Archive for May, 2010
Confidence is a skill that can be developed over time. With some increased awareness and focus, building confidence can be quick, easy, and believe it or not, painless. Check out these tips to get more confident in any situation, including promoting your business.
1. Hire someone to balance out your weaknesses. Know and appreciate what these non-strengths are and put a plan in place to hire an employee, contractor, or academic intern to manage these things for you.
2. Whenever you feel a negative thought coming, STOP, THINK, and say is this really important in the grand scheme of things. A lot of the time it isn’t. Many people in life major in minor things!
3. Do you let the words of others affect you? Do you mind what they think of you? Remember that no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not what they say to you that’s the problem it’s what you say to yourself after they have stopped talking that’s the problem. Change the way you think.
4. List the words that you use on a consistent basis when you feel let down or annoyed. People use different words to mean the same thing and depending upon the intensity of the word – this will have an effect on your confidence. Instead of saying “I’m enraged about this” say, “I’m a little annoyed”. Make a substitute list for the words that you use. Make sure they are lower in intensity and then use them. You’ll be surprised with the results.
5. At the end of each day list your achievements and successes throughout that day.
6. Be appreciative of what you have to be thankful for in your life right now. Who do you love? Who loves you? Who do you help out?
7. Every morning when you’re in the shower, play over in your head the events in the day as though they have already happened and they were a success. Visualize all of the meetings that you had, the people you talked to, the outcomes you had. Visualize success and confidence and it will be so.
8. Improve your body language. The way that you move your body has a massive impact on your confidence levels. Move your body assertively and walk with your head up, shoulders back and as though you’ve got somewhere very important to go. Feeling low in confidence? Change you body language.
9. Emotion is created by motion. Make sure you move around consistently. This creates energy and gets the blood pumping around you body – it makes you feel better and more confident.
10. Learn to brag about yourself. Yes, you heard me! Talk about your achievements and successes more than you currently are. It gets easier with practice and can bring you very positive attention with prospects and clients.
And finally – You only live once, so any time that you are down just ask yourself in 10 or 20 years time – will what I am worrying about really matter? Your assignment: Pick on strategy to try this week. Start each day with the intention of using that strategy and keep a journal of your observations, feelings, and thoughts.
Deanna Maio, Business Trainer & Coach, teaches business owners simple, powerful processes to stop wasting time and start making more money, and create a business that acts as a vehicle for living the life they desire and deserve. For FREE tips on how to increase your income and use your valuable time more wisely, visit http://www.savvygals.com/
I'm convinced there's just too much information available in the world for business owners. We don't need all the options that exist. We need the top two or three options pulled out from the heap, simplified, and then we need to select one and get moving. Information is not what is stopping business owners from getting the results they want. You see, I believe it's a lack of action or support during the implementation process that gets us in trouble. We're trying to get so much done that often we don't get started on the important projects and improvements in our businesses that can make the really big differences:
- More Sales
- Better Relationships
- More Referrals
- Streamlined Processes
- Faster Results
Some people are born doers. Some people are born thinkers. Some think about doing and never get anything done. There are many ways to become a person of action and what works for someone else may not work for you. Action people are usually people who are organized and seem to know exactly how to proceed from one project to another seamlessly and without effort. Others flounder in a world of disorganization, haplessly moving one piece of paper to another location without knowing why. At the end of the day, the doers typically have more energy than at the beginning as they feed on taking action. The flounders at the end of the day are still floundering and can’t understand why nothing has been accomplished and they feel exhausted. They step back to assess their day’s accomplishments and deceive themselves into believing progress is being made, when in realty little or nothing has been done. For these people, organization is an essential key.
Whether it’s for your home or business, make a to-do list and prioritize it. Tips for a successful list include:
- Put only the most important tasks on the list
- Each time you complete a goal or project scratch it off
- Feel the satisfaction
- Don’t mark tasks off until their done
When everything on the list is finished, reward yourself. Even if you don’t quite complete the list in one day, go ahead and celebrate your victories. This gives you something to look forward to and gives you incentive to accomplish more. Again, be honest with yourself and only accept reward when deserved. Another plan of action states that you can waste too much time making lists and you should visualize your task at hand until you have the energy to do it. They suggest you sit quietly, clear your mind of all other things and concentrate on your task or goal at hand. See yourself doing the project in vivid detail. Whatever the job entails imagine yourself doing each and every step. Change the way your think and you will change the way you act and how many results you create.
Deanna Maio, Business Trainer & Coach, teaches business owners simple, powerful processes to stop wasting time and start making more money, and create a business that acts as a vehicle for living the life they desire and deserve. For FREE tips on how to increase your income and use your valuable time more wisely, visit http://www.savvygals.com/
