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Not Good Enough?

Does this Affect Your Confidence Level? Are you good enough at thinking of the negatives about yourself and concentrating on these instead of concentrating on your strengths? Perhaps you even try and convince others so that if they say you’re not good enough – at least you’ll...

Positive Affirmations…do they really work?

Positive affirmations are renowned in the Self Help industry as a way to enable people to feel more confident and successful in their lives. They recommend saying each day statements such as…. “I am more and more confident each day” “I am a successful person” ...

Managing Your Body

Boosting your confidence: Managing your body I love watching inspiring speeches on http://www.ted.com/ and thoroughly enjoy one of the videos by creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson talk very entertainingly about how schools kill creativity. One of his analogies I found very amusing...

Controlling Emotions

…so they don’t impact our confidence The term ‘emotional’ can often be seen as a negative in the work place; a label given to someone who is not always fully in control and unable to manage the stresses of their position. But how in control are any of us of our...

Negative Thoughts?

Negative Thoughts? How we can gain control What kind of thoughts do you have? Do you think to yourself “I’m a failure”, “I can’t succeed”, and “Why bother trying, I’m thick”? Your inner voice has the potential to be your harshest critic and, as such, the one that...

Building Self Esteem:Changing Beliefs

Building Self Esteem: Changing your Beliefs When you ask someone about their ‘beliefs’, the reaction of most people will be to cast their minds towards religion. However, when we discuss Beliefs that may be halting your career, we are talking about a very different subject. Specifically,...

How to make Decisions with Confidence

Lindsey’s Lightbulb Moments Do you worry about making the right decisions? Do you get really frustrated, over analysis and still can’t make a decision? Can even the simplest decisions stump you such as what to have for dinner or what to wear – and is this eroding...

Giving and Receiving

Lindsey’s Lightbulb Moments Giving and Receiving One of the many questions I ask clients when exploring their core values in life is “Do you think yourself more as a Borrower or Lender?”. Yes – a strange question – and there are many more like that! These questions do...

Change your Reality

Change your “reality” to build your Confidence This may seem like a strange admission from someone whose job it is to enable individuals’ to develop their confidence, but here goes: I don’t feel confident all of the time! The majority of time I do, however there are...

Being Inspired

Who inspires you? Each evening, over the past week, I have been watching inspiring individuals and teams giving their all, attempting to win Olympic Gold Medals. The dedication each one of these sports men and women has is incredible – the hours they have invested in training over...