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Struggling to bounce back from setbacks and stay optimistic?

10/4/2018

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Struggling to bounce back from setbacks and stay optimistic in the face of on-going challenges? Feel like your confidence has taken a beating lately? It may be your negative self-talk around a new challenge in your life.

You see when we take on a new challenge or step into a new leadership role we can often  find ourselves running headlong into a series of unanticipated challenges. And this where our confidence can take a beating and where we start to doubt ourselves.
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Here are a few facts about confidence, from current research, to help you bounce back and stay optimistic in the face of these types of challenges.
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Things that POSITIVELY Impact your Confidence:
  • Connection to our foundational values
  • Ability to disarm our inner critic and engage our inner sage
  • Externalising failures
  • Engaging a growth mindset
  • Taking calculated risks
  • Embracing failure as part of the journey
  • Working towards mastery versus perfection
  • Being in action


​And things that NEGATIVELY Impact your Confidence:​
  • Pessimistic outlook
  • Listening to our inner-critic and letting self-doubt lead the way
  • Perfectionism
  • Poor self-awareness (about our values, our beliefs, our habits)
  • Over-reliance on external praise
  • Internalizing failures
  • Risk avoidance

Furthermore, confidence is linked to being able to quickly assess, learn from and move past failures, to leaning into mastery rather than perfectionism, and to fostering a positive self-concept of our capabilities even when challenged.

The current research also points to the fact that confidence is strongly linked to doing. The best doing is taking action - and learning from the outcomes.
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The research also shows that whatever you put your attention on grows, so consider how you can focus your thinking on factors that will positively impact your confidence.
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  • Your values
  • Your strengths
  • Your wins
  • Your learning
  • Envisioning successes
  • Thinking of yourself as capable

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