One Key to Boosting Your Confidence

On today’s teleseminar for members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System, we were discussing the important skill of Communicating With Confidence.

While we discussed communicating with confidence, I also shared ideas for boosting your confidence overall.  While talking about the idea of looking at past success as a way to boost our current (and future) confidence, I said, “If I did it then, I can do it again.”  I was struck by how valuable that phrase can be to any of us.  Let me repeat it.

If I did it then, I can do it again.

It is true, you know.

Whether the past success was in exactly the same situation that you face now, or in a completely dissimilar one – if you did it then, you can do it again.

Are you facing a situation, as a leader or otherwise that you wish you had more confidence about? If so do these five things:

1. Think of a past success -whether in a similar situation to what you face now, or even a dissimilar one – think about a past success.
2. Determine what you did to be successful in that challenge.
3. Remember how it felt to be successful.
4. Connect those lessons – and that feeling to your current situation.
5. Tell yourself (and say out loud) If I did it then, I can do it again!

If you feel your confidence waning as your situation arises, do these five steps again mentally, and remind yourself, “If I did it then,I can do it again.”