confidence
i have a new job which a friend got me at video ezy. on my first shifti didn't much feel like my usually self and was very quiet and didn't speak up much. everything was new and i was in an unknown environment. all strange. last night i was there again and things were not so strange or unknown. this gave me more confidence and i was with some one i know.
all this got me thinking about confidence. when we're confident we speak up. when you're somewhere you don't know in an unknown environment we generally sit back and watch others and observe before we make a fool of ourselves. the more confident i am the more i speak up.
i have also been learning to drive. thismorning on the way to uni with my dad we had a good old chat. both him and myself are more confident in my abilities to handle the car. when he was first teaching my neither of us said a word unless it was him yelling something about his life flashing before his eyes confident that something bad was about to happen.... (it didn't).
acting confident can be a good thing too. you then can act yourself into beleving that you can do somthing. act youself into feeling. don't wait for the feeling to come to you act yourself into it. this works with just about everything i have found not just confidence.
but when you act it and believe, it others do to.
i used to be part of the health club at uni and they sent me on a weekend to canberra to learn more about what they were at and to sit on the exect board and make decisions on things i new nothing about. on the first night i barely said anything. they were talking in acronyms and i had no idea what they were on about. on the second day i made a decision to have some fun and well look like every one else did in knowing what was going on. we were having discussions in small groups on this activity they run every two years that i know nothing about. i was all acting as if i new everything and had some big opinion on it all. these other guys there who had been doing it for years were all asking my opinion on the subject... i couldn't believe it.
all this got me thinking about confidence. when we're confident we speak up. when you're somewhere you don't know in an unknown environment we generally sit back and watch others and observe before we make a fool of ourselves. the more confident i am the more i speak up.
i have also been learning to drive. thismorning on the way to uni with my dad we had a good old chat. both him and myself are more confident in my abilities to handle the car. when he was first teaching my neither of us said a word unless it was him yelling something about his life flashing before his eyes confident that something bad was about to happen.... (it didn't).
acting confident can be a good thing too. you then can act yourself into beleving that you can do somthing. act youself into feeling. don't wait for the feeling to come to you act yourself into it. this works with just about everything i have found not just confidence.
but when you act it and believe, it others do to.
i used to be part of the health club at uni and they sent me on a weekend to canberra to learn more about what they were at and to sit on the exect board and make decisions on things i new nothing about. on the first night i barely said anything. they were talking in acronyms and i had no idea what they were on about. on the second day i made a decision to have some fun and well look like every one else did in knowing what was going on. we were having discussions in small groups on this activity they run every two years that i know nothing about. i was all acting as if i new everything and had some big opinion on it all. these other guys there who had been doing it for years were all asking my opinion on the subject... i couldn't believe it.
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