Believing in your own strengths and capabilities is vital for developing and supporting your personal power.
Feeling more capable can help you develop the mindset, skills, and knowledge you need to achieve your goals and do whatever you want.
What are the Sources of Your Self-Belief?
Learning to believe in yourself and your abilities is also known as self-assuredness. When you think what you do will work out as you want, you have more motivation and energy to take action and move forward.
Self-assuredness also helps you feel like you can solve problems and overcome challenges, which are a big part of maintaining forward momentum when seeking a goal.
Several sources feed your sense of self-assuredness
The first is mastery, which includes believing you have what it takes to accomplish a task. Mastery comes from your past experiences of success and accomplishment.
You can improve your mastery by regularly reminding yourself of your accomplishments and positive efforts toward learning new things. Rewarding yourself is also important.
Self-assuredness also comes from the modeling of others. We do not have to learn everything by trial and error. If we did, it would take forever to learn a new skill.
Instead, we can watch others who are successful and learn from them. Modeling is also a wonderful way to see skills you have already applied in new settings.
Paying attention to others and how they use their knowledge and skills can increase your learning from modeling.
Also, observe and learn from others who are trying to carry out similar goals to you. If they can do it, so can you.
We also develop our sense of capability from the advice of trusted others. When someone you trust tells you you are capable, you are more likely to believe you can accomplish your goal.
Being receptive to the advice and suggestions of others you respect and admire will help you gain the most from mentoring.
Find a mentor you trust and learn from their insights into your ability and knowledge to continue your development.
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Believe in Your Own Capabilities
Finally, your mood affects your beliefs in your own capabilities. When you receive emotional or physical feedback from performing something, this shapes your attitude and how you judge yourself.
When your mood is positive, you feel more positive about your abilities. This is why becoming more emotionally intelligent is important because controlling your emotions is vital to creating the mood necessary to enhance your self-efficacy.
How to Feel More Self-Assured? Learn from Others!
You not only learn from your own experiences but from watching others. If you want to enhance your belief in your own capabilities, start paying closer attention to others in your world who are good at what they do.
If you want to learn a specific skill, pay attention to how others perform this same task.
Asking others who have carried out similar goals for advice is also a great way to learn about their process or how they met their aim. You can learn by watching videos online or by reading stories of others’ successes, as well.
Focus on Progress
When trying to feel more capable, focus on the incremental progress you must make to master that skill. Small goals are measurable and add to your sense of capability, so recognize and reward yourself for progressing and getting closer to your final target.
Reflect
Looking back on your accomplishments is a terrific way to feel more capable. When you feel like you cannot do something new, it is helpful to look back to the past for examples of when you realized similar goals, used like skills, or had to start from scratch. These past efforts will help you feel more capable in the present.
Final Thoughts
Learning to feel more capable will boost your confidence and empower you to take control of your life. Your personal power is grounded in how competent you feel, so becoming more self-assured will be vital to developing your personal power over time.
You were made to succeed in life. To the degree you believe in that will determine how far you go in life.
Never let go of your dream. The reason you have that dream means that you are capable of making it happen. Don’t let anyone persuade you otherwise.
