This blog post has been authored by Stand Out Online Member, Chantal Ehlen, Empowerment & Mindset Coach
Since the time I’ve been coaching, the biggest thing I’ve learned – both for me and for my clients – is that inner confidence is the key to it all. To be able to do it all.
There are all kinds of strategies, ways of thinking, patterns of behavior and practical tips for improving your life and feeling better about yourself, but they’re all redundant if the foundation isn’t there. That foundation is the real you, the you that you know deep down you are. The trick is that it takes confidence to find that and to bring out who you are – here are the three keys to real inner confidence.
1. Get To Know Your Values
Personal values are one of the most important things you can know about yourself and are vital in getting genuine inner confidence. Your values are ten thousand feet down inside you, right at the very core of who you are; and they’re the building blocks, the foundations and cornerstones for you. A value is something in yourself, in others or in the world that’s most important to you, and could include things like beliefs, progress, family, fun, nature, achievement or freedom.
Why is it that some people and situations leave you feeling angry, frustrated, demotivated or deflated? It’s because one or more of your values is being denied, suppressed or repressed – and we experience that as a negative experience because it’s denying a fundamental piece of who you are. You know those times when you’ve felt really alive, amazing or buzzing? Those are the times when one or more of your values are being honored, and you can get more of that by living according to them.
Your values are all yours, and no matter what happens, no one can ever take them away. You can have absolute confidence in them because they’re there all the time just waiting for you to notice and use them. When you get to know your values, you can start to make choices and align your life around them. It’s so simple and it feels amazing because all that really means is that you’re allowing who you are to live in the real world.
2. Exercise the Muscle
Confidence is a muscle, and like any muscle, you need to exercise it so that it doesn’t shrink and waste away. The problem is that unlike your biceps or glutes, which tend to stay in the same place, your confidence muscle can be harder to find. How do you develop your biceps or firm up your glutes? By doing exercises that are designed to work that muscle over a period of time until you see the results you were looking for.
It’s just the same with confidence. Let’s say that you’re the kind of person that doesn’t take many risks, the kind of person who goes through each day doing what needs to be done and doing it well, but not really stretching yourself. You might talk yourself out of doing something because it’s too scary or because you think to yourself ‘I’m not good enough,’ ‘that’s not who I am’ or ‘I don’t really want it anyway.’ That kind of person lives within what they know and what keeps them safe and comfortable. The fewer risks they take, the less confident they need to be and so the less confident they become.
To work your confidence muscle, you need to be prepared to take risks – big or small. You need to be willing to stretch yourself in an unfamiliar direction, to try something new or try something in a slightly different way. You need to open yourself up to the possibilities around you and push yourself to increase what you know, what you do and who you are. The more open you are to risk, opportunity and possibility the more confident you need to be, and so the more confidence you’ll develop. That’s your confidence muscle – the question is, what are you going to do to exercise it?”
3. Remove Blocks and Transform Beliefs
The two things mentioned before, are crucial in building inner confidence, but to really break patterns and stop trying to create results only on the surface, you have to prepare to dig deeper. To look at your own vulnerabilities, your own blocks you’ve created during all these years and dare to take a look into what is really the root cause of what created these limiting beliefs, the blocks. What memories, beliefs in your subconscious are holding you back?
This is where Neuro Transformational Coaching work steps in. Are you ready to dive deep? Book a free call with me: https://chantalehlen.com/.
Hi there, I’m Chantal! I’m a Certified Mindset & Empowerment Coach and Mentor for ambitious, purpose-driven women who are ready to get unstuck and build a business, and life, on their own terms with killer confidence. By my training as an ICF Coach and NLP Master Practitioner, and the combination of transformational coaching methods, RTT (i.a. hypnotherapy), and my own life experience, I get results for my clients. Always. I am inspired by and attended training programs of some of the best coaches in the world, such as Tony Robbins, Rich Litvin and Ajit Nawalkha. And I continue to train myself every day in learning new techniques. Every woman is different, and every woman has different needs. Every coaching program, including the methods I’m using, is tailored to the individual needs.