5 Tips for Improving Your Self-Confidence

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 If your self-confidence is low, you will find it exceedingly difficult to accomplish your goals and achieve success. Everybody, at some point in their life, has suffered from low self-confidence. The key to building your self-esteem in today's world is to be persistent and find ways to build confidence that work for you so that you can do everything you've set out to do in your life. Here are six easy tips for improving your self-confidence.   Tip #1 – Know Your Strengths, as well as Your Weaknesses When building your self-confidence, you must know what you are good at. Taking a skills assessment test is a great way to determine your strengths and weaknesses. When your skill sets are realised, then you can begin to focus on doing those things that you are good at because nobody can be good at everything, Tip #2 – Accept Yourself as You Are You are unique. When trying to build your self-confidence, you mustn't beat yourself up over the things you don't have cont...
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Amazing ‘Mental States’ and How They Can Enhance Performance

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You might think of your brain as being fairly consistent. You generally have a consistent level of intelligence, your mood is usually pretty steady and on the whole you don’t tend to change all that much. Or so it seems.

In reality though, your brain is constantly changing. Not only is it growing and adapting, but it will also change in terms of what it’s capable of and how you feel. The chemical balance is likely to change a huge amount.

In other words, our brain goes through a number of states and depending on which brain state you are experiencing at any given time, you can expect very different results.

Let’s take a look at just a few mental states and how they have incredible impacts on the way you feel and perform.

Flow State

A flow state is a much-coveted state that is often described as being the state of ultimate ‘peek’ human performance.

It’s a little more complex than that. But essentially, this is a state in which you are completely focussed on a given task, normally because you perceive it as highly important. This actually suppresses activity in the frontal region of the brain, allowing you to act on near pure-instinct and thereby giving you intense mental clarity and reactions.

Fight or Flight

Fight or flight is a stress state. In this state, the body is releasing adrenaline, dopamine and other chemicals that ramp up the nervous system and increase strength while also suppressing immune function and digestion. Stress like this isn’t a bad thing in the short term. Acute stress allows us to react to situations quickly when we need to.

The problem comes when this state carries on and becomes chronic.

Rest and Digest

The opposite of fight or flight, this is when the body is able to relax and calm down. This is when we digest our food, when we sleep and when we build tissue. We’re also more creative in this state!

Hysterical Strength

Hysterical strength is a little like ‘beserker mode’. Under extreme duress, we produce so much adrenaline that we’re able to call on incredible reserves of strength. This demonstrates just how much of an impact our mind can have on our body – just what is possible when you’re in the right mindset.

And there are many more. If you want to perform your best, best get into the right mindset!

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