Pick Courage Over Confidence If You Want To Accomplish Something
You probably are good enough to do it, be bold enough to try
No opening backstory lines, let’s get straight to building your confidence:
Think of a time when you felt really confident.
Try to visualize that moment and feel the emotions associated with it.
Listen to the sounds that you heard at that time and try to recall any smells that were around you. Try to hear your own voice and the voices of others around you. Imagine yourself there, in that moment, and try to fully absorb yourself in that experience.
The mind doesn't differentiate between imagination and reality, so if you do this exercise correctly, you can actually bring the feeling of confidence to the present moment.
Physiology Impacts Psychology:
Your physical posture can impact your emotions.
By adopting confident body language when feeling anxious or shy, your emotions can follow and make you feel more at ease.
Try it out now!
Relax your body, take up more space, puff your chest, expose your neck, and smile. This technique can help you feel more relaxed around 90% of the time.
While confidence techniques are helpful, it's important to remember that it's okay not to feel confident all the time.
This is where the concept of Courage Vs. Confidence comes in.
Courage becomes confidence when it is combined with action.
It seems like you believe that feeling confident is necessary to take action, but that's not true. Many people feel unconfident when they are asked to take action.
They may feel like they need to learn more or wait until they feel more comfortable, but this is not the mindset of an action taker.
If you want to be an action taker, you need to choose courage over confidence because courage leads to confidence. It's not important to feel confident before taking action.
Instead, it's better to take action even if you don't feel ready because experience is more valuable than knowledge.
If you keep waiting until you feel confident, you'll never be able to accomplish anything. You need to be willing to take risks and accept discomfort.
Even if you fail, you'll learn from your mistakes and be better prepared for the next time.
An action-taker doesn't worry about feeling ready or confident. They focus on taking action and gaining experience.
By doing this, they become more confident and capable over time. So, if you want to get results faster, you need to be an action-taker and choose courage over confidence.
How can you develop the courage to build core confidence?
You seem to be determined to take action on something. So, what's next? Firstly, there isn't any secret technique.
Here's what you should do:
Let go of the idea that you need to feel confident before taking action, and understand that only by doing that something, you will become confident.
When facing a challenge, shut off that part of your mind that tells you that you are not ready and do it anyway.
The mind may say, "You're not ready, don't do it.
You need more knowledge." But you should respond with, "Yes, I'm not ready, and that's exactly why I'll do it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got something I need to do."
Boom! Mind blown, literally.
Make this a daily habit:
find one thing that you're scared to do and do it. Get comfortable with discomfort.
I can't stress this enough - just do it!