Self Confidence for Women

When no is truly better for you it’s better for everyone else. ~ Kim Allen

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I encourage celebrating achievements. Writing a list of them even. A long list. Keeping it. Referring back to it.

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Secure jobs have been rendered shaky and insubstantial by the uncertainty of the current economic climate. Where once you might have thought that security was a fair exchange for a sense of dissatisfaction, that often no longer applies. Many are questioning whether they want to stay put if there is no longer security.

is it time to leave your job?

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Failure feels like a message telling me I have no worth and I am not good enough. I believe this to be a message learned from an academic school for which exam results were everything. Competition was instilled into us from an early age.

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A friend recently sent me this story about what gives life its meaning. A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village.

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Quickly write down the top three ways that you try to treat people you care about. Now.. Are you treating yourself according to your own rules?

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Over this potentially stressful festive period, I am giving you a question to ask yourself. How can I be gentle to myself?

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A little while back I wrote about putting myself under pressure. I wrote of using a clenched fist and an open palm to interrogate decisions. I’m telling myself I have to do something. Do I really have to? I’m going to take this a stage further.

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Why do I put pressure on myself? Why do you put pressure on yourself?

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Sometimes I get caught up in the urgent and leave the important.

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