When you are working on building your self confidence, its really important to celebrate success along the way and mark the milestones of your journey towards your final goal.
As you work with your coach, establish from the outset what will have had to happen in the future so that you will know when you have reached each milestone, then plan how you will mark the occasion.
Each "baby step" you take will bring you a little closer to where you ultimately want to be.
For example, if you wanted to pay back a credit card bill of £3,000 over a 12 month period, you may wish to set a milestone at each £500 (every 2 months) paid back. You will know this has happened as your monthly statement will read £2500 at your first milestone, £2000 at your next milestone etc. Your reward could be whatever you wanted it to be, so long as it does not take you backwards on your journey to achieving your ultimate goal !
It is your choice, your responsibility and your actions which will make this happen. Your coach is only the facilitator - you are in charge of your own destiny.
Celebrate each milestone with something that makes you happy, whatever that is for you. As you enjoy your reward, tell yourself how well you have done and how the work so far has helped to lay the foundations for the next stage towards your goal and a great future.
Note your strengths in this area and how these have developed to enable you to have reached where you are now !
Then review what the next milestone is and plan the actions that you will need to take to get there. Remember to think about how you will reward yourself next time - this will help keep you focussed and on track!
Think about any potential barriers you may meet and how you will overcome these, remembering all of the reasons 'why' you want to reach your final destination goal.
Building in a rewards programme, helps you to keep up the momentum and the very fact of celebrating signifies your success so far, which in turns gives you evidence that you can achieve what you want to - this is what builds your self confidence, step by step.
For life coaching with Jennifer Bruce, contact Kaleidoscope Coaching.
Saturday, 22 November 2008
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Bolster Your Confidence for Personal and Professional Success
A strong belief in yourself will give you the Confidence to achieve whatever you want from your Personal and Professional Life.
Why settle for second best ? Why not seize life with both hands and achieve the things you really want ? What's stopping you from achieving your true potential?
You are only here once, so don't leave it too late to change !
Self confidence is something that can be achieved by anyone - its a life skill and is something that you are born with but it often gets lost along the way.
Life coaching has helped millions of people throughout the world to build their confidence and self belief. For life coaching with Jennifer Bruce, contact Kaleidoscope Coaching.
Success breeds success and you will see positive changes in a very short space of time. As your confidence grows, you will want to stretch yourself and see just how far you can go.
Top Confidence Building Tips
1 - Work out in your own mind what success means to you. What goals do you want your new confident self to achieve. Make these SMART goals and write them down using the formula, "It is now (date) and I am / have (insert your own words)". Imagine these are your ultimate goals if everything was exactly as you wanted it to be (10 out of 10).
2 - For each goal, spend some time thinking about what needs to have happened to let you know that you have achieved this goal ? What will you be saying to yourself, what will you be doing, what will other people be saying ?
3 - 90% of achieving your goals come from the "Why". Why are these goals important to you ? What are the reasons, write them all down beside each goal.
4 - Beside each goal, estimate where you what score you would give yourself as of today in terms of satisfaction in that particular area.
5 - Work out which areas of your life you are already confident in (if any) and write these down eg. career; relationships; physical; parenting skills etc. List your key strengths in these areas, what are you good at ? Note these down and look for evidence to back these up.
6 - What could you do to move your current rating up by one notch. Eg. if you are confident in your ability to lose weight today at 5/10, what could you do to move it to a 6/10 ? List all possible ideas, spend some quality time doing this and draw up a long list of things that you could do.
7 - Now go through the list of options and select which options will deliver the results you want and appeal most to you, without being overwhelming.
8 - What are the "baby steps" within each of these options that you would need to do, eg. look up a phone number, speak to a friend etc
9 - Prepare an action plan with specific "baby step" tasks and times/dates that these will be done.
10 - Do these actions, remembering why you are doing these and congratulating yourself along the way when you have achieved each small step - you are now moving closer to achieving your goal and living the life you want - CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!
Repeat as necessary until you achieve your goals to your satisfaction. If you need an independent coach who will listen and challenge you, contact Kaleidoscope Coaching.
Why settle for second best ? Why not seize life with both hands and achieve the things you really want ? What's stopping you from achieving your true potential?
You are only here once, so don't leave it too late to change !
Self confidence is something that can be achieved by anyone - its a life skill and is something that you are born with but it often gets lost along the way.
Life coaching has helped millions of people throughout the world to build their confidence and self belief. For life coaching with Jennifer Bruce, contact Kaleidoscope Coaching.
Success breeds success and you will see positive changes in a very short space of time. As your confidence grows, you will want to stretch yourself and see just how far you can go.
Top Confidence Building Tips
1 - Work out in your own mind what success means to you. What goals do you want your new confident self to achieve. Make these SMART goals and write them down using the formula, "It is now (date) and I am / have (insert your own words)". Imagine these are your ultimate goals if everything was exactly as you wanted it to be (10 out of 10).
2 - For each goal, spend some time thinking about what needs to have happened to let you know that you have achieved this goal ? What will you be saying to yourself, what will you be doing, what will other people be saying ?
3 - 90% of achieving your goals come from the "Why". Why are these goals important to you ? What are the reasons, write them all down beside each goal.
4 - Beside each goal, estimate where you what score you would give yourself as of today in terms of satisfaction in that particular area.
5 - Work out which areas of your life you are already confident in (if any) and write these down eg. career; relationships; physical; parenting skills etc. List your key strengths in these areas, what are you good at ? Note these down and look for evidence to back these up.
6 - What could you do to move your current rating up by one notch. Eg. if you are confident in your ability to lose weight today at 5/10, what could you do to move it to a 6/10 ? List all possible ideas, spend some quality time doing this and draw up a long list of things that you could do.
7 - Now go through the list of options and select which options will deliver the results you want and appeal most to you, without being overwhelming.
8 - What are the "baby steps" within each of these options that you would need to do, eg. look up a phone number, speak to a friend etc
9 - Prepare an action plan with specific "baby step" tasks and times/dates that these will be done.
10 - Do these actions, remembering why you are doing these and congratulating yourself along the way when you have achieved each small step - you are now moving closer to achieving your goal and living the life you want - CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!
Repeat as necessary until you achieve your goals to your satisfaction. If you need an independent coach who will listen and challenge you, contact Kaleidoscope Coaching.
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