Building Confidence in New Areas

As we enter another month, I am feeling energized and hopeful, lots of new horizons to explore.  In Spain August is almost a complete washout work wise. Most of Spain is on holiday, so there are no suppliers and people usually stay away from the heat.

I have used this August to learn many new skills on the internet and in marketing, that way I can persue a new concept in business.  Anyone who knows me, or has read many of my earlier Blogs will know that my cyber ability could be fitted onto a pin head!  I am not stupid but I "knew" how I was with technical stuff! Excuse not to bother to try and learn, because it was not important in my life.  Now that it has become a high priority it is amazing how "clever" I can be.....learning new skills easily and using them on a daily basis.

All I ever used to hear was "how complicated" or "how difficult" it was, so that kept me in my nice safe world.  When will I ever learn!!!! Things are only overwhelming when we let them, only over complicated when we wear blinkers.  We can send a man to and from the moon, landing within millimetres of  where he is expected to be, but we still strive to conquer the space between our ears!!

You would think that when  we had done it once it would be easy to do again....but, we get comfortable in our beliefs and want to stay there rather than move on, until the need is greater than our mental discomfort to move on.  The amazing thing is, when we do start to move on and find how easy it is, we wonder why we did not do it before!!!   Doh!!! comes to mind.

I am not beating myself up, as I am now enjoying this new technology to enhance my life and business.  But as another day dawns, I realise just how limiting some of my own beliefs are, how blinkered I can be without realising it.  They were the same limiting beliefs that trapped me in an overweight, over size body for so many years. 

That's me on the right, at a Charity Event on Saturday, before I would have made every excuse under the sun not to have been there, I would never have gone in swim wear and would have run (ok waddled) a mile at just seeing a camera, let alone even thinking of having a photo taken. Liberation is a great feeling...are you holding yourself back?