A brief thought about confidence...
What makes your confidence zoom up or down?
Working on a new confidence-boosting project [that I can't say much about] has got me thinking about the things that affect our confidence the most. Looking at the e-mails I get and the people I speak to a few things strike me:
Over the long-term our confidence ‘quotient’ -CQ - is set early in childhood - our parents have a profound affect on our confidence and in a sense can actually "teach" us confidence - or a lack of it - depending on the way they nurture us or not.
Part of this might be genetic too.
And in the short term our confidence gets boosted or knocked by a few key sources: our partner if we have one, what happens at work, and friends who can lift us up or sometimes bring your confidence down, e.g., if theymake us feel excluded.
TODAY’S TIP: The starting point for boosting your confidence is to think about the long-term - what you began with, within your family.
And either using that as a source of support now - because your family were nurturing - or being determined to rise above that if your family environment wasn't nurturing.
If we go back to our roots we can discover so much about how we handle situations that are thrown at us in the here and now.
Have a lovely weekend and and I hope you can spend time with those people who boost your self-esteem.
I'll be back here on Monday and tweeting a few tips over the weekend.
Look after yourself, Pamx