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‘Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy’

- Norman Vincent Peale

I would like to touch on the subject of confidence in yourself and what you do in this post.  Confidence is certainly one of things that some are lucky enough to have plenty of and others may need to work on.  In short confidence can be described as having trust, believing or being assured in something, self or someone. Being all said and done, confidence is certainly one aspect we all need and we all look for in people, circumstances and products around us in many different areas.  Being confident in yourself is not always easy, and I can certainly relate to that, but over coming a fear or issue in your life certainly gives you a boost in the confidence department…. doesn’t it?  You feel so much more in control and you show this as well in your body language, willingness to to more challenging tasks and sometimes, feeling of invincibility. Remember back to when you conquered something and the feeling of strength and confidence after finally taking the bull by the horns and completing the task.

Confidence at work certainly in what you do or say at work, is something we all have to take on and overcome to improve our working relationships or selling power or have staff trust and be willing to work alongside us.  I guess a great example of being confident at work would be those in the emergency services.  I don’t really even want to imagine a police officer not confident in what they were doing or saying. (Don’t get me wrong I am totally in awe of those who serve in the emergency services and truly grateful that they are there).  Just like if you are in a sales position and cannot confidently describe products and services befits and features to sell to your customer.  Having been in sales rolls previous to working at home online, I have seen first hand, the good that confidence can do for individuals and getting results.  I remember clearly on my first day in telecommunications, on sales floor, many customers would be attracted to me.  (I had never worked in telecommunications previous) But my body language, and ability to talk the talk even if in a very general way helped these customers have trust that they were being served by a confident and knowledgeable person.  It also served as a think on your feet reaction from me, and learning all the new aspects of this employment became paramount, but the confidence I showed help customers feel at ease and learning for me, easier.  Working at home with my home, I still need to have the confidence that I created and strengthened, as a sales employee.  If I am not confident in what I am trying to achieve by working from home, will I achieve it?  Maybe, but would the results be truly amazing?  Maybe not!  I need to be confident in the blog posts I share, and confident to answer questions or comments from readers.  I need to remain confident in my knowledge of online processes, blog posts, being able to talk to and assure and hopefully lead those looking for answers or ideas to find the processes that will help them.  I also want to be confident and accessible enough for people to come to me for answers or my leadership and in turn become  an online knowledge base for all those who come in contact with me or my different web sites.  I know that there is no real point contacting a person who has reached ou to met if I am not confident in what I have to say and how I can help each person achieve what they are looking for in their lives.  And these people need to be confident in me and what I have to offer.  So can you build your confidence online in what you have to offer.  I think … definitely!

Building your knowledge, and getting out there and doing what you have never done before is certainly one of the best ways to build you confidence levels, and in turn people become confident in you and what you have to sell or say or both.  Never built a blog or web site before?   Go out and give it a go yourself… build your confidence.  ‘Slow and sure wins the race!’  Need to be able to talk on the phone about your product or services?  Learn all there is about them, have them in use yourself, find others opinions and form your own.  Build your confidence in what you are doing and selling.  And if you want to build your confidence within yourself, go and do something that scares you.  Small steps… Say if you are fearful of public speaking, begin with holding a conversation around the dinner table at friends, ask questions at training sessions, even online training sessions.  As you slowly build your confidence in speaking with others around and listening you will soon become immune to your fear of public speaking and just take that final step and do it.  Conquer the fear and shoot yourself in the arm with a huge dose of confidence.  You will feel and see and hear the difference it makes to you.  Others around you as well will notice your new found confidence and with this you will feel even more confident.  I guess you can call it a flow on effect.

Go out and be confident in what you are doing or saying or both.  While you work diligently online, be a confident beam of light with knowledge and willingness to share your knowledge.  Always work on your confidence and building it.  Continue to push yourself with new tasks, especially the ones that you are unsure of or fearful of and conquer them.   I also keep myself busy online.  Writing blog posts and being very visible on the internet is one of the fear factors I have built up my confidence with, and continue to work on.  If asked a year ago do you think you would write a blog post on the net, I would have very quickly answered no!… but things change and confidence is a big factor.  Be confident people, trust in your abilities and do what you have always dreamed about.

‘Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. ‘

- H. D. Thoreau

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