In a fiercely competitive work environment, mere talent is not enough. Self-promotion to an extent is essential too. Unless you make people sit up and notice your skills and talents you cannot hope to reach the career heights that you aspire for. Quite often, people understand the importance of getting noticed but are clueless about achieving it.
Well, if you also happen to wonder how successful people always manage to create the right impression, here is the answer- an aura of self-confidence that surrounds them is often the secret of their success! So, start building the self-confidence necessary to take on the world! It is often said that, “who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others.”
On the other hand if you put a small value upon yourself, the world will certainly not bother to raise your price! Hence you must note that unless you show an absolute belief in yourself you cannot expect others to believe in you.
If success has been eluding you for sometime, it is only natural for you to feel depressed and let down. While you sit brooding, your self-confidence embarks on a downward slope. The sooner you wake up to this situation the better because letting self-confidence slide down will only make matters worse. For, self-confidence alone can give you renewed energy to overcome setbacks. So, don't lose your confidence at any cost, it is too precious! Instead always work on giving it a boost. Here are some clues:
Manage your mind: Always think positive and stay optimistic about tasting success tomorrow if not today. Replace self-doubts with self-assurance and self-support.
Celebrate simple wins: Set simple targets to begin with. These goals need not be challenging but make sure that you exploit your strengths and minimise weaknesses. Enjoy reaching each target and celebrate the success. The resultant good feeling will no doubt uplift your self-confidence by a notch or two!
Define your career path: Identify your areas of interest and spell out your career ambitions. This will help you to direct your energies on to the right path. A strong sense of purpose behind every thing you do will enhance your self-confidence.
Build necessary competence: Make a note of areas of work in which you are good. Pat yourself for achievements in these areas.
But more importantly, identify also the areas that require improvement. Start working on your shortcomings. Take the help of your seniors or request your manager for training opportunities. Development of competence and mastery of skills is a sure way to uplift your confidence.
Embrace challenges: As your self-confidence improves try doing new things. Overcoming new challenges or solving fresh problems can be highly invigorating. However, make sure you don't give up but persist even when winds turn unfavourable. Success in every thing you do is not as important; it is making progress and improving competence that matters. Allow yourself the freedom to fail.
Viewing failure as a learning experience will help you to maintain your self-confidence at a healthy level. This will certainly give you renewed energy to turn failures into a successes.
Be happy: Always like yourself and accept you strengths and weaknesses with equanimity. Since nobody is perfect in this world, focus always on building your strengths to make up for any inherent shortcomings in other areas. However, if you still feel some of your weaknesses are hampering your professional progress, don't get depressed. Instead put in sincere efforts to overcome them.
If you have a strong commitment nothing is impossible to achieve. Trying to overcome a weakness is in itself a highly gratifying exercise and every little success achieved will undoubtedly boost your confidence.
Though life is full of uncertainties and adversities, nothing can stop people with strong self-belief from reaching their goals. “Success comes in cans and not cant's.” So, always think you can and you certainly will.
Author: N.Purnima Srikrishna,faqs@cnkonlin.com
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-opportunities/article1481975.ece
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