Monday, July 10, 2006

Strategies for developing self confidence

Ø Emphasize your strengths. Give yourself credit for everything you try. By focusing on what you can do, you applaud yourself for effort rather than emphasizing end product. Starting from a base of what you do well helps you to live within the bounds of your inevitable limitations.

Ø Take risks. Approach new experiences as opportunities to learn rather than occasions to win or lose. Doing so opens you up to new possibilities and can increase your sense of self-acceptance. Not doing so turns every possibility into an opportunity for failure, and inhibits personal growth.

Ø Use self-talk. Use self-talk as an opportunity to counter harmful assumptions. Then tell yourself to bin unreality and substitute more acceptable assumptions. For example: when you catch yourself expecting perfection, be aware that you can't do everything perfectly, that it's only possible to do things as well as you can. This allows you to accept yourself as you are while still striving to improve.

Ø Self-evaluate. Learn to evaluate yourself independently. Doing so allows you to avoid the constant sense of turmoil that comes from relying exclusively on the opinions of others. Focusing internally on how you feel about your own commercial performance will give you a stronger sense of self and will prevent you from giving your personal power away too easily to others.

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