admin on November 22nd, 2009

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Many of you are familiar with Emotional Intelligence. According to Daniel Goleman’s model, Self-Awareness is one of two domains in the area of Personal Competence. The second one is Self-Management which is not covered in this article.
You might think of Self-Awareness as setting the stage for your life. For [...]

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Many people feel uncomfortable or experience some degree of anxiousness when entering a new situation or a crowd of unfamiliar people. Unfortunately, for approximately 10 percent of Americans, anxiety about social situations can be bad enough to be disabling. Experts now think that an even larger group of people may suffer from milder [...]

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admin on November 17th, 2009

Confidence is the feeling that you are sure you can complete a complex or even dangerous task. Feeling confident means you are sure of your skills and ability to succeed in a given task. It is an internal determination of how sure you are of your skills. Lack of confidence means you are not sure [...]

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I once saw Paul Newman in a TV interview say that he always had the fear that one day someone would push through the crowd of his admirers, grab him by the arm, and say, “It’s over. It was all a mistake. You are coming back to paint houses.”
I understood exactly what he meant. He [...]

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admin on November 16th, 2009

A social phobia is a fear of interacting with others on a social level. Examples would be talking in front of other people, waiting in line at the checkout imagining others are looking at you, or even fear of talking on the phone.
Self-confidence is a feeling that allows people to have positive, yet realistic views [...]

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Self-confidence is defined as an ability to believe in oneself and one’s own skills and capabilities. This quality is an integral part of high self-esteem, and required for life achievement. A significant number of people who develop a social phobia or cannot learn how to improve self confidence struggle to succeed. The absence of self-confidence [...]

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How naive it is to think that each day must be a perfect day and we must all be perfect. Can we go through life without anything to be sorry about?
It is of course good to seek perfection. Perfection is a goal to be set and a journey to be cherished. Nothing in this world [...]

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admin on October 29th, 2009

All over the internet, you might come across various tips for building self-confidence. Some of these might be beneficial in altering your personality, while some may induce detrimental effects. With the assistance of this brief article, I am trying to follow their footsteps, but with an alternative approach. • Induce positive thoughts on your mind: [...]

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Self-confidence is the number one mental skill that your young athlete must possess to be successful in sports and life! Self-doubt is the number one mental barrier that blocks athletes from that success.
Having high levels of confidence is so important that I spend most of my time teaching students how to develop and harnesses [...]

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admin on October 26th, 2009

Learn to accept yourself The very first step is to accept yourself – lovingly. No person in the world is perfect so why bother and shed tears over your imperfectness. This is how God wanted us to be – Imperfect! We might have something that someone else may lack and someone else might be endowed [...]

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