Believe in Yourself

Self-help, self-improvement, motivation, life-coaching...

There is so much material available these days and so many motivational speakers and coaches and self-styled gurus who claim they can change your life that it's easay to be skeptical about their efficacy.

The truth is, you can read a thousand books, attend a hundred seminars, and hire several life coaches, and it will not make shred of difference. Or you could just happen to pick up one book or even hear one quote, and be well on your way to achieving your most ambitious goals. It's not really how much you're exposed to; more important is what and most crucially, how you response to it. Before any "self-improvement" can start, something must first click within you. Your "self" is the key.

You know how two people can be shown exactly the same thing and each of them sees completely different things? It's the same with self-help materials. Before they can even begin to help you, you have to first believe in yourself. How badly do you want to change? Have you prepared your heart to sustain you through the challenges and barriers that will no doubt be in your way? Are you able to re-affirm your self-worth when others begin to lose their faith in you? Do you know precisely what you're good at and just how valuable you are?

Conviction is everything. Your belief system must be unshakable.

Many people have big dreams but how many of them truly believe they can make them reality? Successful people continue to be in the minority because attrition swiftly eliminates those whose hearts are not really into it. Doubt and fear gnaw at all our hearts, but those who make it know that these things hold no real power if we choose not to give them any power.

Typically, after a motivational programme, people get all excited, but after a time of not seeing the results that they want, they quit. You know, with all the time invested into it, they probably would've been better off not even starting!

These people being with the thought of "well, let's see if this works out..." This is not the kind of thinking that will make you successful. Successful people believe it work out and persevere until it does. Now many people scoff at this and think that the reason successful people have a great attitude is that they are successful. But the opposite is true - successful people are successful because they have a great attitude!

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Eugine Loh, 938Live, MediaCorp Pte Ltd