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Carolyn Smagalski
Self-Confidence
Founder - Editor - Host
Norman Vincent Peale wrote, "People become really quite
remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.
When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of
success." In order to truly succeed, you need to manage the
way you think about yourself and your ability to succeed.
Focus on what you want to accomplish, gather together the
tools that will help you succeed, learn how to organize your
ideas, and manage your progress with a vigilant eye. Keep
moving forward, and dispel any thoughts that impede your
progress.
You must master your beliefs about yourself. Make the
decision that you can and will succeed. Cut off all
possibilities except success. Mentally focus on the positive,
and only the positive. Understand how your mind filters
information, and adjust your beliefs to see everything that
happens to you as useful, even mistakes or errors in
judgment. You can gain remarkable insight into future
decisions by analyzing these past errors with an objective
eye.
Define the reason for what you are doing. It may be noble –
perhaps, a commitment to discover a new vaccine, or develop a
computer program to monitor Dopamine levels in Parkinson’s
patients - or it may be self-serving – a dream to write the
most notable epic novel or to become a world-class sommelier.
Whatever the reason, it is yours, it is valid, and it will
stand up to the test of time.
If you stretch your efforts to develop a skill, analyze
research, or gain more knowledge, your accomplishments will
never be fruitless. If they are not what you expected, accept
the results as feedback - as a source from which you have
learned something - never as failure. Learn from the actions
of yourself and others.
Competence happens in a moment. If you are unsure of what to
do, act as if you already know what to do, and do it. There
is always a way to accomplish what you want. Commitment
creates tremendous power. Communicate with yourself. Affirm
the positive. Become your own cheerleader.
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding
success because they don't know when to quit. Most men
succeed because they were determined to," wrote George Allen.
You are responsible for your world.
Recommended Reading:
Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill.
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