People often ask me about how to increase self-confidence so they can try new things. They imagine confidence to be a magically acquired inner quality, and that successful people are naturally fearless, willing to try new experiences, managing to look cool in the process. The real path to self-confidence is to develop COMPETENCE with practice, [...]
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Confidence is Based on Competence
Posted in Advice, Buddhism, Dear Cynthia queries, kindness, Personal insight, Spiritual, Uncategorized, tagged Buddhism, confidence, courage, Dalai Lama, friendship, honesty, self-esteem, trust on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When in doubt, do less
Posted in Personal insight, Spiritual, tagged bad day, confidence, kindness on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some days are harder than others. Today seems to be one of those, for me: no energy, not wanting to jump on my planned tasks. One curse of being a therapist is my tendency is to look for reasons. And so I reviewed some of my recent decisions and actions, and non-actions, and found myself [...]
