Do you watch people achieve their goals effortlessly whilst oozing confidence which seems to make them unstoppable?
If you were to question them you would realise that most of them still experience fear but they have created a habit of taking action in spite of their fear. Shirley Bassey recently admitted " I get more nervous now about going on stage than I ever did" Despite the fear she takes action to perform to thousand of people.
Usually what stops us from taking action is the fear that we can't handle the experience of an unfavourable outcome. For example in Shirley Bassey's case she would fear that the crowd might not like her or that she might experience stage fright. Taking action cures fear. The sooner that we realise that we can handle any outcome favourable or not, the better. " What doesn't kill us makes us stronger in character.
Try this simple strategy:
1. List the action that you need to take and the date that you need to take the action.
2. List what it the worst thing that could happen?
3. Realise that you can handle if happens.
4. Make a back up plan in case the worse happens you have a contingency plan.
5. Realise that the likely hood of the unfavourable outcome happening is low but you have a plan in place anyway. This action will give you more confidence.
6. List all the benefits and feelings that you will experience for taking the action you need to take to achieve your goals, close your eyes, visualise and experience the feelings in advance.
7. List ten reasons why you must achieve your goals.
8. List ten reasons why you are capable of achieving this goal. Write down a list of anything that you have achieved in the past , nothing is too small. You can go back as far as you can remember if you cant remember anything that you have achieved recently.
9. Keep storage of anything positive to boost your confidence, emails, cards, letters or something nice someone said, write it down and put it in your box. You can re-read them whenever you are down.
10. Take action ( and celebrate for being brave)
You will found these tips will give you bullet proof confidence so that you always take action when you need to.
Andrew Cameron - Insider Success Secrets
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