Confidence
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Confidence is important because when you have it, you can do anything. More specifically, when you lack confidence, you tend to underperform (even at things you are good at); but when you have confidence you often perform well (even at things you’re not so good at). Having or lacking confidence will interfere (have negative input) or intervene (have positive input) in your decision-making. Your decisions don’t have to be “right” for you to gain from them. It is the confidence that will affect how well you deal with the outcome of your decisions, specifically if you learn from it, if you improve from it or if you experience a total collapse.
In light of the launch of my course “Try Moving into Confidence”, I would like to highlight a few points that reflect why I focus on confidence.
Confidence is not the same as having high self-esteem. Self-esteem, as I perceive it to be, is generally how good you feel about yourself. Confidence, as I perceive it to be, is having the inner strength to get on with things even if you don’t feel good about yourself. Confidence is like a muscle in the body – there are exercises you can do to strengthen it. There are things that could happen that might knock it down. However, the amount of time it takes to recover your confidence once knocked down, depends on how strong it was initially.
Confidence affects your thought process. Irrespective of other people’s views, words, or actions. We will perceive and give the weight of importance to other people’s intentions depending on how confident we feel. If I assume that someone has good intentions, it really doesn’t matter if they didn’t; I decided their intentions were good and therefore I chose to take their feedback as an opportunity to boost my confidence, learn and grow. If my confidence is lacking, I’m likely to misunderstand good intentions or give more weight than necessary to people with bad intentions. The right exercises and enough practice will ensure our confidence is strong and will reduce the chances that we’re affected by ill intentions.
Confidence affects our body and is often expressed and observed through our posture and movement. When we see people who we know to be confident, we notice they stand up tall, we notice they’re looking up and around (and not at the floor), we notice they walk with shoulders down, we notice their flexible movement and a demeanour that is generally relaxed. And therefore, when we see someone walking tall, we assume they have confidence; when we see someone looking straight ahead, we assume confidence; when seeing a relaxed demeanour, we assume confidence. You can choose to move in a manner that you want to feel. You don’t have to wait to be confident to move in a manner that projects confidence. And when you move with confidence, that will give you the confidence to continue, and become the me you want to be.
Confidence affects how we interact socially and is often expressed and observed in the manner we converse with other people. When we notice people look straight into the eyes of the people they are talking to, we assume confidence; when we notice that they use a strong voice, we assume confidence; when we notice that they easily move through different social circles, we assume confidence. You don’t have to wait to be confident to appear confident to the people you are interacting with. And when you appear confident, people may well respond to you in a manner that will give you the confidence to continue asserting yourself with the confidence you should feel because you are a person with so much to offer to the world.
Being confident is not an intangible aspiration, there are many exercises you can do to strengthen that confidence “muscle”. And you should. Because when you are confident, you are calm, you can rely on yourself to overcome tricky situations, you get on with things, and you share with the world the wonders that make you who you are and that make the world a better place.
If you want to learn more about my confidence workshop, get in touch via me email address, website form or any of my social media links. Be well, be confident.