I started an amazing exercise to build confidence.I take a piece of paper and write where I was 1,2,5, and 10 years ago. Yes I actually look backwards rsther than forward to feel my value.

It is a reality that when we look only to the goal it can seem like we are not going anywhere…always more to do more to learn more, more, more. Yet when we look at where we are today and where we have been it can be a real eye opener.

Consider looking out to sea and trying to paddle to the horizon…alway more paddling to do, more and more. Yet looking back where you started on the shore you can clearly see just how much progress you have made.

Try it, take a peek back where you have come from and you will be pleasantly surprised and very confident.

Much Aloha~ Gina
PS Mahalo Dave for all you do to keep people like me going

I was at a show once lining up for a jumping competition. The show was poorly organized and whoever got to the gates first was next to go.

Well, no one was going.

Except me, of course. I turned my head to a girl who looked terrified, and I said, “Go after me! That way, everyone else has to measure up to you, not the other way around!” And then I was off, wrecking a course on horseback.

I saw the girl after and she was flushed and happy. She ran up and said, “I did it! I did what you said and look!” 3rd place out of 32 competitors.

But all it took was the switch of mindset. And a prod

I did the same thing to my kid when he went on stage the first time. He was worried he’d mess up lines in front of people and I told him that most people would be preoccupied looking on stage thinking, “I don’t have the guts to do that!”

But you know what? Someone had to tell her. She couldn’t figure it out on her own because she was too worried. It took someone else to say, “It’s alright.”

When you realize that there *are* people who are intimidated by “little old you” no matter what level you’re at, it helps you realize how goofy it is to see yourself as small.