Category: 60 seconds Confidence Building Talk

  • 60 Sec Confidence Building – So what is Normal?

    I saw this the other day. “I’m not weird. I am a limited edition’.  Got to say I like it.    Ed Miliband, UK politician responded to voters sometime back in 2011, that he was a ‘pretty normal guy’ after being regarded as weird due to comments about his voice and appearance. He said it was…

  • 60 Sec Confidence Building – How to be positively minded

    60 Sec Confidence Building – How to be positively minded

    The world is programmed negatively.  The news channels do not usually have good news for us.  As a result we subconsciously programme ourselves to be prepared for a negative world.  Even our speech is negative e.g. I’m afraid I can’t help you!  Are we really afraid?  No!  But why do  we say that? As a…

  • 60 seconds confidence building – overcoming disappointment

    I hated being disappointed.  Even over the smallest things.  Someone being late and ‘ruining’ my plans for the day was enough for my world to cave in.  I could take this disappointment thing to the nth degree.  I mastered the art of disappointment till I had to evict disappointment out of my life permanently. So…

  • 60 Sec Confidence Building – Don’t Stop!

    Don’t stop!   Don’t stop till you get to your destination. There is no point taking a giant step only to stop halfway even though you are ahead.  Or even gone far in your journey. Neither is there any point crying over baby steps you are taking to do likewise. Maintain your momentum.

  • 60 Sec Confidence Building – Stigma and Depression

    People say they have an appointment with the doctor, dentist or any other health profession but they would never say they have an appointment with the psychiatrist.   Fear of stigma and sometimes self-stigma prevent us from acknowledging a mental health problem in the same manner that we acknowledge health challenges of a physical nature.   …

  • 60 Sec Confidence Building – Spring Clean Your Mind

    Spring is certainly in the air.  This is the time we put away our woollies and our old winter gears, clean out our gardens, paint and brighten up our homes, and clear out some junk, aka spring cleaning!   Whilst we are spring cleaning our homes, why not do something we have never done before perhaps? …