BOOK THE POWER OF SELF-CONFIDENCE

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Summary of the book “The power of self-confidence: become unstoppable, irresistible and daring in all areas of your life”: Canadian speaker Bryan Tracy offers a method for learning to channel your strengths, increase your self-confidence and achieve your life goals.
Brian Tracy is a Canadian-born speaker. On his site, he claims to speak to more than 250,000 people each year. He is a prolific author who has written more than 70 books in fields as varied as economics, business and psychology. His main works have been translated into several languages.

In The Power of Self-Confidence, Brian Tracy tells the story of how he started from nothing and yet achieved great success. However, it is not an autobiography, but rather a practical book which offers several strategies with a view to considerably increasing one’s self-confidence by acting in an ever more positive way. Its author warns us: it is not necessarily an easy path, but it is in any case possible!

Introduction
The book is made up of seven chapters, in addition to the introduction. Here is the structure:

The foundation of self-confidence
Personal resolve and power
Acquire competence and self-control
The inner game of self-confidence
Leverage your strengths
Triumph over adversity
Self-confidence in action
For the author, the roots of lack of self-confidence are multiple. They come from our respective stories. But it is possible to modify this state. How ? First of all, by having in mind a series of mental laws, the first of which Brian Tracy discusses here.
Biologically, our body renews itself on average every seven years. The same goes for the mind! Like your cells, which make you up and transform, the ideas you entertain make what you are and they too change.

Negative thoughts make you a sad, low-spirited person; positive thoughts shape you in the opposite way. They make you a joyful person who succeeds in life. There is another law here, a first lesson to be learned, according to Brian Tracy:
Personal growth is not easy
“You can’t have thoughts and lead a different kind of existence,” says Brian Tracy in The Power of Self-Confidence. Of course, we all have a past. This has perhaps placed us in a vicious circle from which it is difficult to escape.

By acting on negative habits (thoughts that have become daily realities), we simply no longer see how to change them, how to evolve.

Acquiring self-confidence requires discipline: you must close your mind to the things you fear, to negative thoughts. To be happy and succeed in life, you need to have solid principles. These will govern you as the law of gravity governs physical bodies. Here is a third:

Correspondence: Your outer world reflects your inner world.

Start with your inner life by clearly identifying your values
People with good self-confidence lead their lives according to their values: they are sure of what they think and how they act. Being true to yourself matters a lot. This is also called integrity, that is to say the ability to respect one’s values ​​in all occasions. When you have a worry, a conflict, think about it. Are you honest? Do you respect your own values?

So determine your values: that’s the first step. They must be very clearly identified and summarized in a few simple words. You can write them on cards that you will laminate and have them in your wallet!

In business, companies that have very clearly identified values ​​record profits up to 700 times higher than others, recalls Brian Tracy in The Power of Self-Confidence.

What values ​​would you work hard for? What would you dedicate yourself to entirely? To your health, to your career, to God, to freedom? The list is long. How to identify those that are important to you?

An exercise: create your obituary or eulogy. Do you imagine your friends, your family, remembering who you were, what you brought to your community, to the world? Identify with a “me” that you would deeply like to become and that people could remember.

integrity is a transversal value
Integrity allows you to hold your values ​​together and view them as non-negotiable. If you have integrity, you live according to your values ​​without compromising on what they are or their order. In short, integrity refers to adherence to one’s own values.

It is integrity that requires you to act according to what you think and also to accept life as it is, rather than fleeing into pretense. You can then be at peace with yourself.

Your values ​​are only expressed in your actions
In stressful situations, it is not always easy to act in accordance with your values. Yet it is essential. The obstacle allows you to reveal your values ​​and identify your degree of integrity and mental strength.

You can know what your values ​​have been in the past by honestly looking at how you have acted.

If your actions follow your values, you feel good and your self-confidence increases. If, on the contrary, you abandon your values ​​in favor of other interests, then your self-confidence plummets. According to Brian Tracy, here is another law you will need to pay attention to to develop the power of self-confidence:
This is also reflected in the principle of “acting as if”: you can increase your level of self-confidence by convincing yourself, through a kind of role play, that you already possess certain qualities or values. . By practicing these values ​​in a fun way, they will become anchored in you “for real”.

The keys to self-confidence: self-control and self-discipline
Take advantage of any opportunity to build this self-confidence and act in accordance with your values. The more difficult the obstacle (a failure, a setback, any problem) is to overcome, the more strength and self-discipline you will need to act with integrity. But the more the joy of having overcome the obstacle will anchor the value to which you aspire.

This is called the principle of resistance. The same goes for self-confidence as it does in weightlifting. The heavier weights you work, the more your muscles get bigger and stronger. Here, muscles are your values!

Acquiring inner strength requires a feeling: being sure that you will be able to overcome again an obstacle of the same type as the one you have already overcome. You persevered and overcame the difficulty. You must convince yourself of this. This is a key point that the author of The Power of Self-Confidence emphasizes a lot.

An exercise: find the situations in your life where you managed to overcome an obstacle and cherish them, reminding yourself that you have been strong in the past and that you can be strong again.
In The Power of Self-Confidence, the emphasis is on being committed to the things you do. You need to know that you can accomplish what you set out to do. Start with small things, it doesn’t matter, but be convinced of your ability to achieve them.

Little by little, set more ambitious goals for yourself, but always keeping this same state of mind. Based on your past experiences, equip yourself with a solid belief in your ability to achieve what you set out to do.

It is an attitude or state of mind, more than just a positive thought. This attitude must be based on facts, namely on your previous experiences and the way you interpret them.

The mental laws of self-confidence
Throughout chapter 2 of The Power of Self-Confidence, Brian Tracy completes his enumeration of the laws which allow us to understand how the mechanisms of self-confidence and success work.
very indirect: what we obtain in life happens indirectly, as the outcome of a process in which we had invested elsewhere.

Cause and effect: Everything that happens in life has a cause. If you repeat the cause, you will get the same effects.

Attraction: our thoughts attract the object of our desire. The more precise the thought, the more likely we are to obtain what we want.

Correspondence: the external world corresponds to the internal world that we have shaped for ourselves.

Seeding: whatever you sow today will constitute your next reality.

Concentration: corollary of the law of attraction — the more you concentrate on a goal, the more likely it is to become a reality.

Substitution: one thought chases another. The conscious mind only entertains one thought at a time (either negative or positive).

Emotion: Every thought conceived, every decision made, or every action generated is based on one emotion or another. The two main emotions are fear and desire.

The subconscious better accepts thoughts with a strong emotional charge. The law of emotion, for example, allows us to predict that the stronger the emotion, the faster the change in state of mind can be. Extreme fear, extreme desire can make you act and think differently in a very short time. Weaker emotions generate slower changes.

The four Cs of self-confidence
To activate the power of self-confidence from these principles, remember these four key words:

• Clarity: Be clear about what you want to achieve and the kind of person you want to become.
• Conviction: make sure you are capable of accomplishing everything you set out to do.
• Focus: Resolve to do what is necessary and stick to it. Also acquire the willingness to pay in advance the price of any success you aspire to.
• Consistency: decide to work on your goals every day, morning, noon and evening, until you achieve them.

When you have linked the four Cs together, you will be sure to move towards unshakeable self-confidence. According to Brian Tracy, this is the basic recipe for becoming unstoppable and irresistible in all spheres of life!

The importance of goals
Giving yourself clear and precise objectives allows you to start implementing the 4 Cs. Make the mental laws work in your favor! Deliver yourself, once and for all, from accidents and chance.

Give your life meaning and structure. You are able to decide for yourself the direction your life will take. Step by step, you will then move towards success.
With this book, become a person of action, overcome all obstacles and climb all peaks!
The degree of self-confidence determines the degree of ambition we put into each goal we set for ourselves. The higher it is, the more persistent we will be in overcoming obstacles on our path.

With this book, everyone will learn to acquire unshakeable self-confidence.
Clarify your values ​​and live in accordance with them in order to become the best person you can be;
Set clear objectives and write down the means to achieve them;
Program your subconscious to react positively to difficulties.