HOW TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

We all need to trust and believe in ourselves. It's an essential ingredient to success. Believe in yourself . You can do itBelieve in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.” – Brad Henry It is a very well-known fact that if anyone wants to do succeed in life, they must believe in themselves. We have to believe in ourselves and in our abilities because our inner faith will create our external results. People easily lose faith in themselves when encountering setbacks, failure and fear. When you lack confidence in yourself, others will pick up on that and won’t take you seriously. Not many people live the life that they have always wished to live; they give up on their life goals as soon as they encounter the first setback. One of the main causes for this is that they do not believe in themselves.
The world that we are living in is extremely competitive and challenging, and people start to doubt themselves and their abilities when they meet with failure. But a few failures are not the end. You must get back up again.

1. Accept Your Current Situation

The first thing you need to do if you want to get back up and start believing in yourself again is to accept your current life situation. You have to make peace with how your life looks at the moment and what led to this situation that you are in. Fighting with your situation won’t do you any good. Being resistant is pointless, so we must accept first. Only then will we have enough energy to change our life.
“First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn’t so great.” – Alyssa Milano.

2. Think About Your Past Success

If you are feeling down and out, use your past to get motivated again. Remember the time when you used to just kick butt. When you were awesome and you used to rock it! Put yourself in that past and think about the awesome things that you used to do. Now remember that you can do it again. It is easy to think about the times when you got hurt, but it is just as easy to think about those times when you were successful as well. Use your past to your advantage.
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failure behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day.”– Bob Feller.

3. Trust Yourself

This is one of the most important things that can help you get that belief and confidence back. All the energy, power, courage, strength and confidence is within you. Spend time with yourself to access it, whether it be through meditation, journalling, or activities that make you trust in yourself again.
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi

4. Talk with Yourself

We are the ones who create who we will become. We do that every day by our daily beliefs and self-talk. It’s really important that we talk to ourselves and motivate ourselves. We don’t ultimately need others’ approval.  You deserve your own self-approval and supportive self-talk.
“The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.”
“If you tell yourself that you cannot, what can the only outcome be?” – Shad Helmstetter.

5. Don’t Let Fear Stop You

Fear stands for False Evidence that Appears Real.  It is the main thing that holds you back from believing in yourself again more than anything else. Face your fears and don’t let them stop you from achieving your goals.
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. Let Yourself Off the Hook

You have to forgive yourself for any failures or mistakes that you have committed in the past and move on. You have to look at the future and stop living in the past.  Be compassionate towards yourself.

7. Go With A Positive Attitude

Having a positive attitude towards everything is the quickest way in achieving that belief and confidence in yourself. Be thankful for whatever you are and whatever you have. Always have a positive approach and see the good in the world.

8. Let a Life Coach Help You

A life coach is a professional that helps, supports, and guides you. A life coach can help you recognize your abilities and skills. They can help you refocus on your goals and remember your past successes.  When you’re full of doubt, your life coach will believe in you and help you to believe in yourself again.

9. Keep Moving Forward And Never Look Back

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
There are going to be countless times in your life when you will feel down and you will feel like giving up. The voice in your head will tell you to stop and you will start to doubt yourself, but never listen to that voice. Be strong and keep moving on. Never give up on yourself. You have to keep on going and eventually you will reach your destination.  And when you do, you will realize how much more powerful you have become.

10. Let Life Move You

Let your life follow its own natural flow.  When you learn to follow your life’s flow, you’ll realize that life is marvellous and precious.  If you let your life guide you, it will shower you with its gifts and riches. You have to accept the life you are given and you have to learn to relax. Allow it to let you move in the direction you are meant to go, and you will find success.
“We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it’s really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what you face, you know that you’re going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He’s going to get you through it.” – Kelly Rowland.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

If you don't believe in yourself, it's unlikely anyone else will. Your success lies in your hands, and overcoming a lack of self-confidence is critical to making your dreams come true. You don't have to be born with a cocky, can-do attitude, however. You can learn to believe in yourself by consciously choosing to change the thoughts that undermine you.

I know a few extremely confident--not cocky, confident--people.
(Here's how you can tell if someone is genuinely confident.) It's as if they were born that way.
The rest of us sometimes lack confidence--and we often lack belief in ourselves when we need it most.
Fortunately, self-confidence is a quality you can develop. Anyone can be more confident. (Even me.)
But building self-confidence takes time. So if you need a quick shot of it, here are some great motivational quotes that will inspire you to feel more self-assured:

1. "When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't." --Jodi Picoult
2. "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." --Wayne Dyer
4. "Just pick a goal, a goal you truly want to achieve, and take a clear-eyed look at your weaknesses--not so you'll feel less confident, but so you can determine exactly what you need to work on. Then get to work. Celebrate small successes. Analyze your weaknesses. Keep going. As you gain skill, you'll also gain a feeling of genuine confidence, one that can never be taken away--because you've earned it." (OK, that one is mine, he said, blushing.)
5. "Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... do your thing, and don't care if they like it." --Tina Fey
6. "Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it." --Bryce Courtenay
7. "The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you." --William Jennings Bryan
8. "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." --Vincent van Gogh
9. "Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it." --Bruce Lee
10. "Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful." --Mark Victor Hansen
11. "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." --Eleanor Roosevelt
12. "Low self-confidence isn't a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered--just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better." --Barrie Davenport
13. "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." --E.E. Cummings
14. "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." --Golda Meir
15. "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." --Arthur Ashe
16. "It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures." --Oprah Winfrey
17. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. "But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration--because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks." --James Cameron
19. "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." --Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
20. "Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." --Peter T. McIntyre
21. "Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours." --Richard Bach
22. "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable." --Paul Tillich
23. "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." --Thomas Alva Edison
24. "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." --Andre Dubus
25. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?" --Marianne Williamson
26. "Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." --Brené Brown
27. "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." --Dr. Benjamin Spock
28. "Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them." --T. Harv Eker
29. "You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it." --Dr. Robert Anthony
30. "It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." --Sir Edmund Hillary
31. "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." --Oscar Wilde
32. "I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy." --Queen Latifah
33. "You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." --Buddha
34. "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." --Dale Carnegie
35. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." --Helen Keller
36. "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." --Thomas Jefferson
37. "Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have." --Brian Tracy
38. "When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." --Willie Nelson
39. "If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think." --T. Harv Eker
40. "Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out." --Alan Cohen
41. "To anyone that ever told you you're no good ... They're no better." --Hayley Williams
42. "Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." --Christopher Robin
43. "You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own." --Tim Gunn
44. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
45. "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." --J.M. Barrie
46. "It's a dead-end street if you sit around waiting for someone else to tell you you're OK." --Michael Pitt
47. "I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done." --Robert Downey Jr.
48. "If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything." --Katy Perry
49. "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain
50. "I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?" --Goldie Hawn
51. "Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." --Rumi
52. "We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover." --Shakti Gawain
53. "Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else." --Nathaniel Branden
54. "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." --Charles Dickens

 

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First Mobile Insurance Conference closes with a call for increased cooperation

The first Mobile Insurance Conference closed after two days of intensive discussions on how to overcome barriers and seize opportunities of using mobile technologies to enhance access to insurance of low-income populations. One hundred participants from 26 countries attended the conference.  
Issofa Nchare, General Secretary of the Inter-African Conference on Insurance Markets (CIMA), closed the conference stating that mobile insurance (m-insurance) provides a top opportunity for insurance market development. He also called upon insurance regulators to facilitate innovation whilst ensuring consumer protection.
Hannah Grant, Head of Secretariat of the Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii), reiterated the need for strengthened cooperation and coordination among supervisors, industries and policy makers, and stressed the importance of flexibility in regulatory frameworks to allow the growth of new business models.
M-insurance has been a strong driver for the increase of retail insurance penetration in regions with very low insurance uptake. The conference highlighted the need for insurance supervisors to balance the objectives of market development and consumer protection.
The discussions revealed that creating flexibility in regulation to allow space for innovation is vital. This applied not only to m-insurance, but the broader leaps being taken in the application of Insurtech to develop markets. To achieve this, capacity building amongst all stakeholders, public and private, will be an important foundation. A common theme in the discussions was that, throughout the insurance delivery process, building consumer awareness and understanding is required for an optimal insurance experience.
Digital technology is changing the insurance landscape by paving the way for new players and business models with the potential to rapidly expand coverage. The discussions during the conference made it clear that there are still many open questions to resolve in this space.
M-insurance cuts across multiple laws, regulations and authorities that extend beyond the insurance sector among them, payments systems and telecommunications. This overlap creates the need for cooperation across these industries, the models of which are still new and growing. The advent of technology has introduced a range of new players, notably technical service providers, and the question remains how to effectively include these new players, while keeping the consumer experience positive.
One of the highlights of the conference is the launch of the new Access to Insurance Initiative (A2ii) report, “Regulating Mobile Insurance: Status and Regulatory Challenges.’ The report explored the risks and opportunities of mobile insurance, drawing on the experiences of 26 jurisdictions. (Download the report here: https://a2ii.org/sites/default/files/reports/20170214_mobile_insurance_c... )
Kofi Andoh, an insurance supervisor from Ghana, shared his country’s experiences with mobile insurance, remarking that “Insurance is a promise which one cannot simply discontinue that in the next month”, referring to some initial short-term loyalty products that were introduced in some markets  Andoh also stressed that it is important for regulations to support more than one method of purchasing cover. He further recommended that the most helpful regulatory environment is where the edges of the playing field are clearly marked out and the regulator does not become a player setting premiums and commissions.
Luc Noubissi, chair of the IAIS Drafting Group on the Digital Inclusive Insurance, reporting the work of his team gathered ahead of the conference, stated that: “ Digital technology can help solve inclusive insurance challenges, but gives rise to particular risks and regulatory considerations to which supervisors should respond through a proportionate application of the principles for insurance regulation”. Noubissi invited supervisors to actively contribute to the IAIS Application Paper on the topic, by providing illustrations, recommendations or examples of good practices on how supervisory material may be implemented. “The Application paper is planned to be adopted by the end of 2017 and will provide additional material to mitigate the risks raised by digital technologies in various stages of product life cycle and in value chain”, he concluded.
A conference report will become available in April.
The conference was organised by the A2ii, the IAIS, and CIMA. It is supported by BMZ, DGIS, UK Aid, FSD Africa and Munich Re Foundation.
The presentations are available at: https://a2ii.org/en/event/save-date-iais-a2ii-cima-mobile-insurance-conference