Discover the Key to Self-confidenceWritten by Colin Dunbar
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation" - Arthur Ashe Self-confidence is necessary for success As Arthur Ashe says preparation is an important key to self-confidence. And preparation can be achieved by using goal setting tool of questions. Asking questions, that is, doing research, can enable you to become proficient in whatever subject or area you want you to. Self-confidence is necessary not only to achieve success with our goals, but also to live a happier and contented life. When we have self-confidence, we can overcome many of life's obstacles easier. How then do we find key to self-confidence? Identify obstacle Before you can work on gaining more self-confidence, you need to clearly identify area that is an obstacle for you not having self-confidence. When you have identified obstacle, you can use a variety of goal setting tools to solve it. And yes, you should undertake your development of self-confidence as a goal. This way you can make positive progress, and have eventual success. Can I share following true story with you... Having had over eight years experience in technical writing, but lacking industry software skills, I turned down positions as result of a lack of self-confidence. It did not take any rocket science for me to realize that I needed to become skilled in software that was being used in industry. The industry standards at time were Microsoft Word and CorelDRAW. If you are familiar with these software packages, you know there are a myriad of features, and in technical writing, many of these are used.
| | Writing the Chapters of Your Life: Surprising Insights Using This Special Journaling TechniqueWritten by Patti Testerman
You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as bylines are included and resource box is left unchanged. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated. Writing Chapters of Your Life: Surprising Insights Using This Special Journaling Technique Copyright 2004 Patti Testerman Journal Genie, The Website That Talks Back http://www.journalgenie.comList-making is a favorite journaling technique and is often used to quickly jot down a numbered record on topics like “my beliefs,” “my pet peeves,” “the things I hate about myself,” or “my strengths.” However, there’s a special type of list technique that moves beyond a simple itemization and into realm of significant self-awareness. This special technijque has several names, including table-of-contents, life chapters, and stepping-stones, latter term used by journaling expert, Ira Progoff. Using this technique writer lists their most important life events, as though they were chapter headings in an autobiography. Progoff and other suggest keeping number of items to around a dozen, to ensure inclusion of only major events. One writer’s listed these items: 1. Brother died when I was three years old. 2. Mom went into hospital when I was five, and I didn’t know why or when she would come home. 3. Grandma died when I was ten, and because of my age they wouldn’t let me go to hospital and see her. 4. Dad died of a sudden heart attack when I was 15. I was with him but couldn’t save his life. 5. I fell in love but we lived in different cities and things just never seemed to work out. 6. My step-father died—how could this happen? 7. My long-distance love affair ended. 8. I fell in love again and thought it was for a lifetime. 9. I got married and was happy, at least for a long time. 10. I got divorced. It wasn’t for a lifetime.
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