Busyness can lower self-confidence 

Every day we can get pulled in multiple directions. Instead of celebrating the day, we look back and wonder what exactly happened and what we were able to get done. Does this sound familiar? The momentum gained from daily achievements is quickly lost when you go day-after-day seeing (what looks like and feels like) a lack of progress. The good news is, ending every day feeling accomplished and feeling an increase in confidence is attainable. If you want the best self-confidence tips, all it takes is mastering these three confidence skills: productivity, discipline, and focus.

Goal setting tips for self-confidence

You’ve likely set a number of big goals for your business and your personal life. Productivity, discipline, and focus are the skills that will help you accomplish those goals, and increase confidence. When mastered, they can take your business and life to the next level, and boost self-confidence daily. BUT only if they are grounded in a bigger vision and you have the right systems in place to achieve them.

Self-confidence tips 

Here’s exactly how you can start mastering these three skills today and start ending every day feeling inspired with improved self-confidence.

1. Be More Productive (on the right things) 

It’s not enough to just get random things done. To tick things off from your long tasks list. You have to identify and accomplish the high value tasks that really matter to you and your business. It’s no secret that increasing your productivity will lead to faster and better results, and increase confidence. Productivity is not about doing more, quicker or working longer. It is about doing more great work and getting the important things done. Wit that in mind, how do you actually become more productive?

How to be more productive to boost self-confidence

Firstly, you must have clarity on what you want to achieve (your outcomes) and a clear plan (your process). You may not be a project manager or someone who is great at the details, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take small steps every day towards increasing your productivity. One simple way to do this is to start planning for your day the night before using a Daily Planner. Each night before you end your work day simply write the key projects and tasks you must complete the next day. When you have a plan for exactly what you’ll work on the next day, there’s no wasting time or guessing about how to get started the next morning. You can take this a step further by reflecting at the end of each day on what you’ve achieved and note down 3 wins for that day. This reflection on achievement will improve self-confidence. If you can master your morning routine to start the day, even better. Grab my FREE Daily Productivity Planner to help you own your morning and stay focused and productive

2.    Discipline builds self-confidence 

Creating the right system that helps you stick to a plan of action is not easy to do. Distractions, opportunities, shiny objects—they’re everywhere. But guess what? Those are all excuses, many of them driven by the fear of taking on a scary task or project. It’s time to stop making excuses. The choice is yours. If you want to increase confidence, make the commitment to become more disciplined and stay true to your own system and processes. If you commit to writing three articles a week or creating five new clients this month it’s time to follow through. When you do, you will improve confidence. It’s time to have the courage to see it through. And then follow your system to achieve that goal every day.

Create a clear vision to create direction  

The first step is to make sure you have a clear vision of why you’re doing this activity. What are you looking to achieve? How will it make a difference? What will it mean to you to achieve this activity? Which are the steps you need to undertake? Once you have the next two or three steps laid out, put time deadlines on each of them and hold yourself accountable to staying focused in order to meet those deadlines.

3.    Become More Focused

When I talk about “focus,” I mean to follow one course until you find success and remain distraction-free in the process. If you had to guess, how much focus time do you have throughout any given day? Thirty minutes? Two hours? None? Focused time is essential to help you take control of your time, master productivity and discipline. When you achieve results during this time, an increase in confidence is guaranteed. Without it, no matter how good your plan is or how well you fend off distractions, you’ll end up doing bad work that drains your energy and saps your creativity.

Use time blocking to increase focus

To help you improve your ability to focus on the task or project at hand, try to do time blocking. I work in 60-minute blocks of time, whereby I work for 50 minutes and then take 10 minutes off. Do this again for another hour and then take 30 minutes off to relax and recharge. During this time blocking, do not let anything push you off course. If a distraction pops up or something comes to mind you want to remember, write it down and immediately get back on task. Ending every day feeling accomplished is something we all strive for. And it’s very attainable! Becoming achievement focused will increase confidence and a sense of personal happiness. ——————————– P.S. Whenever you’re ready….. here are 5 ways I can help you free up your time to grow YOUR business: Connect with me on Facebook Sign up to my weekly business growth newsletter Grab your free Productivity Mastery Daily Planner to 10x your productivity. Want to work with me one on one? Check out the options here If you want to take your business to the next level but now sure the next step, book a Focusing Call with me.