Raise Your Game: How to succeed at work

Chapter 6. Believe You Can Do Difficult Things

Believing you can do difficult things is at the heart of raising your game. This is not self-belief based on an inflated sense of your own self-importance, it is self-belief rooted in your competence, self-worth and values. Self-belief comes from recognising your own qualities and acknowledging the contribution you are making to the world, either by virtue of the expectations of others or by a more private, inner conviction arising from personal affirmation or faith. Honing your ability to do difficult things perpetuates a growth in self-confidence and effectiveness.

Why is believing you can do difficult things important?

Continuing to strive to do difficult things keeps us alert and growing in effectiveness ...