This is a guest post by M.Farouk Radwan founder of http://www.2knowmyself.com/
We all know that one of the essential ingredients required for success is believing in ourselves. After all, the road of success is full of criticism, rejections and down times and if you don’t have enough faith in yourself, you might not be able to continue to the end.
While this fact is known to most people, many of them still don’t know how to develop that strong faith in their skills or how to strengthen what’s already there.
In this post I will tell you about some practical actions that can help you believe in yourself if you currently don’t or believe in yourself even more if you already do.
How to Believe in Yourself:
1) Succeeding at small tasks will increase your faith in your skills: If you succeeded in doing a small task you will have more faith in yourself when you face a bigger task. Most people underestimate smaller goals without realizing that they can be the ones that help them have faith in themselves when they face bigger ones.
2) Use positive media: According to many studies people who listen to motivating music end up becoming more motivated in the long term. What will happen to your faith if every morning someone told you that you can get whatever you want 50 or 60 times? Most people don’t give any attention to the songs they listen to without realizing that listening to motivating songs can increase their faith in themselves in the short, medium and long term.
3) Dare to take risks: Some people live in their comfort zones all the time and as a result fail to test their abilities and skills. You won’t have faith in yourself before you manage to break through that barrier and get over some of the difficult challenges that you are facing in your life. After all, believing in yourself is all about finding that you are capable of facing life’s problems. Now, what do you think will happen to your faith if you ran from problems instead of facing them?
4) Go against people: How many times were you enthusiastic about something that others convinced you that you couldn’t do? Many people give up some tasks, important goals or even their dreams as a result of the people who put them down. If you managed to challenge people by going against their recommendations, which are usually based on their own fears, then you will have solid faith in yourself. Before starting my website many people told me that it’s not possible to make money out of it. Today it’s my main source of income and I left my day job because of it.
5) Document your previous achievements: When we face hard times or down times we become trapped in a certain negative way of thinking where we can hardly remember our previous achievements. If you documented your previous achievements you will be able to recall them whenever you have self doubts and that will help you have more faith in yourself.
Written by M. Farouk Radwan, founder of the popular site, 2KnowMyself. With over 18 million total visits to his site and 500,000 monthly visits, Farouk has created a prolific body of work that keeps visitors coming back. You can begin exploring his work at www.2knowmyself.com.
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Thanks for the guest post, Farouk! As always, you provide words of wisdom. Five relatively simple steps that pay huge dividends to those who apply them!
Your very first step — succeeding at small tasks — is perhaps my favorite, in part because we so often get this one backwards.
I think it’s less that we succeed because we have self-confidence and more that we have self-confidence because we succeed at accomplishing those small tasks you speak of.
Doing this builds a sort of internal momentum. We start actually believing that we CAN accomplish great and important things. Confidence grows, which leads us to tackle even bigger things. A positive self-fulfilling prophecy develops: Confidence breeds success, which breeds more confidence and then more success again, and so on.
Great post, my friend!
You have made great additions that made the post more understandable ken
I would to thank you so much for giving me such opportunity
keep up the great work 🙂
Today, #4 “Go against people” really hit home for me. It has been 2 months of trying a Vegan diet. I feel great, but it is absolutely a challenge doing something so different at times. I hope you both have a lovely weekend!
thank you Wendy
if you found yourself moving in an opposite direction then most probably you are right 🙂 at least that’s what happened with me
keep in touch 🙂
I know what you mean, Wendy! While I don’t eat Vegan, I eat healthy: whole grained complex carbs, tons of fruit and veggies, very low sodium and so on. It is so true,a s you say, how extremely difficult it can be to eat like that around people who don’t. Luckily my wife has jumped on board and eats very similarly, but before she started, I had to compromise my eating standards more often than I preferred.
Since my motivation was more health than ideological, I didn’t have as big a personal issue with compromising. But I can see the bigger problem if one’s eating is an extension of one’s beliefs about life and all.
So happy you are feeling great. Good luck with the challenge!
Wishing you a wonderful weekend too!
Great posts! The truth is to find in simple statements!
I agree fully with the first one – building faith happens in the small things.
Number 4 – Go against people – is my biggest challenge at the moment. It requires creativity, knowledge and faith at the same time. Not as a rebel, fighting again existing bad situations, but as a creator, introducing new possibilities and go against people in power with other plans.
Thanks for sharing.
You are most welcomed March
yes of course its hard but its worth the effort
i wish you all the best in your life 🙂
Hey Marc, just poked around on your blog. Love it! Lots of good stuff there. Hope to see you wander back to my neck of the woods from time to time. 🙂
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farouk sir..may I know your email address so as to share with u my problem and seek some valuable advice?please
Hi Sherpa. The post is a guest post on my blog. If you would like to contact Farouk, you will need to visit his site and contact him there. Try this link: http://www.2knowmyself.com/contact
Good luck!