Learn confidence now!
Written by Nina Grunfeld Sunday, 22 January 2012 10:50
If you haven't been to this week's Expanding Your Horizons workshop you may not believe that's true. I mean, how can you learn confidence? But we all have and we will all continue to do so.
How confident do you feel about washing your hands? blowing your nose? telling the time? Very confident, I would guess. But all of those had to be learnt.
In one of my earlier books, Nanny Knows Best, sadly now only second-hand copies available, there's a wonderful picture of Nanny helping my son, then age four, to wash his hands. He's now 24 and I doubt he ever questions his hand-washing ability, but the act of spreading the soap around between your fingers and on the front and back of your hands is difficult age four, when the soap slips and won't do what you want.
Of course, we're all still under-confident about lots of things and that under-confidence can be what pushes us forward to start changing.
One of the things I feel under-confident about is writing this blog. I write it once a week and I never, or at least, rarely, know what to write about. I spend most of the weekend wondering what I could say that's interesting for you and relevant for this week's workshop topic and it can tie me up in question marks.
But, once I've started, I sort of know what to do. Not that it's brilliant or exciting every week. Some weeks you may feel you know it all or have heard it all before. But hopefully some weeks you enjoy what you read.
What's important is just to get going. Not to put it off or procrastinate in any way shape or form (which, of course, I'm excellent at), but just to start typing and hope the muse comes. It's practise that gets through under-confidence. It's practise that makes you great at washing your hands, blowing your nose and tying your shoelaces.
Maybe I could write my blog daily. That would be good practise.
See you this week, either at a club or at our webinars.
Looking forward,
Nina
