The confidence trick

Absolutely gorgeous morning kicked off with an aperitif of fifteen minutes journal writing, followed by a mile-and-a-bit running starter, and then two main courses of business networking. A good healthy way to fuel my day.

I talked about confidence at my first networking meeting this morning.

In my experience, the people that I have been helping with their confidence over the past few years struggle because they think they're going to have to change to be something different than they are now in order to be confident.

Firstly they don't know how to go about this, and secondly they're not entirely sure that they want to change to be someone so different to what they are now.

The most liberating and inspiring part for them is when they find out that they can still be, and they need to be, exactly who they are. They don't have to abandon being nice, being kind and being caring.

Trying to be someone else never works.

You can borrow techniques from others that you see as being effective, but only if you tweak them to work for you and to fit in with your personality.

Who you are stays the same. That, for me, is the most important part and why it works!