SELF-BELIEF
Do you believe in you?
Do you believe in:
Your own success?
Your own abilities to meet your goals?
Your dreams that feel a little too big or scary?
In a world where so many people struggle with self-belief, your number one job is to find ways to root for yourself and to become your own number one fan. I think you would be surprised how many people believe in other people’s success even more than their own - I only know this because it’s something I have to fight against. Not because we shouldn’t genuinely believe, support, and be happy in the success of others, but because the root of doing anything meaningful for ourselves and the people around us will require the strongest form of self-belief there is.
If you don’t know how to believe in you to the extend that you need to, here are a few things I’m doing that you can try:
Look for past evidence: Encourage yourself by writing a list of wins in the past few months that you’re proud of - this can be anything big or small.
Start working on creating more evidence: Since we can’t always live in our past wins, start making small moves everyday that will get you closer to your goal. This can be the hardest step, because it takes time and a lot of patience to see anything fruitful come out of your hard work and consistency.
Watch for new evidence to materialize: As time goes on, you’ll start to notice baby wins pop up - your pants don’t fit anymore or you suddenly have more clients in your pipeline. As the wins start to stack, the more self-belief accumulates, and the more evidence you continue to create for yourself.
When you believe in you, you act differently, which gives new ideas, which produces different results, which gets you in new rooms with new people, which brings new opportunities, which gets you closer to where you want to be.
I believe in you, I’m rooting for you. Now you believe in you, you root for you, you keep stacking the evidence.
x LG Curry