15 Questions to Boost Your Confidence Into Action Today!

By Saskia Roell  

 
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Have you ever had a great idea, but you stopped before you even started?
Maybe you thought you weren't good enough, or that it was never going to work out, or that you didn't have the means to do it, or you feared that everybody would think you were crazy?
Or you wished you were braver?
The problem is that if we procrastinate, ignore, or stop the flow of our divine guidance long enough, eventually our creativity dries up.
Last week a client told me that she feared she'd lose her talent to create art. She said, "I keep waiting until I am in the mood to start painting, but somehow it never happens, and maybe it never will."
Her honesty was admirable, and we all recognize ourselves in her. We allow our minds to talk us out of taking action, and we stifle our playful self with all kinds of reasons before we allow our inspiration to flow.
The first step to tap into your creative juices is to take action, and then you'll get in the mood, not the other way around.
It's like Leonardo da Vinci said:
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
True self-confidence doesn't come from a serious ego but from the Soul, who is playful and connected to your true source of genius. So let's play!
Here's a playful approach to let go of excuses by connecting you to your playful self. Take a moment, write the answers down, and have fun. It really takes the seriousness away.
15 Questions to Boost Your Confidence Today:
1. Describe your perfect day.
2. What single experience has transformed you, and why?
3. What would you do if you were braver?
4. If you had 60 seconds to share the most important lesson learned, what would it be?
5. What are your 5 favorite activities?
6. What's one thing you experienced that blew your mind?
7. Have you ever ignored your gut feelings and then wished you hadn't? Why didn't you listen?
8. How do you drive yourself crazy?
9. What invitation will you get out of bed for at night?
10. What is the best compliment someone can give you?
11. Describe the best meal you've ever had?
12. What do you say to your friend who has lost his/her job?
13. What is something amazing about you that nobody knows?
14. What one eye-opening experience should everyone have?
15. What would make you super-proud if you accomplished it?

Using her own life as living proof that extraordinary choices lead to an extraordinary life, Saskia Röell expertly helps others do the same. She's a Soul Guidance Coach, radio host, bestselling author, and co-author with Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey and Deepak Chopra. As an international speaker, clairvoyant healer and mother of five, Saskia empowers you to move out of your comfort zone, break through your fears, and go after your heart's desires. Get access to her free "21-Day Road Map to Your Dreams" Program here: http://www.YourSoulGuidance.com.

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Get Your Goals Back on Track

By Gerry Henderson 

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Do your New Years resolutions fall by the wayside before January's even out? Do you find that you're always setting goals, yet you never manage to see them through? Don't give up, get back on track and let this year be the year when things finally happen.
The problem lies not in our ability to achieve our goals, but in how we set them. With carefully set goals and a clear plan to get there, virtually anything is possible.
Make sure that you've set yourself a really great goa
By setting a general, non-specific goal, we often find that we have no real direction or focus. Whenever you set a goal always make sure that it's SMART:
* SPECIFIC- Make it really clear and know EXACTLY what you want to achieve.
* MEASURABLE- How will you know that you've achieved your goal?
* ACHIEVABLE- Challenge yourself, but ensure that it's achievable.
* REALISTIC- Do you believe that you can achieve it? Are you prepared to commit to it?
* TIME-BOUND- Your goal must have a clear start and finish date in order to be inspired to take action.
Always ensure that your goal is truly your own; not something that you feel you SHOULD or OUGHT to do. Make sure that it really excites you, and is in line with your beliefs and values.
BREAK IT DOWN
Write down all the major stages that you need to complete in order to achieve your goal; these will form your milestones. Put them in order and work on just one milestone at a time. By breaking down your goal into bite-size chunks, you only ever need to focus on the current smaller goal. This not only keeps you focused, but your confidence will also grow with each milestone achieved.
TAKE ACTION.
Without action a goal is just words; with action it becomes a reality.
Take action towards your goal every single day. Schedule your actions into your diary for the week ahead or set them out each evening for coming day. The key to success is to keep taking action no matter how small, in order to maintain motivation and stay focused. Remember, every step that you take is one step closer to your goal.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
Without self-belief you'll always find it hard to achieve your goals. Yet with enough positive visualisation, coaching, and consistent action, almost anything is possible. Take tiny, consistent actions, and your self-belief will naturally grow.
Believe in yourself and you'll be astounded by your inner strength, potential and ability. Realise that you're quite simply amazing!

About this Author

Gerry is a Personal and professional coach. She Helps individuals improve confidence, achieve their true potential and helps them to put the fun, passion and excitement back into their lives.
Her aim is to motivate, inspire and help others realise that within each of us is someone who is unique, amazing and capable of achieving incredible things with their lives.
She currently runs One-to-one coaching programmes, workshops and diet and well being courses.
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How to Rebuild Your Self-Confidence After Failure

By Christina Sponias 

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After facing failure you simply want to die. You have no courage or energy for anything.
You need a miracle.
Therefore, you must believe in miracles. This is the first rule you have to obey if you want to have the courage to go ahead and triumph. This is very difficult because you cannot believe in anything.
However, I can prove to the world that miracles happen because I found salvation from despair when I was totally lost, depressed, and always angry. I was saved by a miracle.
This is why I'm telling you that you must believe in miracles. Your faith won't be based on your imagination.
The unconscious mind that produces your dreams is God's mind. God exists, and He is as saintly and as wise as described by all religions. He helps us in all ways when we obey His guidance in the dream messages. Carl Jung discovered this truth, but he acted like a scientist, and not like a sinner. I, who was a terrible sinner, could easily understand that I was receiving divine grace without deserving it. Thus, I had a religious attitude.
This story looks like a fairy tale, but there is also a tragic part in it, which proves that it is not an invention. There is always something bad in our reality when we discover the truth. This is why we never doubt that there is something bad behind the scenes, or that something bad could happen in the future. However, we are always afraid to trust someone. We cannot believe that we will find something good in the dark future ahead.
The divine unconscious mind is very generous and sends us precious messages in dreams because we are basically demons. We need guidance in order to eliminate all the evilness, the absurdity, the indifference, and the cruelty we have inherited into the biggest part of our brain.
In other words, we are immensely helped in all ways when we learn the dream language and we understand the unconscious guidance in dreams. However, we receive this generous help because we are too far from balance and we cannot find peace without guidance. This is the tragic part of the story.
Dreams are mysterious because the unconscious mind must hide the information it sends to our conscience from our anti-conscience, which is the primitive side of our conscience that didn't evolve like our human side. We have to study the dream language in order to understand the meaning of dreams.
The anti-conscience will be able to understand the meaning of our dreams when our human conscience will understand their meaning by studying the dream language. However, the anti-conscience won't be able to distort the meaning of the dream messages because it will learn this meaning after our human conscience does.
On the other hand, the anti-conscience is idiotic. Its intelligence cannot be compared to the intelligence of our human conscience. Our conscience can study and learn many things, while the anti-conscience refuses studying and learning whatever. It is a self-destructive animal.
Therefore, the reason why our dreams are so confusing is the necessity to hide the unconscious messages from our anti-conscience, which would distort their meaning if it could learn it before our conscience would understand these messages and follow the unconscious guidance.
You only have to learn the dream logic and the meaning of the most important dream symbols in order to understand how the dream images are connected. The dream images follow the unconscious logic.
Thus, miracles can happen because God exists and He helps us in all ways by sending us precious guidance in dreams.
You will be immensely helped by following the unconscious guidance, and successfully solve all problems. This guarantee is given to you thanks to my work, after continuing Jung's research, and discovering the unconscious sanctity.
The unconscious mind will show you how to achieve your goals by giving you many clues, like a good teacher. You have to participate of your psychotherapy and put all the clues together, making your conclusions.
In the end, you'll become a doctor too. You'll understand all the process of your psychotherapy and how someone can be cure through dream translation. The unconscious mind gives you many lessons and explanations in dreams.
The unconscious messages will help you believe in salvation because you will see how your problems can be solved. You will feel that you have the privilege to understand many things about yourself and about the world thanks to the unconscious guidance.
The second rule you must respect in order to have the courage to go ahead after facing failure is the fact that you have to accept failure as if it was not the end of the world. Of course, a failure is the end of the world for you. However, the truth is that the world will keep working even after your big failure. The sun will shine again. The birds will sing with all their energy, as if nothing bad had happened to you.
A failure is not the end of the world, even though it seems to be a tragic end. Each failure is another lesson and another step in your journey.
The third rule is related to the second one. You must always stand up after falling, and keep walking. If you'll keep walking, someday you'll arrive.
The unconscious mind will help you arrive faster, and without making useless attempts. You will be guided.
You will surely find the courage you need to go ahead and triumph thanks to dream translation. Now that I transformed Carl Jung's complicated and time consuming method of dream interpretation into a fast method of instant translation, you are able to immediately understand the unconscious guidance, and immediately solve your problems.

About this Author

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung's research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.
Learn more at: http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com

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The Evil of Pride

By Sunday Joseph Adenuga 

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Pride is defined by a Dictionary as having a high opinion of one's worth or possessions; when one have a very high opinion of him or herself, one is said to be proud. A conceited person who feels he or she is better than others, scorning others and disdaining other people's opinions and worth is said to be proud. Many people are proud and they do not know it. After reading through this article, you will be able see yourself and judge whether you are indeed proud or not.
When you always think yourself to be the only right fellow and all others are seeing by you to be wrong; when you feel you are the best and every other people are not as important as you, then look to it, it may be a seed of pride in you, get rid of it today before it gets rid of you. When other people's opinion is of no consequence to you and have no consideration in your heart, that may also be a seed of pride. Also you have the seed of pride when someone offends you and begs you but you refuse to forgive and forget the offense, especially when the offender has called other people to beg you and you still refused bluntly, check yourself for cleansing from the seed of pride.
Pride comes because of one's great accomplishments and success; when you excel beyond others, you need special grace to remain humble. Every time God blesses you above your equals and mates, you need to see it as a special grace, this will help to keep you humble. Some become proud because of their beauty, some because of their positions of power, some because of their parents wealth.
God's Warning Against Pride
In the Bible, the book of Proverbs 6: 16-19, and Psalm 138: 6, The Lord warns that He hates the proud one, God keeps a very good distance from the proud one, so be careful that God do not keep a disturbing distance from you. We are told in Proverbs 11:2 that pride brings shame. At the end of the day pride brings strife and unnecessary fighting because pride is not of God. He expressly commanded us never to be proud see 1 Samuel 2: 3
Many people were recorded in the Bible to have exhibited pride and faced the music in a hard way. One of them was Pharaoh Exodus 5: 2. He ended up losing all his precious soldiers, chariots and horses in the red sea. Naaman the captain of the host of Syria was humbled by a simple Word of the Lord from the mouth of Elisha, Nebuchadnezzar was sent to the bush for seven years when he became proud. The art of pride has always led to destruction from all available records of history from age to age. The fall of Lucifer who later became Satan is the best illustration of all, please see Isaiah 14: 12 - 17, Revelation 12: 7 -12, and Ezekiel 28: 14 -19

Sunday Joseph Adenuga is a pastor who believes in empowering people to become the best they were created to be, his messages of God's anointed word has brought hope to many hopeless people around the world. He is the founding pastor of Success Dimension Church, Ibadan, Nigeria.
You can be further helped and blessed through him by visiting http://successdimensionchurch.org and get linked to most of his works on the net.
Listen to some of his video messages at http://youtube.com/successgalore and be blessed of the Lord

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Find Ways To Improve Your Memory With These Tips

 By Asher Lexington 

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Our memory is something we never want to lose. It is possible to prevent memory loss with a few simple steps. By being educated about memory loss and ways to prevent it, you will save yourself agony later in life. You can never start too early with memory loss prevention. This article will give you plenty of tips on how to prevent memory loss.
A helpful tool for increasing your ability to memorize is to link the bits of information together in your mind with a common trait or factor. Connect pieces of related information relies on logic that helps you remember this information better; on the contrary, connecting pieces of completely unrelated information can also stimulate recall. A chemistry student could try associating peanut butter with lead to remember that the symbol for lead is Pb. This association is so off the wall that it is easy to memorize.
Use a calendar and a day planner to keep track of events. Keep a planner with you throughout the day to keep track of any appointments or events you must attend. Build a schedule and keep an eye on it daily. Having these things written, and referring to them, will help your brain. You don't always have to depend on your memory for everything and your planner will reduce the stress about important dates and times.
If you would like to improve your memory in ways that are both fun and effective, listen to jokes and laugh more frequently. By trying to determine the punch lines to the jokes you hear, you stimulate the regions of your brain that are linked to learning, memory, and creativity. Find people you can share jokes with to stimulate your brains together.
Ensure your water intake is as high as possible. Your brain is mostly made of water. If your body is dehydrated, you will get tired, and you will not be nearly as sharp as you could be. In this situation, you will likely struggle to call up old memories or even to make new ones. Make sure you consume at least 64 ounces of water daily.
Ensure that you get plenty of rest. Studies have proven that getting the right amount of sleep is crucial to memory function. If you can't concentrate due to poor sleep, committing learned facts to long-term memory will be difficult.
For memory improvement, rid yourself of unpleasant or negative thoughts. It have been proven by studies that those with negative feelings and thoughts tend to experience greater memory loss than positive-thinking people. Speak with a medical professional about safe and effective methods for relieving stress.
Some people advise the consumption of Omega-3 as an aid to memory retention. A lot of people don't know that the human brain is actually 60% omega 3, so this is why foods rich in omega 3 can help your memory. Eat foods that are high in unsaturated fat, like salmon and other fish.
When you have something that needs memorizing, relate it to a memory that you already have. If you associate a short-term memory with something you thoroughly know, you will better remember things and even accelerate the process of turning short-term to long-term memory.
A good way to keep your mind and memory sharp is to challenge yourself daily with brain exercises. This works in the same way that physical exercise helps to build muscle. By regularly challenging your brain, you will improve your memory, focus, and concentration. Try brain teasers, crosswords and word searches, for instance.
While age can take a toll on our memory skills, there are things that can be done to bounce it back into life again. Some items that will assist your memory are an adequate diet, sleep, exercise, and mind stimulation games, such as crosswords or chess.
Clearly, it's possible to deal with memory loss when specific steps are followed. If you take advantage of the tips you've read now, you'll improve your memory and be less likely to suffer from memory problems later in life. It's never too late to improve your memory and brain. Much like exercising your body, anytime is a good time to stretch the "muscles."

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How To Build Self-Confidence To Get What You Want

By Sunny James  

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Learn how to build self-confidence so you can have more success in life.
There are a lot of people who are struggling with self-confidence and this is having a huge impact on everything they do in life.
Your level of self-confidence affects everything you do whether you are trying to achieve a personal goal such as improving a relationship or losing weight or trying to get a raise in pay at work.
If you are struggling to overcome low self-esteem then read this entire article it has helped hundreds of others and it can help you.
Here are 3 steps to help improve your self-confidence.
Step 1 - Keep a positive attitude about yourself and your abilities. This is really important because if you have a poor attitude and do not believe you can do something then you probably will not have the fortitude to do so. I know this may sound silly but it has everything to do with how you perceive yourself and your abilities.
Step 2 - Knowledge is power and without it you are lost. Part of the reason we lack self-confidence is because we lack knowledge in the area of what we want to achieve. It is important to learn everything you can about what you are trying to accomplish so that you will not be guessing about what needs to be done or how to do it.
Step 3 - Practice, practice and more practice. You have heard that practice makes perfect well it is really critical for giving you the confidence to succeed at something. Once you take in the knowledge you need then work on practicing the steps to achieving it. There may be certain parts that you can do easily and then there will be other areas that you need to work at before you have the right skill level for you success.
These 3 steps combined together can really help you along in your endeavor to increase your level of self-confidence. Remember do not give up on the first few times of trying to do something. It will take some time to get you to the skill level to succeed. Also the more you do this in everything you do the better level of self-esteem you will have. Then you this will help to inspire and motivate you to do more things that are important to you. I know it really made a difference in my life and for my family.

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Is Worrying Normal?

By Valerie O'Brien 

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If you never had a bout with worry, check your heartbeat. Everyone has and will worry. Are your worries overwhelming you, then that's not normal. If you would like to step out of the worry zone, you've come to the right place.
You could call worry a survival trigger, that warns you of present danger, or to quickly change course. It is learning how to effectively deal with problematic issues that come up throughout your lifetime; that's the challenge. Not being able to sort through the muck grips millions of people year after year into a paralyzing unhealthy addiction, to the parasite called worry.
Have You Experienced Some of These?
• Endlessly worrying
• You would like to stop but can't
• Feeling overwhelmed
• Anxiety attacks
• Rapid heartbeat
• Sleepless nights
• Dwelling on "what if's"
• Digestive problems
• Heartaches
• Muscle tightness
• Your family avoids you
Worrying if left unchecked and unresolved will cause undue stress, and stress has been known to cause illness in both the body and mind.
Why do You Worry?
Are you worried right now? Do you worry about things that you were not able to control in the past, and do you also worry about things that can't be foreseen in the future. Being too preoccupied with things that are no longer within your reach and things not yet within your reach will keep you in an endless state of worry. When you identify the triggers, you'll be able to think clearly and deal with the issues at hand.
Which Realm are You Living In?
Do you sometimes find yourself dwelling on decisions you made in the past? For example: What if you had just saved a little money back then, or taken that other job instead of this one? Or wished you had spent more time with a loved one? Do you really believe your life would be better today? You must always remember that the past has taken care of itself. It can't be changed. Begin excepting that reality and quelling the guilt of the past is your first step to conquering and overcoming worry.
Worrying about events that may never come to pass can be just as dangerous. Future worries are yet another unproductive activity you don't want to be caught in. You have no control and will never have control of the future. However, preparing yourself and your family for future events are important. For example, there's a stark difference between saving money for the future versus worrying about the sky falling.
Tiger Shark or Jellyfish?
Now we come to the present, and perhaps, the most challenging time period for a worrier. Why, because this is where you must meet reality. You can choose to have the heart of a tiger shark, and swallow up your worries. Or perhaps, a jellyfish and float back into the lonely dark endless abyss, probably not.

Start today and find your solution here. Don't focus on the past, and remember the future is not staring you in the face yet. Become engaged now, so that any present problems will be in clear view. When you begin the process of sorting through the murky waters, you will discover that your anxieties about the past and the future will slowly sink to the bottom and eventually melt away.
About the Author: Valerie O'Brien specializes in helping individuals manage their worry monsters in a simple common sense approach. How 3 Simple Quotes from Extraordinary Wisdom Makers can transform you with your battle with worry. Visit: Quotes About Worry, and get your Free 10-part Mini Course 2012 Edition.

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