LH32 - Self-Confidence
Apr 24th, 2009 by lifehabits
Karel is joined on this episode by special guest UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers who discusses the important topic of self-confidence. Mandy shares her favorite quotes on the topic and outlines her top 10 ideas for increasing self-confidence. Mandy also recommends the book Mind over Mood as a particularly good source of information on this topic. If you live in the UK, you can also checkout the innovative service she founded called text-tonic. If you live outside the UK, you can still visit the website but for now can’t make use of the mobile/cell phone service itself.
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Hi Karel, Excellent Podcast - wonderful topic to cover! Your co-host Mandy has some great, practical ideas on positive life habits. I’ll begin using the ideas today! Thanks, Wyn
Karel and Mandy,
Really excellent podcast! I’m sure the subject hits close to home for a lot of listeners. I’d like to add one point from the book “Mind over Mood”.
Rather than simply focusing on the positive (which of course has enormous benefits), it’s a good idea to analyze what’s true and what’s not true (with supporting evidence) for both the negative and the positive thoughts one’s having. You can then combine the true thoughts from both negative and positive sides to form a new and more accurate way of thinking about the issue that’s causing the emotion. Then, the next time you fall into that negative self-talk habit, you’re reminded of the more accurate thought pattern, which can then take over. After a few times, this becomes the new habit and the knee-jerk, negative self-talk subsides.
Another benefit of fully analyzing the negative things that may be true is that you can then try to focus on remediation of those things without them being clouded by other negative thoughts that are unsubstantiated by evidence.
I really like the guest format. Looking forward to more.
Scott