Confident Lifestyle

Improving Your Life One Day At A Time

Home
Articles
ACE The 7 day challenge
Your confidence diary
You are great!
De-clutter your life
Improve your body language
Time Management
How to Break Bad Habits
Refocusing after setbacks
Build confident work teams
Confidence sapping friends & colleagues
Confidently seek promotion
Failure as feedback
Feel Confident with the boss
Giving confident and powerful presentations
Secret Agent 007!
Run Meetings Confidently
Body Confidence: Like what you see in the mirror
Learn to say "NO" and mean it
How to give "tough messages"
Affirmations
Hypnosis
10 Commandments of Goals
The Secret and Think and Grow Rich
About Us
Free e Courses!
Free e Book Downloads
Self Improvement Links and Resources

Refocusing after setbacks

How many times have you started a diet, a new way of thinking, or tried something new and then a setback occurs and you just go back to the way you were?

Don’t worry, you are not the only one!

Setbacks and difficulties occur all of the time – they are a natural activity of life.

There are two ways of facing difficulties.

You either change or alter the difficulty or you can alter yourself to be able to deal with it.

Deal with difficulties correctly and it will enhance your confidence, deal with them incorrectly and they can do some serious damage to your self worth.

 

Think Positive!

 


Your response to issues and difficulties

When you are faced with any setback your ability to deal with it can be turned around into a position of strength by asking yourself positive empowering questions.

There is an unwritten rule that says:

Ask your mind a stupid question and you will get a stupid answer!

So, if after setback you ask yourself something like

“Why does this always happen to me, I never have any luck?”

Your mind will probably come out with:

“Because you are useless and good things do not happen to you!”

Sound familiar?

 

"FREE Newsletter ($147 value)  learn how the likes of Louise Hay, Anthony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Millions of Other’s have Discovered the Power of Affirmations"

Instead, if you ask yourself a positive empowering question like:

“What did I learn from this setback for next time?”

Your mind will kick into solution mode and help.


Here are some rules and things to think about when setbacks do occur:

Acknowledge that it has happened. Don’t hide from it. These things happen. So what?

What positive empowering questions can you ask yourself?
What is good about this situation?
How can I make the most of this situation?
What can I learn from it?
What are the facts about this problem?
How can we make it a successful outcome?

Acknowledge that setbacks occur to everyone and you are not being singled out.

View them as a challenge to overcome rather than an issue or problem


Think about the negative dis-empowering thoughts that you think on a regular basis after a setback.

What new empowering questions could you ask yourself to give some better answers!

Write these down now and make them a habit.

 

"FREE Newsletter ($147 value)  learn how the likes of Louise Hay, Anthony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Millions of Other’s have Discovered the Power of Affirmations"