Creating a Successful Mindset

I have just spent the weekend as a crew member at the Christopher Howard 'Break Through to Success' seminar, and what a fantastic weekend it was. 4000 people attended and spent time working on their goals, realigning their values and removing the negative attitudes and fears that stand in their way. Brilliant! It was great to be a part of something where so many people were focusing on creating a better life for themselves and has inspired me to really think about what being succssful means. The dictionary describes success as an event that accomplishes its purpose. Whether thats becoming a better person or coming to the end of a goal that you have set yourself. Put simply success is completing what you set out to do.

How many times do we recognise our successes? Take some time to recognise all the things that you do on a daily basis that you can count as successes. Build up a list and notice just how successful you really are. Once I started to really recognise the amount of things I was successful at I took a good look at all the goals I have and realised that if I apply a more successful attitude to my approach I am more likely to achieve a successful outcome. Its that old self fulfilling prophecy again. Try it and notice how successful you start to feel. Apply it to your goals. For more success tips sign up for my Free newsletter at www.susansavery.co.uk

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Boost your confidence - be prepared!

How many times have you got caught up in worrying about something you want to do? The fear that builds up can sap away at your confidence until you start to convince yourself that either you will never succeed, things are impossible or that you don't really want to do it anyway. It's certainly happened to me before.

One of the tricks that I have found to be really helpful in the past is to remind myself that its normal to feel apprehensive before taking on something new. I literally take myself back to basics and take some time remembering how I have felt in the past when I was less than confident about something. I go over in my head the steps I took to achieve what I wanted and most importantly;the lessons that I learnt. I remind myself of past successes no matter how small.

Most of the time we tend to feel lacking in confidence because we are unsure of something. There are grey areas in what we can expect or what we think is expected of us. We think of all the things that may go wrong or worry about what we don't know. We can also get caught up in the fear of failure and worrying about how we will look to others.

Preparation – Think about the things that are bothering you. Write a list and work through them one by one; eliminating them as much as possible. Will you get asked something you can’t answer? What will the situation be?

Cover your bases - Find out as much as you can, ask questions; take your time to prepare. (Beware not to allow preparation turn into procrastination).

When we are prepared we automatically feel more confident. Remember a time when you felt completely confident and prepared for a situation. Perhaps it was having a specific conversation with someone or meeting a group of new people. What did you do in the past? How can you prepare? Do you need to think about the aspects of the conversation you want to have? What kind of response do you think you might get? What might they ask you? Is there anything you can find out before hand? What sort of people are they, what are their interests.

How did you go about finding out this information before? Who could you ask? There are lots of ways in which you can increase your confidence by being prepared. Think about what fits the situation and get prepared!

Getting creative ...

Hi all, Its surprising how much we forget the things we achieve over the years and focus on the things we fear. I was asked to provide the cake for my step-daughters birthday party and was about to order one from my local bakers, when I thought back to the various things that I have done over the years and started thinking about when I was at catering college and took a cake decoration course. I made a few cakes for people years ago when the children were small and although that was nearly 25 (gulp) years ago; I started coming up with a list of skills and achievements that I had completely forgotten about. Well I decided to jump back in at the very deepest end and make the cake myself. After two evenings of the kitchen looking like an explosion in an icing sugar factory not to mention feeling sick from eating cake mix, butter cream and icing... the cake was finished. And guess what? Not only did it go down a storm but I received 2 enquires from other guests for more cakes. The boost to my confidence was priceless... something else to add to my mental CV.