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Why Is Self-confdence Important?
Self-confdence is arguably one of the most important things you can have. Self-confdence refects your assessment of your own self-worth. It will play a large part in determining your happiness through life.
Sport can be both enormously effective in improving self-worth, and highly destructive in damaging it. Where sport is used creatively, with emphasis on enjoyment, effective goal setting and monitoring of achievement of goals, it can build self-confidence as targets are reached and improvement in performance is noted.
Where children are compelled to participate in a sport for which they have no aptitude, this can be immensely destructive to self-confdence as failure and lack of self-worth are consistently reinforced. Coaches should ask themselves whether they are prepared to takemoral responsibility for inflicting this damage.
Self-confidence allows you to take risks, as you have enough confdence in your own abilities to be sure that if things do go wrong, you can put things right.
How Goal Setting Helps Self-confdence?
Goal setting is probably the most effective way of building self-confdence. By setting measurable goals, achieving them, setting new goals, achieving them, and so on you prove your ability to yourself. You are able to prove to yourself that you are able to perform and achieve effectively. You can see and recognise and enjoy your achievement, and feel real self-worth in that achievement.
Importantly, by knowing what you are able to achieve, you are not setting yourself up for surprise failure—you almost always have a reasonably accurate assessment of what your abilities really are.
How Imagery, Positive Thinking, and Suggestion Help Self-confdence?
Imagery is useful in building self-confdence, but only if properly applied.
Imagery should be used to imagine achievement of a goal that is being worked towards in order to help you to believe that that goal is attainable.