Your inner mentors will help you become more confident.
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Your inner mentors will help you become more confident.
By Emmanuel Segui
In order to achieve a goal, most people need to cross a threshold
into an unknown territory, which is often times outside their comfort zone.
Crossing the threshold is where most people fail. It takes
courage and strength.
Let’s take two examples of heroes, from two well know movies. The
first hero is Luke Skywalker from Star Wars and the other one is
Neo from The Matrix.
They both had a call to adventure and a goal to achieve. The call
to adventure for Luke Skywalker was Princess Lea’s message. For
Neo, the call was the famous phrase “Follow the white rabbit”.
Both refused the call at first. Luke is refused adventure by his
uncle, a man who seeks to protect Luke from the inevitable
dangers of fate. In addition, Luke found an excuse that he had to
help with the harvest. In The Matrix, Neo couldn’t climb out the
window. He just refused to believe he could save himself and save
the world.
A lot of times we refuse the call as well. We don’t want to write
a goal down with a specific plan to follow it. We don’t want to
pursue our dreams and we begin to doubt ourselves, just like Luke
and Neo.
Doubt and fear are the two biggest enemies that will prevent us
from reaching the goal.
A lot of people ask themselves “but what do I need to do to get
rid of doubt and fear” The question is in the world mythologies.
Look at Luke and Neo, how did they cast away their doubt and
fear?
The answer is: THEIR MENTORS, their guides.
Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi was the guide that Luke needed to
overcome fear and doubt and enter the path to achieve his goal,
to fulfill the call to adventure.
In the Matrix, Neo was trained by Morpheus, trained to face the
Agents and to understand what the Matrix really is.
In the same way, we have mentors and guides as well. Some may be
external, like a parent, a friend, a teacher or a colleague.
Other mentors are inner mentors, like our heart, an ancestor that
we always remember for the good qualities and skills we admired.
A mentor is somebody or something you love and respect.
The following 4 steps will help you enhance your confidence and
strengthen your belief in yourself through your inner mentors.
Step 1: Ask yourself the following question: “What kind of other
knowledge, resources or beliefs would you need to successfully
achieve your goal?”
In other terms, if you had some bit of knowledge you would need
to acquire, some new resource to develop or some new belief to
create, what would it be?
Identify that right now.
Step 2: The question is: “Who would be your mentor who would
share with you this new knowledge, resources or beliefs? How
exactly close is your mentor to support you best?”
The physical location, even in imagination is critical. Did you
know that you place differently different kinds of people in your
mental screen? Let’s do a little experience. Think now about
someone you love and someone you respect? Where do you locate
this person on your mental screen? Think now about someone you’re
deeply in love with? Now think about someone that is indifferent
to you? Or someone you really don’t like? Notice the different
locations, and how close they are from you.
The location triggers an emotion.
So notice exactly how close is your mentor to support you best.
Step 3: You are going pretend that you are your mentor who is
delivering you a message. You’re seeing things through his own
eyes. What is the message or advice he would give you?
Step 4: Now, you’re not your mentor anymore, you’re yourself and
you’re receiving the message from your mentor.
As you’re integrating the message, notice how much it is
affecting your level of confidence and your level of belief.
If you apply these 4 simple, elegant and very effective steps,
you will have more confidence that will in turn enable you to
achieve your goal or dream. It is really possible and you deserve
it. It is time.
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