#1 Identify when you do feel confident Focusing on when you do feel confident and understanding why is a helpful starting point to leverage confidence. Mapping the activities, you feel confident doing is a helpful reminder of what confident looks like to you and can help you to establish the ingredients you need to feel…

A feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and judgement Confidence Confidence is about trust. Self-confidence is about trust in oneself. Looking inwards Taking the word ‘confidence’ away for a moment and considering its definition. Trust in one’s abilities can be cultivated through awareness, practice, learning new skills and gained through experience. Trust in one’s…

If this were a game of family fortunes, the top scoring answer would undoubtedly be fear. Most of us avoid speaking up because we are preoccupied by fear. We are nervous about saying the wrong thing and fear the reaction of others in response. In this way, lack of confidence, keeps us safe from the…

Where do New Year’s resolutions come from? New Year’s resolutions are a strange concept. 1 January is just another day, yet it inspires many of us to start something new (or give up something old). The tradition itself pre-dates the existence of the 1 January. Thousands of years BC festivals took place in what is…