“If you don’t believe in yourself, don’t ask anyone else to do so.”
-Napoleon Hill, Positive Action Plan
The journey to success begins with self-confidence. You must first believe in your own mind that you can achieve your goal. When you have doubts and insecurities you are telling yourself that you cannot accomplish your objective. In other words, if you think you’re going to fail, you will. When you exude doubtfulness other people also pick up on that. When you behave like a confident person, however, others get excited about your aspirations and want to become a part of your success. Other people will not go out of their way to help someone reach a goal if the individual doesn’t even believe they can reach it! But, when exude confidence, passion, and positive energy others will latch onto that and doors will open for you!
There are some simple ways of improving your self-confidence if you are lacking. Visualizing your success is key. Successful people envision reaching their goals, not failing! Make a vision board of everything you’d like to accomplish this month, this year, or in your life time. Make sure your vision is in a place where you can see it on a daily basis. You can also write down a list of all of your positive attributes and accomplishments and read them out loud to yourself every day. You will be training your brain to believe in these positive attributes, and therefore in yourself. Take pride in your accomplishments. Once you start to believe in yourself mentally, it’s time to start acting like a confident person! Acting confident around others make take some practice. Even if you are nervous, fake it! Breathe deeply and SMILE. Smiling will relax you and others will respond positively to you. By faking it, you are actually training your brain to relax in challenging situations and eventually you will be smiling, relaxed and confident in all situations!
Improving your self-confidence will help you in your journey to success. It starts with you. You must believe in you! Once you believe in yourself, others will be attracted to that confidence, and they will believe in you, too. When you have a great team of supports behind you, you can do anything! Amazing things will happen, you will meet people that can help you along the way, give you wonderful opportunities and celebrate all the little successes along the way.
