Awaken the Sleeping Genius: 6 Ways to Boost your Self-Confidence

Boosting your Self Confidence is the final section in "Faith" of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. He says there's a sleeping genius in the brain of each and every one of us, and if awakened, would take us to undreamed of heights.

A trigger is needed to awaken the sleeping genius - an emotion - the most powerful of which is love because it is closely related to faith.

Don't you think that's fantastic? I certainly do. Doesn't it excite and stimulate you to go for more, be more, get more? It damn well should! And it is not selfishness either because everyone benefits. Creativity stimulates. It provides others with examples to follow, and that's exactly how I discovered Mr Hill by following others.

Here's how you boost your self-confidence:

1 - Get an idea - USE your imagination. Build on it until it develops its own force and grows. This is very easy.

Your only problem is you because you block yourself early on by telling yourself things like "nah, who am I kidding...", "where am I going with this...", "that can't happen...", etc.

2 - Learn to have faith in yourself and your idea. You've go to use your passion for the idea to give you the impetus to go with it. You must develop faith in your abilities, that you can do it. Remember, that idea didn't occur to just anyone, it came to you; which means you have the capability of seeing it through to the end.

3 - Create a plan to bring your idea to fruition and write it down. Establish step-by-step feasible goals around them as they occur to you with deadline dates. If you make your goals too large they would be too big and then you would not start at all.

I suggest you set daily, weekly, and monthly goals. Always keeping the main goal in mind. Remember, it is essential to write down your goals in order to attain them. Seeing them every day reminds you, and anchors them in your subconscious which is where the majority of the work is taking place.

4 - Act on your plan. Start immediately because the right time will never come.

5 - Persist with the plan until you succeed. It doesn't matter how you feel, do it anyway. Through setbacks, outright failures, "speed bumps" called friends, "caution lights" called family, persist until you get there!

6 - Maintain your burning desire to succeed.  Never give up and right here is where most of us fail. Because we give up too soon and without knowing "just three metres away from the jackpot".

That is why I particularly like Thomas Edison's example - he failed 10,000 times - yet he still continued saying he just didn't have the right plan! He knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was on the right track. We modern folks don't have to do that because we have the pioneers' examples and teachings to follow.

I am saying this for myself as well because I have been taught to give up and never reach too high "because you don't know how those people got their money".

I have given up in the past - many, many times - through pressure and sabotage from family, colleagues, bad habits, etc. It was easier. Now, although it's tempting when I start to doubt myself, the feeling is easy to ignore because I know that giving up is just a habit.

So please, do not ever, ever give up!

And that my friends, in a nutshell is the end of Chapter two on Faith. I still have other articles about faith and affirmations and such but this and the previous posts contain the core of this chapter.

OOps ... completely forgot, I still have to add Hill's Self-Confidence Formula.

There is a curve called failure, a loop called confusion, speed bumps called friends, caution lights called family, and you will have flats called jobs.  But if you have a spare called determination, an engine called perseverance, Insurance called faith, and a driver called God, you will make it to a place called success. --Bob Proctor

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