If you truly wish to be successful in life and in your business then it is important to have a sense of your own value. We tend to dismiss or take for granted the many successful achievements throughout our lives. Graduating from high school, buying a house or raising a child all require a degree of skill and discipline, yet we never really think about those sorts of achievements and how they might have made us a better person or someone who others look up to.
Recognition of these sorts of achievements is important for helping build our self confidence. A lack of self confidence or self worth is one of the major dream killers. You may have wanted to be a pilot but decided against taking lessons because you thought that it might get a bit scary up there. Perhaps you wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer but you didn’t end up going to college because your family members told you “no-one in our family has ever been a doctor or a lawyer”. Some people might take a statement like that as a challenge, but many would also see it as an indication that their family and friends don’t believe in them… and would give up on that dream.
You need to put other peoples opinions and influences aside and think about what you have already achieved in your life and what you would like to achieve in the future. Consider that there have probably been many people who had exactly the same hopes or goals as you have, and many of them achieved those goals. If those people didn’t honestly believe that they could achieve everything that they set out to accomplish then they most likely would have failed. Common sense tells us that if you don’t believe you can leap over a fence then there’s a very good chance that you are going to hit that fence fairly hard and end up in a crumpled heap.
Professional sports people are an excellent example of what can be achieved with self belief and hard work. You don’t get to the top of your sport by constantly telling yourself “I’ll never be the best”. When Muhammad Ali loudly proclaimed “I am the greatest” he wasn’t just giving lip service to self confidence – he genuinely believed he was the greatest boxer on the planet. Most athletes who compete at the Olympic Games are there because at some point they realized that they had become good enough at their sport to compete amongst the best athletes in the world. They realized their potential and set about a plan of action to take them to that pinnacle.
Your capability to achieve whatever you desire lies within. Most of the barriers that are placed in the way of a good goal or dream are usually put there by our own minds or by people who have no real interest in whether you succeed or not. Some of them may even be envious of your enthusiasm and positive outlook. As the great business philosopher and personal development speaker Jim Rohn once said – “The few who do are the envy of the many who watch”.
