How to Overcome a Confidence CrisisWritten by Caterina Rando
As a business success coach I have worked with many women in business who consider themselves successful and who are considered successful by their peers. No matter how much you earn, how fast you find yourself expanding your organization, or how much satisfaction your gain from your business, you can have a confidence crisis. Even women with high self-esteem and self-confidence can suffer from a confidence crash. Sometimes, things happen that knock confidence right out of us. At times, our confidence is already shaky as a result of a transition or loss and a single incident like missing a deadline, getting a bad haircut, or spilling coffee on a document can send us storming out of confidence cafe. When you crash, it is usually because your daily diet of life has not included enough confidence causing foods. Confidence is like Vitamin C. You need it in your diet. Your body can only store it for a short time before it needs some more. You have to take responsibility for planning your confidence meals and making sure you have large enough portions. When you have a confidence crisis, don't despair, don't reach for bottle of bourbon or bon bons. Instead, start to use some of these confidence-boosting techniques. Begin with at least two, then add a third and a fourth. You will gain a lot more than confidence - you will learn to love, honor and appreciate yourself more and more. Keep a Journal Keeping a journal is a great way to process, and clarify your feelings. Forcing yourself to write everyday also forces you to take time for daily reflection. Daily reflection can help you solidify what you know, what you have learned, and what you still need to pay attention to. Show Gratitude Practice gratitude - be thankful for what you already have and put your attention on all blessings you already possess. Keep a gratitude section in your journal. Everyday write down five things you are thankful for. This will help you feel richer and stronger in character and that translates into confidence. Evaluate Your Relationships Assess relationships in your life. Do they support you or sabotage you? All relationships change with time; some get better, some get worse. If you have relationships in your life that are more of a burden then a joy, it may be time to sever your ties - or at least loosen reins.
| | How Safe is Your Success? Part 8 of 8Written by Bill Hely
"How Safe is Your Success" is a series of eight articles. Each article addresses a different aspect of a universal problem which is of particular importance to those who do business on-line. Most Internet users are at least aware there are dangers "out there", but few appreciate real extent of those dangers, possible (even likely) consequences, or best, most practical and least expensive means of countering them. This series is intended to at least provide some useful awareness of situation.------------------------- Part 8 - Safeguarding Correspondence Many people world over have a very legitimate need to engage in important and sensitive correspondence with others. But, because of sensitivity issue, they worry about security of eMail and agonize over ways to ensure their correspondence can't be intercepted. If you are one of these people, I'm sorry for this bucket of very cold water I am now tipping over your hopes and aspirations: *** There is no way to be completely certain *** *** your eMail can't be intercepted *** But wait — don't slink off dejected! I do have an answer for you. What if it simply didn't matter if someone else could look at your correspondence? What if, with not much more effort than a couple of mouse clicks, you could turn your very sensitive eMail contents into an unintelligible jumble of characters that no spy could ever make sense of? And what if your addressee, and ONLY your addressee, could turn that jumble back into original message with same ease and celerity? Security against unauthorized viewing would no longer be an issue — in fact you could post message on your corner store bulletin board without a care in world. Of course I'm talking about encryption, but don't sigh and turn away! If you knew about this sort of encryption you'd already be using it, because I guarantee it really is as easy as I just described. Everyone who understands effectiveness and potential of encryption will tell you that it is — in personal and commercial arenas at least — an incredibly effective resource that is largely going to waste. While this article is specifically concerned with securing eMail, subject has much greater implications, even at personal-use level. For example, we all know we shouldn't keep sensitive information such as online banking and credit card details on our PCs, but we do anyway. Right? Don't worry — I'm not going to lecture you about dangers of keeping such information on your computer. But I am going to tell you that unless you take certain precautions you ARE going to regret it sooner or later. Oh, and before I get on with specifics … if you are wondering why on earth any honest person would need to protect their eMail with encryption, consider this: Any eMail you send can be read by at least following people: - anyone employed by your Internet Service Provider (ISP); - anyone employed by addressees ISP; - operators and their employees of any of Internet routers (possibly dozens of them) that your eMail data passes through en route to your addressee. Also, there is an excellent list of scenarios discussed, with many examples, at following website. Please do have a look at it — I think it will open your eyes wide, as almost everyone can find some variation of one of these reasons that applies to them. http://HackersNightmare.com?res=WhyEncrypt
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