Category Archives: Confidence
Putting in Stars
Dreaming of Success
Maybe you want more… Tony did. Little Tony was born “in the wrong neighborhood” to relatively poor, working class parents who couldn’t afford to send him to college.
But even as a child, little Tony ached and yearned to amount to something, to be really big in the world. His grades weren’t all that special, but he had one burning desire. He wanted to be a big success.
Grampa’s Business Rules
The Rules for Success Are Not New
You know, business doesn’t have to be a complex, Harvard-B-school kind of thing, all complicated and hard for ordinary mortals to understand. Much of it CAN be boiled down to some pretty simple stuff.
My paternal grandfather didn’t have a degree in business. In fact, he never got past the third or fourth grade, but that didn’t stop him from running several successful businesses and owning a significant part of the small north-Georgia town where he lived.
What It REALLY Takes to Succeed
Eight Traits You Can Develop
Are you really going to accomplish the next thing you decide to do?
Now, I don’t know what your “next thing” — your next goal — might be. It could be a business goal, or a family objective. It may be connected with inner growth, or with your physical health.
But whatever it is, whatever you promise yourself that you’ll do, are you actually going to follow through? Will you keep on till you reach completion?
Iron-Clad Confidence
“He just oozed confidence.”
That’s the way a long-time friend described Aristotle Onassis when he was just a teenager. Some people are late bloomers. They don’t gain much real self assurance till they are well into adulthood.
But there are also early bloomers — Onassis was one — and the stories describing his early years don’t all agree on details. The do all agree, however, on one point: young Ari had charisma, and lots of it. They all describe a young man with brains and drive and overflowing with confidence.
Taking Permanent Control of Your Moods
Your Mental State Is in Your Hands
I sure do hope you’re not typical … because the typical person has little control over how they’ll feel when they get up tomorrow.
Most days, they feel like a pinball. They crawl out of bed expecting that — again today — they’re going to be bounced from one obstacle to another, pushed this way and that, and rolled helplessly into an unending stream of unexpected experiences.
Getting Your Confidence Back
When Confidence Deserts You
How many different ways have you heard it said?
- “I can’t get my golf swing (free throw; tennis serve; pitching) back on track”
- “All these hours of practice are only making things worse”
- “I wonder why I ever thought I could be an athlete”
- “Others might succeed, but I guess I’ll never make it.”
Ever been there?
I have. And so have most people … if they’ll tell you the truth.
Procrastination Is a Good Start
Some Assets Wear a Disguise
Those so-called “bad” habits you’ve been struggling to break may be better assets than you realize. In fact, if you really understood what you have here, you might not dislike them quite so much.
True, in their present form, some of your habits may be royally screwing up your life, but here’s an interesting little question for you… who says a habit has to stay in its present form? This simple question uncovers the loose edge of a huge, huge secret. And the secret is that you can actually keep your present “bad” habits, only adjusting them slightly, building on them a bit, and as you retune them, they could become some of your strongest “good” habits.
World Champion Public Speaker
“The Power of Words”
How much confidence would it take for you to get up and address a huge audience of highly experienced speakers? Well, just this past August Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer, became the world’s best speaker — for 2015, at least — in Toastmasters International’s annual world championship.
