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Building Confidence

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Confidence

  • Poised, balanced, breathing easily, purposeful movement, can deal with anything, can laugh at yourself, knowing it will be okay eventually.

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Self-awareness: what are you good at?

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What can hurt confidence

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What can hurt confidence?

  • Taking on too much work.
  • Belittling leaders.

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Questions to ask yourself and others

  • What am I good at?
  • When have you seen me at my best?
  • What should I do more of?
  • What should I do less of?
  • Where do you think I can stretch?

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What is the next thing you need big confidence for?

Visualize:

  • Where? Who? What skills?
  • Which thoughts/feelings?
  • Why is confidence important here?
  • If you couldn’t fail, what would you do?

While there is value in the items on the right, there is more value in the items on the left

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What is the next thing you need big confidence for?

Visualize:

  • Where? Who? What skills?
  • Which thoughts/feelings?
  • Why is confidence important here?
  • If you couldn’t fail, what would you do?

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Act even though you’re scared

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Replace weak filler words with stronger filler words

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“Like,” “um,” “and uh”

“You see,” “Now,” “However”

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When the troll’s on your back, ask, “What am I choosing to do about it?

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1. Don’t pick apart every mistake or foolish thing you’ve done. Laugh at them and realize life isn’t always a “repair job” of everything you did wrong

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2. You haven’t (yet) become what you thought you would. That’s OK. Accept it and make a difference.

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3. Surround yourself with one inspirational story every day

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4. Keep a Mental Journal

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5. Plan to Celebrate. Celebrate Your Wins

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  1. Bernice Moore’s Theory��
  • Improve your competencies
  • Put them into practice
  • See results
  • Grow more confident
  • Repeat

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More Resources

https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/26490-these-5-things-will-give-you-the-confidence-to-accomplish-anything

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https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/the-confidence-gap/359815/

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