Confidence

Do you feel confident? Good, continue with your life. If not, you might want to read on.

There is a good chance that you are not confident with yourself or at least with some aspect of your life. The question is how to change this.
The good thing is: Becoming confident is easy!

In order to become confident about anything you have to improve!

It is not about acing every task, it is not about being better than anybody else. It is about being better than you were yesterday. It is about outperforming yourself. That is what boosts human confidence!

Improving is more important than being the best

What good is it to know that you are the best at something? It puts pressure on you, it motivates others. You on the other hand begin to build strong confidence the moment you start training, learning and improving, not when you stop any of those activities.

improvement

Actually your mind wants you to improve and that is why it supports you. Even small changes in your life will boost your confidence and increase your happiness Level. You do not have to get from couch potato to medal winner in no time. You just have to start making steps towards your goal.

Everybody has something he or she wants to work on. Start learning by learning small and easy stuff, start cooking by cooking simple dishes, start working out by jogging a little and making some bodyweight-exercises. Start reading some pages a day, then increase slowly. There are hundred ways to improve whatever situation you are in, just don’t make the mistake of thinking “Well it is so easy, what change will it make? I could if I wanted to.” Do not start thinking like this! Just start improving. Confidence and Happiness will come to your life like a moth to a flame, trust me on this one.

Happy improving,

/phil

Credo

My personal credo of life, using inspiration from everywhere outside and inside of myself.

Enjoy:

credoOn top of that: Happy incredible birthday to my awesome Dad! Although I know you don’t (know how to) read this blog 😉 Cheers!

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Think!

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Henry Ford

Use your potential!

Intelligence grows in use.

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Balance

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At times it is useful to work on your own in order to increase your skills, in order to learn new things.

At other times you have to throw yourself at people and at life to build charakter.

Do not neglect any of those aspects.

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Oddly motivating

try!
Spare yourself the trouble of experiencing this feeling!

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Live in the present

Today I will live in the moment.

Unless it’s unpleasant in which case I will eat a cookie.

Cookie Monster

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A proud life

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.

If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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How to get from A to B

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work on it.

Jim Valvano

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Glorious Failures

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Bruce Lee

You know the drill. Take risks, fail, fail again, fail better!

Failing and trying again is the creative process it needs to invent quality, to produce value.

Fearing Failures will paralyze you, stopping you short in your pursue of happiness.

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Dream big

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

What you can not think of, you won’t achieve.

In order to become great, you first have to start thinking big!

Dream whatever you want, aim for whatever great goal you want, allow yourself the freedom to pursue whatever plans you desire!

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