3 Ways to Believe in Yourself

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. -Norman Vincent Peale

Who would you like to believe in your message? Because if you wake up every morning thinking about your big goal then believability will play a key role in ensuring that your message is delivered with passion, received with enthusiasm and your audience retains what has been said. So let’s take a look at 3 ways to believe in your message:

1. Focus on impact
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Is your audience better off after having been served by you? Or worse off? If they are better off then you have a solution which is impacting their life. Regardless of how small or big the impact, at least you’re making an impact and unless you got your word out there, nobody would know that you or your service exists.
If you serve just one person or a thousand, those people have already bought into your vision and only you can impact them in the way that you do. Instead of focusing on the technical aspect of your work, focus on the impact that you’re having as a result of you sharing your work.
Your solution can serve as many people as you’d like it to, but unless you believe in it, you’ll be too hesitant to share it with others and if I don’t know what you do, how could I use your service?

2. Test Your Assumptions
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Are you holding onto stories that no longer serve you? Things that happened in the past but no longer serve your needs?

Might be time to test your assumptions to see if they still have any legs. When the topic of  memory comes up the first thing I hear is ‘I have a crap memory’ or ‘a rubbish memory’ but within the next 5 minutes when asked about their hobby can recite their favourite footballers annual salary and shoe size proving that their memory is just fine.

Test your assumptions now to see if you’re carrying some of the old baggage that you can choose to let go now.

3. Slice & Dice Your Goals
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Having the big picture about where you want to be in 10 years is phenomenal, but does it empower your actions today or holds you back?
To exhibit I have Sam and Joe here:
Sam knows exactly what he wants in 10 years but the goal is so big that he’s been thinking about it for the last 3 years without taking any action, it is too overwhelming and the project just too big for him to do anything about it. 
Joe on the other hand has a similar idea about where he wants to be in 10 years but quickly traced it all the way to this moment and divided the big goal into small measurable tasks, so instead of focusing on the 100 podcast episodes he needs to record he focuses on just recording number 1 this week.
Where Sams ideas immobilise any action, Joe’s ideas are built on small steps which he can act on right now. This not only gives him more control over his future, it allows him to measure small steps, make course corrections and test his assumptions along the way. 
Each small win then feeds into his overall goal, his confidence and helps him gain momentum.

To conclude: 

• Focus on impact
• Test your assumptions
• Slice & Dice your goals

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Gagan  Singh

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