Build Your Self-Confidence

Dear Champion Achiever

Reflection # 12 from the book,

Reflective Empowerment, authored by

Philip Guy Rochford, HBM.

Reflection 12. Build your self-confidence

Do you know that your mental, spiritual, and financial resources are foundational to achieve what you want? You have what it takes to be the success that you want to be. You have been endowed with internal skills that generate the resources—financial, creative and otherwise. However, you must claim it. You need to accept that you have what it takes. You have to be self-confident; secure in the knowledge that you can, but not be arrogant.

Your greatest weapon is your mind. What the mind can conceive, truly believe, and act upon can be achieved. The question of your self-confidence surfaces again. Do remember that your mind is so constructed that it will not generate a thought in you that cannot be manifested by you. Accept your internal wisdom, and be resolute in your actions.

The research has shown that by the time a person attains the age of 8, he/she has been given so many negatives—no, no, do not do this, and do not do that—the self-esteem and self-confidence of that person are shattered. Parents and guardians spoke these negative admonitions out of love, for the children’s protection.

What they did not know was that every time the child was told a negative, there needed to be eight positive statements to counteract that one negative. In the next reflection, another piece of the puzzle of self-empowerment will be presented.

The good news is that as an adult, you now have the option to bombard your mind with positive thoughts to build your self-confidence. Continue that positive pathway with great intentionality, and that will give you another piece of the puzzle of life that I will present in the next blog.