What are some of the ways that you boost your confidence, or that you make more of your confidence every single day?

1. How to Stay Confident in Challenging Situations
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Have you ever had a hiccup in your confidence?
If you’re reading this I know a couple of things about you:
Typically, you have all the answers. People come to you when they have tough problems or big challenges
that they can’t solve themselves. You are the ‘go to’ person. I know that because you are reading this and
you are taking time to learn and invest in yourself and figure out problems before they even become
problems.
But what happens when YOU have a waiver in your confidence or little bit of self-doubt creeps in it?
Maybe you are just in a slump, or maybe you hit a plateau and all of the sudden you want to go to the next
level but you just haven’t seen the results to back it up.
So how do you have a 100 percent confidence amidst challenging times?
I’m going to tell how I created confidence in my life and how I continue to keep it going.
I used to be in Improv Comedy.
Improv Comedy is where people literally make things up on the spot. Imagine a room full of people or an
auditorium full of people and you walk out on stage and you don’t even know what you’re going to say.
They give you a couple of words and you have to make something up that:
a) Is Funny
b) Is Entertaining
c) Makes sense
So how are you going to do that if you’ve never been put in that situation before?
At Business Refuel we have a definition of confidence that’s borrowed from a professional athlete that I
absolutely love:
“Confidence is knowing the outcome in advance.“
How can you know outcome in advance if you’ve never been put in that situation before?
What we would do for Improv Comedy, is drill and practice over and over and over again. Even right
before we go on stage, we would spend the first 30 minutes drilling and practicing and improving our skills.
What would happen is, we would actually condition, into our bodies, our minds, and our mouths, a reflex
response. Meaning, we knew that from the all practice and all the things we have done, our reflex
response would be exactly the way we wanted it to be in order to handle that specific situation.
There are a couple of things that you can do to make sure that you tune in to that reflex response:

2. #1: Figure out some of the things that you
are confident in now
If you experience self doubt or if I ask that
question and you are unsure what that is, that
means that you need to write down a list of
things you are confident about.
#2: Set yourself up for some easy wins
What I mean by easy wins is figure out some
of those things you’re confident in and do
some of those things to help build up and
boost your confidence.
#3. Practice and reassure yourself
When you are in the moment and it is the
hottest, most difficult, or most challenging
situation, what I would encourage you to do is
remind yourself you have been in challenging situations before, and you have come out OK, or you have
come out on top. You have been able to do it in past, so why would now be any different?
You will find you have much more confidence in yourself and your responses when you practice really
hard, drill really well and make sure that you are conditioning yourself to give the correct reflex response.