27 NovImproving Self Confidence Will Change Your Life

Self confidence is extremely important for you to succeed and achieve great things in life however many people struggle to find it. The good news is that there are many ways of improving self confidence.

Self confidence is made up of two key factors, self-efficacy and self-esteem. We gain a sense of self-efficacy when we can see ourselves doing well in something and reaching our goals. This does overlap with self-esteem which is a more general idea that we are able to cope with the things that are happening in our lives and that we have a reason and right to be happy.

People who are self confident believe in themselves and evaluate themselves realistically. They believe that they are in control of their lives.

One way of improving self confidence is positive self-talk. Read more…

08 JulOvercome Procrastination By Changing The Definition

Translated from the original Latin meaning, procrastination quite literally means ‘in favor of tomorrow’. We are always pursuing ways of being better off and procrastination seems to contradict this fact Even though this is true it actually illustrates a very important point. What we do, or fail to do, is not just the result of our conscious choices, but often the result of habits or factors we are not aware of consciously. When you procrastinate, at some level of your unconscious thinking, you believe that taking the action will leave you worse off than actually taking the action.

To change this you’ll need to do two things. Firstly you must remove your association and ‘triggers’ that you might have with procrastination (see article on triggers). Although you might procrastinate at times, you cannot afford to limit yourself by giving into your bad habits. Secondly, you must re-think procrastination in a way that it will motivate you instead of limiting you. Read more…