Category: Confidence

By Anthony D Carter

Affirmations can help you gain confidence quickly and easily when they are applied properly.

By Anthony D Carter

If you are motivated you can complete some monumental tasks. If you are not motivated it is hard to get up off the couch and walk to the mailbox. You can remain motivated on a consistent basis if you avoid certain pitfalls. Here are three barriers which can keep you from staying motivated:

All decisions are not created equal. Some decisions impact us on a small scale, like deciding what to eat for dinner. Some decisions can alter your life so much that you become a new person altogether, like leaving your hometown to live and work in a foreign country.

By Anthony D Carter

Are you motivated each day when you wake up in the morning? Do you spring out of bed eager to engage your daily tasks with enthusiasm and vigor?

Author: Mark Tyrrell

Copyright 2005 Uncommon Knowledge Ltd

Shy people instinctively know that they are missing out. Shyness equals lost opportunities, less pleasure and fewer social connections. Shyness can be crippling but there are tried and tested ways to make it a thing of the past.

by Sharron Myers
To Thine Own Self Be True:

We have looked before on the concept of self-love and I would like to take the time into look into this in more depth.

If you remember, we said that AGAPE love was an unconditional love and that we needed to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Let us look more closely at why we have so much difficulty in the area of loving and accepting ourselves. We will start by looking at two very basic questions.

When my business fell to pieces a couple of years back, I realized that I was fast approaching bankruptcy, and I blame it all on my lack of confidence. Yes, the whole concept of confidence can be very delicate and unstable – one day you are absolutely brimming over with it, the next day you are a nervous wreck. As an entrepreneur, you know you have to be confident and outgoing in order to survive in the business world. Apparently, I had none of these so-called entrepreneurial traits within me. I was a shy and reserved personality with a vivid imagination and the much-needed creativity that all of us entrepreneurs so require. However, the shyness and lack of confidence got the best of my business and me. I was afraid to go to parties and socialize, as a result of which I missed the opportunity of making many contacts. I was not aggressive enough or even convincing enough, as most of my clients misconstrued my shyness to be a sign of unreliability.
Therefore, in this manner, I wrecked my business, and I have only myself to blame. So, I set out to make amends and improve on those aspects of myself that had ruined me. I went for counseling sessions, workshops – the works! But, nothing really made much of a difference to my shyness. But one day when browsing through the Internet, I stumbled over the website Easycalm and here was the key to my success! This website has taught me many strategies and techniques to overcome my social disorder and I can say today that I am a confident, outspoken and successful entrepreneur.

By: Dr Harry Henshaw

Positive self-esteem is very important if not crucial to our happiness and well being as a human being. Having positive self-esteem can make the difference in that which we take on in life, in that which we go about achieving and creating. Having positive self- esteem also allows us to have healthy and joyous relationships with others, to experience true intimacy. One could also assert that having positive self-esteem gives us access to genuine spirituality. Poor self-esteem, on the other hand, creates the space for us to experience a great deal of negativity in life including depression, anxiety, fear, stress and loneliness. Negative or poor self-esteem is also highly correlated with alcohol and drug dependency. Some even believe that a negative or poor self-image is the source of such addictions.

While it appears that the importance of positive self-esteem is somewhat understood, the unanswered question has always been about how to improve or enhance a person’s self-esteem. Some belief that a person’s self-esteem rests upon them being successful, in accomplishing that which they take on in life, of achieving goals that they have set for themselves. As a result much effort is put into assisting others in effectively and efficiently planning their doing in life. Others believe that our sense of self-esteem is determined by the type of relationships that we have, that by surrounding ourselves with positive people who will appreciate and acknowledge us that our esteem will be positively impacted. To this end training is given to help a person improve his interpersonal skills, how he communicates and relates with others. While both of these endeavors are important, it is not the having or doing that creates positive self-esteem. Ones self-esteem is not given or to be obtained from without, external to the person.

Today is a new day. Yesterday is a thing of the past and so is everything that you did. Good or bad, what is done is done so now it’s time to seize this day and all of the opportunities …