9 Reasons To Be Addicted To Confidence

It has been said time and again that no one in the entire world will ever love you more than you love yourself. These were not the ravings of some self-absorbed lost soul. They were the wise words of someone that realized that in life, the most attractive and intriguing aspect of a person is their self-confidence and degree of self-worth.

Self-confidence is simply put, believing in yourself. Believing that you can do whatever you put your mind to. Believing that you are alive and have existed for a reason. Believing that you deserve to be happy and blessed in life. All these are small rocks of this mountain called self-confidence.

Once someone achieves self-confidence, they feel a rush that can be compared to getting high or intoxicated. Like someone high on drugs, a self-confident person feels that they can do anything. The feeling can be addictive. The good thing about this addiction is that it has no harmful side effects on your body. Below are nine reasons why you should strive to be addicted to confidence.

1. It has actual health benefits

Healthy bodies are what keep us in existence and this is why it lands the number one spot in the list of 9 reasons to be addicted to confidence. Being confident is essentially ridding your body and mind of fear. In so doing, the amounts of adrenaline and other stress hormones in the body are considerably reduced. This helps keep the brain clear and healthy allowing you to work.

2. It helps you socialize and network

Self-confidence allows you to be yourself without any pretense. This is because self-confidence comes with a sense of security that prevents one from feeling the need to be or act like someone they are not. This benefit of being addicted to confidence goes a long way into building and maintaining meaningful social and business relationships.

3. It helps you accomplish your goals

We all have dreams and ambitions that we one day hope to achieve. However, nothing good comes easy. Self-confidence is a useful tool in chasing your dreams. It gives you the courage to actively and bravely face any obstacles. This is because self-confidence is believing in yourself and your abilities. This makes the third out of nine reasons to be addicted to confidence.

4. It allows you to love and appreciate others

Reason number four to be addicted to confidence is to be able to appreciate others. Confidence eliminates insecurities. A person who feels good about themselves is more likely to open up to other people genuinely and appreciate their characters and opinion. Lack of confidence is accompanied by insecurities which when projected onto others clouds a person's judgment about them.

5. It rubs off on people you interact with

Confidence does not only mimic drugs but also infectious diseases. Being confident and having a feeling of sufficient self-worth is contagious and can rub off on people you come into contact with. The air of freedom and being content is attractive to many and may draw others to also being self-confident. This ripple effect is another one of the nine reasons to become addicted to confidence.

6. It allows you to be useful to the society

A self-confident person is usually more productive in society than one who isn't. Confidence allows one to work well with others and contribute freely without fear. This is of great value to any social institution from marriage to large organizations.

7. It increases the quality of your work

Another reason to be addicted to confidence is that it is a natural performance enhancer. This applies to both manual and mental activities. A person works better when they believe in themselves with little or no doubts. Confidence also encourages innovation and creative thinking which are all useful during work.

8. It opens you up to new opportunities and possibilities

Being confident pushes one toward being open minded and receptive to new ideas. Therefore, a confident person has more possibilities and opportunities to explore.

9. It makes and keeps you happy

Finally, being addicted to confidence makes one happy. This is because being confident eliminates or at the very least minimizes fear and insecurities leaving one free to be happy and enjoy life.

These 9 reasons to be addicted to confidence are just a few as it is a state with numerous untold advantages. One should however be careful not to overindulge as like any other addiction, too much is dangerous.

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How to Conduct Your Personal Mid-Year Review

How often do you take the time out to really reflect on how you are progressing towards your goals for the year?

Now that we are at the half-way point of the year, it’s the perfect time to conduct your own personal mid-year review!


Why Conduct a Personal Mid-Year Review?

Conducting a mid-year review gives you the time and space necessary to evaluate your progress towards your goals.

Without taking the time out to reflect, how do you know whether your decisions, behaviour and actions for the first 6 months have helped you move towards where you want to go in your life?

Reflection is one of the most fundamental skill-sets of successful people.

If you are serious about creating your best life and making your dreams a reality, then you need to reflect to ensure you are making the right decisions and working towards them in the most effective and efficient way.
Benefits of Conducting a Personal Mid-Year Review

There are a tonne of benefits from conducting your own mid-year review.

Some of the major benefits include:

• Determine if your actions are progressing you towards your goals
• Determine if you are progressing at the right speed (i.e. will you reach your goal on time?)
• Determine if your goals are still relevant
• Understand the challenges you have faced and what learning’s you can make
• Identify more effective or efficient methods of achieving your goal

The more often you can conduct a personal review, the more effective you will become in your life.


I would recommend that you at least do a 6-monthly in-depth review of your goals. In fact, I encourage you to do it as often as you can. When I talk about these reviews, I’m talking about your ‘big life goals’.
Conducting Your Personal Mid-Year Review

Let me guide you through the process that I go through when I conduct my own personal reviews.

It is a process whereby I ask myself specific questions which help me understand exactly what I can do moving forward to work more effectively and efficiently towards my goals.


Get Yourself Setup

Before we get to the questions, the first thing you need to do is get yourself ready for your mid-year review. No, this doesn’t mean you have to dress up nicely and look pretty, it simply means you need to get yourself in an environment that is conducive for reflection.

So, to get setup:

Find yourself a nice, quiet environment
Have your goals and any other supporting materials with you that you can use to look over
Make sure you have something to write with

One piece of advice on the environment… try conducting your mid-year review away from your ‘normal’ working environment. This would mean getting out of the office, or away from your home and out into a park or somewhere where you can think about your life more objectively and freely.

Let’s get into it!

Question 1: Are My Goals Still Relevant?

Goals change over time. Life is full of surprises!

This is not something to be concerned about, but something to be aware of.

The first thing to do when conducting your personal mid-year review is to look over the goals that you have set and ask yourself whether they are still relevant.

How have your goals changed?

Sometimes when you originally set your goals the future is murky. It’s impossible to predict the future and to know with 100% certainty that a set of circumstances will eventuate. In-line with this, you may have had some clarity on the general direction of where you want to go, but now that you are six months into the year you have realised that there is a slight alternative that you are now working towards.

This is fine and goals are to be constantly tweaked and refined… this is all part of the process!

The key is to ensure that your goals are still linked to the things that you are passionate about.Passion creates the drive, energy and enthusiasm necessary for success.

When looking over your goals, it’s also good to remind yourself of WHY you are working towards them. Your goals and your life need meaning. Answering the question of why will reinvigorate the drive for making them a reality.


Question 2: What have I achieved?

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Now that you have confirmed that your goals are still relevant, the next step in the process is to reflect on what you have actually achieved.

How are you tracking towards your goals? What ‘mini-goals’ have you met or what smaller steps have you done to help you reach where you are?

Taking the time to reflect on what you have achieved will help you to determine whether your actions and progressing you towards your goals and whether you are likely to achieve them on time.

One of the best things about asking yourself this question is that it will highlight the behaviours and actions that have worked. This is super-important to being able to progress further in the back half of the year.


Question 3: What challenges have I faced?

When you are looking back over your progress for the year, it’s important that you also look at the challenges you have faced.

Very rarely can you reach your most important goals without a challenge being thrown your way.

Reflect on what these challenges have been. Why did these obstacles or challenges occur? How did you feel when they were presented? What did you do to overcome these challenges?

Resilience is a key factor in overcoming challenges. Understanding how you have faced these challenges and managed to overcome them helps you to build this resilience. It helps to embed the confidence in yourself that no matter what gets thrown your way you will be able to continue moving towards your goal.

The other thing that this question can raise is what can you do in the future to prevent these challenges from happening again?

Question 4: What have I learned?

Life is one big learning experience.

When you’re making progress towards your life goals you’re going to make a million decisions. Some good and some bad. One of the key ingredients that separates successful people is the ability to learn from their actions.

Looking back over your answers to the previous questions, now is the perfect time to ask yourself what have you learned from these experiences?

That is, what have you learned about your goals in life?

What have you learned from your achievements?

What have you learned from the challenges you have faced?

Taking the time to understand the key things that you have learned will help you get set-up perfectly for answering the next question.


Question 5: What can I do differently?

Now is when your mid-year review has its biggest impact. Your future.

Based on everything you have learned from answering the above questions, it’s time to think about the actions that you will put into place to make sure that the back half of the year is even more effective than the first half.

It’s all about continuous improvement! Never get complacent.

What habits do you need to change?

What extra support do you need?

What processes do you need to put in place to be more effective?

How will you address your next challenge?

This is a perfect opportunity for refining your goal and working on a specific strategy for the next 6 months of the year. You can start to map out the exact things you will do in this time to get you there.


Next Steps

There are 2 things you need to do first and foremost as next steps:
Set yourself a date for your next personal review
Write down 3 things that you can do immediately (or sometime today) to start building momentum in your life…. and go do them!

Your personal review should be a regular thing. If you can make it habitual then you’re well on your way to success.

I know of many people who write down their to-do lists or goals for a specific day, but how many people look at how those specific things on their to-do list help them progress towards their bigger goals in life?

The more regular you can review your progress towards your bigger, life goals, the more effective and the more speedy you will get there.

If you’re yet to create goals or want to go even a step back and start to look at the bigger picture in life (that is, understanding yourself and where exactly you want to go), then I highly recommend you check out our Launch Your Life Academy which guides you the proven process of making positive change in your life.

So, what are you waiting for?

Let’s make the next 6 months a ripper!

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