How to Grow Your Confidence in Business

One of the biggest things that affects your business and your income is your level of self-

confidence. You’d think it would be marketing and yes, marketing is massively important, but if

you don’t have confidence in your abilities, if you don’t have confidence in your business or in

what you’re doing you’re not going to get anywhere in your business.

Why is that? It’s because confidence affects your actions and your actions create your habits

and your habits, which are the things that you do day in and day out, create your results in

business. Confidence is responsible for how many clients you have, how much you make, etc.

All of that is based on your actions. That’s why confidence affects every single aspect of your

business.

Confidence affects how you close the sale and how often you market. It affects your

willingness to do whatever it takes, how you follow up with prospects, how you reach out to

potential strategic alliances, how you network, how you speak, all of which determine your

number of clients and how much you make in your business. All of this confidence, affects the

money that you make in your business.

It’s easy for your confidence to take a hit. I know you know this because you’re maybe

experiencing it right now. Each time you don’t close the sale, there’s a little piece of your

confidence that gets taken away. When you make a mistake in your business (we all do) who is

the harshest critic? You know right? It’s you. I know because I’ve been here too.

Every time you lose a client or you don’t make a deadline or you don’t fill that program it

makes you question whether you’re really cut out to do this – being an entrepreneur. It all

stems from your level of confidence. If confidence is such an important part of the success of

your business, it’s really important that you guard it. Guard your confidence.

Allow me to share two simple things with you that I did, especially in the beginning when

things were tough, that allowed me to keep my confidence at a natural level. It kept me

persistent. This is not about inflating your confidence to an abnormal level. It’s about bringing

your confidence back to a natural level.

1. Read your testimonials on a daily basis. I know it sounds kind of silly, but one of the best

ways to get back to a natural level of confidence is to feed your mind with positive validation

that you are good at what you do. That inner gremlin, that drunk monkey inside, it’s so quick to

tear you down and to make you feel bad and to make you question whether you can actually

succeed in your business. Any time something bad happens, that inner gremlin is right there to

tear you down.

To counteract that you must counteract it with equal force. All you need to do is read your

testimonials or think about all of the positive things that you’ve done for clients or people in

your life especially around you business, all the people that you’ve helped along the way. A lot

of people look at their life or their business like 98% is going badly and only 2% is going well,

but that’s not usually the case.

Usually only 2% is going badly and 98% is going well because you’re making progress and

you’re putting one foot in front of the other. Remember, building your business is not a race.

It’s pace, not race. The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit. There is some

time in between and that time sometimes makes us question, “Am I good at this?” Instead of

focusing on that, focus on what is going well. Focus on what your clients have gotten from you

and you’ll have the confidence to keep going.

2. Keep a ‘kind words’ folder. You can do this on the desktop of your computer where you

move over some emails from clients who are getting great results or you paste some of the

screenshots of a note from a gushing client who left you a note on your facebook wall. You can

even create a physical basket and put it on your desk, where you put cards that you’ve

received, little notes of encouragement, words from client who said that you’ve changed their

lives.

That’s what I do. My team calls it the Good News Basket. I call it my Kind Words Basket. It

contains otes from my clients about how I’ve changed their lives, stories along the way, notes

that my team prints up for me from emails that have been sent. It’s a big pile of love.

The reason I keep this is because just like anybody else in business, there are going to be days

where the going gets tough. And it always will because at each new level there’s a new devil,

but you can just feed the positive part of your soul so that you regain you confidence and you

keep going.

Remember, you started your business to make a difference in people’s lives for the highest

good of all. By feeding your soul with positive validation, it allows you to ignore that drunk

monkey and to stay in faith, that you are here to change the quality of peoples’ lives through

your business and when you do you’re going to persevere. It’s those people who stay the

course and persevere that ultimately win in business. You can do this.

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Stay in positive affirmation. Read your testimonials and keep those little notes and read them

when the going gets tough. You’ll see a big difference in your self-confidence in no time. Good

luck!

Fabienne Fredrickson, The Client Attraction Mentor, is founder of the Client Attraction System,

the proven step-by-step program that shows you exactly how to attract more clients, in record

time...guaranteed. To get your F.R.E.E. Audio CD by mail and receive her weekly marketing &

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