Believe in yourself

  BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

You can achieve it if you believe in yourself! This saying holds true in our walk of life. If we make realistic goals and strive towards it then success is no more a dream. Some achieve success without much effort and a few others with relentless effort. Life is challenging with lots of ups and downs, so we need not run away from the battlefield but stay on till the war is over. Every lesson of life makes us a stronger person.

There is a popular verse in the Bhagavad Gita which states as, “You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruit of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction.”

The fact is when we are unconcerned about the results, we focus better on our efforts and the outcome turns out to be much better than expected. 

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

In business and your personal life, self-confidence is a prerequisite for taking massive action. You need to be able to believe in yourself – your abilities, skills and passions – to take the leap into entrepreneurship or any other aspiration. Believing in yourself is the lynchpin of exceptional leadership, because self-confidence lets you manage and inspire others with assurance and direction. Learning how to believe in yourself is critical to creating the life you desire. 

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF?

“Can I learn how to believe in myself more?” This is one of the most common questions Tony Robbins hears in his Results Coaching practice, yet many people are unclear about what believing in yourself really means. Learning how to believe in yourself entails building up confidence in your abilities as well as falling in love with yourself – the parts of your personality, perspective and experience that make you uniquely you.

At the core of self-belief is realizing that you – and only you – are the driver of your own success. This is where personal power is built: in claiming agency to overcome challenges in your life. Believing in yourself isn’t about uninterrupted success. It’s about finding your inner strength so that you can embrace the journey that is life, with all its ups and downs, and realize that each challenge brings new skills, understanding and strength.

THE POWER OF BELIEVING IN YOURSELF

If you’re struggling with self-doubt, it’s likely you’re focused on mistakes you’ve made in the past. The Association for Psychological Science reports that you must believe in yourself to learn from your mistakes. Researchers studied the brain activity of study participants to observe what happens when someone makes a mistake. Participants were asked to identify the middle letter in a series of letters (like “MMM” or “NMN”). Participants repeated the task several times in a row. Researchers observed two reactions in the brain – one when participants realized they’d made a mistake, and a second when they went to fix the mistake. After the experiment, researchers asked the participants what they’d learned from their errors.

Here is where the power of believing in yourself came into play: Unlike participants with little self-confidence, participants who believed they could learn from their mistakes improved their performance on tasks they completed after they made the mistake. Those participants were also more successful at fixing their mistakes than their counterparts with little self-belief.

What is the lesson for how to believe in yourself? Realize that believing in yourself is a physiological process that impacts your brain circuitry, creating the ability to handle failures with grace and certainty.