Confidence on Demand

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A empowering strategy for success is the belief that:

Everyone has all the resources they need to succeed and to achieve their desired outcome.

This is all very well, but what resources, and how do you access them?

Anchoring is a very powerful way of linking the positive feelings and drives from your past experiences, for use in the future as a resource on demand – for example to boost your impact and turbo-charge your presentations.

Anchoring

The concept of anchoring comes from Pavlov (and his dogs)!. What Pavlov did with his dogs was that he rang a bell and showed the dogs a steak, rang the bell and showed them a steak, rang the bell and showed them a steak. Then he just rang the bell, and the dogs salivated just as if they’d just seen a steak. Pavlov deduced his theory of stimulus-response from this experiment. The bell was actually an anchor. What he had done was to set up an anchor for the dogs.

Bell Dog Steak

An anchor is a stimulus which reminds you of events and can change your state positively or negatively. The stimulus will involve some or all of your senses (see, hear, feel, taste or smell) and can be internal (e.g. a memory of a presentation that went fantastically well, a memory of a peaceful view where you felt soooo relaxed) or external (e.g. you hear a piece of music which reminds you of a great holiday, or you’re wearing a “lucky” item of clothing which gives you confidence).

Your response – the positive feelings resulting from these triggers – can be captured as a resource to use when you feel unhappy or in a negative frame of mind, or in a future situation which is causing you concern.

Typical Resource Anchors are for feeling:

Powerful

Energised

Confident

Certain

Decisive

That you can succeed in whatever you want to do

Like falling down laughing

or

Loved

Poised

Calm

Relaxed

In Wright Time this week I detail how to create yourself a resource anchor for confidence on demand – but this technique can be used to provide you with any feeling you want on demand – including some not suitable for a family site!

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