Some Good Reading - Scribbled

I had been through some good reading last night, probably i had gone through all that is written over there that’s why it feels me these excerpts should be on my blog, I hope it will be helpful to somebody ... This is excerpt from the book “The eight powers within you “ by Shishir Shrivastva. I literally don’t know who this man is but ,he has written something pithy that I thought could be of somebody’s recourse in difficulties which usually faced by many of us.

“Self-limiting beliefs are among the biggest obstacles to building self-confidence. You must try to get rid of the false notions you have been holding about yourself in your brain. To do this, you must write down the different beliefs that affect your performance and ask yourself: 'Is this attitude justified? Is it true about myself? What can I do to change it?'

When you analyse your self-limiting beliefs and ask self-empowering questions of yourself, you will find that most of your beliefs are false. Knowing this, you can adopt a new belief system that is self-empowering and enriching.

When you do this, you will realise that all your beliefs are a choice and what stands between you and your accomplishments is the will to take the first step and the belief that it is possible for you to reach the great heights of achievement.

Develop your self-esteem

Self-esteem is the opinion you have about yourself. It greatly influences you each time you go out to perform. The higher your self-esteem, the better your performance at work. Self-esteem and self-confidence have a direct correlation. One of the first steps to take when you want to build self-confidence is to like yourself. When you develop admiration for yourself, your self-respect and confidence level go up. Start saying to yourself from today, 'I like myself, I like myself, I like myself.'

Your self-esteem plays a major role even in your interactions with others. While dealing with other people, constantly remind yourself, 'I am as portent as you are and you are as important as I am.' When you repeat this affirmation, your self-esteem and self-confidence are enhanced. When this happens, your chances of success in relationships increase. There is a direct correlation between the amount of self-respect you have and the respect others have for you.

How to gain instant self-confidence

Getting over difficult situations is not always easy. Our brain tends to lock in memories when an event causes negative emotions. These strong emotions return when things go bad. Surely you remember forgetting a line in a poem when you were young or being pointed at when you didn't complete your homework. But you had a lot of successes too -- and they were just as important.

The problem is that focusing on failures tends to lower self-confidence and lets you down. So you must recall your triumphs. Maintain a victory log. Instead of recalling your failures, summon up the instances where you did well. Each day write down one or two successes that you have had. Regularly feed your victory log and refer to it when you feel low. A look at it will boost your self-confidence.

Focus on your strengths
You are a born to excel in something. The best way to identify your ability is to put yourself in different situations. Then see what you like doing the most, what you can do with natural ease. Once you discover your innate talent, you must devote a great amount of time to working hard and trying to become the best in your chosen field. This will increase your confidence tremendously.

Learn to overcome your fears

Have the firm belief that you have the ability and strength to overcome your fears. Remember, fear is a state of mind. You may fear doing something but many others around you do the same thing with natural ease. Some of them would have started out with fear in their mind, just like you. These people should be an inspiration to you. To overcome your fears, you must choose to take small but consistent steps in the direction of what you fear doing.
When you do a bit of what you fear, your confidence gets a boost. Suppose you have never been on stage and have a fear of speaking in public. You can begin by learning a few lines from a poem that you like. Practise speaking the lines aloud in a room, in front of a mirror, and later on an empty stage (with no audience at all). This step-by-step process will bolster your faith in yourself. Slowly, you will reach a stage where you will be speaking in front of an audience with little or no fear at all.”

Predictions through Generality

We always talk things in broader perspectives. What I meant exactly by this is , theres always you will find people tend to predict about things in future from their past experience and this “past” experience can be a reading in newspaper or news on television or statement made by scholars or even by politician. Before elections, every news channel sets up a panel to discuss who will win the elections. People jamming there are said to be shrewd and having experience in election analysis (My foot!!). They predict the result and mostly it is destroyed by the live facts coming out in front of them from different constituencies.
The fact of the matter here is , people tend to predict by having look at generality i.e. what generally happens. It may be in elections or in predicting FIFA world cup results. Recently animal who is in limelight more than Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul the Octopus had been predicting results of Germany’s matches in world cup. Many people were following him for results before match, and by coincidence he predicted all the result with cent percent accuracy. But did this little bloody animal really decide Germany’s fate in world cup? Any wise man’s answer will be a big NO. People inclined to trust it’s decision from past experience. They tend to believe Paul slowly as most of his predictions were right.
You must have heard gossips like , “Tendulkar will hit a century today”, “FedX will win wimblondon”, “Schumacher will win race today”. These things happen generally , the probability of happening of these things is always high. So there is nothing wrong to make predictions on this basis, it is natural tendency of human to talk like this. This is generality and this has always a preference in people’s predictions.
But before making any predictions we should always take the fact in to consideration that it is entirely possible that the opposite side of predictions always has equal chances to happen as predictions! (This is just a random thought which came after hearing one of many foolish predictions always being made with confidence)