How To Use Your Role Model As A Creator Of Self Confidence And An Eradicator Of Fear
Do we need role models?
What part do they play in our self confidence?
Who are these role models?
Once there was an established electrical and refrigeration company of seventy years standing. It had a reliable reputation around the town and surrounding area. Unfortunately the refrigeration side of the company was under performing financially and the directors were considering closing this arm of the business.
Peter Hawks was one of the salesmen employed to sell refrigeration systems to the commercial sector. Peter was a brash man, full of self confidence that had a tremendous belief in his own sales ability. He bought the refrigeration business with borrowed money and set about making the company financially sound again. He took on new offices and a workshop and employed a handful of staff including two engineers from the previous structure.
It took blood, sweat and tears plus patience and time yet slowly but surely the hard work and self confidence paid off. Business came in and the company formed a stable financial footing. Peter hired storage space and became a sole distributor of equipment from Italy. He learned to speak fluent Italian so that he could communicate effectively with his supplier on the continent.
This refrigeration business was now expanding rapidly as they won contracts with one of the big supermarket chains. He hired more and more staff and was able to take on school leavers to offer them apprenticeships. As time went on, instead of hiring storage space, Peter bought his own warehouse.
Today the company now occupies a whole industrial complex, still within the same town. Peters’ business acumen and self confidence has been passed down to his son Stephen who is now driving the expansion programme. Not content with dealing in refrigeration equipment they are also involved with checkout facilities for the same supermarket chain that offered them a contract all those years previously.
It is also sad to reflect that the electrical side of the original business no longer exists.
What can we learn from this story?
Peter held no fear. He had tremendous self confidence in his ability to run and build up a failing business. His self confidence eradicated any fear of borrowing the money and investing it in, what to many, would seem like a risky venture. His success is a terrific example of self confidence and belief. He is a role model and one that we can all draw self confidence from.
By having role models we can follow examples. To be successful we don’t have to be innovative. We don’t have to re-invent the wheel. What we have to do is learn from these inspirational people. Discover what worked for them and apply some of their rules. For the inventive, innovation is important. Without innovation technology would stand still. But the point is that to be successful we must learn from our role models, our mentors.
By having role models we can more easily visualise success. We can see what they have achieved and vividly imagine ourselves in their place. To develop the self confidence to be successful we must focus on success. Images of ourselves being successful will soon be implanted in our subconscious mind if we practice these mental images often enough. What easier way is there than to see ourselves in the place of our role model.
This story of Peter may not be unique. There are probably many thousands of similar stories around our globe. We can all have role models; successful people to draw inspiration and self confidence from in our quest to find success and fulfilment.
Terry Norrington
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http://terryn.simpleonlinesystem.com
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