3 Ways to Be More Confident in Life and Business

Here are 3 ways to be more confident everywhere you want to be.

I've noticed, as I'm sure you have, some people are not as confident as they could be, or they want to be on so many different occasions.

That may be standing to speak in front of other people, which is often rated as the area where most people would like more confidence.

It may be meeting strangers and starting the conversation.

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Or it could even be standing on the 1st tee at the company golf day and having to hit the very first shot. That takes some confidence.

Whatever the area…

I'm certain however confident you and I are most of the time, there are times when we'd like just a little bit more.?

Here are 3 ideas that link together which will give us the mental process to be more confident whenever we need it.

The first one is this…?

Have you ever noticed how much more confident people are when they're in fancy dress? I know I have.

Perhaps you've been to a fancy dress party and seen a usually shy person suddenly acting as though they were the life and soul of the party. It's as though they've taken on a new persona.

This seems to work even more when the person is wearing a mask.?

The second one is this…

A friend of mine who'd been for golf lessons said he felt no stress when he was just copying the golf professional who was teaching him.

When he just copied the movements, it was easy.

And the third idea…

When we're in the moment, in the zone, totally concentrating on what we're doing, we seem to perform better.

However, when we get fixated on the outcome of what we're doing, we come out of the zone.

I'm certain you've heard sports people say if ever they hear themselves starting to rehearse their acceptance speech of the prize, a prize they are yet to win but are very near to winning, they totally blow it.

I've heard golfers, footballers, snooker players all say the same thing.

If they stayed in the moment, they were great. If they ever got ahead of themselves, concentrating too much on the outcome, they lost.

So, these are 3 processes we can use to have the confidence we want when we want it.

So how can you and I use these ideas?

With the first one - the fancy dress party clothes…

We can either get dressed in the appropriate clothes for the confident situation we want, or we can imagine we're wearing those clothes.

Is there a favourite suit you wear?

One when you're in it, you feel like $1,000,000 and feel you can do almost anything.

For me, there's a particular pair of shoes I wear and the moment I put them on, I feel confident, And I know they're anchored to an earlier experience when I was very confident wearing those shoes.

So if you want to be confident either wear the previously anchored confident clothes or imagine yourself dressed in them.?

The second idea - copying the professional.

Just imagine you have to give a speech in public and you want to be more confident. A great question might be, who do I know that does this well with total confidence?

Then just copy what they do, this is called modelling.

And number 3 - letting go of the outcome.

I heard a great expression on a training program by Deepak Chopra.

He said…

“Slip into the gap with firm intent, relinquish your attachment to the outcome, and let the universe handle the details.?

Just brilliant.

Now by slipping into the gap he meant the gap between our thoughts with firm intent.

We do need to intend to get the outcome, the results, the feeling we want, and then relinquish our attachment to the outcome.

I take this to mean whilst we want to succeed it is not so all.

My suggestion is to try all 3 and see which one or ones work for you.

When we act confidently, we become confident and confidence is something that we do need in so many different ways, in so many different places, at so many different times.

I wish you every success in all your adventures in life.

Peter

Peter Thomson

'The UK's Most Prolific Business Development Author'

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