I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. It is not always about experience because the truth is that there will always be a first time for everything; nobody was born with the experience. You had to start somewhere, and you had to start small before you gained all the experience you now have today. You were not born a manager or a worker in the line you work; you had your training or no training, but somehow you were able to learn all that is expected of you while on the job, so does that mean the whole time you were at it you were not confident?
I don't think it is all about experience; the first step to being confident is first of all believing in yourself and your capabilities. We all know what we can do, what we are capable of, and what we are not capable of. Deep within us, we know those things that if given, we can handle effortlessly, and those things that if given, we just know we are going to mess up, so the first step to being confident is believing and knowing to a point that you can handle the task or the job. If you fail to believe in yourself and your capabilities, that is when you lose confidence; that is when you find yourself fidgeting and shivering.
Another way to boost confidence is constantly reminding yourself what is at stake; you keep telling yourself what flopping or messing things up will cost you, and that way you see yourself wanting to put in the effort needed to do it well. One time I went for a job interview as a sales representative. I had never worked as that before, and moreover, I am a very shy person, so how am I going to get such a job done? Before I was called in, I was scared and with zero confidence, but I constantly kept reminding myself how bad I needed the job, and that was a confidence booster.
I got the job, and I did it perfectly; you just have to believe you can do it and then remind yourself what is at stake, and you somehow start to feel even more confident than those with experience. It is very much possible to be confident while trying out a new job or a new role. Like I said, believing in yourself is the first step, knowing what is at stake if you don't have the confidence, and then having people support you. Nothing beats having support; that alone boosts your confidence level, and you get the job done like someone with experience.
Confidence is real; the moment you start to lack it, you start to lose composure, and that is where failure comes into the picture. All of us who have done a presentation on a stage before or gone for an interview can relate; you can be flowing, but once your confidence level drops, you start to panic, and the whole presentation or interview session becomes a mess.
