How to Be More Confident and Kick Butt in Life
Everyone has limiting beliefs — deeply-held beliefs that limit our effectiveness in life. Mine tends to be that I don’t know enough, which leads to a lack of confidence.
This is interesting, because I have a solid list of skills and accomplishments, and I’m well-respected by friends and family. Yet I still have trouble being confident sometimes.
I’m finding that lack of confidence has held me back a lot in life. I imagine it might be doing the same for you. It’s important that we recognize what might be holding us back, and work to remove the blockage.
“Perhaps it’s time for you to take a temporary break from pursuing goals to find the knots in the garden hose that, once removed, will make everything else better and easier. It’s incredible what can happen when you stop driving with the emergency brake on.” Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans
Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter defines confidence as “the expectation of a positive outcome.”
That’s a nice, simple definition — but how do we apply it?
Fortunately, confidence is a skill that can be honed.
For me, my expectation of a positive outcome is because of my faith in God. He’s proven Himself faithful, time and again. Part of my confidence is in His faithfulness…