The 7 Steps:
1: Know yourself:
2: What do you want?
3: What's holding You back?
4: Goal setting
5: Build a strategy
6: How will you acheive it?
7: Celebrate when you get there
Step 4: Goal setting Now you are at the point where you have to start turning thoughts into action. Goal setting is the pivotal point in building confidence. Articulating what you want and making a commitment to achieving it, is the bravest step and more often than not people get stuck on step 3 and return to step 1 for more self reflection.
Step 5: Build a strategy So how will you achieve those goals? Now it’s time to be realistic about your strategy. Make a list of personal and external resources at your disposal that are going to be useful in working towards your goal. Personal resources could be: Courage, bravery, exceptional people skills, languages spoken, technical skills. External resources could be: Time, support, connections and access to industries.
Step 6: How will you acheive it? There’s no avoiding this step, there’s no quick fix. The only way to stick to your plan and achieve your goals is to work very, very hard. There are no free lunches in life, and there is no easy road. So once again, the only way to get there is to work, work and work. Now you are going to revisit your goals armed with what you do have and what you are going to have.
Step 7: Celebrate when you get there It’s not enough in life to achieve and move on without stopping for a moment to acknowledge and celebrate what you have achieved. When you celebrate achievement you are actually telling your brain to recognise that self-efficacy has increased and that then sets in motion the increase in self-confidence. It is only with this final step, that the self-confidence boost will kick in.