How To Develop Your Own Potential Quickly
A brief, interesting clip from National Geographic’s “Ape Genius” documentary, demonstrating problem solving skills in chimpanzees, by using water as a flotation aid to retrieve a treat from a narrow tube. This experiment was conducted at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.
A brief, interesting clip from National Geographic’s “Ape Genius” documentary, demonstrating problem solving skills in chimpanzees, by using water as a flotation aid to retrieve a treat from a narrow tube. This experiment was conducted at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.
It seems the terms self-confidence and self esteem are used interchangeably. And we all want more of both of them!
But what is the difference, and why does that matter?
Dictionary.com defines them as:
Self esteem: A realistic respect for or favourable impression of oneself; self-respect.
Self confidence: Realistic confidence in one’s own judgment, ability, power, etc.
Your self esteem is based around how much you like yourself, irrespective of your abilities, position or anything else. Having a high self esteem means you are comfortable with yourself and happy with the person you are. This doesn’t mean you will not strive for more, but will do so for your own satisfaction. Those with high self esteem will never feel inadequate or inferior to others as they are content with the person they are, flaws and all.
Self confidence is based around your confidence in your abilities which is quite separate, although linked with, self esteem. Self confidence can also vary in different situations. You may feel completely confident in your ability to do your job well – high self confidence – but have no confidence in your ability to ice skate – low self confidence.
Now, you may be thinking, but I have never been ice-skating, of course I would have low confidence in that area. But not necessarily. You can have confidence that you will do your best and learn quickly. Going ice-skating with this attitude makes it more likely that you will learn quickly, reinforcing your positive self confidence. However if you have the attitude ‘I’ll be so useless at this, I’m bound to fall on my bottom and make a fool of myself’ then that is what is likely to happen, reinforcing your poor self confidence.
As long as you have high self esteem you will enjoy the ice skating whether you are good, bad or indifferent at it. (Or maybe decide you really don’t like it and will never go again! But that’s fine too, you are happy enough with yourself to realise you will not enjoy everything)
So how do they affect each other? Well generally, if self esteem is high so is self confidence and vice versa. There are exceptions to this however as someone can portray great self confidence at something but not particularly like themselves.
If your self esteem is high, your confidence tends to be high as you accept your faults, strengths weaknesses and act accordingly. You can be rubbish at painting but realise that you can’t be good at everything and maintain your high self esteem.
Developing high self confidence can raise our self esteem. As you become more confident in your actions and achievements (no matter how large or small), you recognise you are a competent, able person and therefore self esteem is raised.
Self esteem and self confidence go hand in hand, and for you to live the best life you can, you must work on both. They can both improve quickly, significantly and drastically in a small space of time, with just a little work.
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Many people use the words self-esteem and self-confidence as if they were synonyms. Self-esteem and self-confidence are different. Self-confidence is one part of self-esteem. Self-esteem is the broader category and self-confidence is one out of many subcategories of self-esteem.
Self-confidence means confidence that you can successfully do things. If you are self-confident you believe in your ability to accomplish the things that you set out to do. You can have high confidence in some areas while having low confidence in other areas. For example, you may feel confident in your ability to do well at work, but you lack confidence when it comes to building and maintaining deep and fulfilling relationships.
Your level of self-confidence affects how well you manage to accomplish whatever it is that you’re trying to do. A person who is confident that she will pass an interview is much more likely to do so than a person who does not believe that she will be able to do it. Self-confidence thus affects your success in life in a very practical way.
Self-esteem, on the other hand, means your sense of personal worth. It refers to how valuable you feel for simply being the person you are regardless of what you accomplish. It is your attitude towards yourself as the person you perceive yourself to be. Therefore, it is much broader than self-confidence, as your self-esteem is the sum you get when you add up all your perceptions of yourself in terms of what you accomplish, how you feel, how you’re behaving towards others, how others behave towards you, what happens to you during your life, your body perception and so on.
Self-esteem naturally has wider consequences than self-confidence. It affects your relationships with other people, what kind of events and people that you attract into your life, your mental health, your physical health and much more. In fact, self-esteem affects EVERYTHING. If there is anything you want to change in your life – whether it is a specific problem or if you want to improve in some area – you have to start by raising your self-esteem. You may manage to raise your self-esteem as a byproduct of working on something else, or you may have to focus on your self-esteem directly.
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Liv Miyagawa – The Self-Esteem Coach
Liv Miyagawa, The Self-Esteem Coach, helps people all over the world to raise their self-esteem and to reach their personal goals. She opens people?s eyes to their own strengths and helps them to figure out what it really is that they want to get out of life. Liv helps people to find out exactly what steps they need to take to reach their goals, and she supports them and motivates them on their journey towards a more fulfilling future.
I was fortunate to have a one-on-one conversation with Mr. Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A. His company is a highly respected, successful 60 year old private business.
He commented to me that his leadership journey in Chick-fil-A evolved over time. He first aspired to the 50,000 foot level, meaning complete overview and strategic management of his company.
Now he is focusing on developing the front line employee and improving the processes where food is being served. He said that managing an employee’s attitude, developing a wow service skill, or doing something memorable for a customer at the point of contact makes all the difference.
Multiply that by each employee multiple times every day and that effort could result in hundreds of thousands of acts of service that would have a huge positive impact on his business’ success.
He was saying that the differentiating feature of business is made at the front line and with the individual. It’s in the leadership and details that make a difference. Do the little things excellently and the business grows and succeeds.
To get the details right at the point of service (or product delivery), people need to be trained and developed to deliver superior service or products.
They need to possess the right attitudes, competencies, and motivation. There is only one way that can happen. Front line employee supervisors need to possess those same or more effective qualities. Without the supervisor’s managers possessing those same qualities, the downstream positive benefits quickly vanish.
Without the executives and senior executives possessing those same positive qualities, the front line employees have no chance of creating wow service or products. The success of every company begins at the top.
Dan Cathy is the leader at every level when it comes to developing people and focusing on the details that make a difference.
Where are you in your leadership development journey? Do your front line employees possess the positive attitudes, wow competencies, and know-how to make the business transaction memorable for the customer?
Are you focusing on and developing your executives, managers, and supervisors to develop those qualities in themselves so they can coach and impart them to your employees?
You see, it starts at the top. If you are not at the top, it starts with you where you are. As you develop those qualities, you will one day reach the top. Day Cathy has gotten it right.
Leadership and the details make the difference. Where are you in your personal leadership development?
If you are not operating at a level of excellence, make a new choice! A choice to change and develop the attitudes, competencies, and process focus that will ensure that you and your business continue to grow and succeed in the long-term like Chick-fil-A.
Joe Farcht is the founder and president of Leadership Advantage, Inc. His purpose for living is to develop and coach leaders, executives, managers, and supervisors to new levels of performance and success in their work and life. He is the author of the book Building Personal Leadership: Inspirational Tools & Techniques for Work & Life. Learn more at Leadership Advantage, Inc.. Please contact Joe at joefarcht@cox.net or at 602 996-1802.
