Posts tagged Self Confidence
Mastering Your Thoughts
Jan 19th
Right now, your body, your mind and your life are a reflection of all your past thoughts. Let me re-iterate that, Right now, your body, mind and life are a result of all your past thoughts, what they attracted into your life and the actions you took because of them
As humans, we have over 60,000 thoughts a day. And in every thought lays a special esoteric power. Every single thought you have has a recordable energy that ripples throughout the cells of your body and our world.
Think for yourself. Hold a positive thought in your mind and notice that it makes you feel. Hold a negative thought and notice the exact same thing.
Think of your favorite car, close your eyes, and imagine driving it down the road. Here the roaring engine, feel the power in the speed, feel how happy you are for owning your favorite car, smell the new car smell…Did it work? Couldn’t you use your imagination to create that situation? And for those moments, didn’t you feel good, feel happy?
Go over your friends and family, know any ice-breakers? Most people have someone who can just enter the room and the entire atmosphere improves. “Ice-breakers” just have better vibrations then others, which is why everyone tends to become more relaxed when they enter the room. Don’t they tend to be happier, have self-confidence and stress less over situations?
Let’s talk about the negative for a second. Ever have just one of “those” mornings? You wake up with little to no energy, a little joint pain and just a bad mood? And what happens? The day usually turns out how it started, you wake up in that bad mood and start thinking right away. You start stressing about what you have to do that day (brush your teeth, pay the bills) and just attract more of it into your life.
It seems like waking up in a bad mood had a domino effect on the rest of the day that just brought more bad events into your life. That’s because every thought, positive and negative, contain the power to attract. Your negative thoughts are powerful because not only do you think those thoughts often, but you effortlessly attach feeling and belief into negative thoughts (the keys to attracting successfully).
But if we could take that effortlessness and attach it to our positive thoughts and our dreams, can you imagine how much our lives would change? And the beautiful thing about it is you can start to change your life right now. You choose to control your thoughts right now and you will change your life.
The moment I stumbled upon the law of attraction, I realized the role it had played in my life. I realized why success and failure tended to arrive separately and in large amounts respectively. It gave me an answer to the “why” and the power to manipulate every situation.
It might sound too good to be true, but I think that’s a reason so many people don’t know about it. It’s also why many go without giving it a try and fail to make a change in their lives. You can test this RIGHT NOW and decide for yourself. Until then, I’ll go on knowing that
My thoughts and my feelings create my life.
How To Recover From Your Mistakes
Jan 17th
I was playing in a Texas Hold-em poker tournament recently and won the final table… largely because I was able to put my opponent “On Tilt.”
That’s a poker term for when a player loses his emotional balance. They get angry or lose their confidence and start making poor decisions.
When it was down to me and another player, he had twice as many chips as I did. I wasn’t happy about that, but what could I do, but do my best with what I had? So, I determined to do that.
At one critical point, I bluffed by going all in when I had a poor hand.
When the other player folded, I did something that I rarely do; I turned over my cards to show what I had folded.
Why?
To shake his confidence.
And it worked.
He told me what hand he had folded, and it was clearly the better hand.
From that point on, I slowly began to take more and more of his chips. He’s a very good player and he started against me with great confidence. Then he lost it to some degree and never regained it.
Why?
Because he had made one mistake.
Well, that’s not really the reason.
The real reason was he made a mistake and wouldn’t let it go. He kept thinking about it, regretting it… and beating himself up for it.
So, he lost focus and he lost confidence in his abilities.
That experience reminded me of how important it is to recover from our mistakes as quickly as possible.
Everyone makes mistakes.
Sometimes we make big mistakes.
Maybe you haven’t, but I have, more times than I can remember.
When we blow it in some way, it’s good to remind ourselves that “there’s always another hand” to be played. We can get back in the game and move forward.
But to do that successfully requires a clear head and self-confidence.
Both are needed to enjoy playing the game of life or business. Emotional self-control, emotional intelligence, requires perspective
.We can put our mistakes or losses in perspective, stay calm and perform at the top of our game.
When we do that, our losses don’t hit us as hard and our success won’t lead to overconfidence.
So, the next time you make a mistake, don’t go “on tilt.”
Learn from the mistake, gain perspective and move on.
