Get confident!

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This is a quick and effective NLP
technique for keeping confident and focused.

Take a minute to imagine yourself
riding in a roller coaster. See yourself sitting in

the front car, riding up and down.

Now, make another picture of a
roller coaster, but this time, do NOT see

yourself in the picture. See it as
if you were actually looking out of your own

eyes, sitting in the roller
coaster. Ride for a few moments.

Now, which one of those felt more
real in your body? I'll bet anything it was

the second kind. An image or goal
only appears real to your mind if it comes in

the second form, as if you were
seeing it through your own eyes.

Step One:

Recall a time in your past when you
felt confident and powerful. A time where

you fully felt the way you'd like
to feel. This can be anywhere and

about anything - a great golf shot
you made, or an "A" book report you did in

school. Running a race, scoring a
goal….

Step Two:

Close your eyes, and see yourself
in the first kind of picture, going through

that experience again.

Step Three:

Now, step into the picture, and see
the events as if you were actually looking

out from your own eyes. See what
you saw, hear what you heard, and feel how good

it felt in your body. When those
feelings of confidence and power reach their

peak in your body, reach over with
your right hand, and give your left wrist a

squeeze. Run through this twice
more, giving the same squeeze in the same place.

This will train your mind to recall
those feelings of power and confidence

whenever you squeeze your wrist the
way you are doing now.

Step Four:

Think of a situation or
circumstance where you would like to be more confident

or more poised or whatever it is
you'd like.

Step Five:

Picture it the second way, as if it
were going on and you were seeing it through

your own eyes.

Step Six:

As you do so, reach over with your
right hand and squeeze your left wrist,

triggering your confidence anchor.
This will train your mind to automatically

call up the feelings of confidence
and power when you are in a situation like

the one you are seeing through your
own eyes. You won't even have to think about

doing it, which is the advantage.
(And that's why anchoring works where

"positive thinking"
won't, because often by the time you get yourself thinking

positively, it's already too late.)

Go through the situation with the
first kind of picture,

seeing yourself in the picture.
Then step into the picture, and go through it,

feeling what it would feel like,
looking through your own eyes. Do the same

thing for the second "learning
from your mistakes" attitude. See yourself making

a mistake, feeling ok about it, and
learning whatever lesson you need so you can

do it differently next time. Then
step into the picture and see it through your

own eyes.

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