1 HOW TO BUILD CONFIDENCE – AN OVERVIEW
Our first step is a simple but necessary one: buy a medium sized
notebook. Use it for the written exercises in this programme, also to
record your experiences and monitor your progress. Date each entry
you make.
Your notebook will become a good friend, teacher and confidant, so
keep it near you, consult it every day and update it regularly.
Commit yourself to spending some time on this programme every
day. Just ten minutes a day – reading, learning, thinking, doing etc –
adds up to over 60 valuable hours of confidence building activity a
year from now. Twenty-five minutes a day builds up to 152 hours in a
year – that’s almost a week! Can you think of a better investment for
your future?
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What difference would it make to your life if you knewwithout any
doubt that you could achieve anything you set your heart on? If you
like jot down a few comments in your notebook.
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Think about, and if you like write down, what confidence means to
you. What do confident people do that unconfident people do not?
What would you do differently if you were confident?
For example, perhaps you would find it easier to speak up for
yourself, show your emotions, meet new people, or take on more
responsibility at work?
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Self-esteem isn’t everything, it’s just that there’s
nothing without it
Gloria Steinem
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