Believing in yourself is a key ingredient in success. Others cannot boldly believe in you and your capabilities if you cannot muster up a bold belief in yourself. Others will be ready and quick to knock you down. External encouragement is rarely found. The focus in most office and work environments today is negative feedback from all around.
A positive self image and a core belief in yourself will need to come from within. You know yourself. You know what you’ve done. Think of opportunities that you passed over because you were shy, insecure, or lacked confidence. Prepare a written description of how you would respond if given the opportunity again. Concentrate on the successes in your past and build a ‘I can do it’ confidence within yourself. You can do it and YOU need to fake confidence until you can build it from within.
Think of yourself as a product. YOU have to sell YOU by packaging, branding, and advertising your best assets. Trust in your skills and abilities. Try to act more confident than you feel. Don’t let your own lack of confidence hold you back from a great job and a great future.
Push yourself into taking a risk or two. Apply for a position you don’t know if you will get. Nothing is gained without risk. You won’t easily advance if you don’t try. Fake confidence until you feel it building from within. March forward and apply for the positions you want to have. Move forward with persistence and strength and YOU WILL SUCCEED.
Bethany Williams is an expert in business development, personal branding, and healthcare operations. She has held high level positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Perot Systems Corporation, GE Healthcare, and IDX Systems Corporation. Williams shares her stories and helpful tips on career success in her book, Winning Strategies for Women, and a popular motivational blog. She volunteers as a life coach and mentor for employees around the globe through her website and personal one-to-one visits. She currently works as an executive at a big four accounting firm, and speaks on branding, career planning, and women in business. She lives in Dallas with her husband, Michael, and her three children. You can find her on the web at www.bethanywilliams.org.
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There is no doubt that self-esteem lies within the foundation of success. In business these days there is more competition than ever before and basically no such thing as job security – and so there is more pressure placed upon you to work in every way to rise to the top and make everyone else realize your abilities. You have to stand up to get noticed; you cannot just sit back and allow your work to speak for itself.
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