How to Generate Confidence

Do you remember Karch Kiraly? I believe it was pronounced Ka-rye (like the bread).
Yes, the Olympic volleyball star.

I heard a good quote from him yesterday that I've been thinking about ever since.

"You cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control; nobody else can generate it for you." ~Karch Kiraly, US Olympic Gold Medallist in Volleyball

It goes nicely with one of my favorite quotes from Michael Jordan --
"What happens to clutch guys in big moments is that everything slows down. You have time to evaluate the situation, and you can clearly see every move you need to make. You're in the moment, in complete control. It's hard to get there; something has to have you thinking that you can do no wrong. But once you do get there, you can just come out at the start of a game and generate the feeling"
(from P. Williams' How to Be Like Mike).

How good are you at generating confidence?

Today play a "generate confidence" game. See how well you can create a feeling of total confidence out of nowhere, for no other reason than you want to.

In Confidence,
Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson
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This holiday season, give the gift of confidence.

It would be better if you paid a lot for what I'm going to tell you -- it would make it much more likely you'd actually do it.

So pretend you're paying a fortune for it.

What would you like to have happen this year?

I'm a big goal setting fan. If you are sick of hearing about it you probably don't do it right or well.
Most people don't.

I encourage you to spend the first two weeks of the year creating goals. Don't feel you need to or even can sit down one time and get your goals "right."

Give them time to incubate.

Here's a gift: The Goal Evolution exercise.

I adapt this powerful exercise from Brian Tracy.

Each morning write down 5 to 15 goals for the year, covering all facets of your life. The next morning repeat the procedure but don't look at the goals you wrote the
day(s) before.

Some goals will repeat exactly. Some goals will evolve.

Some goals will disappear. It's a goal evolution process:
Survival of the fittest.

The ones that are meant to stick will stick. The ones that are meant to disappear will disappear.

Repeat for 15 or, better, 30 days.

By that time your goals will have evolved to where you are consistently writing the same things.
By that time your goals will be programmed into where they need to be -- your subconscious mind.

Please don't think "yes, that sounds good, but I'll never follow through" and don't start.
Just do it once. Today. Now.

Open a file or get some paper. Look at the clock. Take a deep breath. Exhale and start writing goals. Do it for 5 minutes and stop.

You're on your way. Even if you don't return to them again you will be way better off than if you never did it at all.

Train Your Brain,

Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson

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How to Build Confidence

Hi:

I'm Dr. Tom Hanson and for the past 20 years I've been helping athletes and executives build confidence.

Confidence is the name of the game in sports, business, and life in general. When you believe you will succeed, when you feel you deserve to win, you get to find out what is possible for you in your life.

Unfortunately, few people enjoy the confidence levels they deserve. We're stopped by the little voice in our head, by the pitted feeling in our stomach.

Both the little voice and the pitted feeling of doubt are a load of crap.

In this blog I'll provide info and resources for blowing doubt and that little voice away.

Find out more at www.ConfidenceConditioning.com

All for today,
Tom