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Courage Creates Confidence

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 May 12, 2017
Courage Creates Confidence

Courage Creates Confidence

Courage creates Confidence! It sounds upside-down, right? I am sure you are thinking that confidence gives you courage. Let’s explore this a little more.

Everybody wants more Confidence. It’s been said, published that confidence enables us to tackle life’s challenges with more certainty and clarity. With CONFIDENCE, we can do more, be more and live more … right?

While there’s no question that confidence is a valuable attribute, there is another quality, often undervalued, that may well be even more effective. In fact, it might just be the key to building truly sustainable confidence! COURAGE…

Let’s define Confidence and Courage:

Confidence: A feeling of self-assurance. A state or quality of being certain. The feeling or belief in one’s own abilities or qualities.

Courage: The ability to do something that even when you scared. Act on one’s beliefs despite danger or disapproval. The ability to do something that you know is right or good, even though it can be the most difficult thing.

Courage Creates Confidence

Confidence lives in the comfort zone. It loves to operate within the realm of safety. It excels in what is known. This where confidence thrives. The power and certainty is based on past experiences and a build-up of achievements over time. This comfort zone is limiting. Let me give you an example. A person can be extremely confident at a task, but at the same time avoid trying a very different type of work because they don’t want to risk appearing foolish.

Now Courage is the willingness to try new different things. Take action even if we are not feeling sure of ourselves. For example, leaving a successful profession to strike out on your own requires great courage. If you’re painfully shy, learning to speak up at meetings or social functions is courageous. True courage is the willingness to risk discomfort. Doing things while being scared. We break-up with fear and move forward, building boat loads of confidence along the way.

In my opinion, courage is the most important trait for developing resilience and creating positive change in your life. Courage provides the commitment that you need to start change and the passion stay on your path during times of doubt and insecurity. Life is unpredictable and can create roadblocks on our path when we least expect it. Only courage can take you forward.

3 ways to be Courageous

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  1. Taking it one step at a time  

It’s so easy to YES to life. No can be very challenging and tricky. No offends yet we forget that it also protects us. Learning to say No builds courage and confidence. Saying No helps you from making poor decisions. This tactic can help you stay focused and prevent unnecessary complexity and wrong turns.

2. Bend, Don’t Break

Learning to flexible and adaptable to life challenges and roadblocks build courage and resilience. This in turn makes one confident. You will be like a bamboo during storms. The roots are firmly in the ground but the bamboo bends in the direction of the wind. They rarely break. Changing your game plan and letting go will be easy, when things don’t go your way.

3. Saying NO

Choose one thing that you have been avoiding. The one thing that makes you uncomfortable. Write down what do you need to do to take the next step. Maybe reading more about it or asking for help. This way an understanding can be developed about the situation.

Starting today, why not challenge yourself to celebrate each encounter with fear as an opportunity to strengthen your courage muscles and grow your confidence

Thriving in The Sweet Spot

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 September 5, 2016
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Thriving in the Sweet Spot

Since I have launched my 30 Day Sugar Free Sweet & Sexy for Spring Challenge (Join the challenge its FREE! www.ilovesugarfree.weebly.com), I have been thinking about the phrase “THE SWEET SPOT IN LIFE”

What is the sweet spot?

“The sweet spot is that place where your greatest strengths and your greatest personal power overlap with those arenas where you find ease, where there is little resistance or stress” Christine Carter

I’ve wrestled with the sweet spot for a long long time. What parts of life need to blend together to get to it? Do you know? When struggle sets in life I become stressed and sombre. I lose my mojo when I’m too tense or tired. I feel stuck and strained. I know that I can get great successes outside of my sweet spot, but my body and brain just freezes. What can I do?

Here are 3 ways we can flow into our sweet spot (easily and effortlessly):

  1. Rethink busy-ness  Busy-ness can exhaust us and make even easy tasks seem harder. Any time we feel anxious & stressed, we aren’t working or living from our sweet spot. So rethink busyness to finding meaningful things to do or doing things with a meaningful attitude.
  2. Engage with People. One requirement for human survival is connecting with people; this sense of connection to others brings us both ease and strength. We feel less isolated, less lonely and less stressed. We feel we belong. We gain immense strength and feel safer. Start today by connecting with one new person you encounter.
  3. Practice makes Perfect. If you continuously to live and strive in the sweet spot. Over time with practice it becomes a habit. As we develop a good habit, they become second nature. Where we don’t even have think about. Easy as pie.

We then Thrive in the Sweet Spot with ease and comfort.

Take Action: Pick one of the above ways to flow back to your sweet spot, and decide WHEN you will do it. Insert in your calendar or for all intentions & purposes your fire may dwindle.  Where is your Sweet Spot in Life?

Why Getting Happy at Work is so Important?

Posted by Anjana Lala on
 April 5, 2016
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Getting happy at work is one of the most important reason to be more successful at work!

Drawing up impressive to do lists, having the right system, time management methodology, keeping detailed logs, eating your frog first, having an efficient structure – all this is correct and valid – but it does not make you more productive. There is one important thing that makes all the mentioned work more effective and fun: Liking what you do! Yes, liking what you do! By liking what you do, you can tackle the to do lists, etc., with more ease and resilience.

The single most efficient way to increase your productivity is get happy and be happy at work. No system, tool or methodology on earth can beat the productivity boost you get from really, really enjoying your work.

I’m not belittling all the productivity advice out there – it’s not that it’s faulty or ineffective. It’s just that when you apply it in a job that basically doesn’t make you happy, you’re trying to fix the symptoms when the problem goes much deeper.

Here are the 10 important reasons why being happy at work is the #1 productivity booster. Happy people:

1: Work better with others
– Better teamwork with your workmates
–  Better employee relations if you’re a manager
– More satisfied & happy customers if you’re in a service-orientated job
– Improved sales

2: Are more creative
If your productivity depends on being able to come up with new ideas, you need to be happy at work. You think better when you are happy.

3: Resolve problems instead of complaining about them
When you don’t like your work, every molehill looks like a mountain. It becomes difficult to solve any problem without agonizing over it. When you’re happy at work and you run into a snag – you just deal with it!

4: Have more energy
Happy people have much more energy and are therefore more efficient at most things they do.

5: Are more optimistic
Happy people have a more positive, optimistic outlook in life, and as research shows, optimists and happy people are super successful and way more productive.

6: Are way more motivated & driven
Low motivation means low productivity & drive, and the only sustainable, reliable way to be motivated at work is to be happy and really like what you do.

7: Get less sick
Getting sick is a productivity killer. If you don’t like your job, you’re more prone to contract a long list of stress related diseases. More sick leave taken. You’re also more prone to workplace stress and burnout.

8: Learn quicker

When you’re happy and relaxed, you’re much more open to learning new things at work

9: Worry less about making mistakes
When you’re happy at work the occasional mistake doesn’t bother you much. You pick yourself up, learn from it and move on. When you happy your concentration is better therefore fewer mistakes.

10: Make better decisions

Happy people make better, more informed decisions. They are better able to prioritize their work under stressful situations

You wondering all this sounds great BUT how do you get happy at work? There are two ways, really:

  1. Get happy in your current job. There are numerous things you can do to improve your work situation. The magic trick is that you choose to do something! For example- sit down and write what you like about your work and what you don’t like. Then take one or two things you do not like then find ways to change them. Once you start you will see the impact and you will be pleasantly surprised.

2. Find a new job where you can be happy. If your current job is not changeable, don’t wait– move on! Again that is if you choose to do so.

What are you willing to do to get happy at work?

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