10 Rules for Building Self-Confidence
by
Norman Vincent Peale
1. Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding.
2. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
3. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
4. Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
5. Ten times a day repeat these dynamic words. “If God be for us, who can be against us?”
6. Get a competent counselor to help you understand why you do what you do. Learn the origin of your inferiority and self-doubt feelings which often begin in childhood. Self-knowledge leads to a cure.
7. ten times each day practice the following affirmation, repeating it out loud if possible: “I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
8. Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten percent.
9. Put yourself in God’s hands. To do that simply state, : “I am in God’s hands.”
10. Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you.
