Posts Tagged ‘self esteem’

Self Confidence… that comfortable freedom to simply be yourself – absolutely certain that is more than good enough! A strong, healthy confidence is a warm reassuring feeling that in this life you can achieve pretty much all you want! The feeling that you can do whatever necessary to achieve your personal dreams!
Unfortunately most of [...]

“I could never do that”

“I’m just not confident enough”
Have you ever heard anyone saysomething like this? You wouldn’t say it yourself, would you?
You see it is pretty powerful when you make a statement like that. So many people linguistically define themselves to the world; they give themselves no option to be anything else. They [...]

When you think about Confidence, what do you think of first? Is Confidence really important?
Until only a few years ago I was a fairly shy, introverted female – always driven to succeed but never
really succeeding. The reason was my lack of confidence and self esteem. In my eyes most people were better. I was never [...]

I read a forum post just now that talked about an online test someone had taken. It seems her expectations were higher than her results and she felt really down for only getting 50 %. In her post she said:
“I shall try to forget it, its hard to forget negative things for me, its like [...]

Throughout the course of normal conversation, many of us use negative self-talk. While planning our goals and dreams we stop ourselves from even starting by saying things like “I can’t…” “I’m not good enough,” or “I could never do this” This and the subtle little things that we say while on conversational autopilot that eat away at our self-confidence.