Life should be about enjoyment, health and abundance. With self confidence, energy should flow through our bodies, aching to succeed and fulfil our potential. We all have the potential to succeed and with self confidence anybody can.

 

Be Yourself

 

To be in touch with the abundance that nature can provide we have to be at ease with ourselves. We need to have self confidence in our abilities to succeed and know we are the best person we can possibly be. Trying to constantly impress others doesn't help us to be ourselves. Other people should see the person we really are and the abilities and potential we have to offer. Having the self confidence in ourselves will shine through and ultimately we will be appreciated for that.

 

Do Your Best

 

In order to succeed we need to concentrate on doing our best; not just in the area of our choice in which we want to succeed, but in everything we do. Cultivating the attitude that we want to do everything successfully is a positive mentality that will help bring success in our chosen field. Allowing negative thoughts to creep in any area of our lives shows that we haven't become that totally positive person that we want to be. Develop the self confidence in all aspects of our lives and we can fulfil our potentials, which are greater than you can probably imagine.

 

Avoid Doing Too Much

 

Although it is necessary to do everything well, it should be stated here the need to avoid attempting to do too much. By cramming in too many tasks in any given time frame, will mean that each task will not get the full attention it deserves. The likelihood of then not performing the task to the best of our abilities will create frustration; a negative emotion that does nothing to put us at ease with ourselves and allow us to be in touch with success.

 

Competition

 

Frustration is a negative emotion and so can competition be. Throughout life we are taught to be competitive. "We should be competitive in our business activities and sport". Trying to be competitive in life, trying to fight to get the better of others does not create the mind set to be at ease with ourselves. By concentrating on how to beat the competition means that we are not focussed on going forward. What activities the competition chooses to perform, we have no control over. Instead of devoting our thoughts and energies to the competition, we need to focus on our own activities, something we do have control over.

 

Sport, particularly at the highest level is very competitive, and competition really is unavoidable. But even amongst the top athletes, the need to concentrate on their own activity is a necessity, leaving their competitors to look after themselves.

 

Control the Controllable

 

There is so much within our environment that can possibly affect us but we have no control over. These things are not worth spending our thoughts and energies on. Identifying the things we can control and do something about is where our successes lie. By developing the wisdom to know the difference and the self confidence to succeed with the activities we can control will place us in the best possible position to achieve our dreams.

 

By understanding what constitutes positive and negative emotions will help in searching for the good feelings needed for success. Go forward with self confidence. Knowing that feeling good, alive and energetic is a great way to receiving abundance.

 

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Cheers for now

 

Terry Norrington

 

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