Negative thinking is a confidence demon – it’s easy to get into the spiral of negative thinking and can be a challenge to get out of it!
Exploring neurodiversity and its impact on confidence with Tamzin Hall from The Neurodiversity Academy.
Is confidence a state of mind or a state of flow? When I asked Ricky Locke during an episode of my Confidence Conversations podcast, what confidence meant to him and he replied with; “Confidence is like a state of flow”, it got me thinking...
What came first the courage or the confidence? It’s a bit like asking what came first the chicken or the egg? Do you need both of them? Is one more important that the other? So, you could argue that you can’t get to that feeling of confidence without having courage. And if confidence is something we have to practice, like anything we want to be good at, then you need a shot courage to give it a go, to make a start.
I talk A LOT about pulling up your BIG PANTS and just getting on with it in relation to building confidence.
How do we judge our worth and our abilities? Through comparison? What standards do we use, what criteria do we have for this? Is it by comparing our abilities and our worth with other people that we use comparison ultimately impacting our confidence?
Hanging around in your comfort zone won’t do you any favours. We all know about our comfort zone, you know it’s that space you like to hang out where you are in control, you know what’s going to happen...
It's a confidence demon ????. It holds us back and stops us from taking action.
Boundaries show where one thing ends, and another begins. Boundaries are an interesting confidence impacter. It’s true that when our boundaries are infringed by someone it can have a negative impact our confidence.
It's my 5th Business Birthday! I can believe Enrichment Coaching is 5. Where did those 5 years go? I clearly remember on 8th July 2019, sat in my garden, taking a deep breath, pulling up my BIG PANTS and pressing PUBLISH across my website and social media channels.
Usually grouped under the confidence banner, you'd be forgiven for thinking they’re really similar but explored individually these family members bring something entirely unique to building your confidence.
It turns out confidence can actually be genetic and in our DNA, for some of us it’s thought to be anywhere between 25% – 50%.
Overthinking is defined as "a loop of unproductive thoughts" or "an excessive amount of thoughts that are unnecessary. Overthinking can be a hard habit to break. You might even convince yourself that thinking about something for a really long time is the way to get the best solution or answer. But that’s usually not the case.
When I started on my self-employment adventure, I don’t really think I had a plan. I hadn’t mapped out where I wanted it to take me or even considered such a thing as a 5-year strategy. I certainly hadn’t planned for a global pandemic just a few months after launch!
Self-trust is all about having a great relationship with yourself. It’s built on being kind and compassionate to yourself, listening to your instinct and giving you the space & time to think.
Building confidence by turning self-doubt into confident action.
Confidence is about what we THINK & BELIEVE we can & cannot do.
You’ll need COURAGE to to turn your self-doubt into confident actions: because you can’t get to confidence without courage.
Ready to enrich your confidence by taking action? Unsure of what action to take?
