Self confidence is the difference between feeling unstoppable and feeling scared out of your wits. Your perception of yourself has an enormous impact on how others perceive you. Perception is reality — the more self confidence you have, the more likely it is you’ll succeed.

Although many of the factors affecting self confidence are beyond your control, there are a number of things you can consciously do to build self confidence. By using these 10 strategies you can get the mental edge you need to reach your potential.

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1. Dress Sharp

Although clothes don’t make the man, they certainly affect the way he feels about himself. No one is more conscious of your physical appearance than you are. When you don’t look good, it changes the way you carry yourself and interact with other people. Use this to your advantage by taking care of your personal appearance. In most cases, significant improvements can be made by bathing and shaving frequently, wearing clean clothes, and being cognizant of the latest styles. (more…)

Are you amongst the countless millions of people who want to make positive changes in their lives, state their intentions to family and friends, and then experience falling short of your desired outcomes? Besides being downright embarrassing, it’s demoralizing when you make sincere promises and resolutions and have little, if anything, to show for your good intentions and attempts to change.

Do you want to make and keep promises and resolutions nearly 100% of the time? What I am about to reveal is practical neuroscience-based. It requires less personal will power and time than traditional methods. Besides, there is no guilt involved with this safe and sure-fire method.

Understanding the practical neuroscience behind making and keeping promises and resolutions is your key to success. It’s simply not enough to state an intention, perhaps write it down on an index card and believe that the change will miraculously occur. This is why most people fail. (more…)

Where does your energy come from? If you reply: “From my thoughts”, you are correct, for every thought you have requires a decision that needs to be made. In turn, your consistent decision-making will lead to actions that need to be taken. These actions then lead to the habits you carry out which form your character/identity until finally, your DESTINY has been created. It all begins with your thoughts.

Another question: are you your thoughts or are your thoughts you? Think about it! Which one comes first? They are basically in equilibrium.

Your thoughts have the very pronounced ability to affect your state. If, for example, you are having depressed thoughts, you are putting yourself in a depressed state. The opposite is also true: when you are in a happy state, you will think happy thoughts and you will be in the best position to make improved decisions. (more…)

If you want to be happy and successful, there are eight words in the English language that you must avoid at all costs. Each of them has the power to destroy your dreams, and lead you into unnecessary suffering, disappointment, and hopelessness.

What’s scary about these words is not only the fact that we tend to be unaware they are embedded in our primitive ego thinking process, but the fact that we use them almost every day of our lives……totally unaware of how harmful they are.

I have spent many years of my life as a therapist and life coach listening to people talk about their lives, why they are unhappy, why success always seems to sit just a few inches beyond their grasp, and why the relationships they have with those around them always seem to be so filled with disappointment and conflict. (more…)

We’ve all been afraid to try something new at one time or another. Why is that? And it seems as we age, our fear controls more and more of our willingness to try something new. We prefer to forego a new experience because we want to avoid whatever bad thing we think could happen. Or maybe the anxiety is just too stressful for us to even contemplate facing our fears. Whatever the reason, we justify that trying something new is not worth the risk.

Most of us learn to live within our comfort zone by default because we base our daily decisions on whether or not they cause feelings of anxiety. Every action we decide to take is based on whether it lands inside or outside our comfort zone. (more…)

What is success? Massive quantities of energy go into following the life of the individuals who are “successful”, and nevertheless for most of us the sort of success of, say, a Brendan Fevola1 or a Paris Hilton2, is simply not what we’d need for ourselves. Success for us may signify getting that job, hitting our perfect weight, finding that boyfriend - or being the boyfriend everybody wants to find, increasing our monetary property to a specific point, regardless of whether that be longed-for comfort or serious wealth … Or that favourite of mine: the free will and happiness that comes from being fully at comfort with yourself. So what’s your own personal mountain, the one you want to climb and get pleasure from the view from?

Once we have a clear idea of What success would imply to us, it’s time to check the How. It’s a much-loved slogan that it is 80% (or 95% or or …) about the frame of mind and 20% skill set, and even though I think that is wildly exaggerated, it’s factual that without the frame of mind you are likely to get nowhere in any field of your life. (more…)

If you cannot handle your career failure, it is hard for you to be successful in your career life! Here are some boosters to help you cope with career failure and setbacks at your workplace.

Maintain a Support of Healthy Network

You will be bound to get depressed if you prefer to be a loner at your office since you have allocated little time to foster good relationship with others. In fact, you will mutually reinforce the instinct to work more if you have spent time to associate with your team mates. Also, you should seek out peer groups who are constantly striving for betterment and excellence, but at the same time benefit themselves from doing leisure activities, fostering family life and strengthening friendship as well.

Do Not Selfishly Refuse To Share Your Knowledge

It is not encouraged to be selfish about sharing your capabilities, skills, knowledge and experiences with others. Definitely, no one will require you to do the favor for them, but some helpful advice and encouragement may point your colleagues in the right direction. Helping someone else with your knowledge and guidance can be very fulfilling. While creating a good work relationship with others, you are providing a fulfillment for your soul which will eventually make you feel good about yourself. (more…)

Let’s talk a little bit about that voice in your head. Now I’m not trying to insinuate that you’re any kind of crazy or that you’re hearing things. I’m talking about the voice that we all hear that just LOVES to degrade us and make us feel rotten. This voice might say things like:

• “You’re not good enough”
• “You’re too fat”
• “You’re stupid”
• “You’re ugly”
• “No one likes you”
• “Who are you to being doing ____?”
• “No one will ever love you”

Now do you get the voice I’m talking about? (more…)