports focus, so its unsurprising that the argument is very much in favour of self confidence being the key factor. The author James […]

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Self Confidence in Leadership

Marshall Goldsmith is an author, professor, consultant and executive coach.   He has an entry in Wikepedia and searching his name on Google gets 272,000 results – enough to give anyone self confidence! Whilst his field of excellence covers business and management, he appears to have guru status in Leadership.  Unsurprisingly, when he coaches CEO’s (and […]

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Say Thank You

In the UK we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but to me it seems a great idea – a day set aside to say thank you.  That seems more meaningful than having an extra day holiday to celebrate a Royal Wedding, one participant of whom may by accident of birth be set to “rule” us! Some people […]

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Stop Worry, Start Writing

Stop Worry Are you a worrier? Worry generates stress, dampens self confidence and makes you feel bad. Can you stop worry? What it doesn’t do is solve problems – in fact worry doesn’t do anything useful as far as I can see. Worry comes under the umbrella of anxiety.  And we expect it to be […]

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People are Awesome

Peak Moments Take 60 seconds and write down the peak moments in your life. Chris Guillebeau, on whose excellent blog that suggestion came defines a peak moment:- … as a fixed point in time that has strong, positive memories. You summited the mountain! You achieved something monumental! Things will be different now. Apart from the obvious […]

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How to Deal with Fear

Life is a constant journey through variables we cannot control, however well prepared. Learning to tolerate uncertainty is the key factor in building great self confidence. Unfortunately fear of “what might happen next” – the feeling of uncertainty – can be very unpleasant. Tony Blair, Driven by Fear “On 2 May 1997, I walked into […]

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