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Contents Foreword What Is Self-Confidence? Chapter 2: Your Beliefs Chapter 3: Your Current Beliefs System About YOU Chapter 4: Creating A New You Chapter 5: Self-Confidence Boosters Other Best Selling Programs By Adam Khoo 3 4 8 13 19 23 28 43
Foreword
Imagine yourself striding towards the stage as you were being invited up on stage for a public presentation. And as you turn your head, you see those envious eyes pacing you until you finally stood still. With those bright and big eyes staring at you, you opened your mouth and spoke with assertion. As you looked down from the stage, you see the eyes of the audiences glued on to you. You think to yourself, "Wow." Can you relate to similar situations before? Well, most people cannot... Simply because they actively shy away from these opportunities to shine. Why? Because don't see it as a "blessing" to be given the opportunity to present their ideas. Rather, it's a "disaster" that might make them look like fools. It's a fact that many people fear having to present themselves not only publicly but also to other people. Yet, we all know that being able to present ourselves professionally and to sell our ideas is the most important sale we must make to be successful. So what's stopping them? It's the lack of self-confidence.
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What Is Self-Confidence?
Have you ever observed people in a ball room before? If you have, you would notice 2 distinct groups of people. The first group of people walks around as if they are striding, with a straight posture and an arched chest. You can see these people smiling confidently most of the time and engaging in longer casual talks with other people as they seemingly 'flow' across the room, meeting new people along the way.
On the other hand for the second group of people, you can see them standing in a quiet corner, slowly sipping their water, intentionally avoiding attention. If they were ever forced to move across the room to get to the washroom, you would see them walking around fixing their eyes on the ground as they sneak across the crowd. If someone calls them along the way, they would lift their head reluctantly and then forcefully brighten up with a smile before hurriedly walking away. At best, they would stop at people they know and hang around them all night, avoiding strangers "at all costs". Well, I'm sure you have noticed these 2 categories of people in life. The first group of people beaming with self-confidence would have no qualms talking to strangers. It is their nature to walk around introducing themselves to new people and exchanging their business cards.
On the other hand, the second group of people will just wait for their people to walk over to shake their hands or they would stand in the corner of the room, hoping that nobody would notice them.
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And all starting with just one "Yes", it gave birth to the KFC Fast Food Restaurant that we now know today. Imagine for a moment that you had the same level of perseverance and self-confidence as Colonel Sanders... How many of those goals you've set for yourself now seems more possible to achieve? If you're like most people, the answer would be... ALL of them. You see. There is nothing we cannot achieve as long as we set a goal, have absolute confidence we can achieve them... and we persevere until we do.
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And at such an impressionable age, we will often even pick up the same beliefs system and habits both empowering and disempowering ones. So what are some of the disempowering beliefs young kids might pick up? - "I take a long time to learn because I'm not smart." - "I can't do it." - "I got a bad grade in Mathematics just because of some mistakes. How can I be so stupid?" - "My parents are not giving me the level of attention I need. Maybe it's because I'm not good enough to deserve their love" Unfortunately, the beliefs we formed when we are young are often brought into our adulthood, limiting our potential. So in the next chapter, you'll learn what "beliefs" are, how they are installed into our hardware and how they affect the way we look at ourselves.
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that you are nothing more than a follower, then you will not expect anything more than being just a front line employee. If you believe that you are capable, that you will expect to excel in every task you undertake. However, if you believe that something is impossible, that it cannot be done, will you take action? Not likely. Even if you did, you would probably stop the moment you hit a problem. As a result, you may have all the potential in the world, but you will not tap into it. And sure enough, you will not get the results. When this happens, it will further reinforce the belief that it just cant be done. In other words, your beliefs will drive the actions you take, and how much of your personal potential you will tap. When you believe that something is possible, you will go all out to make it happen. You will take massive action and have the commitment to keep doing whatever it takes to achieve it. As a result, you will tap a lot of your personal potential. For example, if you dont believe that you can ever build a successful company, you wont even attempt it. Even if you did go into business, you will quit the moment something goes wrong because you had limiting beliefs that It is just too difficult or I dont have what it takes.
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Does this mean we will be able to produce the exact result that we envisioned? Not all the time. But having a belief of possibility will allow us to produce results far beyond what we would have done if we had no belief to begin with. At the same time, if you believe that something is beyond your reach, you shut out the possibility of ever achieving it. You switch off your own personal potential. And since self-confidence is all about believing in yourself and what you can do (your capabilities), the key belief you need to work on is YOURSELF.
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We do the same things to our friends, family members and our colleagues. Once we make up our minds to hold on to a belief, we will tend to focus on all the times our beliefs are supported, and fail to notice all the occasions when our beliefs are invalidated. So, whatever we believe, becomes real for us. It becomes our truth. Remember: Self-confidence is defined as "the level of which you believe in yourself and what you can do." So if you believe you are incapable, then you will tend to focus on evidences to support that... and it becomes true to you. I have seen so many instances when a persons belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Whatever you believe strongly about becomes a reality. This is because you take all the actions that support that belief, thus encouraging the result. Some people I know have a belief that they are incapable. They believe that they are slow learners and they don't have the skills and adaptability to succeed in life. As a result, they focus on all the things they take very long to learn. This keeps reinforcing their belief and will prevent them from taking up any opportunities to learn something new.
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If our parents believe that they can never be rich because of the current family background, you are likely to take on those beliefs yourself. If you grow up in a family where nobody finished school, then you would likely have a belief that education is difficult or not important. The fact is, many of our beliefs also come from our past experiences. Remember, that the beliefs you have are nothing but perceptions and interpretations you make about these past experiences. However, the trouble is that after a while, we forget they are merely perceptions and begin to accept them as absolute truths. That is when they become commands embedded in our brain, and begin to determine how we live our life. While some of the beliefs actually empower us, many of them limit us at the same time. For example, beliefs like I am bad at Math, I am a slow learner, I cannot relate well with others, I am lazy or I am too young or too old.
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Next... 2. Based on what you've written, look at those disempowering beliefs and for each of them, list down how they were first created.
3. What are the evidences that support each of these limiting beliefs?
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Now that you know how your limiting beliefs are created, it's finally time to invalidate them. You can do this by asking yourself these questions: 1. "What else can this mean?" 2. "Is there a counter example?" For example, someone found that their belief of "I'm a slow learner" came from the evidences that they took several attempts to understand something while their friends got it at first glance. By analyzing this 'evidence', they can begin to change the meanings of these experiences. Their taking several attempts to understand something could simply mean that they were not using the approach to learn that will work best for themselves. It could also mean that they were not interested with the subject to start off with, while their friends are... so they are not motivated to understand the topic, and not because they are slow learners. And on the other hand, maybe they could think of topics or subjects they are passionate about (like the mobile gadgets)... and think of instances where they knew exactly how to go these sophisticated gadgets to work wonders... while their friends took hours to figure out.
So let's start doing the same thing for your limiting belief. Do the next part of this exercise now! 4. How can I challenge and break these evidences? What else could it mean? Is there a counter example?
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Once you have created the new beliefs, find new evidences to support each of them by asking: "Were there times in the past when this belief would have been true?" For example, when Dominic wanted to install the belief that "I am a confident speaker", he looked back into his life and wrote down those times where he shared his opinions confidently to small groups of people. Now if you want to adopt the belief that "I am a fast learner", was there a time in the past when you were very fast at learning a new skill? For every belief you have, you can definitely find evidences to support it. If you have to, look in books or go on the internet. And if you cannot really find any evidences at all, make it up! Thats right. The mind cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is clearly imagined. This was exactly what Roger Banister did when he set out to break the worlds record in distance running. Find and write down all the evidences you can find that will support this new belief. I want you to take all the time you need and list them all down below. 5. For each of the new beliefs, list down new evidences to support them.
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Now, it's one thing for you to create new beliefs, but it's a whole other thing for you to install them into your mind permanently. I bet you have heard of the saying: "Old habits die hard", haven't you? So, it's time for us to...
6. By adopting these new beliefs, I will make the following new decisions and take the following actions.
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Now that you've successfully installed your new beliefs about yourself, in the next chapter, I'll share with you 10 additional techniques for you to take your confidence to a whole new level.
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Now, to take it to the next level... Copy what you have written down above into a blank new sheet of paper. Then, paste it anywhere you would see every morning. Look at the list, add on to it every day, and remind yourself that you are special and unique in your own way.
For example, bankruptcy. What do you think most people in debt for millions of dollars would do? Most will lose confidence in themselves, give up in life... while some will resort to the "easy way out" (committing suicide), right? But not Donald Trump. Despite being in debt for millions of dollars, he retained his selfconfidence and persevered. In just a few years, he regained all his wealth and even more. So how was he able to do all these? He documents his "secrets" in his book, "The Art of the Comeback". The gist was that he was able to reframe the entire "bad experience" into a "learning experience". You see, reframing is one of the most powerful techniques a successful person must have. It is the one skill that would give people the power to not just survive, but also to prosper in the toughest of times. And that's why I teach it in my Patterns of Excellence course. There are 2 different types of reframing content reframing and context reframing. Content reframing is the process of changing a negative experience into a positive one by changing the meaning of the experience. Context reframing is the process of changing a negative experience into a positive one by changing the context from which it is perceived. Take for example you were wrongly scolded by your boss for not putting in enough effort in your work. You can use content reframing and say: "Good! I now know that my boss doesn't appreciate my work. With my current experience, I'll go find
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another boss that will appreciate me more. I might even be able to get better prospects and more job satisfaction."
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And by taking 100% control over our lives, we'll inevitably give ourselves the power and confidence to shape our future.
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In the space below, list down all the fears that are stopping you from achieving your goals.
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Next, think of how they are hindering your success right now.
Good, I assume you have completed the exercise above. Now, let me ask you a question:
Have you ever had the experience of doing something you've always been afraid of... only to discover that it isn't really that bad (as we've imagined)? In fact as part of the Patterns of Excellence LIVE program, I will get my participants to break a wooden board with their bare hands. Even after I've demonstrated that it's possible, most of them will still hesitate. Why? Because they fear that either the board wouldn't break (and it will make them look bad)... or the board would break and they will get injured. Of course, the latter never happened and those wooden boards usually break in their first attempt. And after the whole exercise, I will always ask the question: "How many realized that this (breaking of the wooden board) seems tougher mentally that it is physically?", and I'll see all of the hands raised up. Look, our mind is the greatest movie director. They tend to exaggerate our fears. But once you physically challenge these fears, you'll realize just how easily they will shatter like hammer slammed against a thin glass. For example, if you are afraid of doing public speaking and it is a must for you to overcome it, write down what are the things that you must do in order to succeed in public speaking. You can join the toastmasters club... take up public speaking courses... and so on. If you are afraid of talking to strangers, you can start by talking to someone you've never spoken to before in your office.
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Of course, you would feel a little bit uncomfortable at the start because you're out of your comfort zone. Do it a few more times and you'll be free from your fear in no time. In the spaces below, list down at least 3 actions you will take to overcome each of those fears.
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Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb on his first time. It took him 1,000 times. Colonel Sanders didn't sell his secret chicken recipe the first restaurant he went to. It took him 1,009 times. Henry Ford didn't create a profitable car business on his first time. He went broke 5 times before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company. Bill Gates didn't create his successful empire called Microsoft on his first time. He failed his first business he co-founded with Paul Allen (Microsoft's co-founder) called Traf-O-Data.
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First, start by setting a small goal like attending a seminar and then going up to 2 complete strangers to talk to them after the event. After you have achieved that goal, you can then start setting larger goals like speaking to at least 5 people in a group at one time. With that momentum, you will slowly but surely bring yourself nearer to the eventual goal of overcoming stage fright. Break up the major goals into smaller achievable chunks first. This way, when you achieve each minor goal, you will gradually improve your self-confidence and self-esteem. To find out more about Goal Setting, go to: http://www.underachievertomillionaire.com
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But if you have studied Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) before, you would know that by changing our physiology (the way you stand, the gestures you use, the focus in your eyes, the way you breathe and so on)... we can experience a different emotional state almost instantly. Let's test this out. I would like you to stand in front of a mirror and smile as much as you can until you have a big wide grin on your face. Now I would like you to think of the things that have made you angry or sad in the recent times. Go ahead and do it while you maintain the big wide grin on your face all the time. Did you manage to experience any sadness or anger? It's nearly impossible! Instead, you would be feeling good and confident about yourself. The same is true when you slouch your shoulders forward, relax your eyelids and your facial expression and you take deep breathes. It's virtually impossible for you to teach of happy things and experience happiness while you are in that physiological state! Instead, you will feel uncertain, disappointed and even sad. So, using the same technique of manipulating your physiology, can you trigger the emotional state of total confidence? The answer is: You CAN! Here's how... First of all, sit in front of a mirror, close your eyes and think of a time when you felt totally confident. Think the things you think,
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breathe the way you would breathe, gesture the way you would gesture and stand the way you would stand if you're totally confident. And once you've done it right, you would be experiencing a state of confidence right now. Once you are, open your eyes start noticing your physiology. 1. 2. 3. 4. Are your eyes muscles focused/relax? Are you standing straight/slouched? Are you breathing deeply/taking small breathes? What is going through your mind right now?
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Next, take a deep breath and relax yourself. Give yourself a pat on the back if you would like to. Based on the exercise you've done just now, you've just discovered the secret lock combination to unlock the confidence state within you. If you would just adopt the exact same physiology, you will immediately put yourself into a state of total confidence. And to take it to another level, there is an NLP technique which you can employ to command the state of confidence whenever you want to... in just a snap of your fingers. That technique is known as anchoring and you can find a CD dedicated to this in my Patterns of Excellence program.
Listen. Just by changing the words or the way you phrase your sentence, you will change the way you view yourself and tap on more of your potential.
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So there you have it, the 10 techniques to improve your level of self-confidence which you need to achieve all the goals you set out to. Remember, whether you achieve the level of self-confidence you desire (or not), is the result of the effort you put in. Now, go ahead and start taking action right now.
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