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“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand brake on.” -- Maxwell Maltz Nobody is born with limitless self-confidence. If someone seems to have incredible self-confidence, it’s because he or she has worked on building it for years. Self-confidence is something that you learn to build up because the challenging world of business, and life in general, can deflate it. As we teach at Skill Incubator, building a successful business requires a thick skin and unshakable confidence in your ability to overcome obstacles. Here are 10 things you can do to build up your self-confidence. 1. Visualize yourself as you want to be. “What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.” -- Napoleon Hill Visualization is the technique of seeing an image of yourself that you are proud of, in your own mind. When we struggle with low self-confidence, we have a poor perception of ourselves that is often inaccurate. Practice visualizing a fantastic versio...

8 step guide to be self-motivated.  1. Start simple.  Keep motivators around your work area – things that give you that initial spark to get going. 2. Keep good company.  Make more regular encounters with positive and motivated people. This could be as simple as IM chats with peers or a quick discussion with a friend who likes sharing ideas. 3. Keep learning.  Read and try to take in everything you can. The more you learn, the more confident you become in starting projects. 4. Stay Positive.  See the good in bad. When encountering obstacles, you want to be in the habit of finding what works to get over them. 5. Stop thinking.  Just do. If you find motivation for a particular project lacking, try getting started on something else. Something trivial even, then you’ll develop the momentum to begin the more important stuff. 6. Know yourself.  Keep notes on when your motivation sucks and when you feel like a superstar. There will be a pattern that, ...