What you'll learn

  • Boost immediate, short-term confidence

  • Structure relationships to boost your confidence

  • Learn to do affirmations

  • Boost long-term confidence and self esteem

  • Structure your internal conversations to make you more confident

  • Conquer fear of failure

Description

Boost your confidence and self-esteem in just a few seconds and for the long-term. Then use confidence as a tool to achieve more and improve your life. - Scientific research about confidence and performance - Authoritative literature on confidence - Law of attraction - Positive affirmations to boost confidence - Listening to your internal dialog and realigning it to boost your confidence - Getting positive reinforcement from your relationships - Conquering your fear of failure - Be less susceptible to other people's criticism and stop being harsh on yourself and get yourself down - Learn how the brain processes fear and anger, and how to not fall into mindset traps - Dealing with stress - Assertiveness training for how to use verbal and written assertive communication

DOES YOUR CONFIDENCE LEVEL REFLECT REALITY? SHOULD IT?

Why do many intelligent people lack confidence? Why do so many unintelligent people have a lot of confidence? How do you know if your confidence closely matches your ability or you have a problem with self-assessment? This is all addressed in the course. WHY CONFIDENCE AND SELF-ESTEEM IS SO IMPORTANT FOR ENTREPRENEURS When you start your business, there is a lot of stress, low confidence, and self-doubt. These feelings can really damage momentum and hurt the business. On the other hand, if you can give yourself more confidence, that confidence will carry you through the challenging parts of your business and give you the boldness to attempt things you otherwise wouldn't. Also, many external forces constantly damage our confidence and we need to know how to keep out confidence and self-esteem up.

Course curriculum

  1. 1
  2. 2

    • Listen to internal conversations: Are you boosting or lowering your confidence?

    • Presentation disclaimer

    • Fear of failure or criticism and how it impacts your confidence

    • Law of Attraction and what it has to do with confidence

    • Fear and anger, how our brain works, and how it impacts confidence
  3. 3

    • Confidence per topic - uncover yours

    • Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers example of how ability creates confidence

    • Practicing & improving at a small element at the root of low confidence

    • Confidence oscillation and building internal story

    • Technique: Visualizing result vs. hoping - how to use it for confidence gain
  4. 4

    • What are affirmations and how to do them to boost confidence

    • Affirmation apps to help you boost self-confidence
  5. 5

    • Surrounding yourself with positive people to draw confidence from them
  6. 6

    • Four hormones that affect your mood, confidence, motivation & outlook on things
  7. 7

    • Soccer example of how to build confidence by controlling the situation

    • Boxing class and confidence with trainer and against people

    • Client who gets derailed - interesting perspective on different confidence

    • My case study of growing up with no confidence and getting too much confidence

    • Case study of me and cooking - having no confidence at all
  8. 8

    • Visualizations to boost performance and confidence
  9. 9

    • Confidence exercise to help while you are starting something new

    • Confidence exercise to help while you are starting something new - answer

    • Exercise - which chemicals are responsible for boosting confidence?

    • Exercise answer - which chemicals are responsible for boosting confidence?
  10. 10

    • Emotions & experience: How they affect each other and used to boost confidence
  11. 11

    • Overview of a study on self-talk and performance which can catalyze confidence

    • Highly intelligent people perform worse under pressure - re-frame for confidence
  12. 12

    • Headspace app - for mindfulness which can boost confidence

    • 4 apps for learning on the go and boosting your skills including confidence

    • Note taking and to-do list apps - being organized boosts confidence

    • How to make to-do lists correctly - being organized boosts confidence
  13. 13

    • Putting it all together for lasting confidence - exciting
  14. 14

    • Assertive communication to keep your confidence up and garner respect

    • Assertiveness definition

    • Situations when it's difficult to know when and how much to be assertive

    • Not an option - you need it so you are not passive aggressive later

    • Example - being assertive working from home and getting others to be quiet

    • Create limiting beliefs in others

    • Example of saying no with courtesy and reinforcing it with a limiting belie

    • Assertiveness exercise

    • Assertiveness exercise - answer
  15. 15

    • From Tony Robbins: 4 ingredients to achievement and eventual confidence

    • Circumstances having an impact on our performance and confidence