Mind hack 101: Mental workout for healthy self image [Part 2]

While a healthy dose of self-belief and self-confidence can land you among the stars, your doubts can rob you of reaching great heights. A man’s level of your self-belief and self-confidence often rubs off in his body language.

Your poise and carriage; the manner you talk; and your general attitude. Those with low self-belief and esteem always seem to have very awkward steps, slumped shoulders and very little eye contact. In an inter-personal relationship, these qualities are often well disgusted and unattractive.

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It reduces your chances of getting help from people because you send off negative vibes, personal vibes are contagious. In contrast, fellows with very high self-belief and esteem attract to themselves enviable favours that even amaze them.

Besides the fact that such high self-belief and esteem are good for building good relationships, it creates a very conducive environment for immense success. Thoughts of doubts build up negative energy. Every doubt begets more disbelief, it shows you more reasons you will fail at an attempt.

Disbelief has marred even promising opportunities, while positive belief has turned very hopeless circumstances around for the better.

As you must have read up to this point, you may be asking, how do I step up my belief in self and my abilities?  Increasing your self-belief like any self-help is a deliberate effort that has to be developed over time, there are no quick fixes.

1. Invest in self-development:

Learning and improvement should be continuous. Always seek for ways to better your skills. Complacency kills slowly and steadily. You should never find yourself in that position that you feel satisfied with mediocrity. Reach out for more. Learn new ways of solving problems, both domestic and work related. Enroll for seminars to better your skills set. Put into practice things you have learnt in solving your problems. Aiming to better yourself puts you the needed confidence; it improves your feeling of self-worth automatically. You are never overtaken by events. It makes you feel equal to the task.

2. Design challenging but attainable goals:

Craft out major goals for yourself; break them down into smaller daily targets. This act increases your confidence as you hit every of your daily targets. Don’t set goals that are unrealistic, this saps you of your confidence as you fail to meet this goal. If you are considering taking up a degree, you can narrow it done to acing every semester exams. When you reach a particular goal, it is okay to pick up another goal, which proves to be bigger than the previous. You are steadily building a reputation for yourself. Don’t waste your time with goals that don't challenge your abilities, something that doesn’t require an extra from you.

3. Self-appreciation and endorsement:

When was the last time you appreciated yourself after completing a project? It is more important than estimated; self-appreciation affords you the time to appraise your efforts. It is your one true chance to relish on your accomplishment. By this act, you are refuelling and recharging your enthusiasm for greater works. It is a big morale booster, if nobody congratulates you on your achievement, please Do It Yourself.

4. Don’t be too hard to self:

It’s a bad idea to compare one’s self with another person. Comparing yourself with others only points out your weakness over your strengths; you will be practically devaluing yourself. Achieving your set goal should be enough to make you feel like the best man in the world. My candid advice to you is simple; another man’s success should only inspire you to get better. It should make you affirm to your consciousness the simple yet powerful words I CAN DO IT.

4. Daily self-pep talk:

Constantly remind yourself of your strength, all that you possess which differentiates you from the pack. Tell yourself you have all it takes to win. All always feel like the winner even when it is the hardest to believe.

One of the things that will keep you focused on your path to attaining success is having the right reasons for taking a shot at success. Why do you want to reach this goal? What is that driving passion?

If you lack that inner drive for success here are some strong reasons that will ignite you and get you started.

5. Compensating for our supposed deficiencies:

Everybody has flaws; we make several blunders as we go through life. Don’t park up after failure; it’s only an indicator of aspects of our life we need to work on. A very good way to make up for our misgivings is to attain success in those areas we fail or are deficient. Where we lose we feel compensated with a big win. This is one reason to pursue success.

6. We love the taste of success:

There is a special feeling that goes with succeeding. Have you seen the smile on the face of a medalist or a team that just won a trophy? Now you get the picture. It looks so good you want to feel it too. It is ingrained in us to always want to taste success.

7. Life itself is about succeeding:

Everyone is indoctrinated to seek success from childhood. You are taught to set milestones like graduating, landing a dream job, marrying a life partner, all these brings in feelings of fulfilment. Hitting these milestones marks us as being successful.

8. A food for ego:

Accomplishing success upon success feeds our ego. It pumps our sense of self-worth. It drives us to want more challenging goals to conquer. If you want to increase your self-confidence start by accumulating bits of success.

These listed out reasons for aiming for success can be such powerful drivers to make you push on to hit tremendous success.