Three Things About Confidence
Join me TOMORROW for an hour of confidence boosting chat 💪
The world would have you believe that confidence is a quality that you either have, or you don’t. I’m calling BS on that.
Anyone can build their confidence. Want to know how? Join me and
for a live Q&A and I’ll tell you.Tuesday 25 February 7.30 - 8.30 pm UK time. Zoom link ⬇️
In the meantime, here are three things about confidence to get you thinking…
1. Confidence is a verb
Confidence grows through action. The only way to get more confident at something is to do it. When we take steps toward something we think we can’t do, we gradually prove to ourselves that we can.
2. Small confidence grows big confidence
When we take action – whether in small steps or large strides – this increases our confidence, which in turn leads to our taking more action, which grows our confidence, and so on. It’s a perpetual cycle.
3. Confidence grows in the stretch zone
You might be familiar with the concept of the ‘comfort zone’. Our comfort zone is our safe place, where we feel confident and certain in our actions. If we step beyond it, we enter the stretch zone, where things might feel a little scary and uncertain. If we push ourselves beyond that, we may enter the panic zone. Nobody wants the panic zone. The panic zone isn’t all that helpful, because it doesn’t feel good, so we’re likely to turn and run in the other direction.
To grow in confidence, we should aim to take regular and repeated action in our stretch zone – where we are doing things that are somewhat challenging, but not so terrifying that it backfires.
If you’d like to find ways to start building your own confidence when it comes to writing – or anything else for that matter – I hope you’ll join us. We’ll be discussing confidence in our own careers, and giving you some practical tips. Live Q&A (and replay) for members of The Inkwell and/or Wild Writing with Sanjida.
I’ll see you there! I’ll be the one in the confidence-boosting red lipstick 💄
