Is your level of self-confidence high enough to motivate you towards achieving greatness? Do you need some help to turn that feeling of cowardice into a sense of great confidence? Confidence is a state of mind and it’s helpful when you perform daily habits that help lead your mind in the right direction. Luckily for you, this transformation from zero to a ten is as easy as changing how you begin each day.
If you find yourself feeling more fearful than self-assured, these three simple steps are exactly what the doctor ordered.
1. Create a Daily Confidence Habit
Every morning, start off with imagining a binary task. Binary, the language of computers, has only two characters: 0 and 1. There is no interpretation for anything else other than 0 and 1. If we imagine a task as binary, it has two outcomes: completed and incomplete.
For example, the task can be to turn on a light switch. Maybe you tripped over your couch while the light was off. It doesn’t matter if you had failures along the way, if you successfully turned on the switch, you have completed the task and it is done. Black and white, no gray, very simple.
By forcing yourself to view something as a binary task and completing it each day, you program confidence into your daily habit. You can celebrate the small victories (saying hi to that guy or girl in the next cubical) instead of beating yourself up for the small failures (embarrassingly spilling coffee on yourself while you said hi). This trains your brain to overcome cowardice and to automatically go for it, even if the path may be ripe for failure.
2. Start Your Day With Inspiration
Scientists have been studying MRI scans of the brain in action to determine the effects of inspiration on learning. What did they find? “We feel, therefore we learn[1].”
In the scans, brain activity is seen across multiple brain centers of someone engaged in an inspirational task, while a bored mind has very little activity at all. When inspired, oxygen cycles through the centers of your brain, increasing the possibility of finding pathways to weaker areas. This allows you to learn more, makes it easier to participate in creative activities, and boosts your confidence.
This is a groundbreaking discovery that can help you move from cowardice to confidence. If you can start your day with inspiration by reading a chapter from an empowering book, an excerpt from your favorite spiritual material, or an inspirational quote, then your brain will start working before you know it. Your feeling of self-worth will increase and the ability to learn more, be more creative, and take on the world will boost your confidence and set you up for success.
3. Choose to be Positive
The world famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle has an interesting philosophy on positivity[2]. They believe attitudes are chosen, not given. If you take responsibility for how you respond to what life throws at you, you can choose to be positive, even if the world around you feels very negative.
Without a positive emotional atmosphere, you can quickly lose your flexibility and patience. You can become easily frustrated and less capable of dealing with the world around you, which will negatively impact your confidence. Choosing to keep your emotional environment positive will help you to maintain a higher self-confidence.
The easiest habit you can practice for maintaining positivity is to start the day with a positive message. Trade in your morning news program, which is often filled with bad news and scandals, for an uplifting podcast or audiobook. You will find yourself moving through your day with rose-colored glasses, seeing positivity all around you and exuding confidence as a result.
Set aside 10 to 30 minutes each morning to practice these habits. Commit to the routine every day for 30 days and it will become automatic. Be patient, stick to the routine, and you will be rewarded. Before you know it, you’ll be the ruler of confidence.
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Reference
| [1] | ^ | Brain Basics: Inspiration & Emotion |
| [2] | ^ | Pike Place Fish Market: FISH! |
