Why Traditional Confidence-Building Techniques Don’t Work — and What You CAN do to Build Confidence

Implement the key element missing in most techniques to build consistent, sustainable confidence.

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Traditional confidence-building techniques leave us relying on our minds and our selves — the very things that keep us from feeling confident in the first place.

Shadow work, mantra mumbling, mirror (self) talk — oh my.

Utilize them for what they’re worth. Like any medicine, they’re a temporary antidote for your lack of confidence symptoms.

To develop consistent confidence will take a more powerful antidote — the ONE missing in most confidence-building techniques.

Temporary Fixes Only Work Temporarily

Temporary relief from lack of confidence isn’t necessarily a bad thing — temporarily.

Sometimes you need the temporary antidote to combat the symptoms. So go ahead:

· Face your fear and just dive in and do “it” anyway. You’ll be so proud of yourself. Your confidence will soar — temporarily (situational confidence)

· Recall a time when you succeeded at “it” and that recall will give you the…