Protecting and Growing Your Confidence Spot

Increasing Confidence Is A Process In this episode I discuss my discovery about how to increase my confidence. A book called A Little Spot of Confidence by Diane Alber provides a simple guide to building your confidence spot. Good evening and welcome to the humble. Podcast abode. I am Cocoa Griot. A fifty- something single mom enjoys talking about life love and a host of other topics. There is something I want to talk about tonight and it is totally based on a book I read to one of my mentees. I was reading the book in my sing- song cheery voice, but I actually wanted to cry. This simple book was giving advice on a major issue in my life, having 0:30 - 1:00 confidence. The book is called A Little Spot of Confidence by Diane Alber.This little 12 dollar book is invaluable to me. The book actually gives suggestions of how to grow your confidence spot. I want to address my struggle with spot shrinkage first, and then I will share some of the gems of wisdom in this little book. So first let me talk a little about spot shrinkage, the things that people might do that shrink your confidence 1:00 - 1:30 spot. You are stepping out of the house and you know from the last glance you took in the mirror, you are looking good! Your steps are light and you have a gigantic smile on your face. Walking into work you expect to hear compliments, get high fives, and see smiles of approval. Nothing of the sort happens. You immediately 1:30 - 2:00 start to review every inch of your attire and try to figure out what you got wrong. This is something that happens frequently in the workplace. People don’t always acknowledge your efforts to look your best, oh but the minute you look your worst, and step in there raggedy wrong, you will get attention. It is important to be okay with you. Don’t look for external affirmation, if it comes great, if not, you feel good about yourself just 2:00 - 2:30 same. Our social media driven culture has created a need to be approved by others. Internal likes should be our goal. If