What is Your Confidence Quotient (CQ)?

Confidence is a skill we either gain or lose through our life experiences. To understand where we are and how it can help us move into leadership roles and opportunities we need to gauge a accurate measurement of where we are and where we would like to be in the future.

Lack of confidence can stagnate your career, create procrastination, lead to self-doubt, and also anxiety.

Taking stock of can peel back the layers on this. Lets look at some of the common areas that lead to low confidence levels.

Appearance – A basic question you can ask yourself is how you feel about your physical appearance. Feeling unsatisfied with how we look can slow us down. This can be overcome with the internal conversations we have with ourselves. You need to compliment yourself from time to time. Find something positive to say about your appearance at least once a day.

Mindset – Our mindset controls a lot more than we think it does. You can have a failure mindset plagued with resentment of others achievements or you can have a growth mindset which recognizes the possibility of future potential. A growth mindset tenders to feelings of hope and enlightened by positive thoughts. If you have hope that things can change you will never give up. That’s the key, your decision to stay positive despite problems is the correct cognitive mindset.

Fear – What are you afraid of? What are you avoiding? The best way to overcome fear is to do the thing or confront the person you are afraid of. Childrens fear of the buggy man is real in the since that’s the human mind can challenge itself. Fear is nothing but a challenge, the more you educate and become aware of topic the less likely you are to fear. Educate yourself on the things that bring on the most fear and anxiety throughout your day.

Friends & Colleagues – Don’t allow friends or colleagues to lower your confidence. Set boundaries and pay attention when those boundaries are crossed. Don’t expect the people closest to you to see you beyond where you currently are. Sometimes you have to tap into create energy in order to see your self in a new light.

Family – Family can be the biggest anchor holding us back. They know us best and often don’t understand beyond what they know. Also keep in mind, we share a portion of our true selves to family. An individual persons universe takes on many forms. Don’t allow family insecurities stand in the way of your success or confidence.

Current Career Profile or Status – Last but not least see beyond what you have going on currently. If you can visualize where you want to go that can increase your confidence in getting to the place you want to be. Lots of successful people started out on the bottom. Learn from those like your self and how they handle setbacks and indifference.

There are so many things that contribute to our level of self confidence. Continue to do the work and pinpoint where you are in the process of development. the Confidence Quotient can help you achieve your goals. In order to know where you are going you need to see where you stand now.