July 6, 2024 • 10 mins
Focusing on the now and being present in the moment is crucial for building confidence. When you center your attention on the present, you reduce the mental clutter and anxiety that often stems from worrying about the future or dwelling on the past. This clarity allows you to engage more fully with the task at hand, improving your performance and fostering a sense of achievement.
Being present enhances your self-awareness, enabling you to recognize and appreciate your strengths and abilities. This heightened awareness can boost your self-esteem and confidence, as you become more attuned to your successes and the progress you make, however small. Additionally, mindfulness helps in managing stress and negative emotions, which can otherwise undermine your confidence.
By focusing on the now, you are better able to respond to challenges with a calm and composed mindset. This proactive approach encourages resilience, as you are less likely to be overwhelmed by setbacks and more capable of viewing them as opportunities for growth and learning. This shift in perspective nurtures a confident outlook, empowering you to face future challenges with greater assurance.
In essence, being present in the moment cultivates a mindset of mindfulness, self-awareness, and resilience, all of which are key components in developing and maintaining confidence.
Why wouldn't you focus on the 'now'?
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Being present enhances your self-awareness, enabling you to recognize and appreciate your strengths and abilities. This heightened awareness can boost your self-esteem and confidence, as you become more attuned to your successes and the progress you make, however small. Additionally, mindfulness helps in managing stress and negative emotions, which can otherwise undermine your confidence.
By focusing on the now, you are better able to respond to challenges with a calm and composed mindset. This proactive approach encourages resilience, as you are less likely to be overwhelmed by setbacks and more capable of viewing them as opportunities for growth and learning. This shift in perspective nurtures a confident outlook, empowering you to face future challenges with greater assurance.
In essence, being present in the moment cultivates a mindset of mindfulness, self-awareness, and resilience, all of which are key components in developing and maintaining confidence.
Why wouldn't you focus on the 'now'?
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(00:03):
Sat here in the car just aboutto do the school run, or pretty
much sat outside the school waiting toget out. Question in my life choices
really, no, hang on aminute, not of whether I should have
had children or sent them to thisschool. I didn't mean that whatsoever.
(00:27):
Wow, what a great start toa podcast. Question my life choices in
the fact that I'm officially now oldbecause I has an opticians appointment today and
my eyes are deteriorating, and it'sbeen suggested that I have two pairs of
(00:48):
glasses, one so I can seethings far away and one so I can
see things close up because I can'tsee either of them nowadays. Or two
I go for a pair of veryvocals, so it's all combined in one
set of glasses, which, yeah, confirms them old. It's I mean,
(01:08):
it does done. It does itnot confirm that I'm now at an
age where I should have I don'tknow what does it confirm? I mean.
Glastonbury was last weekend and I hadthe opportunity to I know, I
(01:29):
know, I know, I hadthe opportunity to go, and I didn't
because I just thought, Nah,do I really want where do you?
Just stood up and watching lots ofdifferent bands that I don't really know,
and doing lots of walking, maybegetting muddy if the weather were see.
(01:51):
There you go. That is I'mgetting old when I all I'm thinking is
who do I Who did I reallywant to see? I think I wanted
to see the Streets, but Ithink they were playing on probably I chanted
to go on Sunday and I thinkthe Streets were probably playing on the Saturday
(02:15):
I think anyway, so that wouldn'thave happened. Not fussed about many others
to be frank, I mean Iwould have watched Salt and Pepper if they
were there. I'm probably thinking theywere. And anyway, we don't need
(02:38):
to go off on a on aside tangent regretting my life choices or considering
my life choices, or thinking Ican't remember how I started this podcast,
but I just listened to It wason Radio two where they get someone on
whose birthday is and they get tochoose the next song, but they give
(03:01):
them they don't. They give themone song and they say you can play
that song that can be your songchoice, or you can take a gamble
on the second one. And ifthey decide not to take the first one,
and they go for the second one. Then they can choose that one
because they don't know what they are. So I rephrase this again. So
(03:22):
they play one song and they say, do you want this as your birthday
song? So you've got to,like, you know, take a gamble
on the next song that you don'tknow where they are. But anyway,
they play three, so if youturn down the first two, they have
to choose the third one. Andof course sometimes it's a really good song
and sometimes it's a not too goodone. And the first song today and
(03:46):
it's also normally songs that were numberone on this day and on this day
apparently You're the one and I wantyou are the one and one was number
one many years ago, and thatwas the first song that came out and
the caller turned it down and sheshe goes, I really love this song,
(04:06):
and he says, the DJ went, well, why don't you choose
it then? And she goes,no, I'm going to gamble. And
it just that alone made me thinkabout the psychology behind what she is looking
for. She's what, what areyou looking for into the two other in
the two other songs then that youhaven't received in this first one, and
(04:31):
then the second one was it wassomething like Bewitched, and she goes no.
It's like she straight away went no. She went, I'm going to
choose the third song and he wentyeah. Then the DJ went, you've
put yourself in the corner here,haven't you, And she went yeah,
regretting my choices already. And Idon't even know what the third song is,
(04:51):
So it's it's it's weird. Notno, it's not weird, it's
it's interesting. The psychology behind that, from my point of view, that
she's found the song that she reallyloved but just sort of decided to override
(05:15):
it because she's expecting something else.Keep gambling, maybe something better will come
along. And it just made methink that in life, are we holding
out for something else? Quite oftenwe do. Quite often we think that
(05:38):
everybody else has something better than us, and we need to not stick with
that song that actually we know weenjoy, and instead we should throw it
away and take a chance because everybodyelse has this worked out, everybody else
has something better, and therefore maybethere's something better for me. And I've
(06:03):
been thinking a bit recently about aboutwhat have I been thinking about I've just
been thinking about being present and inthe moment, because so often we are
(06:25):
so busy focusing in on everything thatgoes on in life, we are not
appreciating where we are now. We'renot taking time out to say, this
is where I am in this moment, right this second. I can only
(06:49):
control right this second. I can'tcontrol what happens later on today, or
this evening or next weekend or sixmonths time. All I can do is
be in control of how I handlemyself this particular moment, quite literally,
(07:15):
this particular second. And as you'venoticed, I'm probably talking a bit slower
and a bit calmer because even thismyself, makes me live in the moment
more. It makes me appreciate themoment more, makes me reflect on this
(07:40):
moment in more detail. To acertain degree, be more at peace with
myself. I guess less worrying abouteverything that's going on around me. And
(08:01):
there have been lots of moments,I mean, probably hundreds of thousands,
if not millions, of moments inmy life where I'm so busy trying to
be three steps ahead because that's whatI need to be doing for my job,
or that's what I need to bedoing for you know, to get
(08:24):
the job done, because I wantto get on and do something else,
or I just haven't actually appreciated thatmoment, been too busy worrying about how
I'm being perceived, or worrying aboutother people, or just not being present
(08:45):
and in that moment. And that'swhat I mean by sort of questioning my
life choices. It's, you know, very little has happened in my life
that I'm you know, I regret, but there's plenty in my life which
I could have got a different outcomeif I made some different choices. Just
(09:13):
food for thought, something worth considering. Get in touch. If that resonates
with you, go and find meon Twitter. I I forget what my
user name is at the moment.What is it? Blund out underscore James,
(09:33):
something like that, b l Un D E l L underscore James.
The underscore, by the way,is that little. It's like a
little minus sign, but it goesunder, it goes along the bottom.
It's an underscore. It's not ain the middle score. Live in the
(09:54):
moment, Focus on the now,focus on the here and now, have
a good day, Goodbye,
Sat here in the car just aboutto do the school run, or pretty
much sat outside the school waiting toget out. Question in my life choices
really, no, hang on aminute, not of whether I should have
had children or sent them to thisschool. I didn't mean that whatsoever.
(00:27):
Wow, what a great start toa podcast. Question my life choices in
the fact that I'm officially now oldbecause I has an opticians appointment today and
my eyes are deteriorating, and it'sbeen suggested that I have two pairs of
(00:48):
glasses, one so I can seethings far away and one so I can
see things close up because I can'tsee either of them nowadays. Or two
I go for a pair of veryvocals, so it's all combined in one
set of glasses, which, yeah, confirms them old. It's I mean,
(01:08):
it does done. It does itnot confirm that I'm now at an
age where I should have I don'tknow what does it confirm? I mean.
Glastonbury was last weekend and I hadthe opportunity to I know, I
(01:29):
know, I know, I hadthe opportunity to go, and I didn't
because I just thought, Nah,do I really want where do you?
Just stood up and watching lots ofdifferent bands that I don't really know,
and doing lots of walking, maybegetting muddy if the weather were see.
(01:51):
There you go. That is I'mgetting old when I all I'm thinking is
who do I Who did I reallywant to see? I think I wanted
to see the Streets, but Ithink they were playing on probably I chanted
to go on Sunday and I thinkthe Streets were probably playing on the Saturday
(02:15):
I think anyway, so that wouldn'thave happened. Not fussed about many others
to be frank, I mean Iwould have watched Salt and Pepper if they
were there. I'm probably thinking theywere. And anyway, we don't need
(02:38):
to go off on a on aside tangent regretting my life choices or considering
my life choices, or thinking Ican't remember how I started this podcast,
but I just listened to It wason Radio two where they get someone on
whose birthday is and they get tochoose the next song, but they give
(03:01):
them they don't. They give themone song and they say you can play
that song that can be your songchoice, or you can take a gamble
on the second one. And ifthey decide not to take the first one,
and they go for the second one. Then they can choose that one
because they don't know what they are. So I rephrase this again. So
(03:22):
they play one song and they say, do you want this as your birthday
song? So you've got to,like, you know, take a gamble
on the next song that you don'tknow where they are. But anyway,
they play three, so if youturn down the first two, they have
to choose the third one. Andof course sometimes it's a really good song
and sometimes it's a not too goodone. And the first song today and
(03:46):
it's also normally songs that were numberone on this day and on this day
apparently You're the one and I wantyou are the one and one was number
one many years ago, and thatwas the first song that came out and
the caller turned it down and sheshe goes, I really love this song,
(04:06):
and he says, the DJ went, well, why don't you choose
it then? And she goes,no, I'm going to gamble. And
it just that alone made me thinkabout the psychology behind what she is looking
for. She's what, what areyou looking for into the two other in
the two other songs then that youhaven't received in this first one, and
(04:31):
then the second one was it wassomething like Bewitched, and she goes no.
It's like she straight away went no. She went, I'm going to
choose the third song and he wentyeah. Then the DJ went, you've
put yourself in the corner here,haven't you, And she went yeah,
regretting my choices already. And Idon't even know what the third song is,
(04:51):
So it's it's it's weird. Notno, it's not weird, it's
it's interesting. The psychology behind that, from my point of view, that
she's found the song that she reallyloved but just sort of decided to override
(05:15):
it because she's expecting something else.Keep gambling, maybe something better will come
along. And it just made methink that in life, are we holding
out for something else? Quite oftenwe do. Quite often we think that
(05:38):
everybody else has something better than us, and we need to not stick with
that song that actually we know weenjoy, and instead we should throw it
away and take a chance because everybodyelse has this worked out, everybody else
has something better, and therefore maybethere's something better for me. And I've
(06:03):
been thinking a bit recently about aboutwhat have I been thinking about I've just
been thinking about being present and inthe moment, because so often we are
(06:25):
so busy focusing in on everything thatgoes on in life, we are not
appreciating where we are now. We'renot taking time out to say, this
is where I am in this moment, right this second. I can only
(06:49):
control right this second. I can'tcontrol what happens later on today, or
this evening or next weekend or sixmonths time. All I can do is
be in control of how I handlemyself this particular moment, quite literally,
(07:15):
this particular second. And as you'venoticed, I'm probably talking a bit slower
and a bit calmer because even thismyself, makes me live in the moment
more. It makes me appreciate themoment more, makes me reflect on this
(07:40):
moment in more detail. To acertain degree, be more at peace with
myself. I guess less worrying abouteverything that's going on around me. And
(08:01):
there have been lots of moments,I mean, probably hundreds of thousands,
if not millions, of moments inmy life where I'm so busy trying to
be three steps ahead because that's whatI need to be doing for my job,
or that's what I need to bedoing for you know, to get
(08:24):
the job done, because I wantto get on and do something else,
or I just haven't actually appreciated thatmoment, been too busy worrying about how
I'm being perceived, or worrying aboutother people, or just not being present
(08:45):
and in that moment. And that'swhat I mean by sort of questioning my
life choices. It's, you know, very little has happened in my life
that I'm you know, I regret, but there's plenty in my life which
I could have got a different outcomeif I made some different choices. Just
(09:13):
food for thought, something worth considering. Get in touch. If that resonates
with you, go and find meon Twitter. I I forget what my
user name is at the moment.What is it? Blund out underscore James,
(09:33):
something like that, b l Un D E l L underscore James.
The underscore, by the way,is that little. It's like a
little minus sign, but it goesunder, it goes along the bottom.
It's an underscore. It's not ain the middle score. Live in the
(09:54):
moment, Focus on the now,focus on the here and now, have
a good day, Goodbye,
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