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CONFIDENCE
You could be the most qualified, well-organised, pleasant, polite person who appears complete in every way, but without the confidence to express who you really are, to share your ideas, to get people on board, then you’ll always feel vulnerable.
Confidence is king!
When you meet someone who seems to ooze confidence, do you find yourself thinking, ‘How lucky’? Guess what? Self-confidence is far from luck. You aren’t born with confidence, it’s a learnt behaviour. True, most confidence building is learnt during childhood but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn how to be more confident now.
Take this confidence test and score yourself out of 10 for each statement:
Total up your score and see where you are.
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