Showing all posts tagged #self-confidence:


Confidence

Posted on September 30th, 2019

Can you be both self aware and self confident? Does self confidence have to come from ignorance?

Feeling of unworthiness when you like someone

Posted on July 1st, 2019

I was wondering why does it make us feel unworthy when we try to connect with someone we like, even if that person seems to have quite an opposite impression of us? It seems to be a fairly common phenomenon. Sometimes can even happen in both directions...

Feeling stupid and incompetent

Posted on December 2nd, 2017

We've knocked out the a big one on last therapy session: me feeling incompetent and stupid. Why do I do easily feel so, even faced with obvious counterexamples? Well I get it now, and I've even made a link to being chronically late and having extreme r...

People saying 'thank you'

Posted on September 17th, 2017

Recently I see the increase in frequency of hearing genuine "thank you" from various people. Thank you for helping me out, for taking your time, for inviting me.. Now when I think about it, it's strange that I didn't hear it before. Or I didn't listen?...

'Always assume the other person feels insecure about themselves'

Posted on September 15th, 2017

Wow, such an advice. Good to talk to wise and "normal" people sometimes, normal in quotes because who knows what it actually means. I think it nails many issues I have. I feel so crap about myself that I always see the other person so much better abou...

'Moment of Excellence'

Posted on August 31st, 2017

We had a presentation at work about coaching technique called "Moment of Excellence". It's about remembering vividly a moment from the past when we greatly succeeded at something, next naming our qualities we proved there, then finding an anchor that r...

Work situation analogy

Posted on August 17th, 2017

So I am quite shocked. In a corporate moron world there was one person that actually could think and put their thinking into action and managed to get quite a high position where they can realise the thinking output. It provokes some questions for me: ...

Improv 'numbers' exercise

Posted on May 18th, 2017

I have just participated in the following improv theatre exercise: each person secretly gets a random number from 1 to 10, without others knowing it. Then all the people start walking randomly and try to behave according to their number, where 1 is the...