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What’s Sabotaging Your Confidence?

Author Nicki CawoodPosted on
What’s Sabotaging Your Confidence?

Confidence is often misunderstood. In truth, confidence is merely the ability or propensity for feeling truly at home and happy within yourself, despite what might be going on around you or what other people might think of you. If you haven’t quite mastered this ability yet, you might want to look into what you can do to make it a reality. Work out what’s sabotaging your confidence and take action. In this article, I look at some of the best ways to do that, so you can be more confident in no time.

Not Being Happy With Your Appearance

There is a tricky concern to think about here. You don’t want to simply try to look like everyone else, or try to follow the fashions and ideas of attractiveness that the culture around you happens to have. That is no way to be confident in yourself, and it is only going to mean that you struggle to ever feel like yourself. That could mean dressing a certain way, straightening your teeth with Invisalign, or taking better care of your skin. Whatever it takes, be sure to do it.

Sabotaging Your Confidence? Past Experiences Can

If you have often struggled with issues of low self-esteem, then you might find that past experiences crop up again and again and haunt you in a manner which is not going to be very helpful. If you have lots of past experience of suffering embarrassment, then it is going to be even more difficult to make your confidence shine through. You need to allow yourself the permission to let all that past go, so that you can win through and be yourself as confidently as possible. In time, you’ll get there.

Being Out Of Touch With Yourself

Many of us are out of touch with our true nature, and when this happens it can make it much more difficult to be naturally confident in the way that you would hope to be. Being out of touch with yourself means that you are going to not know who you are trying to be, and with that confidence is going to be challenging indeed to bring about. So spend some time getting to know yourself as fully as you can – it will make a world of difference to your confidence levels.

Sabotaging Your Confidence? The Unkindness Of Others

Sometimes, you suffer with a lack of confidence because of other people putting you down or being unkind. This can happen at any age, and when it does you need to make sure that you are going to do whatever you can to rise above it. The more that you do so, the better you will feel about yourself, so it really is going to be important that you can do this. You should be able to respect yourself more and then enjoy a greater degree of confidence as a result of that increased respect.

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The Kind Entrepreneur

Author Nicki CawoodPosted on
The Kind Entrepreneur

A kind entrepreneur is the business person who not only succeeds but who enjoys their entrepreneurial journey.  I’ve been in business long enough to see that how you treat those around you will determine how well your enterprise will go, how long it will last and how your reputation will be built. Whether you take this to mean looking after your employees or acting in a mindfully aware and kind way with other freelancers, kindness should always be your default way of treating people.

A Kind Entrepreneur Breed Success

The Cadbury brothers in Birmingham offer one example of treating employees well that is still very present in the memory of the West Midlands. When the first factory in the centre of Birmingham became too small, the brothers decided not only to relocate but also to offer their staff the best possible living conditions. They chose Bournville to establish their HQ, away from urban pollution. Bournville provided workers with tonnes of facilities, from sports grounds to houses. There was even a kitchen for the staff, which was a novelty at the time. The rest is history, and visitors can join the Cadbury World tour to visit the old houses and workplace. 

You might not be the next Cadbury, but you can certainly learn from the two brothers to create a company that looks after its people.

People are Everything in the Business World

First of all, it’s fair to say, that the idea of a people-centred economy is not new. Despite living in a date-focussed world those in the know understand that you can have all of the algorithms in the world but not succeed in business if you ignore the personal aspect. From clients to service providers and from employees to customers, it is essential that you don’t overlook the importance of being a kind entrepreneur when it comes to all of your person to person dealings. In a move designed to deliver a sense of caring at every level in the business – similar to the Bournville story, you can establish a sense of unity and loyalty that goes beyond what any other company can offer.

A  Kind Entrepreneur Takes Care

Your employees are the key to your success. They provide the services you deliver. They inject their creativity and productivity in the business. In a word, they make the brand. They can only build a reliable company if they know that you have their backs. If you want your staff to go above and beyond you need to show that you value them.Whether this means helping them looking after their future via mykeymaninsurance.com or investing in training to help them proceed will depend on who you employ and what your set-up is.  The better you look after your staff; the further your business can go.

The People, Your Reputation

The people you care about don’t need to be employees. In fact, businesses that make philanthropy a habit have experienced a positive return from their community. If you’re trying to take your business to the next level – see this article from the blog hannahfrancesmccreesh.com for more –, supporting a charitable cause that makes a difference to people’s lives is worth the most sophisticated marketing campaigns! In the end, your customers will love a company that cares about others!

 

As a kind entrepreneur, you need to put people at the top of your business plan. They are not only the most critical asset in your company; they are also the key to making your business relevant in a fast-paced market. From sole-traders to CEOs of multi-million-pound businesses, being kind is good for business certainly but it is more than that. Kindness in business is what will help ideas and innovations grow. The result of being a kind entrepreneur might simply be to make someone’s day better, and that is good news whether you are in business or not.

 

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