2010- A New Year Begins with Confidence

2010- A New Year Begins with Confidence A New Year, a new you. A New Year, a clean slate. A New Year, a new job. A New Year, a new beginning. See how all these snippets are future oriented? Thats where were headed. Building confidence is as easy as setting a course and moving towards it. How do you set the course? You will want to find the arena you feel best playing in. What is that? Where is that, you might be asking. You already know, because youve done it before. 1. Recall the times in your life youve felt on top of the world-you knew what you were doing and you just felt great. 2. Next document those events. Use STAR SituationTaskActionsResult 3. Now, looking at those actions you took, what were you doing? Where were you doing them? Who were you interacting with? If you have more than one story documented, you can begin looking at the reoccurring themes. Chances are quite great that you will see some sort of pattern or at least some overlap. 4. Next, how can you recreate this? One of the secrets to confidence is your ability to re-create your talents in a similar and/or new situation. Hopefully you had a fun-filled evening last night, surrounded by friends and family. Ringing in the New Year has never been one of my favorite traditions. The evening issetupwith expectations that never seem quite met.But I love the thought of starting theNew Year off right. Ive made my resolution or as my son said: revolution. I willbe nicer to people this year. Trite, perhaps, yet a hugeorder to fill. Ill start offby trying to be other-centric. I will help where I can. Thus, todays post is to help a fellow job search bloggerTim Tyrell-Smith. He will be talking about confidence too. His blog, Spin Strategyisa must-read for any job seeker/career enthusiast. Tim also has a Spin Strategy LinkedIn group. It is active and worth joining, so go now!