AMY HANSEN

It can be extremely helpful to surround yourself with an external support system in order to amplify your own belief in yourself.  You need a deep inner belief in yourself in order to achieve your goals.  But, sometimes you just need an extra boost of support from external sources to confirm that you can do this.  Here are four external sources to help you believe in yourself so that you can achieve your goals.

Like Minded People

Begin by surrounding yourself with like minded people.  This could be people who are working on achieving something similar to you or just a group of people who want to improve, be better, and are working to achieve a goal.  Find a community of people who are supportive, and uplifting.  This group should remind you that what you’re working towards is important, worthwhile, and most of all, encourage you to believe in yourself that you can achieve your goal.  Search for different groups you could join, online...

One of the most powerful things you can do to achieve your goals is to believe in yourself.  Often you find yourself questioning if you’re truly on the right track.  Self doubt creeps in along with friends fear and worry.  You might think who are you to do something like this or perhaps will anyone even care.  But, deep down you care.  It’s something you want to achieve for yourself and you’ll feel amazingly proud when you do.  Here are three tools to help you believe in yourself so that you can achieve your goals.

Inner Support System

You need an inner support system as an inner guide that will cheer you along.  Get in touch with your inner guide.  She is a badass and truly amazing.  She can do anything she sets her mind to.  She is powerful, strong, and courageous.  This is you, but often times you forget about her because the noise of fear, self doubt, and worry drowns her out.  Instead, turn up...

When you look in the mirror, think about what you see.  Maybe you see all the flaws and pick yourself apart.  Perhaps you see sadness and unhappiness from your lack of progress towards achieving your goals.  Your past regrets, mistakes, and things that happened to you bubble up.  You may feel unworthy and lack confidence.  In fact, you might not even be able to look yourself in the eye due to the shame and guilt you feel.  But, your past does not define you.  It’s what you do right now that determines your future.  Here are four questions to help you move forward so that you can achieve your goals and live your dream life.

What Are You Hiding From?

Start by asking yourself what you’re hiding from.  It could be something that happened in the past that you’re embarrassed about that you’re avoiding.  Or, perhaps it’s something you feel guilty over that you’ve been pushing down.  Identify...

It’s important to dream and envision yourself in the future.  But, you can’t get stuck there.  Constantly living in the future and dreaming about what could happen will only keep you living on fantasy island.  Yet, it can be so much easier to daydream about the possibility than to accept where you currently are.  Maybe deep down you’re struggling with being unhappy about your current goal progress and where you are.  Perhaps you’re feeling unmotivated and not taking any productive action.  If that’s the case, then it’s time to pull yourself out of the daydream and bring yourself back to the present.  Use the following four questions to know if you’re daydreaming too much.

Why Are You Daydreaming?

Start by asking yourself, why you’re daydreaming to begin with.  It’s important to dream about the future and what you want to achieve.  But, coming up with wild and crazy dreams that...

There are three key components to condition yourself to achieve your goal.  These three things will put you in the right mindset so that you’ll be ready for the journey to achieve your goal.  Achieving your goal is not easy, but rather hard work.  There will be moments that test you to see how dedicated you are to achieving your goal.  But, with the right mindset, you’ll find it easier to successfully achieve your goal in no time.

Adventure

A big part of working towards achieving your goal is going on the journey.  This is often an adventure because of the obstacles you’ll encounter along the way.  These obstacles are never planned.  Make a little space for the unknowns in life that occur when you’re planning out your day with tasks that move you closer to your goal.  Avoid having a tightly set schedule and leave space for the little adventures, which can actually be good.  You might not always...

Sometimes you can get sucked in to the negativity of the world.  Your negative thoughts lead you to feeling unhappy, stuck in your daily mundane routine of life, and unmotivated to do much of anything.  Let alone, take action on your goals.  It’s time to get yourself out of the negative funk by incorporating more things into your life that make you feel good.

Acknowledge The Negative Funk

In order to pull yourself out a negative funk, you first have to acknowledge that you’re in one to begin with.  Recognize your negative thoughts and how you feel.  Your thoughts determine your feelings, which in turn determine your actions.  If you’re not thinking and feeling good, then you’ll be unmotivated to take action on your goals.  You may find it’s beneficial to journal about your thoughts and feelings to fully understand your current state of mind.  Provided you’ve acknowledged you’re in a negative...

It can be so easy to get wrapped up in the drama of spreading negativity.  Whether it’s a rumor about someone else or news being shared around that isn’t the most compelling.  You may find yourself getting sucked into following someone who is extremely passionate about discrediting someone or proving something wrong.  Being super vocal about the matter and continuing to spread the negativity will only hurt you.  Especially if you don’t know the exact facts behind the situation.  If the matter doesn’t concern you to begin with and your involvement won’t change the outcome, then it’s time to get yourself out of the negativity.

Negativity Doesn’t Serve You

Getting sucked into negativity will only send you in a direction you don’t need to go.  You’ll find yourself wasting time and getting pulled into the negative drama that does not serve you.  You have better things to do with your life than...

Mentors can be extremely helpful when it comes to achieving your goals.   They can give you guidance and advice on your next action steps.  However, it’s important to find the right mentor for you.  One that encourages you to take action and helps you to believe in your ability to achieve the goal that you’re working towards.

Experienced Mentor

A lot of times, your mentor has many more years of experience and much more support staff.  In fact, your mentor may have a team that helps them.  Or if they are solo, they’ve just perfected the method to where they can complete tasks quickly.  Either way, your mentor may feel miles ahead and far from where you currently are in your goal journey.  The important part is to not let this discourage you.

Mindset

Seeing a mentor many miles ahead is often the point where you start getting in your own head about who are you to try and achieve something like this. ...

Finding mentors can be a great resource to help you achieve your goals.  In fact, you may be thinking that the fastest way to achieve your goals is just to model what someone else has already successfully accomplished.  Yet, that’s not necessary the answer to successfully achieving your goals.

Mentor

Most of the time, you search for a mentor who has gone before you and achieved the success you’re working towards.  You believe this mentor will help shortcut the distance between where you are and where you want to be if you follow the exact steps that they took.  Mentors share their missteps and words of advice to help prevent you from making the same mistakes they made.  All to help you achieve your goal faster and easier.  However, what they did may not feel right to you.

Trial & Error

The truth is, a lot of mentors have figured it out on their own through trial and error.  They took steps, had failures, made...

Visualization is a powerful tool that can help you achieve your goals.  However, visualization alone won’t automatically achieve your goals for you.  You still have to do the work and take the necessary action steps in order to achieve your goals.  Here is how to use visualization to take action on achieving your goals.

Why Visualize

Visualization will help you achieve your goals by keeping your goal at the forefront of your mind so that you're constantly thinking about ways to achieve it.  This will help you stay motivated and focused on taking the necessary action steps towards achieving your goal.  You must keep the vision of achieving your goal in your mind if you want to make it a reality.  Otherwise, you’ll forget about it and the goal will remain unachieved.

Visualize Action

Begin by visualizing yourself taking small action steps towards achieving your goal.  This will help solidify in your mind the actions you need...