technostrategy

Recently, I watched an  amazing video about Self-Confidence .

Dr. Ivan Joseph describe self confidence, as the ability or the belief to believe in yourself to accomplish any task, no matter the odds, no matter the diffuculty, no matter the adversity.

The belief that you can accomplished it, self confidence.

• Repetition
• Persistence
• Self Talk
• Interpret Feed Back

Lets check the first one. Practice, Practice till you make it, dont accept the failure.  Remember Malcom Gladwell’s book. The magic of 10.000 hrs. Harry Potter’s author rejected 12 or 13 times. We all know Edison failed hundreds of times.

Because we all repeat something, but very few of us really persist. Do what you want to do and do not accept NO!

There is enough people are telling us we can not do it, that we are not good enough.

We know for a fact that thoughts influence actions. So, why do we want to say that negative self talk to ourselves.

We need to get our self-affirmations. Remember Muhammed Ali, his self affiirmation was ‘’ I am the greatest.’’ The speaker’s self-affirmation is ‘’ I am the captain of my ship, master of my fate.’’

Find a quiet, silent place, for instance your bedroom or when you brush your teeth, put your list next to your mirror and read it everyday.

If I don’t say it, if I don’t beleive in it, no one else will. So, how do you build self confidence? Get away from the people who will tear you down. There is a difference between ego or false pride, it is just reminding yourself in quiet silent moments.

Make a list, write a letter to yourself all the things make you who you are.

The bigger you are the less you are aware of the problems. %100 of the staff exactly know what is really happening.

The most risky thing is the problems hidden by the senior management. Stats say that only %4 of the top executives know the problems. It is still scary that %9 of the team managers also aware of the problems. To ignore the problem, to hide it, you can only gain a little time, sometimes it might be even very late to take an action. So, do not mess with today’s current corporate culture of ignorance. The more you know the better you will manage the TEAM!

Find your confidence. You can do it by doing it, just doing it. You have your voice, just do it! Create it, that time confidence will come, there is actually no single way of doing things right. Love what you do.  You can only fulfill your dreams by doing what you love, your time, your energy will not be wasted. Of course, learn from failure. Ask yourself, why didnt it work? Sometimes finding things spontenausly might get you somewhere you dont plan to. I simply do not fight with things, I know if it is going to happen, it happens. So, I listen and download the ideas, try to overcome obstacles.  I am trying to be in the moment. I watch the development of the things. How they manage? They all do it by their own way, their own technic.  And ALWAYS do your best! Ask yourself, what can I do more? All I can do is to ask, question yourself, challenge your limits. What would happen if I get the OPPORTUNITY?  Work HARD.

I am trying every single day. I am trying not to giving up. At the end of the day, if it is not happening, I usually go for a walk and look around. I can explore that what is not happening. I dont go for it, and complain, instead I do opposite. I step out.  I take that point of view, just go for it.

That time, ENERGY comes, changing point of view, brings me the place where I suppose to be…..

Have a great week,

Ayşegül

Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman is the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. Hoffman, with a net worth of US$4.7 billion, is ranked as #341 on the list of the world’s richest people. (wikipedia)

Here are the 10 rules from him about success:

1- Shoot for something large

2- Have a crazy idea

3- Build a great team

4- Look for disruptive change

5-Break through the noise

6- Get Feedback

7-Maintain flexible persistence

8- Stay on the right path

9- Fail Fast

10-Plan for Good and Bad Luck

LinkedIn announced Q3 reports and it increased its members to 259 million.