One of the things most damaging to confidence is breaking our commitment. Whether we’ve given our word to others or ourselves, we are out of integrity when we go back on it, and we know that we are. We know that we’ve just lied to ourselves, and it doesn’t feel good. Not upholding our commitments impacts our confidence negatively often in ways we don’t fully appreciate.
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We can’t control what happens—what people say or do, how the traffic moves, if the weather changes. But we always control what we do with it. We are in charge of our reactions to it.
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All vital functions our body performs are subconscious. Breathing, circulating blood, digesting and extracting nutrients from food. They are happening below the radar—beyond what we can consciously control.
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We often agree to do things we don’t really want to do. And then we do them, feeling resentful and grumpy and wronged that we’re being forced into doing them. But you haven’t been forced, you decided to do whatever you’re doing.
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We look for the traits. How do I feel more confident? How do I increase my motivation? How do I become more disciplined?
You don’t want confidence, you want the action it’ll instigate Read More »
Whether we’re clear on them or not, we all have values. They shape how we think and feel about the events of our lives, how we make decisions, what we prioritise, what we ignore.
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I have failed in many things. In my relationship with myself, in other relationships and friendships, in starting businesses, launching products, making the money I want to make, putting ideas into action.
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There are different ways in which we avoid taking action towards the things we want to achieve. Sometimes we get stuck in analysis paralysis. Sometimes we engage in busyness, or activities which are not high priority. Sometimes we got back to the drawing boards and think we’re completely off the mark. Or we let our
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I run 7 km in the rain this morning. I’ve had many runs in all kinds of weather—snow, hail, wind, rain, ice—in the last 18 months. I’d made a commitment to run six times a week and to make sure that nothing interferes with it, I decided to run first thing in the morning.
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We learn that the harder we pursue the higher our chances of attaining what we’re looking for. But often we find that the more we get the more we want.