Imagine a scale from 1 to 10.

10 is feeling like you’ve got all the self-confidence you’ll ever need (without ever straying into arrogance). Being a 10 out of 10 means that you feel like you’re able to deal with whatever life throws at you, learn from it, pursue the things that mean the world to you and feel wonderfully and powerfully you.

Being a 10 out of 10 means that you’re truly confident.

Being a 1 means that your self-confidence is at rock-bottom. Life scares you into inaction. You put up with things because that’s what you feel you need to do. You talk yourself round and round in circles and side step any opportunities that come along because they’re too risky or because you know you won’t succeed. You feel like you’re one of life’s victims, that all you get is the bad stuff and if life would only give you a break you’d be able to get going. If only you knew what “getting going” involved.

Being a 0 means that you can’t imagine what it’s like to be truly confident.

So where are you on that scale from 1 to 10?

What difference would an extra point on that scale make to you? What would an extra point mean for you and your life?

Now add 2 points to your score and dive into the world of differences that would spring from that leap up the scale. What’s different? How does it feel? What are you able to do now that you weren’t previously?

Can you ask that guy out now? Can you take the leap and quit your job? Would you be able to make new friends? Has a weight been lifted? Could you get going with that creative project or side business? Could you cut off that toxic relationship?

Tell me what you find…