The Confidence Booster Newsletter - October 2008
This issue of the Confidence Booster Workout Newsletter, focuses on how personal confidence, can be suppressed, by the pervading atmosphere of fear and anxiety.
Remember - In The Presence Of Confidence, Doubt Cannot Exist
A Defining Moment...
Since Monday evening, when the American Congress failed to 'bail-out' Wall St, there has been a crisis of confidence, permeating the world's financial exchanges. This crisis of confidence, then quickly played itself out, into the world of business and personal finances. Then it loomed like a heavy, brooding cloud over countries and communities, promoting anxiety and uncertainty.
Commentators, used words like apocalyptic, and cataclysmic to describe the unfolding drama. It's as if the end of the commercial world as we know it, is upon us. This talk, can have a significant effect upon personal confidence. As if doubt, has infected the very air we breath.
It can suppress ideas and opportunities, as we draw in on ourselves, and become introspective, insular and afraid.
But, what if, what was occurring, was the herald of change? That the darkness and fear, served as a trigger for opportunity. That, in the presence of this possible end-game, a new beginning emerged.
That, in the introspection, we looked within, and decided that this was the moment, when we could no longer sit back, and wait for things to happen? Wait for others, to pick up the baton.
That, in fact, this was the moment, to walk the bridge of change, between the old and the new. A time to listen to your instinct and deeper feelings. To cleave to your values. And to find the confidence, to trust yourself. To back yourself, in a spirit of quiet defiance.
What if we were entering a new phase? And that you had a contribution to make, to this new time. A thought; an idea; a service; a product; a business. That was perfect for now. An expression of those values.
It would be easy to suppress it. To wait for another, 'better' time. To be inveigled by the collective fear of failure. But what if you didn't suppress it? What if, in having to dig deep, to find the confidence you need, you gathered enough internal power, to break through your personal stop situation?
Sometimes, it's necessary to hit rock-bottom. To be put in a position, that forces us to confront and face the truth of who we are, what we stand for and what we want. And from out of that place, something new can form up, and crystallise.
It may not be for the faint-hearted. It may take us out of our comfort zone. But these are the rules of change. Brace yourself. The deep, inner confidence, that can be found within us, is precisely for moments like this. It's yours to find. Make it so!
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See you next time.
Martin
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Martin Perry is the Confidence Coach and the author of the popular self-help book The Confidence Booster Workout. His coaching is designed to liberate natural confidence.
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