Stop Sabotaging Yourself: Conquering your Confidence Killers

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CONQUERING YOUR CONFIDENCE

KILLERS

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To Become a Confident Person:

You must eradicate your confidence killers.

Confidence killers are self-defeating thought

patterns.

Many people believe in these harmful

suppositions, and stay stuck.

Here is a short list. See if you can identify with

any of them:


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Confidence Killer 1: All or nothing at all…

Are you an “All for Nothing” sniper?

Do you never seem to enjoy even the smallest

victories you have achieved in life.

You think of yourself as someone who is a complete

failure if you have failed to achieve perfection.

If you stop being so hard to yourself, you may

become a confident person.


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Confidence Killer 2: Doom and

Gloom Do you think there is always a disaster

waiting for you.

Do not let the Dark Clouds of

Destruction make you think this way.

Believe in yourself and move forward.


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Confidence Killer 3: Negative

Magnification This one makes you believe that if this is something good

that happens, it doesn’t really count.

For instance, you have won eight contests, but you failed

to achieve success in the ninth one.

You concentrate on the loss only, rather than any

success, and your confidence flags.

Doing it the other way around makes your confidence

soar!


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Confidence Killer 4: Ruled by the Negative Emotion Committee You are bound to the thought that if you

can feel it, then it must be so.

This blocks the clear thinking parts of your

brain.

What you feel, or more importantly,

convince yourself that you feel is not

always the truth.


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Confidence Killer 4: Ruled by the Negative Emotion Committee No one can be perfect all the time.

Everyone has days when they are not able

to perform perfectly.

Do not let your emotions over-run your life.

Be confident that there is always tomorrow,

or some other day, and perhaps it will be

better.


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Confidence Killer 5: Should Imprisonment

Perfectionists are caught in a trap of ‘should statements’.

Remember that ‘should statements’ are related to what,

according to you, is expected by other people from you and

not what you really want.

For example, if someone makes a statement that everyone

should have a higher education. Then people who do not

have a college degree might fret at this thought and think

that there is something wrong with them.


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Confidence Killer 6: Liability Labeling

Do not label yourself a loser.

Never say that you are a loser or everything

went wrong because of you.

If you insist on labeling yourself, then better

label yourself as a confident person.

Throw away this, and all other, libelous

labeler attitude.


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Confidence Killer 7: Complimentary Constriction

Never be a constrict compliment.

This behavior never allows you to

accept compliments.

It will instead make you feel unworthy, or

worse, a fraud.


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Self-knowledge is Key

If you are able to see your own confidence

killers in this short list, then half of the battle is

already won.

The next step is to re-train yourself to battle

these foes whenever they show up so that you

can conquer your confidence-killing thoughts

and abandon your confidence-killing actions.


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Stop Sabotaging Yourself: Conquering your Confidence Killers