Success with self-improvement efforts depends a lot on self-confidence. If you don't believe in yourself, it's nearly impossible to move forward.
Lack of self-confidence means an active Inner Critic that incessantly harps on inadequacies. It means underachieving, setting the bar nice and low so there won't be any major disappointment. It means expecting to fail, or at least not expecting to win. It's a viewpoint that is self-perpetuating, circular, and defeatist.
Enter journal writing, the personal practice that is arguably the best basic tool for self-growth known to human kind.
Turn to a new page in your journal and write: Where I want to be. Continue writing, describing this place that is the manifestation of your success. When you accomplish your dreams, this is how it will look.
The next day, turn to a new page and write, Where I am now and continue writing, describing your current status and point of view in relation to your success ideal.
Spend the next few days thinking, feeling, and writing about the connections between your dream and the present moment.
Turn to a fresh page and write: I want. Continue writing, describing in minute detail anything you can identify that you truly want.
Are there connections, similarities, jarring dissonances, or other pings in your awareness when you compare all these writings? Ferret them out and write them in your journal.
Over the next days, continue searching for your confidence, for the strength to do and believe and speak with power and firm faith in yourself. Ask yourself frankly,
What can I do?
What am I willing to do?
What am I afraid of?
Where can I find information, resources, and support?
What qualifies me to expect the very best?
You can find natural self-confidence by recognizing and writing out your personal goals and intentions.
How has journaling helped you to boost self-confidence?
Do you have the self-confidence to build the life you want to live? Sign up for our Do What You Love Career Challenge, a 7-day program of journal writing to help you discover your passions, and create the job where you can employ them forever!
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