5 Ways Successful People Overcome Overwhelm and Lack of Self-Confidence

Does any of this sound like you:

You have periods of low self- confidence. You are more often than not over-thinking, procrastinating.

You are frustraited with your job, especially now during these times of uncertainty. You are not always 100% focused and want to change that.

Progress is impossible if you do the things in life the same way as you have always done them.

Successful people train their brains to get what they really want and increase their confidence, productivity and income.

The secret is in knowing that you can change.

If you are attached to believing you are not worthy for attracting something great that’s what the universe will give back to you.

What you believe is what you get.

The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives,

Bruce H. Lipton, the Biology of Belief

The secret is to train your thoughts to be positive, to expect positive, to focus on what you want and how it will make you feel instead of what you don’t want.

Who do you want to become? How can I do this?

Here is a list of successful people who did their morning routine to avoid low self-confidence, procrastination and supercharge their day: Tony Robbins, Tim Ferris, Joe Dispenza, Tom Bilyeu, Garry V, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Arianna Huffington, Arnold Schwarzeneger, Deepak Chopra Tina Turner, Lady Gaga, Jerry Seinfeld, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, Brendon Burchard, Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Howard Shultz, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Branson….and this is not conclusive.

They take time every morning to proactively take care of themselves FIRST to make sure they are in a strong mental, emotional and energetic state so they can create a day, and eventually, day by day, the life they want.

Tony Robbins calls it priming, Hour of power, 30 minutes to thrive, 15 min to fulfillment. Tim Ferris calls it a morning ritual. Some call it radical prayer.

The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body., Bruce H. Lipton, the Biology of Belief

Model how most successful people do things so you can get where they are- this is what positive psychology teaches and what we learned to do as NLP certified coaches.

Here is the list.

1. Maximize the multi-potent energy when you wake up - meditate

Many people grab their phones first thing in the morning and start checking their social media, or emails. Diving into our tasks, and communications immediately after waking up will cause us to get reactive…annoyed…If we jump to things outside ourselves and get involved in thinking, we are wasting our potential.

Research has shown that when we wake up we are at our peak potential of the day, energy wise. We are at the most of our creative potential, focus, void of thoughts and emotions. It’s like we are a little magical ball ready to manifest.

We want to use this peak energy to maximize our day and our life.

The first thing we should do when we open our eyes in the morning is to MEDITATE or pray to connect to the source, to our inner space.

“I am too tired in the morning, I will fall asleep”, some of my clients said. There is a remedy for that: do a 2 minute fast exercise like Tim Ferris, jump into the cold pool like Tony Robbins or just simply get up and drink a glass of water.

Recommended length is from 10 – 30 minutes of meditation. I personally do 6, you can check some available on my youtube channel.

2. Feeling gratitude to multiply the good in your life

Don’t know what to be grateful for? How about starting by being grateful you are alive. You are healthy. You have food on the table, a roof over your head.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey

Gratefulness is the magic of life. Express the gratefulness every morning to weave magic into your life.

Imagine a moment from your life you are grateful for. It can be any moment. Big or small.

Think of 3 things you appreciate in your life, around you. Think of 3 things you are grateful in your life.

3. Setting intentions for your day, month, year and visualizing them

“What good shall I do this day?”was the sentence Benjamin Franklin was asking himself every morning as a part of his morning ritual.

Ask yourself empowering questions. Who do I want to become?

Visualize 3 things you want to accomplish like they are already done. See the results you want to achieve. How do you feel then: accomplished, happy, exhilarated, alive, on the top of the world??!!

When you hold the dream independent of the environment, that’s greatness! Joe Dispenza.

It’s about holding your vision high, and fueling it with thoughts and positive emotions every day.

4. Giving yourself confidence to manifest your goals

Feeling low confidence, insecure, not sure you can make it? By writing or repeating affirmations that empower you, you become your biggest fan. You can deliberately pick affirmations that strengthen you at your weakest points.

Jack Canfield in Success Principles says you should write a list of the successes you had form age 0-20 and 20 – 40 and look at it every day to remind yourself of who you are. Also, you can make a list of daily or weekly successes to congratulate yourself on your accomplishments. Something simple but so empowering: I closed the deal with a client, I bought the tickets for my big trip, I threw away all the unnecessary things from my house, etc.

5. Grounding and detaching from your emotions

This is entirely up to you – whether it’s a physical exercise, like doing 15 min of yoga, or taking a quick walk or imagining yourself connecting to the center of the earth and feeling the energy. Another great practice to get out of your thoughts, for those with fast, highly active minds, is to journal.

It’s all about realizing we are not our thoughts and emotions. We are a soul experiencing that. We can observe our emotions to learn be proactive instead of reactive.