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02 - Confidence and Leadership Overview

Welcome to this week’s message on leadership, confidence, and how to feel good about yourself everyday as you interact with people, in safety and comfort, at home and work.

Last week’s message was your introduction to the value you, and your employer and your family, will get from these messages.

This week’s message is about the Cycle for Confidence and Leadership and how it impacts your life. It is the step that allows you to see that self-confidence, developed here, provides leadership skills that entitles, and allows, you to feel good about yourself everyday.

Look the Cycle over and you begin to see how it works.
Your spiritual dimension – that separates you from everyone else on the planet – gives you your individuality, your uniqueness; and yet, as a human being, it also gives you those traits that are shared by all other people.

Cycle for Confidence and Leadership

In future messages, you will be given in-depth understanding, and evidence of the background, on each of the stages of the Cycle so you can see why you feel good about yourself, or why you feel less positive about life generally. You can develop the skills that create great leaders.
Today it is just important to know how it works.

If you go through the cycle, as an overview, you will see, at Stage 1 where a definition of self-confidence (‘the mental attitude of having trust in, respect for, and reliance on, your own judgement’) is shown. Self-confidence is defined by those three important principles.

It then moves on to define Principles at Stage 2, (‘the standards or rules of personal conduct’). You are born with a full set of principles that are further developed by being nurtured by positive experiences (or destroyed by negative experiences). If you consider those you personally know, and admire as leaders, you will recognise them as people who live by principles.
The principles within you are governed by your conscience, and displayed by you, as character.

And as the next arrow at Stage 3 shows, when you are faithful to your conscience, by choosing to do what you know is right, when you exercise choices, you feel much better about yourself.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if in our work, and relationships, we never had to choose right from wrong? That we could always be faithful to our principles. But it is not uncommon for us to be in a position, at some time, of getting that knot in our stomach because we know we are in a situation, even briefly, where we are being asked to do something that is contrary to what we know is right.

Being able to be faithful to their conscience is one of the traits that define leaders.
Because as the next arrow at Stage 4 shows, and as you know, it is a lot easier for people to achieve anything when they feel good about themselves. Learning and achieving, in any field, starts to become instinctive.

And as the top left, Stage 5 shows: ‘Instinctive Achievements are the catalyst for the growth of self- confidence’. You can reflect how, with the other stages, that the catalyst for your growth in self-confidence is when you are achieving, with such ease, that it becomes instinctive.

And it is that instinctive achievement that makes you feel so good about who you are, and your place in the world. When you feel that good about yourself, you also become certain about your decisions, and actions. That is when you become noticed by others as a leader.

No matter how obvious it seems to be reminded of how the whole Cycle of Confidence and Leadership works, it is important to remember that it is the entire Cycle, along with the 5 Critical Steps, that must be applied to your every day life to be effective. That is why each stage will be explained in separate messages, over many months, along with the many messages on the 5 Critical Steps.

Together they provide a complete picture of how to gain, and maintain, self-confidence forever. That will encourage, and assist, you to develop great leadership skills.
Those Steps are, 1. Recognition and Embracing of Your Own Uniqueness, 2. Celebration of Achievements, 3. Writing a Vision Statement, 4. Setting Goals and 5. Application.

Please take the opportunity this week to think about your place in the Cycle, with the knowledge that the full process that you take part in each week, with these messages, will help you to stay within that Cycle forever. You are entitled to feel good about yourself everyday.

Please email me on how you have made positive choices, that made you feel good, because they have exposed your place in the Cycle, and which will continue to give you confidence in some area of your life. You may know more about leadership than you realise!

Your stories – even short comments – are of great value to inspire others, and I would like to take the opportunity to include your stories, or comments, in upcoming episodes of ‘Special Interest Items’. They will be included as they fit into the theme of the message for that week.

Do you know anyone you can help with leadership issues, or just feeling good about themselves? Forward this message to friends and work colleagues; print it out and place it on notice boards, and give copies to those without computer access. Printing out, and compiling each weekly message in a folder, is a good way to build a total knowledge of self-confidence and leadership. It will provide certainty in dealing with every aspect of your life.

Next week’s message is an explanation of the first Critical Step to self-confidence and leadership. ‘The Recognition and Embracing of Your Own Uniqueness.’
It is a message that reinforces your value, and entitlement, to ongoing, continuous happiness. It will be followed over coming weeks by each of the other Four Critical Steps.

Until then, please continue to see yourself as a unique and remarkable person, who deserves to feel good about yourself every day.

Tony Richards.

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