Ask Others, Trust Yourself by Elisa Balabram

Six Steps to Help You Shift from Self-doubt to Self-confidence

Let’s say you are launching your business: you wrote the business plan, you told your friends and family about it, you attended networking events and distributed business cards, you shared it on social media, and you placed ads on Craigslist, other sites, newspapers, and the phone isn’t ringing. Nobody is calling you for that one time free offer or discount you have to invite them to sign up for your program, buy your products or services, by a certain date. Actually the offer deadline has come and gone.

It’s natural to start questioning yourself, your talents and gifts. You may think that because it isn’t happening as your business plan projected, or as you envisioned it, it is not meant to be. You tried. You put yourself out there. Nobody has shown interest. The self-doubt settles in and you start asking yourself: ‘What’s the point? Why bother? Why would people hire me/buy from me? So and so has been doing it for a long time, why don’t they go directly to them? It makes sense that nobody is contacting me, they have other choices.’ Does this inner dialogue sound familiar? I’ve heard this from many clients, and I experienced it myself. Instead of staying stuck, you can take the following steps to shift from self-doubt to self-confidence:

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Thursday, February 14^th is Valentine’s Day in the United States. In Brazil*, Valentine’s Day is on June 12^th. Whenever you celebrate it, why not dedicate February 14^th to self-love?

Either if you are in a relationship or not, you could choose Valentine’s Day to practice self-love at its best:

1. Plan the day carefully but let go and allow for spontaneity to happen;
2. Have your favorite fruits in the morning – and prepare a nurturing breakfast;
3. Take time to meditate once or twice for at least 10 minutes on Valentine’s Day;
4. Give yourself a box of your favorite chocolate;

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I’ve been asked recently what is my coaching style, and I had to think about it for a while. It’s certainly a holistic approach, which incorporates business strategies with spiritual and self-love practices that I’ve learned on my own, through coaching others, through all the courses I’ve taken and books I read and through, at times painful, life experiences.

Furthermore, the key to my coaching is active and intuitive listening to what’s being said and to what’s hidden, and I plant a seed.  Then, if it resonates for them, I can help my clients nurture and grow the seed, which sometimes entails a new project, a different way to grow a project or provide a service, write a book, or a change of an old belief and pattern.

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As we continue to grow into our true selves, we start shedding layers of our old selves, of things we held on to for too long, of old belief systems, of old patterns, of old. It can be scary at times, as we’ve known the old all our lives, we’ve behaved a certain way for years, and somehow it feels safe. But there is something special about taking the leap and going for it. The transformed you will feel more alive, powerful, self-loving and reassured. I certainly do.

How can we let go?

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