2. Dedicated to His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
(Founder Acharya- ISKCON)
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3. Agenda
1. What is self-confidence?
2. Why people lack self-confidence?
3. Self assessment
4. Practical tips to increase Self Confidence
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4. What is
Self-Confidence
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5. Self-confidence is a
term used to
describe how
secure a person is
in his own decisions
and actions and
how free he is from
doubt.
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6. Activity
Activity
Identify the
Identify the
characteristic
characteristic
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7. Assertiveness SELF CONFIDENT
Distrust LACK OF SELF
CONFIDENCE
SELF CONFIDENT
Eagerness
SELF CONFIDENT
Affection
LACK OF SELF
Self- doubt CONFIDENCE
Isolation LACK OF SELF
CONFIDENCE
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8. Sensitivity to LACK OF SELF
CONFIDENCE
criticism
Depression LACK OF SELF
CONFIDENCE
Emotional maturity SELF CONFIDENT
Feelings of inferiority LACK OF SELF
CONFIDENCE
The ability to handle SELF CONFIDENT
criticism
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9. Main causes for
lack of self-
confidence
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10. Activity
What are the
various causes of
people lacking
self-confidence?
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18. Guilty
feelings
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19. Let’s do
Self
Assessment
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20. Activity
Activity
Identify the
Comparison
characteristic
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21. One
characteristic at
a time will be
displayed on
screen
Please tell the opposite
characteristic
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22. Self-Confident Low Self-Confidence
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23. Self-Confident Low Self-Confidence
Doing what you believe to
be right, even if others
mock or criticize
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24. Self-Confident Low Self-Confidence
Doing what you believe to Behavior based on what
be right, even if others other people will think
mock or criticize
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25. Self-Confident Low Self-Confidence
Doing what you believe to Behavior based on what
be right, even if others other people will think
mock or criticize
Staying in comfort zone,
fearing failure and avoid
taking risks
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26. Self-Confident Low Self-Confidence
Doing what you believe to Behavior based on what
be right, even if others other people will
mock or criticize think
Being willing to take risks Staying in comfort zone,
and go the extra mile fearing failure and avoid
taking risks
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27. Self-Confident Low Self-Confidence
Doing what you believe to Behavior based on what
be right, even if others other people will think
mock or criticize
Being willing to take risks Staying in comfort zone,
and go the extra mile fearing failure and avoid
taking risks
Admitting mistakes and
learning from them
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28. Self-Confident Low Self-Confidence
Doing what you believe
to be right, even if Behavior based on
others mock or criticize what other people will
think
Staying in comfort
Being willing to take zone, fearing failure
risks and go the extra and avoid taking risks
mile
Admitting mistakes and Working hard to cover
learning from them up mistakes
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29. Rank yourself on a
scale of 1-5 for all the
three characteristics.
Add up scores and find
out total score out of
15
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30. Self-Confident Low Self-Confidence
Doing what you believe to Behavior based on what
be right, even if others other people will think
mock or criticize
Being willing to take risks Staying in comfort zone,
and go the extra mile fearing failure and avoid
taking risks
Admitting mistakes and Working hard to cover up
learning from them mistakes
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31. What is your score?
• 1-3 – Low
• 4-8 - Average
• 9-12 – Good
• 12 and above - Excellent
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32. How to Increase
Your Self-
Confidence
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33. 1 Tolerate
reversals with a
positive frame of
mind
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34. “
I have not failed.
I've just found “
10,000 ways that
won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison
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35. “
Death is not the
greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is “
what dies inside us
while we live.
Norman Cousins
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36. “
I've missed more
than 9000 shots in
my career. I've lost
almost
300 games. 26 times,
I've been trusted
to take the game
winning shot and missed.
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37. I've failed over and
over and over again
in my life. And that
“
is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
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38. mäträ-sparçäs tu kaunteya
çétoñëa-sukha-duùkha-däù
ägamäpäyino ’nityäs
täàs titikñasva bhärata
REF. Bg 2.14
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39. TRANSLATION
O son of Kunté, the nonpermanent
appearance of happiness and distress,
and their disappearance in due course,
are like the appearance and
disappearance of winter and summer
seasons. They arise from sense
perception, O scion of Bharata, and one
must learn to tolerate them without being
disturbed.
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41. • 1832 - lost his job & defeated in legislature
• 1833 - failed in business
• 1835 - sweetheart died
• 1836 - had a nervous breakdown
• 1838 - defeated for Speaker of the U.S.
House
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42. • 1843 - defeated for nomination for Congress
• 1848 - lost re-nomination
• 1854 - defeated for U.S. Senate
• 1856 - defeated for nomination Vice
President
•1858 - again defeated for U.S. Senate
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43. In 1860 he was
elected President
of USA
Abraham Lincoln
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44. Sometimes hardships and
reversals can bring out the
best in us
They can be blessings
in disguise!
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45. Cocoon of
a butterfly
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46. 2 Choose your
friends well
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47. Avoid
individuals who
suck your energy
and diminish your
confidence
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48. Pessimists drag
you down, as do
whiners
and critics
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49. “You are the same today
as you will be in five years
except for two things,
the people you associate
“
with and the books you
read.
JOHN F KENNEDY
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50. Cultivate friendship
with a person who is
closest to you
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52. Most powerful
and loving Lord in
the heart!
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53. sarvasya cähaà hådi sanniviñöo
mattaù småtir jïänam apohanaà
REF. Bg 15.15
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54. TRANSLATION
I am seated in everyone’s heart,
and from Me come remembrance,
knowledge and forgetfulness.
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55. Our most
trustworthy
friend
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56. FOOTPRINTS IN
THE SAND
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57. “ We have to practice
remembering the Lord
always, by chanting His
names and molding life’s
activities in such a way
that we can remember
“
Him always.
SRILA PRABHUPADA
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58. 3 Dwell on your
strengths &
not on your
weaknesses
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59. Each one of us have
strengths and
weaknesses
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60. Amazing will!
Enter
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65. 4
Chanting
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66. Richard Arthur
(An instructor of English
at Rutgers University)
Chanting makes me more
aware of what to do
and what not to do.
And now, I naturally feel
happy about doing
the right thing.
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67. The psychologists have found
chanters brimming with
self-confidence
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68. Nathan Zakheim
(Famous art director)
"After years of being
a closed-in person
and trying to protect
myself from experiences,
now I'm really different.”
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71. Marco Ferrini
(Italy’s top furniture
designer)
“Chanting makes
me so exuberant
that I easily sail
through all
challenging
situations in life.”
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72. 5
Read
Great books
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73. “
The man who does
not read good books
has no advantage “
over the man who
can not read them.
MARK TWAIN
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74. When doubts haunt
“ me, when
disappointments stare
me in the face, and I
see not one ray of
hope on the horizon, I
turn to Bhagavad-gita
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75. and find a verse to
comfort me; and I
immediately begin to “
smile in the midst of
Overwhelming
sorrow.
Mahatma Gandhi
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76. “ By reading we discover
“
ourselves
& OPRAH WINFREY
our world.
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77. If one properly follows the
instructions of Bhagavad-gétä, one
can be freed from all the miseries
and anxieties of life. One will be
freed from all fears.
(Gétä-mähätmya 1)
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78. Dr K Kasturirangan’s speech
Former Chairman of ISRO Enter
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80. Read Bhagavad Gita?
What is the use?
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81. “Every man who reads
has the power to
magnify himself, to make “
his life full, significant,
and meaningful.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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82. Cultivate a habit of
reading regularly
at least for 15 min
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83. Summarize
• Negative experiences, feeling of guilt, fear etc
diminish our self confidence
• Self confidence is influenced to a large extent
by the kind of people we associate with
• Our self confidence can be boosted by chanting,
reading and developing faith in the Lord
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