Believe you can

Belief is the most important quality that everyone need to possess. Without belief all the skills, talent and abilities that you possess would go unused. Before taking up any task, the first thing that a person need to have is the belief that they will perform and finish it successfully. That belief alone sets the tone to go ahead with your task in a confident and a relaxed manner. In this post we would be looking at some examples to understand how belief plays a major role in success.

An athlete has to undergo many months and years of training to perform for their big event. Along with these rigorous training sessions, the athlete also needs to believe that he will win. When does the athlete start believing in himself? This happens when the athlete participates and starts performing well in local events. These small victories improves the belief and self-confidence of the athlete and slowly the athlete starts believing that victory in the big stage is very much possible.

Even when you attend an interview in a company, you would observe that the company gives more importance to the experience than the qualification. Why is it so? The company expects that the experienced person has encountered similar situations over the years and so would be having a good experience to handle such kind of tasks when given the responsibility. Since the candidate has already seen and overcome such situations before, the mind of the candidate believes that such tasks can be easily done when it is presented again. That belief is what the company is looking for. A Non-experienced person may not have that belief since he may not not have encountered such a situation before.

So how do you improve your belief towards your self and abilities? 

There are 2 ways to this :

- Ensure that you boldly take up the work when you are been asked to. Don't skip any work or look for some ways to get it done by someone else. Be true to yourself always. For short term gains you may get tempted to get the work done through unethical means. However you must realize that it is not easy to escape regularly. One day or the other your skills would be put to test. So it is always better to face your situation today with confidence and learn from the experience. Never procrastinate. This experience will surely be very valuable in the long run.

- Practise of Visualization helps a lot. When you Visualize you must imagine the exact situation that you would face in real time. As far as possible try to be more specific. During the last Tokyo Olympics many sports person may not have got the same kind of opportunities to train outdoors due to the Pandemic restrictions. However many sportspersons would have made the best use of their Sports Psychologists to get trained in their mind using the Power of Affirmation and Visualization. Just like the physical preparation, the mental preparation is also equally important. 

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