Strengthen Your Core

If we want others around us to be positive and confident, then we have to create it within ourselves first. This means first focusing on yourself and your positive core and then creating a positive core among others. Building a strong core in yourself means that you can have the confidence you need to do anything.

The amazing thing is that we all have the resources to strengthen our core, some of us might just not know how. The key word here is REMEMBER. Yes remember your resources because everyone has resources in past experiences.

• Remember your strengths

Identifying our strengths can give us an instant confidence boost because it reminds us of things we can do that are really great. What are the things that make you the most confident and positive? What are the practices that make you feel successful when you finish them? What are you strong at?   Remember, and see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel what you felt as you are having these strengths.

• Remember Peak experiences

Peak experiences are those as moments in which we feel the highest levels of happiness and possibility. They can happen in everyday situations or during extreme events in our lives. Remember specific peak experiences, how positive you felt at these moments, notice those key moments and what was present in them. Remember, and see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel what you felt as you are in these peak experiences.

• Remember your successes

Our past successes are our roots, they are areas that we started from and built upon to progress forward. Remember how you succeeded, what did it take you to reach success and how did this success look like and feel like.  Remember, and see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel what you felt as you are reliving your success moments.

Now that you remembered your resources, Use them by remembering them again and again and Anchor them all, one on top of the other. You might choose to have a kinesthetic anchor like a simple gesture. (Have you ever noticed athletes in the Olympics doing a specific gesture before their games and when they win? This is their “Anchor”).  Or you might choose a visual Anchor of a picture or a symbol. Whatever you choose to help you recall your excellent states, your resources, reminding you of all your Strengths, your Peak Experiences and your Successes.

Exercise and strengthen your Core, because mental states are just like physical states they need exercising!

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