"The Confidence Course"
By Walter Anderson
Seven Steps to Self-fulfillment:
1. Know who is responsible - I am responsible
2. Believe in something big
3. Practice tolerance - you'll like yourself a lot more
4. Be brave - courage is acting with fear
5. Love someone - you should know joy
6. Be ambitious
7. Smile
-When pushing past your comfort zone, ask yourself, "what's the worst thing that can happen?"
-Be like one of those plastic dogs with the moving head when you listen to others.
-Focus on what you'd like to learn from them.
-The other person is probably more interested in what he or she has to say.
-Focus on the solution, not the problem.
-The only reason to compete is to improve yourself.
-What I am is who I am when I am alone.
-Adults see beyond themselves.
-When we cling like a child to some false notion, however secure it makes us feel, we not only retard our personal growth but also make it far more difficult and dangerous to take the risks we need to build self confidence.
-Remember to spend the first minute or two putting the other fellow at ease.
-True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
-What have I learned so that I can do better next time?
-Pressure comes from the inside, not from the outside, and it stems from a fear of failure.
-Good preparation reduces anxiety and the odds.
-It's not the joke that makes you laugh, it's the timing.
-Pauses are critical to effective speaking.
-Confidence by definition is an attitude.
- The world will remain the same; how you see the world will be different.
-He who angers you, conquers you.
-What a hopeless, futile task I had taken on: to control the world around me. What I really needed to control was me, and no one else.
-The only sure way to win a fight is to avoid one.
-I believe that if you take the third step, actually decide to forgive, it should be to release yourself from your own anger and not to free from the guilt the person who hurt you.
-Human beings tend to become what they imagine themselves to be: If you see yourself as confident, you become confident.
-Bad things do happen; how we respond to them defines our character and the quality of our lives.
-Although I may not be able to control the world around me, I can control me.
-It is perfectly healthy for you to desire more for yourself, we are meant to grow.
-Testing ourselves against the unknown, proving to ourselves what we can do, building our confidence by facing uncertainty and prevailing, these are the actions that build self confidence.
-Taking a risk is necessary both to grow and develop a pattern for success.
-You know where you are, it is time.
-Fix the image in your mind.
-Just what is the greatest risk of all? It is to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are.
Interesting fact about Walter Anderson: Walter Anderson was editor of Parade magazine for 20 years and is currently chairman and CEO of that publication. (Taken from bookreporter.com - here is the link)
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