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

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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Effort

What is better – To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

Paarthunax

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Like what you do

Enjoy what you do and take pride in it because then you will do it well.

Charlie Bigham

As long as you do not identify yourself with what you do you won’t ace it.

Take pride in your work and your hobbies and you will soon work only on things you love and you will be or get good at them.

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A simple equation

Hard work does pay off

Michael Phelps

Well he has to know, right?

Work hard, earn results!

/phil

Don’t rely on your talents

It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J. K. Rowling

You know I could if I just wanted. I’m super intelligent and stuff.

This bullshit attitude is what kills the dreams of many people out there day by day.

You can not do it untill you have done it! Never say “I could do it if I wanted to“, because obviously you can’t, even if the simply lack of will is holding you back.

There are people who decide to work hard and achieve things and there are people who just say they could because they were lucky to be born intelligent, good-looking or especially talented. Therefore good attributes to begin with often stand in the way of people, which is paradox but true.

Don’t be one of those people. Be the one who stays in late, who cleans up the mess, who runs the extra mile. You will get the extra reward, it’s just a matter of time.

/phil