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Oct 18

Capture that winning feeling of confidence and success as many times as you can as you go about your day. Those feelings can be due to small or short-term successes. There is no rule that says for anything to be a success it has to be something big or long-term.

Success is success! That’s how your mind sees it. Period. Make it your role daily to feed success after success to your sponge of a mind. And as surely as a seed grows into a plant, you will grow more confident after each seed that you plant.

Take advantage of all short-term victories. Make the most of short-term successes particularly when you are feeling pessimistic or insecure about your future. Remind yourself and profit from past successes to lift you and to regain that confident feeling from deep within.

I am pretty sure you have daily short-term successes that you can be proud of. Think back on them and stimulate and recreate that winning feeling again. Use that surge to fuel you to the next success, confidently and with power.

Perhaps you could spend a few days to write down as many successes as you can, and write down how confident you felt having achieved those successes. Focus on how you communicated with confidence, on how you psyched yourself up to increase on your confidence prior to and during the event.

Write as much as you can on how fantastic and strong and confident you felt for having achieved such an accomplishment. As you write you recapture that winning feeling, the pride, the confidence and the satisfaction.

A winning feeling is a confident feeling, one that reinforces success.

Hani Al-Qasem

Hani Al-Qasem and Natalie Dee are the co-authors of the book “Self-Confidence Building in 7 Steps.”

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Oct 11

Your body says a whole lot of things: it states what you are thinking to how you are feeling, and you stand, sit, act and behave your thoughts and feelings. Your body speaks to others your inner judgments and beliefs about yourself in any given moment, including how confident you think and feel you are.

You communicate with your body, your posture.

When you stand tall you portray an aura of confidence, self-assurance. You are telling the world that you are full of confidence, assertion. You believe in your confidence and you communicate that with your being.

Having an upright posture quickly gives the impression that you are confident; your body exposes and communicates that to those around you.

By the way, even if you don’t feel confident in the moment, simply by taking on the ‘standing tall’ posture, you communicate confidence not just to those around you, but to you as well. The feeling of confidence will spread within your body, making you feel and radiate confidence.

Your straight posture gives you added confidence.

Give it a try. Straighten your back and lift your head up, smile and feel and radiate confidence. Communicate to all those around you that you are confident.

Hani Al-Qasem

Hani Al-Qasem and Natalie Dee are the co-authors of the book “Self-Confidence Building in 7 Steps.”

Download our free eBook “Self-Confidence Building in 7 Steps” Right Now.

Oct 4

Yes. Getting what you want is success.

What you want doesn’t have to be a big yacht, a Ferrari, or a luxury cruise around the world. Success can be saving enough money to go on a summer holiday, to buy yourself a bicycle, to see your child participate in a school play, to make a big sale, to meet your budget or target.

That is success. I see success as communicating with confidence.

When you communicate with confidence you have a great, happy and adventurous summer vacation. You communicate infectious confidence when your child is on stage in a school play, you communicate and radiate confidence when you make that sales presentation.

Success is within you. Success in life is becoming what you want to be, and you can become what you want to be. Let confidence take the lead role in getting you what it is that you want. Start off by becoming a great communicator.

Practise communicating with confidence. Begin by talking more to people you know and progress to talking to people you don’t know at all. In no time, you will easily, happily and confidently approach any one. You will strike up a conversation comfortably and confidently.

Hani Al-Qasem

Hani Al-Qasem and Natalie Dee are the co-authors of the book “Self-Confidence Building in 7 Steps.”

Download our free eBook “Self-Confidence Building in 7 Steps” Right Now.