EP6: The Trick to Career Confidence

The Career Woman's Secret Playbook Podcast - with Dr. Dawn

Ok ladies - let’s get to the secret behind cultivating that Career Confidence! This is SO important, especially when you are facing changes in your career, right?

Now, for some practical tips on how you can unleash YOUR career confidence, follow the steps we are getting ready to talk about and if you DO, you might just be “licensed to carry” this special skill wherever you go!

1) Begin EACH morning with an Attitude of Gratitude! Often if your

confidence is at an all-time low, it’s harder to see all the wonderful things that are surrounding you, so if you begin each and every day with an attitude of gratitude, you will be surprised to see how this feeling of abundance will spill over into everything you do.

2) Identify Your Awesomeness - then Showcase Them! Many times people who are experiencing a limited supply of their confidence have forgotten all of the amazing things they may be good at. Why? Because they have gotten so bogged down with the negativity, that believing they are great at things is nearly impossible.

3) Give Worry the Boot by Becoming Your Own Best Friend! Confident people often worry less about what an outcome will be than those that struggle with confidence, and many times that also translates into worrying less about what OTHERS think of them.

4) Practice Makes Perfect! If there are certain situations that make you more nervous than others, then institute this tried but true concept – practice makes perfect. The reason this works is because the action of practicing gives you that extra boost of confidence, and part of the reason for that IS that you realize that you have faced that challenge before.

5) Give Yourself a PASS – If all else fails, remember to give yourself a pass, in more ways than one - when I say I want you to give yourself a PASS, here’s what I REALLY mean. We are going to start thinking of the word PASS differently by turning it into an acronym that can give you a phrase to remember when your confidence is wanning. Ready? Here it is - Positive Affirmations while Skipping the Simple. In other words, although positive affirmations are an excellent strategy for boosting confidence and increasing self-esteem, positive affirmations that are TOO simple and generic tend to be meaningless.

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